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Google will overhaul its iGoogle interface in June and give people a way to advertise on personalized home page service, the company said.
The ads will be an option for iGoogle's "canvas view," which lets iGoogle applications
expand to fill the whole browser screen, Google said Tuesday on its iGoogle developer blog.
"Those of you with existing applications should add a canvas view to take advantage of more screen real estate. And using canvas view, you can also monetize with ads," said Dan Holevoet of Google's developer programs group, on the blog.
In April, Google launched a "sandbox" to let developers try the canvas view along with an iGoogle interface change that adds a left-hand navigation pane with a user's list of Web site gadgets.
Later this summer, Holevoet said, Google will add the OpenSocial API to iGoogle. OpenSocial is a cooperative effort including several Google rivals that lets programmers create Web site applications that can run on any OpenSocial-enabled site.
Also coming later this summer are iGoogle updates and notifications, where for example an application can notify a user's friends of some event such as a new high score in a game.
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