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Google Talk Gadget Released For Personalized Homepages 
By: Nathan Weinberg 2007-03-19 Google has released a Gadget that allows you to run Google Talk on your personalized homepage, letting you run Talk within your browser without running it in Gmail. The Gadget in some ways has better functionality than even the desktop version of Google Talk, because it puts your instant messages in tabs, a useful feature in other IM programs that GTalk has yet to implement. It has other cool features, like showing YouTube and Google Video videos within the conversation window if a video URL is pasted, as well as photo slideshows from Picasa Web Albums. There's even a video on Google's YouTube account demoing the Gadget. Other little things: Gmail's storage space is now increasing at a faster rate. Previously, your inbox size increased by 0.33 megabytes a day, while now it gets almost 0.4 megabytes higher per day, or 145 megabytes a year. At current rates, Gmail will reach 3.56 gigabytes of space on April 1, 2012. Viacom, who removed 100,000 videos from YouTube in a copyright purge and then sued Google for a billion dollars, is now being sued by YouTube users who had their legal videos improperly deleted during Viacom's purge. Since the DMCA punishes those that use it improperly, Viacom could be in big trouble at the hands of the same law it is trying to slap Google with. Wonderful! Google has released a blog version of its AJAX news ticker, showing blog headlines instead of news headlines. Nifty. (via) Google's webmaster tools now show the top 100 terms used in links pointing to your site. According to Google Trends, interest in Google Trends has been sharply declining. Maybe the new data update will help. Comments Tag: Google, Gadget Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl Have a bookmark! -  About the Author: Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines. Visit the InsideGoogle blog. |
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