iGoogle, I owe you my life.

I now found my self compelled to check my iGoogle as much as I check my Facebook. Except today, now as I am writing this. The amount of time it would have taken me to navigate to those sites, I spend it on iGoogle, actually saving me no time at all. Is this where the internet is going. Pretty soon we are just going to sit at our computer motionless while all of our information we want and need is displayed for us. We will learn to read 200000 things at once. Okay, perhaps it won't go that far....but it could!? I would say if you use Google, just even a little bit, check it out. iGoogle allows you to first customize your start page with either your own goodies or some hilarious pre-made ones. Then you are able to add what is known as a gadget or tiny program. So for instance, I have a world clock, my news, and my mail all in nifty little widgets. You can customize it anyway you want. A real complete Web 2.0 experience. Everything is integrated. I see this is where operating systems of tomorrow will go. Pretty much making a custom user experience based on internet information. No longer will users need to be concerned with programs they need to install and the content they need to access. Everyone will have the opportunity to tailor it to their needs. Microsoft and Apple are already moving this direction. iGoogle did, however, take a few design notes from the Apple Dashboard, but that's okay. After all, good artist's borrow and great artists steal. And who said that?