I am both Gmail and Google Reader user and I realy love the iGoogle home portal. Since guys from Mountain View rolled out the new version of the latter and I must admit I like the new approach:
- First of all they do not took from me the previous options.
- The second thing – I can have a real Gmail and Google Reader on my startpage.
I really missed the possiblity to use those services as I were accessing them the usual way, but no more! I’m now just 1 click away (and without a page reaload or new tab/window) from using the famous “J” shortcut to browse through unreaded RSS feeds, or switch to read unread e-mails and compose new.
In general, iGoogle experience is becoming more and more desktop like with features like maximizing gadgets accesing Google docs etc. and still its easy, fast and in result of above extreamly useful in everyday use.
The only uncool thing is that it is still not a default option for Polish Google site, and that caused I missed the initial realease by quite few (dozens of) days… The only reason I found it is that, at work, I started using Firefox with default website language set to English…
Better later then neve r.