Google Personalized Homepage has been rebranded iGoogle and will relaunch at iGoogle.com. I always wondered why they had “ig†in the personalized homepage URL; finally we know that it means iGoogle.
Google has also released a simple Gadget Maker to help users build their own iGoogle gadgets without any coding knowledge. Google will provide seven pre-built gadgets to start (see them here). Once you’ve built the gadget, you can invite your friends or make it publicly available, so that others can try them. You’ll also be able to check out gadgets created by your Gmail contacts under a new section called ‘My Community’. Several sources like TechCrunch have indicated that iGoogle.com will be launched today, but as of now, the site isn’t functional.
Google had organized a workshop on Google’s personalization services for bloggers and journalists at the Googleplex, Google Blogoscoped has an inside coverage of the workshop. In my opinion the name sounds too Applish, they could have come up with something like GPage as they are stepping into the crowded AJAX homepage market, but then again iGoogle is better than its previous name which was quite hard to remember.
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