iGoogle, and you? The newspaper of the future
What would you think if I said you could have breakfast in front of a newspaper that´s been designed exclusively for you and where you will only find news that interest you? A newspaper in which, apart from news, you could have your own search engines, videos, dictionaries, games, etc…. and which would give you access not only to new incoming emails, but also posts and news you are subscribed to will automatically be updated, at the same time their original websites do it.
It sounds like science fiction, doesn´t it? And if you are imagining a newspaper offered in some sort of futurist paper capable of projecting holograms… put your mind back to the year 2008. Today you will still have to read from your computer screen and, instead of turning pages you will have to click on tabs.
For those who haven´t heard about it yet, this I´m referring to as “newspaper” is iGoogle. It´s a platform that was launched in May 2007 and that, despite still being new for some users, it´s already had hundreds of opinions in favour … and also against it.
I must say I consider iGoogle a tool that saves me time (and lots!) when I need to check whether my blogs and favourite websites have been updated. Besides this, if I manage different blogs (as I do) where I expect to receive comments on, I don´t have to be checking them everyday, one by one. I simply leave my iGoogle page open (my “newspaper”) and if someone leaves a message on any of my blogs, I will automatically receive it.
All in all, I could describe iGoogle in one word: mytimesaver (well, maybe in three words) For me it´s simply one of those tools that make our life easier in times when the “When do you want it for? For yesterday” is unfortunately part of our everyday lives.
To form an opinion about iGoogle there´s nobody better than you to check it out. If you invest a bit of your time today in learning about it, who knows, you might save that time in the future.
Happy breakfasts…
