I was a huge fan of igoogle. No idea why this project shut down. The concept was brilliant, but maybe the name conflicted with apple's ieverything.
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#32If you haven't learned to not use a Google product that isn't core to their revenue stream in the year 2013, I don't know what to tell you.
I don't know if it's that straigh-forward as "not core to their revenue stream". At the time it launched I guess it was supposed to be part of their core revenue stream -- it was supposed to give them more insight into what their users are into, and thereby allowing them to target their ads better. Not too different to Google+, I guess, just a different wrapper. I think the problem here was that it didn't catch on as…
The answer is simple, you wait until they are monetizing it and are clearly going to support the product into the future. No one is forcing you to be an early adopter.
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#33Good, now I have almost no reason to go to Google's site at all. Between this, Reader and the useless G+, google's web properties have gone almost completely off the rails. I utterly fail to see why shutting this down was a good idea. I hit my iGoogle page dozens of times a day and would have put up with ads and all manner of garbage on it because it was so useful. Outside of My Yahoo (which was recently updated than…
Google+ has actually turned out to be quite good in terms of a social network that I want to use, and has a lot of tech/programming/science/gadget/photography oriented users.
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#34I was a huge fan of igoogle. No idea why this project shut down. The concept was brilliant, but maybe the name conflicted with apple's ieverything.
No, they created Google Now which overlapped with this product. Google is constantly starting new projects and ending ones that either conflict with new ones or become obsolete.
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#35Good, now I have almost no reason to go to Google's site at all. Between this, Reader and the useless G+, google's web properties have gone almost completely off the rails. I utterly fail to see why shutting this down was a good idea. I hit my iGoogle page dozens of times a day and would have put up with ads and all manner of garbage on it because it was so useful. Outside of My Yahoo (which was recently updated than…
Google+ has actually turned out to be quite good in terms of a social network that I want to use, and has a lot of tech/programming/science/gadget/photography oriented users.
I haven't really tried to use Google+ in a while, does it seem to have largely ended up as a kind of news subscription service vs. a FB style personal social network?
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#36Sad I used iGoogle everyday.
What's a good alternative to iGoogle? i.e. that has weather, news feeds and stock quotes on 1 page?
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#38Shame
What alternatives are you guys using ? I currently use netvibes, but I am not too happy. The font is way too small and non-configurable....
Digg Reader for your RSS feeds, it's a good-looking clone of Google Reader. As for the widgets, you may give a try to My Yahoo since it has been redesigned recently.
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#39Sad I used iGoogle everyday. What's a good alternative to iGoogle? i.e. that has weather, news feeds and stock quotes on 1 page?
Yeah me too. I switched to Netvibes last week and it's just as good for me.
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#40I never understood the name "iGoogle". You know what the "i" in Apple's products and many other company's products mean? Internet. So Google called the product "Internet Google".
Think "Google" as a verb. "iGoogle" means, "I, Google".[1] (Same logic can be applied to the iPhone)
According to iMac's history on Wikipedia[2], "i" stood for "Internet". (Again, same logic can be applied to the iPhone and iPad. No idea about iPod, which came after iMac but before iPhone and iPad)
[1] This is my personal opinion. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#History