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WTFchris
10-23-2007, 02:34 PM
Not sure if any of you use this, but I do. It's basically like My Yahoo where you can customize your page. The cool thing is that you can search for modules all over. I typed in WTFdetroit and you get an RSS feed with the most recent posts on it. It's pretty slick.

Here is my page (haven't spent a lot of time looking for modules yet, but it works (i blacked out my emails of course):

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9826/igoogleom9.png

b-diddy
10-23-2007, 06:27 PM
nice. can you link yahoo fantasy? if so im 1000% sold.

MOLA1
10-23-2007, 06:30 PM
Yes. I use it too.

Uncle Mxy
10-23-2007, 06:50 PM
I avoid giving Google too much personal information.

WTFchris
10-23-2007, 08:18 PM
nice. can you link yahoo fantasy? if so im 1000% sold.

probably. you can link to other yahoo content like the sports feed, the movie listings, etc.

b-diddy
10-23-2007, 11:18 PM
very cool. if anyone figures out yahoo fantasy sports, let me know.

WTFchris
10-25-2007, 12:57 PM
BTW, I noticed that feed only gives you new threads, not new posts. still nice though.

geerussell
10-25-2007, 02:21 PM
I for one have fully welcomed my new google overlords, being a big fan of not just igoogle but gmail and google desktop too (both of which I highly recommend if you haven't checked them out).

If it turns out that google's "To serve man..." is a cookbook, I'm screwed.

Uncle Mxy
10-25-2007, 06:08 PM
If it turns out that google's "To serve man..." is a cookbook, I'm screwed.
I just don't want to make it TOO easy for the forces of privacy evil to perform one-stop shopping and collect all the details of my life. I'll gladly let them sift through anonymized queries with random timings/noise and sporadic scrambled cookies if they want to start from Google to get back to me.

geerussell
10-25-2007, 06:26 PM
I just don't want to make it TOO easy for the forces of privacy evil to perform one-stop shopping and collect all the details of my life. I'll gladly let them sift through anonymized queries with random timings/noise and sporadic scrambled cookies if they want to start from Google to get back to me.

I had those very same qualms before I laid down for a nap next to the strange alien pod. Then I weighed them against the cool features, convenience, connection with the hive mind and eternal life offered by google and went for it anyway.

Uncle Mxy
10-25-2007, 06:36 PM
<laughs> It's all automated for me -- just a few configuration tweaks. I like to pimp my browser because I spend so much time driving it, and most everything iGoogle does could be done in a browser context.

geerussell
10-25-2007, 06:55 PM
<laughs> It's all automated for me -- just a few configuration tweaks. I like to pimp my browser because I spend so much time driving it, and most everything iGoogle does could be done in a browser context.

iGoogle was just the last chapter in a long, sad story of gateway drugs and falling in with the wrong crowd. I started off with google desktop and got hooked on the mad rush that comes from plumbing the depths of my own sordid history of emails, web browsing and assorted documents. Opting for the convenience of sharing the indexed information between multiple computers, I was left with little but google's good faith standing between me and the privacy barbarians at the gates.

Then I switched ISPs and needed a new email address... of course my google dealer had something for me to sample.

By the time iGoogle came along, the good folks at google already knew me better than I knew myself so I had nothing further to lose in the privacy department.

A couple years from now when they start offering free neural implants for GoogleBrain, I'll probably sign up for the first round of clinical trials.

Matt
10-25-2007, 11:35 PM
i use iGoogle and i like it.

WTFchris
11-03-2007, 01:28 PM
I just added the local gas prices module. Wow, is that thing cool. it reads prices from Autos.MSN.com, so we'll see how accurate it is.