Google Personalized Home Page Launches
UPDATE: Check out Richard MacManus' take at ionRSS.com: "[Google] will offer 'Universal RSS support' for the Personalized Homepage within 1-2 months, meaning users will be able to add any RSS feed onto it. Interesting that this comes out at the same time as Microsoft confirming it will integrate RSS across its MSN online services throughout the year."
It's evidently a cold day in hell, as Google's venerably simplistic home page will be supplanted (not forcibly replaced, mind you) by the new "Personalized Homepage". Here's a sneak preview.
It's part of a new push Google calls "Fusion," which is an initiative to combine the various popular Google tools with web content at a user's fingertips. It's not quite the Google Browsers, but it's getting close! The actual change is supposed to go live some time very soon; and should you decry the loss of the classic Google homepage, you can set your preferences to keep it around.
That's just one of three announcements this afternoon at the Googleplex.
The second is a better version of "Keyhole" called "Google Earth," which will launch in a couple of weeks with truly astonishing satellite photo technology. And the third, as mentioned recently on SVW, is AdSense for RSS, available now.
