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iGoogle gadgets interact with the user and utilize the Google Gadgets API. Some gadgets developed for Google Desktop can also be used within iGoogle. The Google Gadgets API is public and allows anyone to develop a gadget for any need. iGoogle recently added a new gadget named " What's Popular". It seems to be similar to Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon. where you can vote the web pages and add content you find interesti

Backup, Backup & Backup Some More Posted by Don Royster, Library Technical Assistant In January of this year I received an email from the founders of a Social Media Website I had belonged to since 2008. I was a regular blogger there. The email said the company who rented the web space had been bought by another company. Due to conditions imposed by the new owners, the creators had no choice but to shut down the site. It was going down on July 1, 2012. This is not an unusual... Read more News postPosted by Library · 3 minutes ago Sandra L Colby We have also received word that iGoogle is going away in November of 2013 so if we have sites they will have to be changed. Already there are widgets that don't work. A web 2.0 site that some classmates liked got shut down as well. 2:15pm Today

Google Latitude is a location-aware mobile app developed by Google. Latitude allows a mobile phone user to allow certain other people on his or her Gmail contact list to track where he or she is. These people can track the user (or more accurately, his or her phone) on Google Maps via their own iGoogle accounts. The user can control the accuracy and details of what each of the other users can see - an exact location can be allowed, or it can be limited to identifying the city only.