Tags: | google | igoogle | pageflakes |
2007-05-02 11:20
iGoogle
Earlier this week google enhanced and renamed their "personalized homepage" to "iGoogle." I've never really used a homepage on my browser, but I figured since it has new features, and google is a pretty innovative company, I would check it out. I do have a homepage at pageflakes that I use every now and again, and iGoogle appears to be very similiar. I would have spent more time exploring what google has to offer in this service, but it seems that I can't spend more than a few minutes at a time viewing iGoogle pages before Firefox crashes, killing all of my open windows. I guess this might be a problem on my end, but I would much rather blame google and not use this service again, since it's one of the very few web pages that crashes my browser. I think by re-naming this service and drawing attention to it, google will do well with it, but I didn't see any compelling reason to not use pageflakes instead.
- Kevin
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Comments:
Hey Kevin: Interesting tidbit from the pageflakes website/management bios...it appears that Dan Cohen, CEO of Pageflakes, used to be in charge of Google personalization including the Google Personalized Homepage (now iGoogle). Maybe he found a way to build a much better homepage...LOL
Posted by: scranton | 2007-05-02 12:47:45
Very interesting - I definitely like the look and feel of pageflakes better, maybe google was too restrictive for him? I hope pageflakes does well.
Posted by: Kevin | 2007-05-02 20:52:04
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