Zer Have egitea izan dugu? Hau, Eta azaroaren SaveiGoogle That Day

Posted on November 1, 2012 by SaveiGoogle.org langileak

Over the past month, we haven't been hiding under a rock. There just hasn't been much to write. Sure, we could have announced updates to the Alternatibak list or talked about when we made news. Baina, we didn't see either as all that newsworthy. We could even be lamenting iGoogle's demise one year from today. Instead, we'll continue to keep doing what we're doing, like getting ready to give away what may end up being rare collectible swag on the first Save iGoogle Day tomorrow!

Unfortunately, we have to limit swag distribution to US residents, but we urge everyone to take part in SaveiGoogle Days. The rules for a chance to win some swag during the November Save iGoogle Day are:

  1. Between 11am EDT and 11pm EDT on November 2, 2012, do the following:
    • Add a comment to the November Save iGoogle Day thread started by SaveiGoogle.org at the iGoogle Personal Homepage forum for a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org keychain flashlight.
    • Retweet the November Save iGoogle Day tweet sent at Twitter by @SaveiGoogle for a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org keychain flashlight.
    • Repin the November SaveiGoogle Day pin sent at Pinterest by Save Google for a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org keychain flashlight.
    • Share the November SaveiGoogle Day post sent at Google+ by SaveiGoogle.org for a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org keychain flashlight.
    • Share the November SaveiGoogle Day status update sent at Facebook by Ez hil iGoogle for a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org keychain flashlight.
  2. Everyone that completes one of the above will also receive a chance to win one SaveiGoogle.org embroidered hat. Do all five of the above and receive five chances to receive the hat.
  3. Random drawings for winners will be completed by Sunday, November 3, 2012 and winners will be contacted that day.
  4. Swag distribution is limited to one item per person per SaveiGoogle Day.
  5. We reserve the right to change the rules for swag distribution without notice, including increasing the amount of swag distributed per SaveiGoogle Day.
Posted in Announcement, iGoogle, Save iGoogle Days, SaveiGoogle.org Exclusive

Gorde iGoogle Days Hasi azaroaren 2! Google Blackout Days Bertan behera!

Posted on September 27, 2012 by SaveiGoogle.org langileak

Unlike Google, we take your input seriously! A Stop SOPA style monthly gadget blackout sounded like a good idea at the time, but will just add to user angst like that caused by Labpixies (a Google company) premature termination of its birthday gadget, Gadgeteer pulling the plug on all their gadgets eta Google killing its weather API. The monthly Google Blackout Days planned to start on October 1, 2012 are cancelled!

Instead, let's have some fun with Save iGoogle Days starting on November 2, 2012! We'll have more details soon, but we can tell you everyone that participates at the iGoogle Personal Homepage forum, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and/or Twitter will get a chance to win some swag.

Posted in Announcement, iGoogle, SaveiGoogle.org Exclusive, Volunteer

Bing It On, Mozilla For Hooray & GeekDad Dream App

Posted on September 18, 2012 by SaveiGoogle.org langileak

A little more catchy than "In Case You Missed It #5?" We hope so! Anyway...

Bing It On

In case you need more motivation to check out alternatives to the "new" evil (Google) empire. The "old" evil (Microsoft) empire is giving everyone the opportunity to do a blind comparison of Google and Bing search results at Bing It On. Unless you run into the Bing team on the street, you won't have to give them the shirt off your back if Bing does better than Google. Eta, if you care to tweet about Bing It On, Microsoft is offering a big box of "awesome" Microsoft swag at bingsweeps.com.

Mozilla For Hooray

Kjetil Hartveit is absolutely right about Mozilla doing the right thing by making the source code for it's iOS Sync client available on GitHub. However unlikely, we can still hope for the same from Google on the iGoogle container, the Google Gadget Editor and the theme and gadget directories. For what it's worth, Google did step up and open source Google Wave, now Apache Wave.

GeekDad's Dream App

GeekDad's got a pretty good app idea over at Wired. Would someone get on it? In that story's comments, we mentioned Kitedesk as an option. We just got our beta invite and will be evaluating features for our Alternatibak list soon.

Postscripts

Backstitch just launched a public beta today. Don't expect much yet. Baina, it looks promising. Currently it's focused on integrating news, photos, social and shopping within gadgets (patterns) and a reader (threads). It does have an RSS Feed gadget. There is no mobile capability, email, calendar, OPML import, sharing or broad base of gadgets.

Good to see Google put its considerable resources into supporting all those users clamoring for the "Bacon Number" instead of iGoogle!

We've made a few more updates to our Alternatibak list. This update focused on adding a few potential options, eliminating a few options and changes based on your suggestions.

Posted in iGoogle, iGoogle Alternatives, Albisteak Story, Other Blog

Zirriborroa alternatibak zerrenda

Posted on September 5, 2012 by SaveiGoogle.org langileak

Without further delay, our Alternatibak list is available. Please recognize this is a work in progress. We would like it to be complete too, but it takes time to identify alternatives, define a set of criteria for consistent evaluation and complete feature verification and testing across multiple browsers and operating systems.  Many volunteer hours are going into developing the comparative alternatives list. To date, we've:

  • identified or received suggestions for 80 potential iGoogle alternatives,
  • verified and tested features for 17 alternatives,
  • eliminated 15 alternatives from the list for a variety of reasons, eta
  • are working on the 48 other alternatives.

As it's not final, you won't find the list on the SaveiGoogle.org sitemap or menu. Gurekin harremanetan jarri if you think there is an alternative we missed or feature we need to consider.

Posted in Announcement, iGoogle Alternatives, SaveiGoogle.org Exclusive

Google Eguraldia API Killing By Storm Another sortzen

Posted on Abuztua 31, 2012 by SaveiGoogle.org langileak

Lehenago aste honetan, Hurrengo Web jakinarazi Google lasai hil bere Eguraldia API (API da Google-en iGoogle gadget Eguraldia lan egiten du). IGoogle gehien erabiltzaileen, API hil big deal ez zen. Google lasai ordezkatu du iGoogle gadget bat aurrera Weather Underground. Beraz, zer big deal da?

Nahiz eta API zen "pribatua" eta Google izan da "bere eskubideen barruan" it tira abisatu gabe,irekia sekretu asko garatzaileei erabiltzen da apps ez diren funtzionamendu hasi da. New Tab Page Awesome trepeta eguraldi, Chrome Apps artean Google hori on kontatuta iGoogle ordezkatzeko, jaitsi zen. Eta, han iruzkina zorigaiztoko askoren inguruan en twitterverse.Kontuan hartuta "guztia egin gure lana konexioa Google dugu izango da, eta behar izan, enpresa-jokabide etikoaren altuena posible estandarrak aurka neurtu", oharra apur bat izan litzateke eskuineko gauza egin. Garatzaileak, gai izango da bere ordez egokia API aurkitu ahal izango duzu ProgrammableWeb.

Honek, beste ekintza ematen da, kontsumitzaileek, sustatzaile eta enpresa erabiltzaile bat gehiago arrazoia Google zalantzan osotasuna eta fokua. To SaveiGoogle.org, Balio-judizioak egiteko badakigu ohi dira, bat ere ez irabazi, egoera. Baina, benetan? Eguraldiaren API eta iGoogle mantenduz, horiek ianray iruzkin at pictured en adierazi bezala, erabilerak dituzten "Ez hartu nire iGoogle kanpoan!", da hain garrantzitsua garatzen baino Google Hangouts ondorioak? Izan polita eta dibertigarria izan daiteke, baina nola Chief Technology Officer ez dagoela azaldu "Ezaugarri" denean deskribatzen enpresa Google Hangouts onurak?

P.S. Dakigu, duzu zor dugu iGoogle alternatibak zerrenda bat! Zerrenda ebaluatzen ari gara ha baino gehiago hazi 75! Ezaugarri nahiz eta zerrenda ez da osoa, zirriborro bat argitaratuko dugu Asteartea arabera.

Posted in Albisteak Story, Behaketa, Rant

Kasu horretan galdu duzu - Top Ipuinak #4

Posted on Abuztua 24, 2012 by SaveiGoogle.org langileak

Those looking for an iGoogle replacement have a new developer to watch! Josh Jordan has declared in iGoogle Discontinued – I might recreate it!:

...I have started to turn the cogs on this project. I have some really interesting ideas that could enhance the iGoogle experience...

Carol went on a "techy toy/app mission" to replace some iGoogle functionality at Wonder if Toodledo Can Help Me Produce? and found:

Over all I feel I have been more productive.

For those interested in finding a new task manager, we also suggest reading Top 10 Apps: Web-based Task Managers.

In closing, we wonder whether iGoogle's retirement is common knowledge what with a July 3 announcement, summer holidays and what not. We continue to see a number of stories that show authors are unaware (and they are not content scrapers). Two examples from the last week:

If these reasonably tech savvy folks are not "in the know", maybe there are many, many others that need to be reached with the Save iGoogle message!?

P.S. Kudos to Ellen for mentioning IFTTT...a cool tool...definitely something we'll try to use at SaveiGoogle.org to announce new content.

Posted in iGoogle, Albisteak Story, Other Blog

Necessity Is The Mother Of Creativity #1

Posted on Abuztua 17, 2012 by SaveiGoogle.org langileak

As traditional news venues lose interest in iGoogle retirement and Google continues to maintain its passive aggressive stance, you may wonder how we're going to keep things fresh.

  • Keep you informed on Gorde iGoogle kanpaina developments.
  • Release an extensive list of iGoogle alternatives by the end of August. The list will include a feature comparison and each alternative has to be multi-platform capable (i.e., multi-browser, multi-OS and multi-hardware).
  • Publish an in-depth review of one or two of those alternatives each week.
  • Continue to scour the Web for stories you may have missed.

There should be no shortage of blogosphere stories. There are plenty of savvy people who like to publish what they're doing. Many of the stories don't have the detail to be included in our "Nola" page and series, but we're finding plenty of creativity.  Without further ado, you may want to check out:

We recognize many users have no interest in spinning up a website whether it be self-hosted, Blogger, Google Sites or otherwise (but these are just ideas, you don't have to try them). Eta, if we were Patricia, we would have also talked about pinning browser tabs with Firefox or Chrome (Internet Explorer users can pin to the taskbar in Windows 7, but Safari users are out of luck). As for Flipboard, we enjoy using the "social magazine" app as a leisurely alternative to an RSS Reader, but think Feedly is as good and a better multi-platform alternative since it supports iOS, Android, Chrome, Safari and Firefox (sorry Internet Explorer users).

As always, feel free to comment on this story or Gurekin harremanetan jarri if you have something to say.

Posted in How To Posts, iGoogle Alternatives, Albisteak Story

The “Gorde iGoogle kanpaina” Begins

Posted on Abuztua 13, 2012 by SaveiGoogle.org langileak

SaveiGoogle.org was conceived at a gathering of friends on the night of the iGoogle retirement announcement and put into motion with a simple page of resources on the following day. We were founded as a community effort, attempting to bring iGoogle users and developers together to Save iGoogle. We provide original content and information from around the Web about iGoogle and personal dashboard alternatives.

Weeks in the making, we announce the launch of the Gorde iGoogle kanpaina! We invite everyone to join us in efforts to Save iGoogle and thank you for your help! For iGoogle users, the campaign lists recommended actions and resources and explains monthly iGoogle Blackout Days which will begin on October 1, 2012. For iGoogle developers, several tools are provided at Garapen tresnak, including code for the "Gorde iGoogle" ribbon, gadget MiniMessages and iGoogle Blackout Days.

For those who have created "Gorde iGoogle" resources that are not mentioned in the campaign, many thanks and please continue your efforts. They won't go unnoticed. As appropriate, we'll make note in our blog, resources page, how to page or other content.

Posted in Announcement, iGoogle, Volunteer

What’s A Mouse To Do?

Posted on Abuztua 10, 2012 by SaveiGoogle.org langileak

When in a position of strength, feign weakness!
And bring a lot more mice!
Have a great weekend!
Stop by Monday morning to learn more
and help with an act of defiance!

Many thanks to Adrian Bruce for the free use!

Posted in iGoogle, Media, Other Blog, Rant

Zergatik Gorde iGoogle? – Media Scout And Useful On More Platforms Than An Olympic Diver

Posted on Abuztua 6, 2012 by SaveiGoogle.org langileak

While the uses for iGoogle may be limitless, here are a couple more published examples for how people use iGoogle:

You can find these reasons and others for saving iGoogle at our Zergatik Gorde iGoogle? page under Baliabideak on the menu bar. See something we need to add? Comment or Gurekin harremanetan jarri!

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