Google Ig the popular personalized homepage from Google has been rebranded to become iGoogle ^[1]. The new name iGoogle was being used by Googlers as a shorthand to refer to the Personalized Homeage.

With this release Google has also made avialable the themes which were accessible only to US users to the rest of the world. iGoogle is avialable in 22 new locales now. In addition to this iGoogle has also simplified the process of creating and sharing gadgets even without having any programming or web designing skills.

Simple gadget templates include a photo gadget, a “GoogleGram” greeting card-style gadget, a YouTube video channel gadget, and a free-form gadget.

To make yours, choose the gadget template you’d like to use, enter your info, and enter your friends’ email addresses. You can always make changes to your gadget, andyou can even set some kinds of gadgets to update automatically so your friends will see a new message daily. Once your Gadget has been created you can share it with anyone else in the community.

To start creating your own gadget for iGoogle you can visit their make your own gadget ^[2] page.

Via: [Official Google blog - You've got gadget mail ^[3]]