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iGoogle grew 267% and Google Products shrunk 73% in 2007

Out of all the Google services, iGoogle saw the largest growth this year with a 267% increase according to comScore data. iGoogle is a personalized homepage where users can install “Gadgets” — anything from egg timers to interesting news feeds. iGoogle was launched May 20, 2005, and so the comparison between 2006 and 2007 is the first year over year comparison available. These impressive numbers may cause some companies with competing products, like NetVibes, to shake a bit in their boots. Other Google products that saw increased usage this year include: · Google Web Search (+20%) · Google Images (+35%) · Google News (+20%) · Google Book Search (+55%) · Google Blog Search (+27%) · Gmail (+54%) · Google Maps (+52%) · Google Earth (+11%) · Google Groups (+20%) Where there is success. [lien] [EN]

Happy New Year from Googling Google!

It was a great year, and this next year is sure to be just as exciting. With Android, Knol and Open Social poised to make a splash, we can expect to have some pretty interesting headlines in 2008. I have compiled a list of the most popular articles you saw on this blog in 2007. New version of Gmail being tested Hints of a new Gmail interface being tested, which was launched shortly after, were spotted in Google’s translation service. This has proven to be a fairly accurate way to determine what kind of stuff is coming down the pipe. Google GDrive is not a rumor This wasn’t posted last year, but this article has been generating a steady stream of traffic for a couple years, with no signs of it slowing down. GDrive will hopefully exist in the real world one day. Two new Gmail features in the queue Again. [lien] [EN]

Google may have finally figured out what to do with Google Apps

Om writes that Google has inked a deal with satellite ISP, WildBlue, that puts Google’s “Office Suite” in the hands of average users — the right place for it. There are many reasons Google Apps works much better for personal use than for the enterprise — in fact, after over a year using Google Apps, the company I work for has decided to pull out their checkbook to hop onto the exchange bandwagon. There are just far too many “but can it do ” business needs that Google doesn’t offer and would never estimate when it will. Not to mention the limited, high level support that never really helps you. The right place for Google is at the consumer level — until it can take greater steps to cover the majority of needs enterprise users have, they should focus on doing exactly what they did with WildBlue. [lien] [EN]

New version of the Google Talk client disables voicemail and more

Several people have noticed a new version of Google Talk (1.0.0.105) in the wild that is available to download from here. We’ve been waiting since January for a new version, and it’s unfortunate to see that when we finally get one, it removes several features that I thought were really great — including voicemail. In previous versions of Google Talk, if someone tried to call and you didn’t pick up, the caller would be asked to record a mesage. That recording would then appear in the recipients Gmail as a voicemail message. I guess it would be fair to ask, how many people actually used the voicemail feature? I liked it, but I’ve personally never received a real message, or left one — maybe this is the rationale behind its removal? Besides voicemail, it appears Google has also removed Orkut integration. [lien] [EN]

People demand their public feeds back from Google

Google introduced a new feature to Google Reader on December 14th that lets you view your friends publicly shared items — little did Google know, that feature somehow ruined Christmas for someone, gave away trade secrets, violated everyone’s privacy and created a huge anti-reader bandwagon that has plenty of room for passengers. People are massively upset that their public feeds are being publicized — to their friends. I think the problem here, as ParisLemon puts it, is Google’s system for determining if someone is a “friend”. Currently, someone is labeled as your friend if you have them in your Gmail contact list and you have talked with them using Google Talk. Those two things together can almost certainly determine if you know someone well, but it’s a bad way to tell if someone is your friend. [lien] [EN]

Gmail source code hints at social feature

Ionut was digging around through the source code in Gmail when he stumbled across some pieces of text he thinks indicates “updates” for your friends could soon be part of the integrated Google Talk module. The source code he found includes snippets of text including the following: · Add comment · Remove from chat and updates · Delete this update These small pieces of text are definitely interesting, and we could very well be getting a glimpse into the next hot feature in Gmail. It’s unclear what kind of “updates” we will see for our contacts, but Ionut speculates it could be descriptions of things users have done on other Google properties. It’s not very clear what kind of updates you will receive, but they’re probably the latest important actions of your contacts from different Google services. [lien] [EN]

Gmonkey - The Gmail GreaseMonkey API

Gmail has already gained a relatively large market share considering that it requires significant effort to switch mail services, and keep everyone you know in the loop. The new version of Gmail — which was more of a back-end update — has given developers access to an easy Greasemonkey API that makes developing plugins or changing the appearance of Gmail a breeze. With the older version of Gmail, developers really had to hack in everything they wanted to modify, but the “new” Gmail makes it easy to capture events, and grab regions of the DOM (interface) that can then manipulated with javascript. Here is a very simple user script that would populate the “gmail” object that can then be used to do what you like: var gmail = null; window. [lien] [EN]

Google audio security measure broken, or so we hear [Captchas]

newVideoPlayer("Google_audio_CAPTCHA.flv", 463, 387,""); The distorted images websites use for logins, known as captchas, or Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, work by distorting a set of numbers and letters in such a way that only humans would recognize them. For blind Internet users, websites use audible captchas, which do the same thing with sound. For a while, both types effectively prevented spammers from registering Gmail addresses with automated scripts. But Russians looking for a little extra cash — about $3 a day — helped crooks break Google's image captchas earlier this year. Now Wintercore Labs says Google's audio captchas are broken too. IDG reports: There are repeatable patterns evident in the audio file and by applying a set of complex but straightforward processes. [lien] [EN]

Google cofounders' wealth dwarfs newspaper business [Death Of Print]

According to Wall Street estimates, the entire American newspaper business is worth $20 billion and sinking fast — and that includes the non-newspaper business like test prep, television and radio holdings. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's cofounders, are worth nearly $16 billion each according to Forbes (though that number has been shrinking of late as well). No wonder fishwrap publishers hate Google so much. [reDesign] (Photo by Joi Ito) [lien] [EN]

Google: Make security the default (Now with Iranian tweets)

Chris Soghoian has posted an open letter to Google, asking it to make encryption the default. This is in line with the talk he gave recently at the Berkman Center. [Update later that day - Two hours after releasing the letter, Google agreed to try setting encryption as the default for a subset of users, as a trial. If it works out, they'll consider expanding it.] Also, Jonathan Zittrain has posted about why the Iranians have problems blocking Twitter. [Tags: google security iran twitter ] Categories: digital rights [lien] [EN]