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iGoogle just recently got even cooler by putting its new canvas view into effect for U.S. users.
With new features and details like the tab display as a left-hand column rather than a menu up top, and each gadget having its own individual page for expanded viewing, iGoogle aims to make it possible for users to get all of their ritualistic Web practices taken care of without leaving the comfort of their own homepage.
And this is what the newly redesigned iGoogle looks like with its canvas view:
iGoogle Canvas View
Not all gadgets support the new expanded view, but here's a list of some that can:
- News: Enjoy the latest headlines from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
- Games: Now you can play the Sudoku gadget, or read strips on GoComics without straining your eyes. And of course, there's always tons of time just begging to be to be wasted on YouTube and CurrentTV.
- Entertainment: Configure the TV Guide gadget for your zip code and pull it up to find the listings of your favorite television programs. Or use Flixster's movies gadget to access trailers, ratings and theater information for any movie; and iLike to browse news, concerts and free MP3s from your favorite musicians.
- Google stuff: The new Gmail gadget lets you read your full e-mail and perform simple actions like send or reply without leaving iGoogle. And, finally, a gadget from iGoogle engineer Matt Gunderson called Google Finance, which provides full-screen finance charts and news of your preferred stocks.
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In this expanded view (which Google says should be available to users outside the U.S. very soon), entire Web pages are made available to explore through iFrames without disrupting ads or revenue tracking and, of course, without leaving Google.
Regardless of the occasional flack Google's been catching for “copying Facebook,” the added room for gadget developers to move around and get creative in is exciting, and it will be interesting to see what these new freedoms allow them to come up with next.
Plus, if it came down to never leaving your Facebook or never leaving your iGoogle page — no contest, right?
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sure, go ahead and congratulate them on forcing a new ui on the entire user base without a word of warning or an option to change back. You can like it if you want, but it's looking like a majority do NOT!
http://lifehacker.com/5065160/how-do-you-like-igoogles-canvas-view
are you out of your mind?
this crap is horrendous
You're kidding, right?
I HATE THE NEW iGOOGLE LAYOUT!!! And so do many thousands of other people who have managed to find the Google help forums to complain.
I used iGoogle as my home page and had news, weather, stock quotes, and gmail preview all nicely set up in a one page view with no scrolling necessary. Now the left tab navigation has eaten up 15% of my screen space for ZERO benefit to me. I could already see all of my gadgets, I don't need a new tab to list them out. And if I wanted more than one tab of gadgets I was quite happy with the tabs listed across the top as before. Now my columns are squished, my local traffic map resized to be of no value, and the reduced-feature gmail gadget is absolutely worthless. It also displays the first lines of text of my emails and there's no way to turn that off. So much for privacy.
I've left iGoogle for good and switched back to My Yahoo. So have many thousands of other disgruntled iGoogle users. Go check the Google Groups message boards and see for yourself.
Horrible design, you must be joking
I don't get it.
So many columns raving about the new design, how that'll be great fro developers etc.
Do you guys ever use iGoogle, did you ever used old version. Do you ever get what pisses me off and many thousands at least?
How come you're so quick to endorse something in such a short notice? Are you paid to rave about these "upgrades"?
Open your eyes and ears, people are crying out loud.
And one more thing, iGoogle does not look as in that screenshot on many users computers. Many don't have large desktop screens, and many (myself included) do not maximize browser screens for various reasons (quick switch between windows, blocking annoying gif/flash animations usually placed on left/right of the window etc.)
Google is becoming EVIL like microsoft/msn/live sh*t.
Are you crazy or somehing? This new layout is so bad with the useless space eating sidebar(just waiting for google to put paid ads in) sitting there. No way to shut off previews in gmail, so the whole world can read your private emails as they pass. No this is not an improvement. Google IS going the way of MSN Microsoft et al. Bah Humbug!!
Who ever has come up with this idea should be shot.
What a WASTE of space. I am going to leave Google unless they clean up this mess.
OK, for everyone ticked about Google's latest Cluster****, i.e. disabling the "ig?hl=all" where the tabs were back on tob, WHERE THEY BELONG, here's the latest way to get em back on top. Go to http://www.google.ca/ig?gl=all, it's the Canadian version and has the tabs on top, at least for now. Firefox users can also try "iGoogle Tab Remover"