Google Now is awesome; merge them with the iGoogle team and make it amazing.
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Google Now is awesome; merge them with the iGoogle team and make it amazing.
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#2Given how long it had been since an iGoogle refresh, it's probably fair to say that other than someone keeping the lights on, there is no iGoogle team.
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#3I thought about this as soon as I saw the keynote for Google Now. The visual elements of Google Now would really work well in a multicolumn layout in the browser. That would be one of the best home page experiences imaginable.
The only thing I'm wondering about is how aware could it be as far as location/traffic goes. I wonder if it would have to pull from the data collected on an Android phone or tablet to be truly predictive.
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#4Given how long it had been since an iGoogle refresh, it's probably fair to say that other than someone keeping the lights on, there is no iGoogle team.
Indeed, iGoogle is on its way out, another "more wood/fewer arrows" casualty:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/07/igoogle-will-be-dis...
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#6My theory is that by the time iGoogle goes away for good (November 1 of next year), there will be a way to customize the right side of your Google+ page with widgets.
It won't be as flexible as iGoogle or support the same old widgets, but the "social widgets" will be something they can push iGoogle users over to, as well as a platform to help advance Google+.
In my experience, Google Now is a surprisingly clever way at providing relevant widgets with zero customization, so it seems like a great onramp to that experience.
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#7Since iGoogle is slated to be sunset (in late 2013), maybe Google Now is it's logical successor?
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#8i thought they were going to be getting rid of iGoogle soon...
Re: Google Now is awesome; merge them with the iGoogle team and make it amazing.
#9I thought about this as soon as I saw the keynote for Google Now. The visual elements of Google Now would really work well in a multicolumn layout in the browser. That would be one of the best home page experiences imaginable. The only thing I'm wondering about is how aware could it be as far as location/traffic goes. I wonder if it would have to pull from the data collected on an Android phone or tablet to be truly…
The tablet layout of google now is multi column.
Re: Google Now is awesome; merge them with the iGoogle team and make it amazing.
#10My theory is that by the time iGoogle goes away for good (November 1 of next year), there will be a way to customize the right side of your Google+ page with widgets. It won't be as flexible as iGoogle or support the same old widgets, but the "social widgets" will be something they can push iGoogle users over to, as well as a platform to help advance Google+. In my experience, Google Now is a surprisingly clever way…
Speaking of which, I hope for the next Android version they release some stock Google Now widgets that you can just put on your homescreens, and they get automatically updated, just like they would inside Google Now.