Month: November 2009

Google Analytics Desktop Client Trakkboard

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Google Analytics is a great data  management that everyone must use for their website, isn’t it? Not a big deal if you just have one or 2 websites.But these are people getting compromised with just having gone or two sites? Not really, right. But how to manage all analytics of those sites at one place? Luckily, there is a much simpler solution in town.

Trakkboard is a desktop application that draws data across different Google Analytics logins and different Google Analytics profiles to display top level metrics all within the same view.

Built using the Google Analytics API, this application works based on Adobe AIR platform.So you must have first installed Adobe Air package first in your PC.

Pre-canned report widgets display the data from the API.What’s more interesting is that this widget can pull data from API every hour.

How to get Trakkboard?

Enter Trakkboard site,

Enter your email and select accept GTC and click “request key”

Trakkboard registration email

The key will be delivered to your email.

Open your mail and verify your registration, and download and install the Trakkboard application

After installing, you must complete the next 3 steps

  • enter your license key that has been mailed to you.
  • choose a password for the application
  • fill in your Google account details associated with Analytics in the step 3

That’s it, add your various Analytics profiles and use it straightaway.

trakken dashboard

Have you tried it already? leave your comment

Note: Trakkboard is also available in German and Spanish

Adsense Gets New Interface (Now in Beta)

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Adsense team seems to be listening to the feedback from the numerous Adsense publishers as they just started to rollout some of them with the new interface which has been launched in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Japanese as beta test version.

Adsense Logo

New Features (As listed in the Adsense official blog):

  • More Insights about Adsense performance in Your sites: More detailed performance reports including graph reports
  • More control over the ads that appear on your sites: Improvements to the Ad Review Center
  • More Efficient Account Management : Such as making a change to several ad units simultaneously,easily accesible help on every page,message inbox for tips from Adsense team, and with important account realted alerts

Adsense New Interface Beta

[Image: Adsense blog]

This new interface however has been activated initially only to fewer publishers as part of the beta test.

Blogger Service Interruptions Update on Blogger Status Blog

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Blogger team today has posted a blog post saying that the the Blogger users, from now on will be communicated for the likes of interruptions like for instance that occurred on last Saturday on Blogger Status.If somehow even if the Blogger Status blog doesn’t work for you, check Blogger Twitter update on Blogger’s twitter account

Blogger team also clarifies that in case of any significant service interruptions, they plan to publish a post mortem on the Blogger status blog within 3 business days to provide details about the cause for the interruptions and what they are doing to sort it out and to avoid similar problems in future.

Excerpt from the Blog post:

“We don’t like it when our users experience problems like what we saw on Saturday, but we hope the combination of transparency around these issues and our commitment to learn from our mistakes will help assure you that we’re doing everything we can to keep Blogger a robust and reliable service for you.”

Blogger Buzz

BTW, Check out the first “Postmortem on recent issues affecting users in Europe” published on Blogger Status blog.

Google Dashboard Launched

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Google has today launched the “Google Dashboard” which consists of summary of the all the Google products that a the user is using.

[ Visit http://www.google.com/dashboard/ to check your own Google dashboard.]

google accounts dashboard

Alma Whitten, adds in a post in the official Google blog,

In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we’ve built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings.

[Dashboards are very common right? like WordPress dashboard, Blogger dashboard etc. it’s much like a control panel for your own data.]

Google Dashboard has been built to offer greater transparency and control over the users own data, according to Google.

At present Dashboard includes more than 20 Google products like Gmail (last sent mail, received mail, last chat conversation etc.) ,Docs, Web Search History, Orkut (Last scrap received, Scraps To Friends, Albums shared), YouTube, Calendar, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude etc.

Google claims to be the first internet company to offer something like this Dashboard to let the user have all his data at one place for a quick review.

Google Dashboard Link in Manage Profile

Watch Google Dashboard introduction video :

Watch Google Dashboard Video

New In Gmail : Customizing Messages for Offline Use

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Gmail team has announced today that, those who are using Gmail Offline (By enabling it from the Labs features) can now no longer need to download the entire mail messages for offline reading. From now on, one can choose which messages to get downloaded to your offline folder (for example you may not need all those chat conversations when you are cheeking your mails offline for official or other important mails), the new option does allow you to select messages to be downloaded from your labels, and the messages received during particular duration and chat conversations with selected people.

Gmail offline download options

[Image: Official Gmail Blog]

If you still haven’t enabled it till now, click “Labs” Tab go to labs page and enable “Offline”

Today’s Google Doodle Galli Galli Sim Sim

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It’s 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street [American educational children’s television series ] today and Google reminds it’s worldwide search users of the same.Regular Google’s doodle has been replaced with different styles using characters of the Sesame Street

Sesame Street has also been adopted to Indian televisions as Galli Galli Sim Sim in Feb 2006.

40th Anniversary of Sesame Street

[Characters: Boombah, Chamki ]

Google doodle

[ Big Bird from Sesame Street]

Google Voice Search Available For Your Nokia S60 Phones

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Google has launched Google Search by Voice Application for Nokia S60 phones, which are hugely popular around the globe.

The new version of Google Mobile App for Nokia S60 phones which cover most N-Series and E-Series phones, when installed, places a a shortcut to Google search on your Nokia phone’s home screen.This allows you to search either by voice or by typing.

google app nokia s60

[image: Official Google blog]

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Also, the Google Search by Voice has been extended to support Mandarin Chinese.This means that Chinese users can just say the keyword they want to search and it will do come up with Google search result in a blink.

Note:To download the latest version of Google Mobile App directly from your Nokia S60 phone, visit m.google.com from your phone’s browser

Orkut’s Cool New Version Launched

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Facebook has been gaining a lot of ground among the users in recent times outplaying Google’s Orkut. The Google has finally gets up to the challenge by launching more faster, lighter and much more safer version of their social networking site.

This new version has been developed using Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

What’s new ?

  • Simpler and faster loading
  • Easy navigation to other Google properties [You can find links to other Google tools like Gmail, right at the top]
  • One-stop notifications[friend requests, testimonials, community requests or birthday announcements, all at one place]
  • Fast photo uploads and photo sharing
  • Video Chat Integration
  • Inline comments for status messages, photos and videos
orkut new homepage

New Inline comments feature

More Customization:

Picking up favorite color in orkut

You can now customize your own profile page like never before.The new version claims to have added features like picking your favourite color from a list of 5 available default colors.

But this new version has been allotted to selected few users and you can identify them with thisOrkut favicon symbol next to their profile name.You can ask them for an invite to get started with this new version.

find out more at this page.