Posts Tagged with ‘iGoogle’

I don't think there's a single person in the world that feels bad because Google hasn't been able to get its paws on Facebook, the current top social networking site. Try as Google might, Facebook 's Zuckerburg has no intentions of partaking in any sort of affair with the search engine behemoth.
However, it looks like Google is prepared to become socially linked-in itself. iGoogle, the popular homepage that links together all of Google's broad functionality, [...]

Gmail has been both savior and demon for me. As the person who regularly gets the “you are over your email quota” emails on the free email account provided by my ISP, Gmail lets me go months without ever having to think about cleaning out my inbox. Of course, that means I go months without ever weeding through all the emails in there, and whether I hit a storage ceiling or not, it leads to one huge mess.
Gmail has an [...]

According to the creators of Grazr (which came onto the market in March 2006), it is a “free and easy way to gather and organize information from all over the Web. Use our drag and drop editor to collect feeds and links to Web pages, and then share them with others on this site, or place them on your own pages with our free widget.” In addition, it has the ability to read twitters. “The Grazr Twitter Reader is the [...]

Yesterday Google announced the release of Google Desktop 5.5 Beta, and along with it come new features for its personalized homepage service, iGoogle.
Google Desktop has made it very easy for users to personalize their desktop with gadgets that show the latest news, weather forecasts, and various other information, but according to Google, people want to be able to also put those gadgets on their iGoogle homepages.
Now, with the new version of the Desktop software, Google has added this very feature [...]

Anyone who has used Facebook knows the usefulness that the news feed provides. You can keep track of the online activity of your friends among various websites, now that there is a wide variety of available apps.
Now, take all the features of the Facebook News Feed, put them on their own as a service, and you have Friendfeed.
Once users provide the service with who they want to keep in touch with, they have a one-stop location to find out [...]

Today marks the launch of FrostFireHive, a customizable, personal start page service.
This new service is entering a crowded arena, with competition from existing services such as iGoogle, NetVibes, and PageFlakes, all of which seem to have more features and more options than FrostFireHive currently offers.
The main goal of this free homepage service seems to be to make the process as simple and easy as possible. Will it be enough to help the service stand out though?
Company execs notified [...]

I first became enamored with widgets back when Yahoo! was buying Konfabulator. Then I got into iGoogle and had quite the customized page going until my news feeds got too big for it. Now I have a Mac, and there are widgets designed for Dashboard for just about everything. But eventually, you get sick of downloading everything to your machine and then getting rid of it later if you find you don't need it. And while there are tons of [...]

I've been reading many a blog lately with folks trying to get away from the behemoth that is Google. Reasons are anything from privacy concerns to their increasingly-Microsoft-ish feel.
I'm in the opposite camp; I can't imagine getting through a day without Google. Forget Google Docs (I hate them). I've migrated away from my iGoogle and even Google Reader now). No, the reason I can't live without my Google is one simple reason: Google Calendar. Not only do I use [...]