David Notik

Google just announced the ability to take your Google personalized homepage with you on the go. Called Mobile Personalized Home, the service lets you see the same content you customized on your PC.

I've said it before: Google does personalized homepages correctly. I use it to watch my e-mail, weather, news, stocks, movie times, and even subscribe to feeds from other sites -- all in one clean, simple interface. Now, I can get it on my cellphone.

I tried it, and it was mostly a breeze. (I wasn't able to see the Personalized Home link with "www.google.com" entered in my phone, but "www.google.com/xhtml" had the link). I logged in, and stuff from my personalized homepage was there.

True, clean, easy integration. As the Web matures, and information becomes more meaningful and connected, services like Google's personalized homepage let us avoid the clutter (read: no ads) and see this information on our own terms (read: not picked by editors).

Google gets this. This, my friends, is why so many love Google's products.

Update. The title of page on my mobile phone is "iGoogle" -- is this indicative of something to come? In fact, that explains what the "/ig" part is in the URL used to get to the PC version of the personalized homepage. And iGoogle.com goes to the personalized home page as well.

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