Google Releases in the last 48 hours
The folks at Google have been at full force over the last two days. There have been releases for Blogger, Google Analytics and Google Talkabout over the last 48 hours.
Blogger
Google Gadgets have now been enabled for all layouts blogs at Blogger. This new interface allows for the integration of iGoogle Gadgets directly into your sidebar, with an array of customization options for easy tweaking.
Google Analytics
Previously, even if you were logged into Google, you were required to relogin to Google Analytics. This is no longer the case.
Now, if you’re already logged in to your Google Account and come to the Google Analytics homepage, you can simply click “Access Analytics” and arrive at the admin page for your account.
Google Talk
Google Talk now has transliteration bots that will convert text from English to Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil or Telugu.
Transliteration is a service provided by Google India that allows you to type in Indian languages using phonetically equivalent English script.
There are currently 5 transliteration bots
- Hindi (en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com)
- Kannada (en2kn.translit@bot.talk.google.com)
- Malayalam (en2ml.translit@bot.talk.google.com)
- Tamil (en2ta.translit@bot.talk.google.com)
- Telugu (en2te.translit@bot.talk.google.com)
You need to add them to your friends list and then start a group chat session.
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Blogger Celebrates 8th Birthday by releasing Video Upload
Blogger turned eight on Friday and to celebrate the event Video Upload has been enabled yesterday.
You can now easily upload and embed videos within your posts.
About Ajay
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WordPress: $10; Blogger: Free
Blogger has always supported publishing to your own webspace via FTP. What it lacked was the ability to point your own domain to your blogspot account.
WordPress.com got that one up on Blogger when they launched this feature that allowed you to map your domain to your WordPress.com blog. This service is charged at $10 for your already existing domain.
And Blogger just got that one up this time. Today, they have launched Custom Domains.
If you already own a domain named, say, mysite.com and want your blog to be served at that address instead of at a blogspot.com address, we can host your blog on that domain for you — for free.
We still have big time bloggers like Amit who use Blogger. WordPress.com also has its share.
I’m not sure if either will shift to a hosted domain. But, for other bloggers already publishing via FTP will this addition to Blogger make you move back to hosting at Blogger instead of your own space?
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
TLA works with Blogger
Text Link Ads (aff.) publishing program now is compatible with Blogger. However, you need to be using the latest version of Blogger for this to work.
I don’t intend to give this a test on my blogger blogs, because both are dead!
But, are you a using Blogger? I would like feedback of the same, including ease of use and how much your making from it.
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Google Updates this Week (20th to 25th October 2008)
This week has been a rather active week for the folks at Google.
You can now publish to your Blogger blog directly from iGoogle. Additionally, you can now choose to embed comments below your post inself instead of having them on a new page.
At long last, Google Analytics is being integrated with Google Adsense. Adwords has had the integration with Analytics since a long time.
Google Analytics itself has seen the addition of several features that really help you study your site visits better.
For people like me who keeping checking their email while on the move, Gmail Mobile 2.0 has been released. This is a major update over 1.5, with support for multiple accounts. No longer do I need to use Google Apps Mobile. Mail can now be sent in the background and basic offline support has been included. Go to m.google.com/mail in your mobile browser.
Canned Responses have been added to Gmail. These are basically standard replies that you can save and use whenever you want. Really useful when you want to send the same responses over and over again!
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.