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.
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.
Except that Google Now is not for desktops or a 'start page' (at least not yet), and perhaps more importantly, is not accessible or extensible by developers, or customizable by users.
I 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".
the i in apple's products make no sense either
It used to when they created the iMac, or 'internet mac', back when the WWW was still novel to most people.
Sad I used iGoogle everyday. What's a good alternative to iGoogle? i.e. that has weather, news feeds and stock quotes on 1 page?
A local HTML page with frames that load some RSS feeds or mobile websites?
Someone could make a little website that builds, from various templates and widgets, a suitable page and allows the user to save it to local disk and set it as their home page.
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.
Except that Google Now is not for desktops or a 'start page' (at least not yet), and perhaps more importantly, is not accessible or extensible by developers, or customizable by users.
I do think you have something there about desktop use. What's important here is that Google adapted to the migration of users to mobile devices. Just like desktop PCs are in decline, so are apps that are desktop-only.
Good, 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…
Full disclosure I'm the founder of this product (hey its hacker news) but a lot of people have been using http://backstit.ch as an alternative rather than a direct replacement for iGoogle (and google reader).
Rather than just show snippets from different sites we analyze the content so you can easily filter or even create automatically curated pages around your favorite topics.
I 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".
iCEO(Interim CEO a.k.a Steve Jobs) started that "i" series of products. I guess this was the inheritance chain.
Good, 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…
Full disclosure I'm the founder of this product (hey its hacker news) but a lot of people have been using http://backstit.ch as an alternative rather than a direct replacement for iGoogle (and google reader). Rather than just show snippets from different sites we analyze the content so you can easily filter or even create automatically curated pages around your favorite topics. You can check out a topic page without…
I don't like the "river of news, most current at the top" UI, but I did use iGoogle's "bunch of boxes with headlines, spread around in a bunch of columns" approach, do you guys have that as an option? Looks more like Google Reader replacement than iGoogle.