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Google giveth, taketh away

Posted by Jacque on December 12th, 2007

g-themes.pngiGoogle winter themes 
After posting two days ago about holiday and winter themes for iGoogle, imagine my surprise to discover today that the Holiday Village theme had disappeared from my home page and theme choices.

 It’s not the first time I have mentioned a Google feature that hadn’t been rolled out to everyone yet, but it is the first time I have had the feature disappear after I had it.

 Hopefully it will reappear soon since I really liked it.  In the meantime, does anyone out there have the code?

Gmail stories
This morning I found this in my Gmail:

gmail-share.png

I don’t know whether this has rolled out to everyone (!), but for those of you who have an interesting story to tell about your use of Gmail,  “all you need is a video camera and a great story.  Feel free to get creative with special effects or choreography or just tell it like it is,” says this Gmail site.  Submit your video by December 31st, 2007

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One Response to “Google giveth, taketh away”

  1. Holiday Village, the new Winter Theme for iGoogle » Hancorp Technologies Says:

    [...] Holiday Village. This mysterious theme has appeared and disappeared for almost a week and many people wondered why Google doesn’t release it for everyone. Apparently, Google realized that [...]

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