Some of my friends use iGoogle as a portal for handling daily office routines. They had been selling me the solution for a while. They were able to get me to give iGoogle a test drive a few weeks ago.

iGoogle does provide some degree of convenience, at the cost of slower loading time and constantly higher CPU utilization.¹ However, I have not yet found iGoogle indispensable nor increase my productivity noticeably, and now this, from The Register:

The most devastating is the ability of Google gadgets to immediately redirect victims who log into iGoogle.com to a page under the control of an attacker. This creates a phishing hazard, particularly for less tech-savvy users who don’t know to check the browser bar. Even if they do, the bar shows up at gmodules.com, an address many mistakenly believe is safe because it is maintained by Google.

Guys, if you are reading this, please move away from iGoogle or make sure you know exactly what you are doing.

1. damn you JavaScripts! [↩]