Google re-branding personal home page, adding widget maker

Google is renaming its personal home page iGoogle tonight. Google is also adding a new tool called Gadget Maker that helps people create their own widgets for use on their iGoogle page. The Gadget Maker comes with seven templates, including two media gadgets to pull in content from YouTube and online and offline photo collections. Users will also be able to organize their personal space with a countdown timer and a simple 10 item to-do list. There's also a free-form widget that lets a user mix together various media such as text and pictures.

This is a step in the right direction for Google's personalized home page efforts, although not nearly as fast as some of its competitors in the single page aggregation space. Netvibes has recently come out with branded content pages, and Yourminis has taken the widgets off the browser and onto the desktop using Apollo. I'm still not a big fan of Google's layout, which feels a little boxy and restrictive, but the new themes have spiced things up.

The new features are set to launch at 9 p.m. PST tonight.

Google's new make-your-own-gadget selection features seven new gadgets that can be customized by the user.

(Credit: Google)

[dagr8tim]

New Google Gadgets Break Personalized Homepage

The new Google personalized gadgets break your homepage. They turn it into the default. Myself and several other people have lost their personalized homepages due to this glitch.

Below are two links about this:
http://digg.com/gadgets/DO_NOT_create_you_own_iGoogle_gadget_It_is_removing_personal_settings#c6435642
http://www.tricitiesecommerce.com/internet-marketing/?p=11

Use the new gadgets at your own risk.

[wiseassoffice]

iGoogle is no Apple

Welcome back to the year 1998 folks...Maybe now we can get our Google in different colors? Bondi Blue Google anyone?. I think Eric Schmidt was spending too much time at Apple because now he thinks he's a iCEO.

Isn't that insanely great!

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[caldwdo]

iGoogle still needs to catch up

I had Google as my home page for several months and never to thrilled over the look compared to netvibes and pageflakes. But the email connection kept me hooked. I discovered iGoogle by accident this past week and switched things around, downloaded new widgets, etc. Looking better, but not up to par with other page aggregators now. www.dougcaldwell.net

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