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Google homepage is now iGoogle
Seven new gadgets are on tap to back up the baby green "i", along with a taste of some social features and the promise of a new Gadget "wizard" to come. Included in the seven new gadgets are Daily Me (cough, Twitter, cough), Simple List (a to-do list Gadget) and five others of descending usefulness; Bringing
The Gadget wizard, which is yet to be released, is the only promising piece of iGoogle's new digs. Too bad it's not available for a test drive. When launched, the gadget wizard will allow users to build Gadgets of their own, although apparently without any advanced coding or ability to do much that we'd classify as interesting.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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ocellnuri said 1:26AM on 5-01-2007
This is horrible? Why Google? Why? It's May 1st, not April 1st.
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OLi said 1:36AM on 5-01-2007
Lame!!!
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Fred said 2:21AM on 5-01-2007
The reason why Google threw a quick yet unfinished iGoogle (what a awful name to type!) might be because they just wanted to eclipse the WOW factors from Mix07. It's not the first time they did the similar thing. Recall the most recent Stumbleupon thing.
Unfortunately they fell short too fast this time.
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erzterterte said 5:22AM on 5-01-2007
Well, I suppose every company - no matter how successful - sooner or later reaches the point from where it goes down... Seems that Google has reached that point.
In a few years we will all be using MSN search.
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jj said 8:48AM on 5-01-2007
The fact that you all care so much about a name, or actually a single character of it, tells me that you're completely clueless and place no value on actual content.
GG noobs.
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Danny said 9:47AM on 5-01-2007
Meh. I'll stick with Netvibes. They're lightyears ahead of Google.
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ThunkDifferent.com said 1:00PM on 5-01-2007
The CEO of Google is on the the Apple board of directors, perhaps he had an epiphany. iThink so.
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Karnatos said 1:51PM on 5-01-2007
I've noticed first hand what a lot of folks on Digg have already commented on; my personalized page is now borked.
This is just a little warning to anyone that decides to go and check out the newly named iGoogle... for whatever reason, after making 1 change I lost all my tabs and my main tab appears to be something I threw together over a year ago.
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iamhoff said 6:58PM on 5-01-2007
I noticed that this morning when I logged in and checked my Gmail. The only thing I see that makes me want to remotely consider using iGoogle as my homepage vs Netvibes or even My Yahoo beta (certainly the best looking one, imo) is the optional themes no longer make it look like a basic text page. Some color! Wow! Now it at least looks like it could belong in the Web 2.0 family of things. Actually, I'll stick with Netvibes...I just wish it would load faster.
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cyang1999 said 8:26AM on 7-21-2007
I want igoogle to be my homepage.
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