Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Google Desktop Adds YouTube Gadget

YouTube and the Google Desktop team have announced the release of a YouTube gadget for Google Desktop. Once installed the gadget provides user with a built in search for videos (hint: pressing the shift key twice brings up all your hidden Desktop gadgets). The videos will play directly inside the gadget, which also shows a feed of the day's most popular clips.

The gadget currently only works on Linux and Windows, sorry Mac fans you get the cold shoulder.

In related YouTube news according to comScore Video Metrix YouTube had almost 100 million viewers in October 2008, easily making it the no. 1 online video property by unique viewers (99.5 million) and total videos streamed (5.3 billion).

Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 520 million videos (3.8 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 363 million (2.7 percent), and Viacom Digital with 305 million (2.3 percent). Hulu, a joint venture of NBC and Fox featuring full-length broadcast TV programs, ranked sixth with 235 million videos viewed (1.7 percent).

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