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Observers Upset By Changes To iGoogle
Google is painting its own portrait by adding canvas views to its iGoogle platform. The search giant rolled out the new design feature for U.S. users.iGoogle, formerly Google Personalized Web Page and Google IG, is an AJAX-based service which brings together several Web feeds and Google Gadgets for users, including news, traffic and weather on one page designed and arranged by the users. While the canvas feature is not available for all gadgets, it is for most, including Google Finance, Gmail and GasBuddy. Others include Soduku, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.Getting Personal"We want to make iGoogle as useful and as personalized as possible for our users," said Jessica Ewing, group product manager for iGoogle, via e-mail. "Adding the infrastructure for canvas view gadgets allows users the choice of accessing more content directly from their gadget, which is part of this overall goal, and gives developers more space to create compelling gadgets. We've heard from both users and developers consistently that they want more gadget "real estate."Google is constantly thinking about ways to improve products for users, according to Ewing, who added that Google takes its ideas, prototypes them, and puts them through a vigorous set of usability tests to ensure they are the right move for users. "The iGoogle features we launched yesterday went through this exact process, and we've made changes along the way based on feedback from users and developers," he said.One of the biggest changes is with the layout and left navigation.Clicking any tab opens that tab, while clicking the plus sign next to any tab reveals a full list of the gadgets in that tab, according to Google. Viewing the tabs this way allows users to see all of a tab's content in one click. Mixed Reviews"We're excited about these changes because...
Green Hills Software Supports Intel(R) Atom(TM) Processor N270 (Broadcast Newsroom)
SANTA BARBARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/25/08 -- Green Hills Software, Inc., the technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced the immediate availability of its embedded software development solution for the Intel® Atom(TM) processor N270. The Green Hills Software solution includes the INTEGRITY® real-time operating system, MULTI® ...
Google Apps no threat to Microsoft? Maybe it is…
Steve Ballmer is convinced that Google Apps is nothing to worry about -- according to Steve(24 minutes in), "you can't even put a footnote in a document". Perhaps what happened directly after he said that is precisely why Microsoft should be worried. About 2 days after Steve downplayed any kind of competition that may be coming from Docs, Google added footnote support. The agility, and horsepower that Google has behind it is something that companies -- even Microsoft -- should be wary of, and definitely shouldn't take lightly. It's true that Google Docs hasn't yet challenged Microsoft as much as I'm sure they would like, but don't count Google out just yet. This is how I see it playing ...
Interview: From OpenWorld, HP’s John Santaferraro on latest BI Modernization strategies
Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Leading up to HP and Oracle's blockbuster announcement Sept. 24 of record-breaking data warehouse appliance performance, the business value of these infrastructure breakthroughs was the topic of a BriefingsDirect interview with John Santaferraro, director of marketing for HP's Business Intelligence Portfolio. Now that the optimized hardware and software are available to produce the means to analyze and query huge data sets in near real-time, the focus moves to how to best leverage these capabilities. Soon, business executives will have among the most powerful IT tools ever developed at their disposal to deeply and widely analyze vast seas of data and content in near real time to help them run their business better, and to ...
Why Linux Continues to Evade Mainstream Users
(Column) - Reading articles like this certainly make us feel good, but I have to say that they leave me with a bad taste in my mouth. While we run around patting each other on the back for a job well done on the adoption front, the truth is that most people, real computer users, not geeks, are using Windows. Does this mean that Linux is not ready? Not at all, but perhaps this means that what we feed to the public needs a fresh review?
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