No more iGoogle!
Discussion
Google are ditching iGoogle.
I don't know about anyone else but I use it all the time and I find it handy to see the latest emails, techie news feeds, weather and BBC news headlines.
I'll be sorry to see it go and I'm not entirely sure what I could use to replace it.
Grr
I don't know about anyone else but I use it all the time and I find it handy to see the latest emails, techie news feeds, weather and BBC news headlines.
I'll be sorry to see it go and I'm not entirely sure what I could use to replace it.
Grr
don't most of the likes of bing, yahoo, etc, have these sorts of homepage things?Same here, apparently we are living in the dark ages of web content, but I find it very handy to get a quick view of rss feeds, news feeds, weather and email.
Can anyone recommend a good alterntive for organising and viewing the rss feeds? I tried google reader ages ago, but it seemed to treat the feeds like an email inbox with a notification of unread blog posts. This was a bit s
t really because I don't want to be constantly reminded of how much content I need to read. I much prefer the ability to scan and choose what I read like with iGoogle.
What is most annoying is that they are killing a serivce I use every day and pouring more resource into a service I never use (Google+ - does anyone use this?)
Can anyone recommend a good alterntive for organising and viewing the rss feeds? I tried google reader ages ago, but it seemed to treat the feeds like an email inbox with a notification of unread blog posts. This was a bit s
t really because I don't want to be constantly reminded of how much content I need to read. I much prefer the ability to scan and choose what I read like with iGoogle. What is most annoying is that they are killing a serivce I use every day and pouring more resource into a service I never use (Google+ - does anyone use this?)
roogi said:
Same here, apparently we are living in the dark ages of web content, but I find it very handy to get a quick view of rss feeds, news feeds, weather and email.
I was told this by some mates. It seems that's very much in the dark ages. I had no idea, I'm disappointed now and feel like I've become my Dad! 
Same here, use iGoogle as my default home page to collate various feeds / info that I'm interested in.
iGoogle was the first "Portal" effort that I thought was worth it, mainly due to the ability to customise it fully to your own requirements and for the numbers of gadgets that were written for it
Not sure why they are ditching it, it cannot be that difficult to support / maintain and none of the suggested Google alternatives look to me to give anything like the same facilities
Other portals all seem to be transparent efforts to drive traffic to the providers advertising, maybe Google will produce something that moves more to this model by the time iGoogle is phased out.
This is one of my big beefs with Google products, you are never actually sure how long they will be supported / available
iGoogle was the first "Portal" effort that I thought was worth it, mainly due to the ability to customise it fully to your own requirements and for the numbers of gadgets that were written for it
Not sure why they are ditching it, it cannot be that difficult to support / maintain and none of the suggested Google alternatives look to me to give anything like the same facilities
Other portals all seem to be transparent efforts to drive traffic to the providers advertising, maybe Google will produce something that moves more to this model by the time iGoogle is phased out.
This is one of my big beefs with Google products, you are never actually sure how long they will be supported / available
page3 said:
Anyone use a decent alternative?
Seems nobody answered this basic question yet:http://www.pageflakes.com
http://www.netvibes.com
http://www.symbaloo.com
http://www.protopage.com
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