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iGoogle Canvas View – Now More Personalized
By Find2k | October 20, 2008
Google’s attempt to make RSS and web 2.0 popular among the web users was named as “iGoogle” where you can check news, email, stocks, feeds, weather, dictionary and translations while managing yourself to play a game or two during the week in iGoogle – My Personalized homepage.
Whenever I look at iGoogle the only thing which I use to feel happy about was that hey, I can have necessary information as a snippet right on one page and that makes things so convenient, as I am up to date on my information while just being on one browser or tab.
But as they say “Human is the only living being who cannot leave demanding more than what he receives”, so here we were after few months I started thinking that hey my iGoogle is cool but you know what I don’t want to leave this page to read the entire article or post which I can see in the snippet. I want to stay on my select iGoogle theme page and check my emails, news, weather or blog feeds. I kept this thought in mind as I know these Google guys must be working on these tools and we might get an update sooner or later.
As expected Google have introduced an all new iGoogle interface with a canvas look gadgets so that you can stay on your Google homepage and explore your gadgets as well.
iGoogle introduce the canvas view feature to the users, Canvas view allows developers to deliver richer content, games, and UI to users on iGoogle as well as the opportunity to monetize.
Here is what Google have to say about this:
This week we launched a set of new features to all iGoogle users in the U.S. These features were designed to make it more powerful and bring more information to the homepage.
At the heart of this release is a feature we call “canvas view,” which gives you the option to maximize your gadgets into full-screen mode. To use the Gmail gadget as an example, previously, you could only get a quick snippet of your Gmail messages on iGoogle. Now you can maximize Gmail to fully read and reply to your messages.
Comics. Games. Feeds. Photos. All of these get better when you give them some space. And to give you fast, one-click access to maximize your gadgets, we’ve introduced a new left-navigation model. This is a good way to navigate to these new, richer applications, and it makes space for more features you’ll see in the coming months.
We invite you to take a tour of all the new features, and hope you’ll give us a chance to show you why we’re excited about the evolution of iGoogle.
Also look at the iGoogle tour I am really excited to see such a feature; you guys also explore and let me know your views.
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