Good, now I have almost no reason to go to Google's site at all. Between this, Reader and the useless G+, google's web properties have gone almost completely off the rails.
I utterly fail to see why shutting this down was a good idea.
I hit my iGoogle page dozens of times a day and would have put up with ads and all manner of garbage on it because it was so useful.
Outside of My Yahoo (which was recently updated thank goodness), any other alternatives?
Full disclosure I'm the founder of this product (hey its hacker news) but a lot of people have been using http://backstit.ch as an alternative rather than a direct replacement for iGoogle (and google reader).
Rather than just show snippets from different sites we analyze the content so you can easily filter or even create automatically curated pages around your favorite topics.
I don't like the "river of news, most current at the top" UI, but I did use iGoogle's "bunch of boxes with headlines, spread around in a bunch of columns" approach, do you guys have that as an option? Looks more like Google Reader replacement than iGoogle.
Google+ has actually turned out to be quite good in terms of a social network that I want to use, and has a lot of tech/programming/science/gadget/photography oriented users.
I haven't really tried to use Google+ in a while, does it seem to have largely ended up as a kind of news subscription service vs. a FB style personal social network?
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Good, now I have almost no reason to go to Google's site at all. Between this, Reader and the useless G+, google's web properties have gone almost completely off the rails.
I utterly fail to see why shutting this down was a good idea.
I hit my iGoogle page dozens of times a day and would have put up with ads and all manner of garbage on it because it was so useful.
Outside of My Yahoo (which was recently updated thank goodness), any other alternatives?
Full disclosure I'm the founder of this product (hey its hacker news) but a lot of people have been using http://backstit.ch as an alternative rather than a direct replacement for iGoogle (and google reader).
Rather than just show snippets from different sites we analyze the content so you can easily filter or even create automatically curated pages around your favorite topics.
You can check out a topic page without signing up here: http://backstit.ch/topics/117/TrackingFukushimaDisaster
I don't like the "river of news, most current at the top" UI, but I did use iGoogle's "bunch of boxes with headlines, spread around in a bunch of columns" approach, do you guys have that as an option? Looks more like Google Reader replacement than iGoogle.
This is just about working for me:
http://www.ighome.com/
Google+ has actually turned out to be quite good in terms of a social network that I want to use, and has a lot of tech/programming/science/gadget/photography oriented users.
I haven't really tried to use Google+ in a while, does it seem to have largely ended up as a kind of news subscription service vs. a FB style personal social network?