The desktop version of iGoogle, which allows you to add gadgets (weather, calendars, quote of the day, pic of the day, headlines from various news services, etc) to a personalized browser home page, is going away as of November 1 (the mobile version was retired on July 31, 2012). According to Google: “We originally launched iGoogle in 2005 before anyone could fully imagine the ways that today’s web and mobile apps would put personalized, real-time information at your fingertips. With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for something like iGoogle has eroded over time, so we’ll be winding down iGoogle…”
Although I agree that the alternatives for smart phones abound, I’ve become quite dependent on iGoogle to provide a single page that aggregates key information I want to see each day on my desktop. I’ve looked into Chrome “apps”, but each seems to require a separate page (or tab) in the browser. Are there viable alternatives for iGoogle that allow you to aggregate a number of these types of services on a single page that you can quickly skim without clicking from tab to tab or app to app?
