Twitter’s not the only social platform to have a celebrity fetish. Google is bringing out its inner obsession with celeb users by launching iGoogle Showcase, which allows you to see and share the homepages of your favorite celebs. The current site showcases iGoogle homepages from celebs such as Rachael Ray, Al Gore, and Katie Couric. The showcase also highlights web celebs like Kevin Rose, Arianna Huffington, and Seth Godin.
The iGoogle Showcase lets you copy your favorite celeb’s iGoogle page to your own, or browse through the collection and choose different gadgets and themes to include from varying pages. Some celebs have created customized gadgets that you can embed. For example, Ryan Seacrest’s gadget lets you keep up with all the latest entertainment news. Donald Trump’s gadget offers advice to entrepreneurs, Martha Stewart shares recipes and tips, and Anderson Cooper delivers headline news and extras from his CNN show AC360.
iGoogle also recently added video game themes, more social gadgets and may be releasing a new, more social version.
Martha Stewart’s iGoogle page is featured above.
Here’s Ashton Kutcher’s iGoogle homepage:
And here’s Donald Trump’s home page:
sounds like Google is getting deeper into the content business. Google is now one the largest media companies in the world and this proves it.
Are you kidding me? This just proves that Google is capable of doing something really stupid.
And what’s the point again?
When will goog give up with igoogle? or is it just another attention diverting exercise by goog?
How famous must you be? Who decides? These are the real questions…
Personaly i don’t really like igoogle, i prefer the “old page” but something is sure this feature is going to work.
Don’t know that I’d want to copy a celeb profile but suppose that’s not the main reason they’re showcasing these.
Can we all say ‘Myspace’? The User Interface bears a strange resemblance to Myspace’s UI.
I’ll have to create my own iGoogle site so that my fans can find me
I think it’s really cool to see what these celebs are using for their iGoogle pages!
Interesting idea. Let’s see if more celebs will follow.
agreed. awesome to get media pushed to me by Google. they are turning into a great media company
All I want to know is if Alton Brown is going to post any hair tips?
Really good.We can follow celb.What they do,what they are using on iGoogle.
Leena could you look into this:
http://blogs.pr...s-open-safe.php
and
http://forums.p...hp/t-97078.html
I can’t use gmail now… and the recent trend is that opendns is blocking even techcrunch and random sites…
today gmail got blocked so I can’t send mail to tips@techcrunch.com
Even these big corps http://www.open...omers/featured/ use OpenDns, so it seems that opendns is a epic fail of any j random hacker can hijack anyone elses net experience!
Google made these up
When will they get a boy George page… I want boy George…
this is totally crap!
Seems kind of like Myspace
I check this feature but I think need more expression.
For now, it’s good
Thanks for this info
While I think that iGoogle is a great idea, I wonder just how many people even know what it is. I still talk to people everyday who say things like, “What is RSS?” And while iGoogle is a bit simpler than understanding what RSS and feeds are, I still think it’s a hidden gem.
Personally, I’m not convinced that these celebs even USE iGoogle. Their publicity marketers probably do though…how cool!!
There are some pages that got my attention however, like Seth Godin’s (http://www.goog...seth_godin.html) and Tim Ferriss’ (http://www.goog...im_ferriss.html). I’m more apt to believe that techies like them use iGoogle and am very interested in seeing what kind of information they’re reading, etc.
Thanks for the story. I love to see all of google’s gadgets.
BTW, I disagree (jerky) that this pushes Google deeper into the content business. These are feed pages, which means that the content comes from places all over the web. iGoogle is simply a content aggregator or organizer. Even in the case of projects like Google Knol (knol.google.com) or Google Docs the content is still user generated. They are in the biz of organizing the world’s content.
At any rate it’s a great idea to get people familiar with iGoogle and how it can help them simplify their lives.
All the celebs are serious Liberals,except for maybe Trump. Is google showing its socialist bias?
Can you call a corporation that is not government owned socialist? Anyone who has been reading TC knows that Google is out to make money. As much money as possible. Stars are used to attract pions like us who go Ashton I love you.. if you twitter I will twitter too..
Maybe you should ask Michael Phelps to pass the bong because I think you need another hit…
Ya know, half of these people aren’t really celebrities. How many of them have been in movies?
Good point. Last I checked you had to be in movies to be a celebrity.
@Adam Jackson
If you want to be a celebrity yourself, we launched our public pages, named Universes, in April 2007 http://www.tech...d-public-pages/
Just go to netvibes.com and publish yourself with your own multi-tab and personal URL.
More than half a million created and counting.
I do not see a pizza one for us pizza celebrities?
http://www.worstpizza.com
sthrt.com is still the best homepage I have ever seen.