Anyone else noticed this new iGoogle thing that Google has going for it?
What’s with the name? You would think that a company as creative as Google would be able to come up with a better name than something that—well, frankly, that sounds like a bad Apple rip-off. And this isn’t just Google’s problem. iWhatever has become the new “Whatever X” of our generation. I feel sorry for the poor letter—it’s not even uppercase! And it’s being attached willy-nilly to products and services just because it sounds cool.
In fact, if the current trend continues, we’ll run out of i’s to use in every day conversation! Soon conversaton wll look lke ths, because we wn’t have enough eyes to go around. 
- wll be the end of cvlzaton as we know t.
But I digress. Anyone else tried iGoogle? It looks interesting. I use regular Google as my homepage because it is quick to load, but I think I will try out iGoogle for a week or two to see if I like having all this information at my finger tips better.
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I noticed this iGoogle thing a couple of weeks ago and my first thought was: “Late April Fools joke?” But I guess they are serious with the name. 
Oh well, I haven’t really checked it out, but I think I might now that you mentioned it.
I saw this thing some time ago, but I don’t really use it. It’s beautiful, but not useful for me. I always use my Search Bar in Firefox, which is faster 
I’ve used it for quite awhile (when it was named “personal home” or whatever). Its nice, I switched my homepage from plain google to it.. they have some interesting facts and its easy to customize 
(I‘m at school right now and it wont even let me onto google docs which sucks because I need to send something home to myself and I’m too lazy to get my ipod)
I set up my iGoogle page the other day. I like it a lot, as it works well as a personal home page.
For the name? Maybe they wanted to get it before Apple had the chance…
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I‘ve been using iGoogle for a while now. Originally it was just the un-themed version that imported some RSS feeds and displayed my recent 5 gmail messages. Had a few other things on there too.
Then they introduced the theme system that changes depending on what time it is etc. and i think it looks very good! I use the Tea House theme and i think it is very cute.
It’s useful having the RSS feeds right there as well as the email’s. I agree with how silly the name is though!
Sunday, May 13, 2007 at 12:26 PM