igoogle is a terrific..AOL-like homepage to the Internet. I do not want to enter a dozen different URLs for common items such as the news, gmail, or contacts every time I boot up; This is what igoogle is meant to be.
Unfortunately it lacks in clear support by Google itself, many of the gadgets are 3rd party and simply do not work.
Case in point, google contacts. It used to work, it has not worked for a few months now. I do not want to blame its author, a certain Nicholas Wilde, I am sure Google changed something to break the gadgets at some point.
Why isn’t Google authoring such a plug-in? This is what it looks like for anyone adding the gadgets now (and this is in Chrome):
Google contacts gadget
And here is the Google plus gadget:
Google Plus Gadget
Wow, good job.
The temporary solution is to add a gadget called the “Box Of Links”, And in there add the links for Google contacts (https://www.google.com/contacts/#contacts) and Google plus (https://plus.google.com/).
Just don’t forget to remove the other two gadgets:-)
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