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VIRTUALISATION Google Dashboard - your new Internet home page
VIRTUALISATION Google Dashboard - your new Internet home page | Google Dashboard - your new Internet home page |
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| by David M Williams | |
| Thursday, 05 November 2009 | |
  
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While Google Dashboard isn't adorned with graphs and dials it does give ordinary folk a view of their entire Google account on one page. You may be surprised just how entrenched Google is in your online life. The Dashboard lists a centralised snapshot of all your pertinent Google information, including Gmail messages, web search history, YouTube subscriptions, calendar entries and much, much more. Information presented includes details about your sent and received e-mails, drafts and attachments, online chat messages, personalised web history, Picasa and Google Maps usage and many other individual items. ”We think of this as a great step towards giving you transparency and control over your data,” said Alan Noble, Head of Engineering for Google Australia and New Zealand. The Dashboard is not just read only; you can also manage the data and change settings with ease. In this regard alone, the Dashboard makes a brilliant all-in-one Google control panel, so to speak. Google explains the Dashboard was developed with the goal of being transparent to its users, as well as giving them control. With this objective Google Dashboard follows on from other recent Google innovations like the Data Liberation Front (DLF) that makes it easier for people to bring their data in and out of Google’s product suites to and from competing products. You can access Google Dashboard via the Settings page of your Google account or through google.com/dashboard. |
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