iGoogle Updates

There's been a small upgrade to the iGoogle interface this morning.

There's a new 'drop down arrow' that lets you rename or delete a tab. The big news is the new item in the dropdown that lets you 'share this tab' with a friend. This brings up a dialog box to email others your tab layout / gadget selection so they can add it to their iGoogle. Quite a nifty feature I must say.

In related news, a couple of weeks ago Google increased the number of available tabs in iGoogle from 6 to around 20.

iGoogle

If you've stopped by the Google Personalised Homepage today, you've probably noticed it's been rebranded and is now called 'iGoogle' (which is what the '/ig' stood for).

Philipp's Blogoscoped has the skinny, and you can read the official Google blog post here.

The take-aways are:

• You can create simple, "no programming required", homepage gadgets using their gadget wizard.
• Localised support for multiple languages and locales (22 around the world in fact) -- so http://www.google.co.uk/ig will give you your iGoogle on the UK Google domain.
• iGoogle has been Google's biggest growing service.