Maybe its Karma [Google Left Navigation]

I’ve been laughing at my friends who were chosen, apparently at random, to be guinea pigs for what appears to be some kind of sick experiment for a left navigation on iGoogle. Today, I was hit with it. It sucks. I don’t like it… and while it did add some functionality to the Gmail widget, I don’t like the robbed screen real estate.

LET ME GO GOOGLE!!

Update: After reading the Google blog, it turns out everyone in the US now has this “feature.” I want the feature to turn it off.

Google’s New Blue Fav Icon [Favicon.ico]

So… A new blue fav icon adorned my Firefox location bar this afternoon when I fired up my iGoogle homepage.

New Google Fav icon:

Old Google Fav icon:

Is Google redesigning their logo or was someone at Google just having a slow Friday?

Perhaps it’ll just change back on Monday and the world will never know!! No. No. Never. I refuse to believe it!

Maybe changing the Fav icon was just a little nugget of nothing for the blogging community to chew on and create buzz… simply a clever ruse…

EDIT: Apparently the new icon isn’t yet appearing on localized versions of Google, but this is normal of anything Google rolls out anyway.