Google introduces social gadgets for your iGoogle homepage

iGoogle is a pretty decent homepage, with a wide selection of gadgets to choose from. You can add Gmail, Google Calendar, weather, RSS feeds and more to your homepage. Now iGoogle is expanding, though, and adding something that could make it really great. Gadgets are no longer limited to your own information: new social gadgets can display shared information from friends, too. Any gadget with a social icon in its toolbar can be shared with other users.


Social gadgets allow you to interact with your friends in several different, whether it's playing games like chess or Scrabble or working on to-do lists together. You can even add social feed of items your contacts have recently shared, which sounds an awful lot like Facebook's status updates. To control who you share with, there's now a Friends group in your Google Contacts, and you can add and remove people from there.

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