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iGoogle Developer Home (Labs)

Getting Started

  1. Check out the Getting Started Guide
  2. Read the Anatomy of an iGoogle Gadget
  3. Learn more with our Developer's Guide
  4. Add your gadget to the Gadget Dashboard
  5. Move on to the OpenSocial Tutorial

Welcome to the developer site for iGoogle, Google's personalized homepage. Gadgets on iGoogle now support canvas view and OpenSocial, a common set of APIs, HTML, and JavaScript designed to let you easily build social applications. Build and test your gadget in the new sandbox for iGoogle.

Manage your gadgets

Use the new iGoogle gadget dashboard to manage gadgets created by you and browse gadgets developed by others.


Enhance your content

iGoogle is Google's personalized homepage that users can customize with the information and tools they use everyday. You can now develop richer gadgets with large canvas views and social features to make your content more engaging and useful.


Distribute with friends

iGoogle has tens of millions of users, allowing you to quickly reach the homepages of a worldwide audience. Share content amongst a user's friends, post updates, and send messages to friends. With OpenSocial, build once and reuse.


Drive traffic and monetize

Top gadgets have millions of users and receive several hundred thousand page views per week. Drive traffic back to your site. Monetize your gadget how you like.