iGoogle Gets Some Aussie Artist Themes, Interesting
Fans of Australian artists like John Butler Trio, Missy Higgins, Rolf Harris, Anne Geddes, Ken Done or The Wiggles are about to get a big treat – themes for iGoogle!
The themes were designed by the artists as a massive marketing ploy way of offering fans another way of expressing their support, and part of Google’s global effort to let people personalise their online experience.
John Butler, that hippy rockstar with a social conscience, loves the idea:
“The term Google has become part of the English vernacular as a way to say go find out yourself…get informed. As someone who is part of a progressive generation who sees this small world as one interconnected community, I’m proud to represent the Australian arts scene on a global level.”
You can click here to see which other Australian artists are available, or if you want to widen your reach to see what the rest of the world is offering, check here.
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‘m a bit upset at this because it was my idea and I explicit
demand for Google using it and they stiffed me.
Here is my idea as I proposed it 6 months ago on the New York
Times Blog about google and yahoo social networking. It was the first
comment.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/inbox-20-yahoo-and-google-to-turn-e-mail-into-a-social-network/
“For your grand launch of the IGoogle social network have
Takashi Murakami design themes exclusively for IGoogle. He is
expensive but Google can afford him and trust me people will
sign up in drove just to have his themes as their background on
IGoogle. Of course there are many other famous underground
and main stream artists that would get a great response as well.
If Google decides to use my ideas, I want a tour of Googleplex
and I want to meet Sergey and give him a haircut. These are my
terms and I’m not budging.
——
coolrepublica”
I’m sure someone at Google got a bonus for proposing this idea
to their boss. I hope they choke on it.