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iGoogle (news, site) is Google's personalized portal home page and is making itself more relevant to Web user's needs by adding a bunch of new social Web features.

Hold on to your hats, Basecamp lovers! Now you can manage your project collaboration utopia via a simple and effective iGoogle gadget.

Periscope, added to iGoogle’s gadget directory earlier this month, allows users to control multiple Basecamp accounts from their iGoogle homepage.

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.

As Web Content 2007 came to a close, sessions seemed to emphasize the same elements of collaboration, personalization and consumer behavior, and ask the same questions: What does the user want and how to innovate information overload?

Building personal websites embraces all of these aspects and uses them to bring a functional dashboard to the consumer driver. “My” web sites, like MyYahoo, igoogle, MyTimes, Facebook and many others, let users customize everything from design to content to recommendations to interactions.

Unless you’ve been living on a boat or a remote island for the last few years, you might have noticed a strong increase in the number of wi-fi-connected locations sprouting up. Indeed, wi-fi access points are popping up like wild mushrooms (even in cars!), and the fact that many of these networks remain unsecured is cause for concern.