iGoogle
The iGoogle thing is not a movement to raise feathers on the folks over at Apple who sometimes give me the impression that they think they patented the letter “i” by placing it in front of just about everything. I almost went out and registered ihoei.com today so I could join the movement, but I didn’t. I did check to see if the domain was available. It still is available if you are interested.
The Google Personalized Homepages simply have a new name. The Google Personalized Homepage, now called iGoogle is a blogger’s best friend in my opinion. There are certainly alternatives to the concept seen at iGoogle, like NetVibes and even MyYahoo! to some degree. The iGoogle pages can be filled with little gadgets to help track stuff all over the Internet. For instance, many people like myself, use feed readers to track activity on a number of different blogs and websites. I am a huge fan of the iGoogle’s Google Reader plug in for getting this job done. I use other gadgets, but the reader is by far the most used tool on my homepage next to a few embedded custom RSS feeds built from search results.
I am a little disappointed to cind out that this is not a movement against the MAC cult(ure). Can you tell that I use an iRiver to play my MP3s? Yes, I do get a tiny bit of satisfaction from owning a portable digital media player whose name begins with a small “i”, but is not manufactured by Apple.
