Googlified

Last week, the Google Mac team released Vidnik, a “simple program for using the built-in camera on your Mac to create movies and upload them to YouTube.” It’s pretty easier to use and offers many functions like using the program to record video (or just drag & drop existing videos) and upload them as video comments.

Mambo on the Google Blogoscoped forum commented that, “I’ve just tried it out. To be honest, I think iMovie ‘08 does a much better job. It’s just as easy to use, but offers more flexibility, and flawless YouTube integration.”

Another season, another new design for YouTube. The new design added bigger (but not necessary better) buttons for sharing and bookmarking the videos. It also brings the “Who’s Also Watching Now” into focus, as well as add image buttons () for users to choose between high and low (standard) video qualities.

The YouTube Insight tool got a new feature - Discovery - that allows users to “how viewers found your video, whether by searching on YouTube or Google, browsing under “related videos,” receiving a link to the video from an email or website, or watching it in an embedded player off YouTube.”

Last but not least, the Mac version of the YouTube multifile uploader has been released, you can find it here.

Google today released a new version of Google Desktop for Mac, which includes a new feature - Desktop Gadgets - that was previously found on the Windows version only. One difference is that the gadgets on the Mac version will be placed on the Dashboard instead of a separate sidebar in the Windows version.

What’s the use of Google Desktop Gadgets if Mac already have Dashboard widgets, you may ask? Well, my answer is quite simple: the Mac users will have more choices for what to put on their Dashboards (there are currently about 700 Google Gadgets in their Plugins directory).

Since the gadgets are mostly written in XML and JavaScript (and often times CSS), they are cross-platform that can be run on iGoogle, and both Windows and Mac version of Google Desktop, without having the developers to rewrite the gadgets again (there are a few rules to watch out though).

I want to congratulate gSpy’s Keith Chan for winning the Google Gadgets Awards in Hong Kong with his Hong Kong Regional Weather gadget.

Do you have a Google Analytics account? And if so, do you find it annoying each day having to log into Google Analytics, and select which site, etc.. until you finally reach those numbers you so desperately seek? I sure do - that’s why I didn’t log into Google Analytics for over 3 months! Here’s a Handy little Dashboard widget (for Mac users only) created by Rob Scriva called Dashalytics (now see how I get to the weird post title?) It shows you all your data and a quick glance, let me show you:

The Main “Page”:

This shows a graph, and the total number of visitors over the following selectable time periods: 1 Day, 1 Week, 1 Month, 3 Months, 6 Months, and 1 Year.

The Break-down view:

Here you can view more data about the visits themselves.

Visitor Data View:

Here you can view the Browser they used and connection speeds.

That was only the visitor’s overview, there’s also a Content Overview, and a traffic sources overview. Trust me - just get this, it’s amazing, it also handles multiple sites.

Download it here.

Christian.

Wow, can you atleast explain what’s going on? That looks more like a spam comment than a post from an official Google blog.

Looks like Ms. Yao wrote that post in a hurry.

Google just announced on their Google Mac Blog a new version of Google Desktop (1.01).

It comes with a long list of bug fixes, feature improvements and more settings.

Many of the early users wrote in their blogs about buggy behaviour. Let’s hope most of it got resolved and that we can see more updates soon.

Google today released the Mac version of Google Desktop.

Like its Windows counterpart, the Mac version of Google Desktop has a Quick Search Box, indexes and searches multiple file types, including Gmail (is it a file type?), Google Integration and it also saves “cached copy of your files and other items each time you view them”.

Sounds like Spotlight (+ Time Machine), don’t it?

While this release of Google Desktop for Mac doesn’t have the gadget feature, but they will probably included them in the next version to compete with Mac OS X’s homegrown Dashboard.

Running Tiger (Mac OS 10.4+) and want Google Desktop? Download the software here and see the Getting Start Guide if you need help.

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