Dânesh Zaki

While checking mail at Gmail, I loitered around the site and saw that there were quite a few new features that Google had quietly made available. The biggest one was Gmail on mobile. Since GPRS on my phone will get activated only tomorrow, I will have to wait to see how it works.

Among the other features, the one that caught my attention was the personalized Google page similar to Yahoo! and other portals. But the fun part was that this was dynamic, complete with drag and drop widgets/portlets whatever one calls them. As I guessed (and later verified) it was AJAX, a Web 2.0 technology in action. There are the standard widgets available for news, mail, stock etc and then there are a few fun widgets available on the “More Content” section. The old favourite “X-Eyes” app and a clock with date looked cool. I may not make it my home page but it is fun to play with once in a while. Take a look at it at http://www.google.com/ig