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Google renames personalized home page, adds gadgets

Users without programming experience can create gadgets on the new iGoogle

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM ET

Computerworld - Google has renamed its personalized home page and added several new "gadgets," or mini applications, to the newly minted iGoogle.

The company announced yesterday that it will rename its personalized home page to iGoogle, which will now include Google Gadgets. Users with no programming experience or Web design experience can create gadgets for iGoogle and send them to their family and friends.

The new gadget templates include a photo gadget, a "GoogleGram" greeting card-style gadget, a YouTube video channel gadget and a Free Form gadget that can link text and images. A "Daily Me" gadget is similar to the increasingly popular Twitter, and will allow users to include daily quotes, brief descriptions of what they are doing at a certain time and other ideas that can be made available to all friends and family, Google said.

Users can choose a gadget template, enter information about themselves, add their friends' e-mail addresses and then use the gadget, said Sophia Brueckner, an iGoogle software engineer. Users can make changes to the gadgets, and some gadgets can update automatically so a user's friends can see new information daily, she added.

Google also announced that it is expanding the personalized page themes that it unveiled in March for users in the U.S. Those themes will now be available for all iGoogle editions. Users can choose from six different desktop themes, including a beach, a city or winter hills.

Google announced the rebranding of iGoogle and the new gadgets at the same time its executives detailed how the company plans to defend itself against Viacom Inc.'s $1 billion lawsuit against Google subsidiary YouTube Inc. Google rejected claims that it enables copyright infringement on YouTube and noted that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act will be core to its defense.

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