That’s It for iGoogle

Thursday April 10, 2008 

In the last couple of days I decided that I’d try using iGoogle as my start page in Firefox, rather than just the plain old Google page.  I’d set it up in the past, so it was already populated with some stuff that I’d previously chosen. 

This morning I went to add feeds from a couple of other sites that I wanted to follow on the page - Anywired and Zen Habits.  But when I went to add the feeds, the app claimed that it couldn’t find those feeds.  Excuse me?  These are Feedburner feeds, so they’re even owned by Google (not that probably means a whole lot, though).

Then I tried to add my own feed.  Nope.  Can’t find that either.  So, uh, what’s going on Google?  I’ve decided to just go back to using the plain old Google page for a day or two to see if it’s a temporary glitch.  If it is, I’ll give the iGoogle setup another shot.  Otherwise, maybe I’ll look at something else.  Netvibes, for example.

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3 Responses to “That’s It for iGoogle”

  1. matt on April 10th, 2008 5:36 pm

    Bummer on the iGoogle problems. Another start page to consider is Odysen at http://www.odysen.com.

    A couple of the main differences are free-formatting widgets (allowing to change the size of widget to whatever you want) and integrated news feeds (allowing you to integrate as many feeds as you want into one news widget).

    Lots of other options, blog with new features and page examples located at http://odysen.blogspot.com/.

  2. Tyler Ingram on April 24th, 2008 7:08 am

    I use iGoogle with no issues for when I read my feeds. I just add them via reader.google.com and viola they appear on my iGoogle page, front and center.

  3. Rod on May 23rd, 2008 11:47 am

    Things seem to be working fine now, and iGoogle is what I’m using as my start page now.

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