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Brian Hunter — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:18:57 -0000

Google is alway ahead of the game

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Henry — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:33:01 -0000

Really Google is genius . I think Without Google net is incomplete.
I m sure No one can provide more services than google.

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sagarmatha — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:42:20 -0000

Zee, this is very interesting development.

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Kurt Linderoos — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:47:56 -0000

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.

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Chris Horton — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:21:17 -0000

Sooo....they better iGoogle. They didn't just spend this time to speed up the launch of Google Wave?

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napo — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:00:52 -0000

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

http://taolin.fbk.eu

it’s open source software: anyone can participate in the development
Suggestions are welcome!

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plerudulier — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:37:16 -0000

New iGoogle layout? Looks like Netvibes ... which does it better. Sorry still does not work for me.

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Stu Carter — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:31:56 -0000

iGoogle is less useful for Social Media for me, because they refresh so slowly.

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Brian — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:34:15 -0000

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.

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Y Netzer — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:07:08 -0000

They should just buy Twitter. Anything they try will be a waste of money.

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jdorfman — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:00:28 -0000

I'll stick with @netvibes ;)

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Schwedenbitter — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:31:37 -0000

Wow, thats looks exciting - hope Seesmic Desktop will support it soon :)

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wecandobiz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:17:53 -0000

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.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

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bhartzer — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:17:46 -0000

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?

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spinchange — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:06:31 -0000

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.

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Rafa — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:53:38 -0000

"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.

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what — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:47:00 -0000

Orkut's a google social networking site, it's been around for something like 5 years

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Shilo Urban — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:40:03 -0000

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.

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Mark — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:38:53 -0000

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

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rahul — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:36:52 -0000

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.

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Bilal Jaffery — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:34:07 -0000

Google's UI is becoming lamer day by day. I despise their Google Reader UI, can't even imagine the Social site.

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David Kelley — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:28:37 -0000

@JAVAJ9
If you're willing to watch an infomercial while they do it, perhaps.

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Neal G — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:23:02 -0000

Like most Google products the design looks extremely boring. I'll never fault Yahoo! for actually having web designers on staff.

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JAVAJ9 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:16:51 -0000

Ahhhhhh! Pretty soon Google will be wanting to do my dishes too! ... Hey, wait, that's not all bad.

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Gregory Talon — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:09:35 -0000

Sounds like Google is following Yahoo! on this one.Damn we are really gonna be overloaded by Updates across all our internet experience...