First Twitter, now celebs flock to iGoogle, but do we care?
Ashton Kutcher has a page on iGoogle. So do Ryan Seacrest, Tina Sharkey, Vint Cerf, Wyclef Jean, and, of course, Al Gore. But.. do we care?
Today, Google announced the iGoogle Showcase (http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/ig/showcase/). Users familiar with iGoogle know it’s a free service allowing one to share content on a personal home page, which can be shared with Google’s millions of users. In creating its Showcase, Google reached out to entertainment celebrities, political figures, academics, and other thought leaders and asked them to share content on their personal homepages.
According to Google, “Users can now either add their favorite celebrity’s entire iGoogle page or look through the collection and choose different gadgets and themes from many celebrity pages. iGoogle lets users personalize their homepage the way they want it with the things that are important to them.”
A list of participating celebrities is available on the iGoogle Showcase main site at (http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/ig/showcase/).
A blog post of the announcement is posted by Google here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/tour-homepages-of-your-favorite.html with an accompaning YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAEXRq9wlhY
Personally, while I’d love to get my hands (ears) on an early release of the next Wyclef Jean download, I couldn’t really care less about which sites he likes to surf on the web. How do you feel? Comment with your opinion.
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Oscar August 13th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I must admit… I went to the showcase after my comment and I actually found some celebrities that I would be interested in checking out. Namely: Dave Mathews, Tim Ferris, Anderson Cooper.
But most pages don’t have a lot of useful stuff. /sigh