New iGoogle

• Google has launched its new iGoogle homepage today, offering content partners and developers the ability to create gadgets that consume the whole page (finally making them useful)
• Google can do this by letting you place gadgets on multiple Canvas pages that you can switch back and forth from.
• For example, the New York Time gadget expands to take up half of the page, so I can actually read a story instead of getting a mini-headline in the old gadget version.
• Partners inlcude the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, TV Guide, iLike, CurrentTV, and Go Comics.
• More importantlly, Google has created extra-wide gadgets for Google Reader, Gmail, Google Finance, and YouTube.
• Once Facebook is in there, I’ll never have to leave my homepage, sorry PageFlakes.

TC

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