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Google’s Personalization Push: iGoogle, Localization, Gadget Maker
By Martin English | May 2, 2007
The announcement last night of iGoogle (the new name for Google Personalized Homepage), Gadget Maker and other localisation features, shows that Google is ramping up its personalization efforts once again. Google Blogoscoped has excellent coverage
from the Google Personalization Workshop, held yesterday at Mountain View for a select
group of local bloggers.
The new Gadget Maker product makes it very easy to create a new gadget, by “filling
out a simple form”. There are 7 templates available (quoting again from Google
Blogoscoped):
A Photo gadget (share a series of photos with others)
GoogleGram gadget (allowing you to display a new greeting message to someone
for every day for 7 days)
Daily Me gadget (which will show what you’re currently doing, as well
as quotes, what’s on your mind etc.)
Personalized Countdown gadget
A Personalized List(you can e.g. publish your own top ten list with this,
Google says)
YouTube video favorites gadget which will let you create a YouTube channel to share)
A “Free Form” gadget (an “all-purpose gadget that lets you meld text and image in any way,” Google says)
You access or modify the settings for these gadgets through make your own gadget page. Once you’ve got them setup as you wish, you can share them.
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