Tuesday, May 01, 2007

iGoogle & Gadget Maker

Google Personalized Homepage has now become iGoogle and added a few new features. i Google lets you build your own simple gadget which you can then share with your friends and they receive live updates of your changes.

The wizard lets you create...

1. Photo album - add up to 7 photos that can be rotated.
2. GoogleGram - enter seven greeting messages.
3. Daily Me - type what you are doing.
4. Countdown - count the days until a special event.
5. Simple list - you can use it as a ToDo list, shopping list.
6. YouTube videos - up to 10 videos.
7. Freeform gadget - add an image and some text.

There is also a new section called My Community that allows you to see your contacts' gadgets that they have created.