iGoogle

I was not sure what I was letting myself in for with this exercise.
One of the advantages of the iGoogle page is that you can customize and change it to have all your Google tools and gadgets in the one place. A bit like a one stop shop.

I found it quite easy to add new stuff once you got the hang of it. There was so much to choose from. I liked the minimize feature so that the important stuff to you (like the map search, the Weather, latest news etc) was prominent on the page with the tools like google docs, editgrid spreadsheets in the minimized size.

I also had fun experimenting with changing the artist theme and select theme tabs. You could never get bored with your iGoogle page with so much choice for colours, moods and tastes.

Working at Google
It’s so different from a traditional workplace most of us know. In the careers part of the Saturday Age, they have a regular feature about perks of the job which I find interesting. Google surpasses all of these.
This philosophy is used to attract and retain the best people so that all their energies are channeled into developing and improving new and innovative tools. It certainly has worked with the success of Google. Our exercises these past two weeks has given us an opportunity to explore some of these.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the retirement of Bill Gates at Microsoft and how these two rivals develop.