The iGoogle homepage is my personal portal of choice, for a number of reasons, once I just like having the Google search bar right there waiting for whenever I want. I don’t keep a lot of widgets and tabs saved onto it, but enough to get me the latest headlines from my news organizations of choice, and weather (although usually my weather reports come from hitting the Weather icon on my iPhone.
A couple other widgets that I keep on my iGoogle main page is a ‘Daily Einstein’ quotes box (I’m a big Einstein fan) as well as a Joke of Day widget (I only glance at it every couple of days, but sometimes there’s something funny there!).
One other favorite thing on my iGoogle homepage is the Google Gadget Editor, for those moments when I get fed up with going to a website and just want a widget, I use an RSS widget template and roll my own! I’m sure this is what frightens some PR folk, people rolling their own content widgets, but gosh if they did them themselves audience numbers are sure to grow!
Very soon I’m going to roll out some widgets and other gadgets on my blog, mainly different ways to read and access the information contained in it. Some things I’m currently thinking of doing in the short term include a Mac OSX Dashboard widget, iGoogle homepage widget, iPhone application, SpringWidgets widget, and maybe some extra RSS feeds so you can roll your own (just be sure to send me a link, I love seeing what kinds of cool things people can do given some unique content).
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