Google have recently re-released their Personal Homepage under the new guise of iGoogle. For the users that have already experienced this uplifting little tool from Google you will know how good it is.
It's essentially a customisable version of Google's homepage that allows you to add your RSS feeds as headlines showing 1-9 latest posts, per site, various widgets (weather, date, time etc) and you can even customise the look. The neat thing that will grab alot of people's attention is the ability to re-arrange your feeds to various location of your choice using an AJAX interface. Got too much on a page? That's no problem, just open up a new tab and place the feeds on there instead.
This has all been pretty common for a while now, until they re-released it again last week after some people lost their Home Page settings when they initially released it.
However, it's back with a bang
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The New Year has passed, the partying is over and the clean up is already finished. Yes, i'm in an organised mood at the beginning of 2007.
Lots have been happening over the festive break, and none more so than what seem's to be the latest trend in the social web: Google Bashing! It seems to be the latest "in thing" at the moment but for some reason I actually feel quite sorry for them.
Yes, they may have set themselves up for the high jump when it was announced that their informal corporate motto was "Don't Be Evil" philosophy and all the things that have gained them negative press recently such as the deletion of 60 Gmail accounts and their self promotion fiasco. Hell, even Danny Sullivan over at SearchEngineLand.com has documented 14 "Is Google Evil?" Tipping Points. I just seem to get the impression that hating and bashing on Google is the "new black" for technology enthusiast's and literally anyone who is jealous of a successful business model. Microsoft must be rubbing their hands with glee in the background because that's exactly where they are - in the background.
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On the 28th December 2006 Google announced that they were closing their Google Answers. On the 29th December 2006 Yahoo! offered a lifeline to the researchers who regularly posted on Google Answers.
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