Comments on: Google Goes After Celebrities With iGoogle Showcase

By: NEGOTIATION TIPS FROM GEORGE « John Dierckx

NEGOTIATION TIPS FROM GEORGE « John Dierckx — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:23:11 +0000

[...] Google Goes After Celebrities With iGoogle Showcase [...]

By: mattmcb

mattmcb — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:23:32 +0000

sthrt.com is still the best homepage I have ever seen.

By: give up

give up — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:59:09 +0000

When will goog give up with igoogle? or is it just another attention diverting exercise by goog?

By: Googleが、iGoogle Showcaseで有名人を追っかけ

Googleが、iGoogle Showcaseで有名人を追っかけ — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:54:38 +0000

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By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:02:34 +0000

Are you kidding me? This just proves that Google is capable of doing something really stupid.

And what’s the point again?

By: craig

craig — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:11:44 +0000

I do not see a pizza one for us pizza celebrities?

http://www.worstpizza.com

By: Freddy Mini

Freddy Mini — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:07:02 +0000

@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.

By: Nathan Kozyra

Nathan Kozyra — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:47:54 +0000

Good point. Last I checked you had to be in movies to be a celebrity.

By: Adam Jackson

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:18:16 +0000

Ya know, half of these people aren’t really celebrities. How many of them have been in movies?

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:57:30 +0000

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…

By: dude

dude — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:44:31 +0000

All the celebs are serious Liberals,except for maybe Trump. Is google showing its socialist bias?

By: SEO Space Monkee

SEO Space Monkee — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:26:36 +0000

At any rate it’s a great idea to get people familiar with iGoogle and how it can help them simplify their lives.

By: SEO Space Monkee

SEO Space Monkee — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:22:59 +0000

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.

By: hendri

hendri — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:20:21 +0000

I check this feature but I think need more expression.

For now, it’s good

Thanks for this info

By: deleo

deleo — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:06:45 +0000

Seems kind of like Myspace

By: Shanky Baba

Shanky Baba — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:04:35 +0000

this is totally crap!

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:02:16 +0000

When will they get a boy George page… I want boy George…

By: Clayton

Clayton — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:52:51 +0000

Google made these up

By: Robert N

Robert N — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:29:42 +0000

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!

By: Technogati

Technogati — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:24:28 +0000

Really good.We can follow celb.What they do,what they are using on iGoogle.

By: Dean Higginbotham

Dean Higginbotham — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:22:37 +0000

All I want to know is if Alton Brown is going to post any hair tips?

By: jerky

jerky — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:18:52 +0000

agreed. awesome to get media pushed to me by Google. they are turning into a great media company

By: Amobee

Amobee — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:18:13 +0000

Interesting idea. Let’s see if more celebs will follow.

By: Daniel Brusilovsky

Daniel Brusilovsky — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:07:57 +0000

I think it’s really cool to see what these celebs are using for their iGoogle pages!

By: Simon Cleveland

Simon Cleveland — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:00:11 +0000

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