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Saying Goodbye to iGoogle

November 1st, 2013 | by A Googler | published in iGoogle

As we announced on the Official Google Blog nearly a year and a half ago, today we’re retiring iGoogle. Moving forward, iGoogle will redirect to www.google.com. If you’ve been using iGoogle gadgets to access information from Google products like Gmail and Finance, you can continue to do so via our new app launcher.

We know that many of you enjoyed your customized iGoogle experience, so if you’re looking for alternatives, there are some options that might fit your needs.

Sincerely,

The iGoogle Team

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Frequently-asked questions

1. What will happen to my iGoogle data?

All iGoogle data will be systematically deleted from Google servers.

2. Will there be any way to retrieve my data from Google in the future?

No. All user data will be permanently, and irrevocably deleted.

3. Will this affect my other Google services?

No. It simply means you will access them in a different way. You will still be able to use Google Chrome as your web browser, and you will still be able to access all Google services, such as Gmail, Google Search, Google Bookmarks, Google Calendar, Google Finance, Google Translate, etc., by opening them directly.

4. Why was iGoogle discontinued?

Please refer to our blog post for more information.

5. What will happen with third party gadgets?

Gadgets provided by third party developers will continue to be served. Google Sites, and other third party sites that have installed these gadgets will not be affected.

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An update on iGoogle

July 3rd, 2012 | by conradlo | published in iGoogle

As we announced on the Official Google Blog, on November 1, 2013, we will be retiring iGoogle. To ensure a smooth transition for your users, you may want to update your gadgets and direct users to your site or offer the ability to export user dat…

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More new features for the Gadget Dashboard

May 27th, 2011 | by Takashi | published in iGoogle

Did you know we are continuously adding new features to the iGoogle Gadget Dashboard? Today I’d like to let you know about a few of them.

First of all, we added two new data sets to the details page of your gadgets. Now you can see intuitive graphs in the “Installations and Removals” tab, which shows the number of gadget installations and gadget removals, and in the “Browser Errors” tab, where you can see errors recently reported by our end users’ browsers.

As you may have guessed, adding this information made the gadget details page too long, so we introduced a tabular view for that page.

(The tabular view, showing the new “Installations and Removals” data)

(“Browser Errors” table showing the top errors reported by our users’ browsers)

Additionally, the dashboard had been only available in English, but we added 7 other langueges a while ago, so it is now available in 8 languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The localized iGoogle developer documentation will lead you to the localized dashboard. For example, after you select Japanese at http://code.google.com/apis/igoogle/, you will arrive at http://code.google.com/intl/ja/apis/igoogle/, which has a link for the Japanese version of the dashboard. Alternatively, you can explicitly add the URL parameter “?hl=ja” to the dashboard URL.

Lastly, in the next few days, we will start sending you weekly summary e-mails of your gadget usage. If you don’t want to receive these summary e-mails, you can opt-out from this service by just clicking a link at the bottom of the e-mail. The e-mails look like the following.

Gadget name: Weather

Author email: [email protected]

Pageviews: 1,000,000 (+5.00% compared to the week of May 30, 2011)

Unique users: …

Installations: …

Removals: …

Browser errors: …

Gadget name: Youtube Gadget

Author email: …

Pageviews: …

Unique users: …

Installations: …

Removals: …

Browser errors: …

…

As you can see, iGoogle is still evolving! Happy coding.

Posted by Takashi Matsuo, Developer Advocate

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Live Gadget Previews in the iGoogle Directory

April 4th, 2011 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

The iGoogle Gadget Directory just got better. Users can now interact with a gadget in the directory before adding it to their page. Have a look at a couple examples like the Google News or Google Hot Trends gadgets.Your gadgets can have live previews t…

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iGoogle now replacing the Start Page

July 27th, 2010 | by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager | published in Google Apps, iGoogle

The Start Page is being automatically be converted to iGoogle. The Start Page gadgets your users have configured will be migrated to iGoogle pages, after which users can modify their iGoogle gadgets, tabs and themes. Your Start Page web address will …

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OpenSocial Development Environment 1.0 Released

June 23rd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

OSDE (OpenSocial Development Environment) is an Eclipse plugin for developing and testing OpenSocial applications.It’s an Apache-2-licensed open-source project hosted at:http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-development-environment/Its milestone versi…

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OpenSocial Development Environment 1.0 Released

June 23rd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

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HTML5 in Gadgets on iGoogle

May 26th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

Did you know gadgets can use html5? The key is in the doctype. Normally the doctype of a gadget isn’t mentioned. Specify the html5 doctype in the gadget and it will be used when the gadget is rendered. Let’s look at a quick example using the popular ca…

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HTML5 in Gadgets on iGoogle

May 26th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

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OSAPI on iGoogle

May 13th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

The OpenSocial 0.9 specification introduced a simpler API called OS Lite (also known as OSAPI) which uses a syntax that’s friendlier for Javascript developers.Some steely eyed developers have already noticed that iGoogle works with most OpenSocial 0…

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OSAPI on iGoogle

May 13th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

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Images In RSS Around the World

May 10th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

We announced a couple weeks ago that iGoogle now supports images in RSS. The initial launch was for the US only, but we’re launching globally over the next few days. All users will now be able to use our two new views (headline and lead story and sl…

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Images In RSS Around the World

May 10th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

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Variable Substitution and getMsg

May 3rd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

Gadgets use messages, stored in messagebundles, for internationalization. The most common way to access the messages your gadget has is with variable substitution. For example, a message called north can be specified as

Nord

and accessed by using __MSG_north__ your code. The copious underscores lead to the affectionate term “hangman variables” for this substitution notation. Before your code runs, the exact text __MSG_north__ is replaced everywhere with the appropriate value from the messagebundle. In this example it will be “Nord” (French for North, no quotes). This happens in the appropriate places in the XML of your gadget spec as well. So your enum values can be replaced before the controls are made that will show them and everything works as expected. But suppose you have some text in your code that uses a message, something like

dirbox.innerHTML = ‘__MSG_north__';

This will work fine as well because the substitution happens before the code runs. Now let’s take another message

Chez Sophie

And some similar Javascript

dinersign.innerHTML = ‘__MSG_dinername__';

Everything works fine until we add the English translation

Sophie’s Place

And the code the gadget tries to run is

dinersign.innerHTML = ‘Sophie’s Place';

where of course the string ends early and the browser will correctly emit some odd error on seeing the first s after the apostrophe. This could be cited as an unterminated string literal, a missing semicolon or an illegal character (if you get a different character for your apostrophe).

The gadgets.Prefs.getMsg() function will correctly read the dinername as the string which it’s meant to be.

var init = function () {

var prefs = new gadgets.Prefs();

dinersign = document.getElementById(“dinersign”);

dinersign.innerHTML = prefs.getMsg(“dinername”);

};

gadgets.util.registerOnLoadHandler(init);

The getMsg function should help make more reliable, robust gadgets in many cases and it might help resolve some of those errors your users get using languages translations that you don’t use so often.

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Variable Substitution and getMsg

May 3rd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle

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iGoogle

Saying Goodbye to iGoogle

An update on iGoogle

More new features for the Gadget Dashboard

Live Gadget Previews in the iGoogle Directory

iGoogle now replacing the Start Page

OpenSocial Development Environment 1.0 Released

OpenSocial Development Environment 1.0 Released

HTML5 in Gadgets on iGoogle

HTML5 in Gadgets on iGoogle

OSAPI on iGoogle

OSAPI on iGoogle

Images In RSS Around the World

Images In RSS Around the World

Variable Substitution and getMsg

Variable Substitution and getMsg

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