According to a TechCrunch article "comScore says Google sites (a.k.a. YouTube) was again the top video property in May with 147.2 million unique viewers, 2.17 billion viewing sessions and an average of 311 minutes spent per viewer on the site (that’s an average of 5 hours spent per view in May)." and you can bet that will increase as more and more quality content are uploaded to youtube and other video streaming sites.
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Two days after Google redesigned the Google bar, now Google updated Youtube's homepage where you'll have the ability to link your Youtube account to other social media sites like Facebook, Orkut, Twitter and MySpace and if you are using the same Gmail address for your Youtube and G+ account, it'll automatically be linked.
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This is the first Google+ TV Ad and I must admit the video and concept is right on the mark. But in real life, a person does not list and categorize all his friends like objects, may be for some people but I don't do that.
Real life friends is much more dynamic than that of the digital friends list and Google+ (even Facebook) can never replace that.
What do you think about the ad?
Looks like more Google Products will be axed while others will be reincarnated as a feature to new and existing Google Products. I guess Google is serious in creating a one ginormous Google service for the public and I'm sure we'll see Google+ at the center of this new Google.
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Google officially announced their music streaming and store service called Google Music. It was previously called Music Beta and was first announced last May at the annual Google I/O; where you can upload up to 20,000 songs so you can stream anywhere, as long as you are connected.
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5 days ago Google announced that the Google+ pages is now available for businesses and companies who wants to have their presence felt in the Google+ universe (you can read their announcement here). Google announced that there will be a global roll-out, so it took sometime for G+ Pages to be available to some people (including me).
I have also created a G+ page for Teknisyan (add it on your circle if you're on G+) and if you're familiar with the process of creating a Facebook pages then you shouldn't have any problem your G+ pages.
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If been getting this message for a couple of weeks now "Google Buzz is going away, but your posts are yours to keep. Learn more Hide" right at the top of my Gmail screen. It looks like Google is about to hammer down the final nail to the Google Coffin, they're already informing all Google Buzz users that they will no longer be able to create new posts and will be able to access them via the Google Profiles or download them via the Google Takeout.
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Earlier this month Blogger/Google launched the Blogger Dynamic view, to allow readers access to your other post, since reader usually don't bother accessing old post, since previous post are no longer displayed on the homepage.
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Looks like Google has started integrating G+ to their existing services and the first step is to use your G+ Profile as your Blogger.com profile. The G+ and Blogger integration is still in testing period and its available to bloggers who switch will automatically get access to the Google+ integrations we’ll be rolling out in the future.
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"Apple's iPad Dominance is Fading!" that's what the report of Strategy Analytics is saying. The report said "Apple iPad's 96% market share has fallen to 67% - that's 29% drop in just 1 quarter (3rd Quarter), while tablets running Android OS shares increases by 26.9%. "
I'm not good in math but let's try to take a look on some figures to see if that's what really is happening here.
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