On Andy’s homepage, he reveals that he has won the US Open and 27 singles titles and, although he is from Nebraska, he currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Brooklyn Decker.  I thought it was pretty cool that, despite everything he’s done with his life, he counts The Andy Roddick Foundation among his most valuable accomplishments.

If you check out the gadgets, you’ll learn that he subscribes to AndyRoddick.com, Huskers Illustrated (because he’s still a University of Nebraska Cornhusker fan!), iLike (so that he can keep up-to-date with his “favorite bands, upcoming concerts as well as new artists”), Random Quotes from… (because he thinks “Rainn Wilson is a genius”), Google Weather (gotta keep up with the weather if you’re a tennis star!), Sports Illustrated (to keep up with his fantasy baseball league), TwitterGadget and Google Calendar (to star organized).

Andy’s iGoogle theme, of course, is “Tennis Ball on Court.” 

image: TSN

Post from: EveryJoe

Andy Roddick Shares iGoogle Homepage

Ionut Alex Chitu posts an great review of the new iGoogle. You really should try it for yourself. Here’s the trick to unlock the new features:

1) Go to http://google.com/ig
2) Enter this in your address bar to get the new iGoogle:

javascript:_dlsetp(’v2=1′);

3) Enter this in your address bar to get back the old iGoogle:

javascript:_dlsetp(’v2=0′);

Gmail and RSS look especially sweet in the new iGoogle. You get a full Gmail interface from within iGoogle, and RSS feeds appear as they would in Google Reader.

It’s not quite ready for primetime yet; Google Reader and Google Calendar don’t get full interfaces. Switching between widgets in different tabs is also a bit slow, as iGoogle tries to load the whole tab before loading the widget. Feed titles in the sidebar also have a strange tendency to constantly reload.

Nevertheless, I can’t wait for this new iGoogle to work out its kinks and go public. A richer Ajax homepage means less browser tabs to juggle.

Post from: EveryJoe

Try the New iGoogle!

First-Ever ***** with Mechanical Digital Display, says the widget headline. I instantly think of a dirty five-letter word, and click through expecting the first-ever pussy with mechanical digital display. Kinky tech, baby.

Imagine my disappointment when I see this:

First-Ever Wristwatch with Mechanical Digital Display, says the actual headline. Damn, and I was expecting something like LEDs on a pubis.

I can see the word wristwatch just fine if I simply add the Digg technology feed to iGoogle, so the word must have triggered a profanity or spam filter in the Digg widget itself. Could such a filter be erroneously triggered on purpose to generate clickthroughs? Are asterisks the new shocker headline? In the tradition of the Rickroll, could this be the first asteriskroll?

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***** on iGoogle Digg Widget