Re: [sfx: Discuss] iGoogle

Posted by Arlo Barnes on Dec 08, 2012; 11:08pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/iGoogle-tp7581041p7581043.html

While I can definitely commiserate with Google ending services (Google Pack, for one, and SideWiki for another), I can see why they would want to cut back on iGoogle in their age of 'streamlining'. I used it for a while, but as a homepage it became undesirable because of a slower load time, and I was having difficulties keeping the widgets organized. Since many were third-party, sometimes they would break or disappear.
So what is an alternative? Well, until I hear about a third-party solution, something I was intrigued by was this guy, who put a page on his website with what he needs. The advantage of this is he can have public and private content (latter accessed by login; try clicking on 'edit this page'), accessible from anywhere, with local content and content sourced from or linked to anywhere on the Internet. So about the same advantage as iGoogle/MyYahoo, but more personalized (on the other hand, more work to set up).
-Arlo James Barnes
PostScript Ninja'd by Chad Kieffer edition: I use Instapaper to turn what would be an insane amount of bookmarks into CSV.

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