Social widgets on iGoogle

Starting today, 19 new widgets can be added to the personal pages of iGoogle , united by a common “social” meaning, that is, involving collective actions of users. All of them are united in a new group of social widgets. These are several games (chess, scrabble, quiz), as well as a whole set of the most diverse topics: photo album, diary, news, TV shows, crosswords, chat, etc., the full list under the screen.

It seems that widgets are quite simple - such fun toys - but they all turn iGoogle into a kind of social network. Now users can really spend a day on their page, reading the news, playing games and chatting with friends.

iGoogle is the second most popular personal webpage service. Its monthly audience is 25 million people. The leader of My Yahoo has 44 million people.
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Below is a demo video about social widgets that Marissa Mayer published .



Here is a list of widgets and their authors. As you can see, only five of the 19 created by Google, the rest are provided by third-party firms.

Google widgets
Captions
Social Photos
Tile game
Timeline
YouTube

Third Party Widgets
Access Hollywood - Celebs by Access Hollywood
Chess.com - Chess
EA - SCRABBLE
Flixster - Flixster Movies
GoComics - GoComics
Huffington Post - The Huffington Post
Labpixies - Flood-It!
Labpixies - To-do
Labpixies - Trivia
NPR - NPR News, Music, Daily Quiz
NYT - NY Times Crossword
Playfish - WHO HAS THE BIGGEST BRAIN?
Tarot.com - Today's Horoscope
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