It looks like the new iGoogle name for Google Personalized Homepage is starting to make a little more sense.  They’ve rolled out a new feature where you can make your own Google Homepage modules – “no programming required”.  Apparently you can make them publically available, or send them to certain people.  In any case, this is a good step.

In the past, you could customize your homepage with publically-available knowledge that mattered to you.  Now you can include private connections to other people in the same place.  I like it!  Unfortunately, it doesn;t seem to be available for Google Apps users yet for their Organizational homepages.  I can easily see this as an easy way for companies, departments, teams, etc. to make inter-company information available to the people who need it.

Good job, big G!  Even if they’re not the first in this space, it makes for a good value-add to an already-popular product.

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