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Posted by Kevin Tom, iGoogle Product
Manager

Since we launched themes on iGoogle last March, we've enjoyed
seeing how people have connected with them. For instance, we've
gotten fan mail for the "fox in the teahouse" theme, and
seen some great blog posts generated when folks discover the Easter
egg for each theme.

Users and developers alike have been clamoring to know when they
can develop themes for the iGoogle homepage, and we're happy to
say that today is the day! Whether you like outer space, cartoons,
dogs, or anything else, you can now create your own theme and help
personalize iGoogle for millions of people.

The Themes API lets you customize many portions of the iGoogle
page. Your theme can also update the page's design based on
variables, such as the time of day or location. This makes it easy
to create a narrative that unfolds throughout the day, a landscape
that changes as the sun rises and sets, or an abstract image that
becomes more complex.

Anyone who can build a website can create an iGoogle Theme. We
worked with designers Yves Behar, Mark Frauenfelder, Troy Lee, and
John Maeda to create some href="http://code.google.com/apis/themes/#Examples"
id="yz53" >custom iGoogle designs to show some great examples of
the types of themes you can create.

href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/01/igoogle-themes-api.html" >
Read more on the Google Code Blog and href="http://code.google.com/apis/themes" >start creating your
theme.

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Posted by Jessica Ewing, Product
Manager

We launched our first version of the Google personalized homepage
in May. It started as a project on href="http://labs.google.com/" >Google Labs in response to
numerous requests from people who wanted to add at-a-glance info by
the Google search box. Today we're thrilled to
"graduate" from Labs and add a href="http://www.google.com/ig" >Personalized Home link on the
Google homepage. Though we realize that many love the vanilla
Google, there are those who might want to add a few sprinkles.

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