"This gadget requires a feature that is not available in your locale at this time. Please check back at a later date." I can't play scrabble because I'm in Brazil?!1? F**K THAT.
Curtiee
· 3 months ago
Google are always trying to do everything.. OSes, Browsers, now social networking? Blah.
lagspike
· 3 months ago
Orkut's a google social networking site, it's been around for something like 5 years
AnthonyProulxofPlasticPrinters
· 3 months ago
Looks like it works out well, but atheistically lame.
journik
· 3 months ago
I'm in! Till oprahs in. ó_Õ Then I'm out. ò_Ô Meanwhile I'm @journik
Lori Anne Brown
· 3 months ago
I was going to check it out but cannot find a way to access these new features from my igoogle page. Where is it hiding?
Oops nevermind..I just watched the video I didn't notice at first. Duh!
Gregory Talon
· 3 months ago
Sounds like Google is following Yahoo! on this one.Damn we are really gonna be overloaded by Updates across all our internet experience...
rahul
· 3 months ago
Google has always followed Yahoo!. What I believe is Yahoo! is slow in implementing ideas they have. They just plan and plan, execution becomes visible only after an year or later. Yahoo! was the first to provide geo location services like fire eagle. Google quickly copied it and launched Google Lattitude. Once again, that Yahoo! is planning for open applications/updates/profiles/blogs in Mail/My yahoo and more, Google has started copying and see they are in the market before Yahoo! materializes their own ideas.
Even fundamentals of this product seem exact:
Contacts in Yahoo! = Contacts in Google Connections in Yahoo! = Friends in Google Messenger friends in Yahoo are nowhere related to connections = gtalk friends in google are nowhere related to this separate category of friends.
JAVAJ9
· 3 months ago
Ahhhhhh! Pretty soon Google will be wanting to do my dishes too! ... Hey, wait, that's not all bad.
Neal G
· 3 months ago
Like most Google products the design looks extremely boring. I'll never fault Yahoo! for actually having web designers on staff.
David Kelley
· 3 months ago
@JAVAJ9 If you're willing to watch an infomercial while they do it, perhaps.
Bilal Jaffery
· 3 months ago
Google's UI is becoming lamer day by day. I despise their Google Reader UI, can't even imagine the Social site.
Mark
· 3 months ago
I work for a start-up that is doing something that I feel is a little more aesthetically pleasing. It focuses on college campus. http://www.campusLIVE.com
shilonikelle
· 3 months ago
Ack! I already have 80,000 profiles to keep up with! And I am wondering: where the hell do people get the time to play all these online games? Are they at work? I don't get it; but then again I have lots of dreams and goals that don't include high score on Scrabulous.
spinchange
· 3 months ago
When iGoogle really started to get rolling a couple years back, I spent literal *hours* creating a "Google OS" page & Digg.com one with special widgets for all my top friend's digg submissions. Custom themed and the whole shot.
Than digg rolled an update, broke all the damn RSS feeds and widgets I created pretty much resulting in me abandoning iGoogle for about 2 years. Not their fault, but I was burned out already. They've always had the ability to make iGoogle way more than it is.
bhartzer
· 3 months ago
Pretty interesting, but not sure I want Google to know about my social activities online. Wait. They already know everything about my online activities, right?
wecandobiz
· 3 months ago
Interesting this should come along just as Facebook Lite is on the way with much of the clutter taken out. Who's really interested in other people's activities to this level? It's this level of micro-detail which turns so many Twitter users away after the first month, unable to fathom why anyone would be interested in everything other people are doing.
You can have too much information. And just as the the social web is learning that and looking to make post more useful, Google seems to be where everyone else was 18 months ago, enthusiastic piling in with tools to report trivia and banality that few people care about.
Wow, thats looks exciting - hope Seesmic Desktop will support it soon :)
jdorfman
· 3 months ago
I'll stick with @netvibes ;)
Offgrid
· 3 months ago
They should just buy Twitter. Anything they try will be a waste of money.
Brian
· 3 months ago
I wish the govt would just buy all of these and make it United States Online (America Online - ha!), and like it's just the real world, but online. Restructure the Post Office to run it.
I think less of these services benefits the user more since they all basically will do the same thing eventually.
Stu Carter
· 3 months ago
iGoogle is less useful for Social Media for me, because they refresh so slowly.
lelapin
· 3 months ago
New iGoogle layout? Looks like Netvibes ... which does it better. Sorry still does not work for me.
napo
· 3 months ago
Good news! I take this opportunity to point out this open source platform similar to iGoogle Someone might have an interest in having a similar platform in a intranet
it’s open source software: anyone can participate in the development Suggestions are welcome!
Chris Horton
· 3 months ago
Sooo....they better iGoogle. They didn't just spend this time to speed up the launch of Google Wave?
Kurt Linderoos
· 3 months ago
The Google puzzle needs better intergration: Eg. Your online location on Google Earth to be your Chrome homepage and all iGoogle services to be reached by a rightclick.
sagarmatha
· 3 months ago
Zee, this is very interesting development.
Henry
· 3 months ago
Really Google is genius . I think Without Google net is incomplete. I m sure No one can provide more services than google.
All Comments
Oops nevermind..I just watched the video I didn't notice at first. Duh!
Even fundamentals of this product seem exact:
Contacts in Yahoo! = Contacts in Google
Connections in Yahoo! = Friends in Google
Messenger friends in Yahoo are nowhere related to connections = gtalk friends in google are nowhere related to this separate category of friends.
If you're willing to watch an infomercial while they do it, perhaps.
Than digg rolled an update, broke all the damn RSS feeds and widgets I created pretty much resulting in me abandoning iGoogle for about 2 years. Not their fault, but I was burned out already. They've always had the ability to make iGoogle way more than it is.
You can have too much information. And just as the the social web is learning that and looking to make post more useful, Google seems to be where everyone else was 18 months ago, enthusiastic piling in with tools to report trivia and banality that few people care about.
Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz
I think less of these services benefits the user more since they all basically will do the same thing eventually.
I take this opportunity to point out this open source platform similar to iGoogle
Someone might have an interest in having a similar platform in a intranet
http://taolin.fbk.eu
it’s open source software: anyone can participate in the development
Suggestions are welcome!
I m sure No one can provide more services than google.