Google now has a personalized homepage. It is so very cool!
You can customize widgets, move things around by drag and drop, hmmm can we say it sounds like an Apple Dashboard? iMac, iPod, now iGoogle, what’s next?
I made my own iGoogle homepage and chose a beach theme as that would be a good place to be on this beautiful summer day. I can also get my daily dose of Dilbert, Garfield, jokes, and live weather all on one page and of course my Google calendar agenda for scheduling.
Here is an except from PC World’s Techlog.
When Google told us at yesterday’s personalization event about the new moniker, I immediately started thinking iPod. And I can’t imagine I’d be alone – the lower-case “i” prefix has become pretty much synonymous with products from Apple, or with some relation to the iPod. A group which doesn’t include iGoogle.
(I assume, by the way, that Apple won’t carp about the name, given that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on the Apple board.)
In the pre-iPod days, a lower-case “i” prefix kinda stood for “Internet.” (And was a synonym for a lower-case “e” prefix, meaning “electronic.) iGoogle is no more Internet-related than oGoogle (a name I just made up to refer to Ordinary Google).
No, the “i” in iGoogle must refer to “I,” as in you. Or me. You get the idea - it’s about the personalization aspect.
And one last thought: Wonder if Google will bother to create variant iGoogle logos to celebrate holidays, like it does with the oGoogle logo?
