Google Maps Adds Options To Embed YouTube Clips - This is actually not a bad idea. Nice.

Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files

Those who use Mint or Google Analytics might want to watch this video on Woopra. The concept was impressive (imagine looking at these stats if you were ever Digged). Not saying this thing is rates a 10 on the “awesome” meter, but it is something to keep an eye open for.

Saw this on Ajaxian - apparently Google has just come out with Javascript API for YouTube that will allow you to develop “the flexibility to customize the YouTube player with their own controls, player ‘chrome’, and even behaviors like custom playlists and menus.”. The YouTube Chromeless Player Reference is certainly interested and it looks like Christian Heilmann has written a video captioning system that lets you annotate as you pause. My spidey sense tells me this has BIG potential and some awesome stuff should be appearing over the next few weeks.

While i’m on the topic of Google Maps, I decided to bookmark Pamela’s other article which is more like an introduction on how to use Google Maps with a MySql database. Related article - Using PHP and MySQL to create KML.

Google Grabber: “Using a short amount of PHP code, you can query Google to retrieve the number of pages your domain has listed in Google.”

This topic comes up frquently enough to warrant a bookmark to Pamela Fox’s how-to on a Store Locator with PHP, MySQL & Google Maps. Being on the Google Geo APIs Team, i can’t wait to dive into this.

Wal-Mart to sell $399 Google-powered laptop - I can buy an XP laptop for that price too, so?

This might apply in come cases, so i’m bookmarking it. It’s a video at the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog about removing content from Google.

Bookmarking this to try later… Zdnet mentions that iGoogle for iPhone has been released and they like it. TechCrunch notes that it will compete with Netvibes. But i like how iGoogle is laid out. I don’t use iGoogle much (news, some rss reading), but might on the road!

Here’s the info at ZDNet.com. If you are developer or building a web 2.0, this is important to note. I’ve got a few google map applications in the wings personally.

Introduction to Video Sitemaps and how to build them. Video Sitemaps are an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search.

Google 2007 Zeitgeist - iPhone is #1. Shocking.

Found on Google Code’s site: telekinesis claims to remotely access your Mac through a collection of mini web apps on your phone.

Picasa Web Albums on the iPhone. Google has completely redesigned and optimized the interface specifically for iPhones. Pictures are proportioned to fit the iPhone’s screen dimensions.

Simple caching proxy for Google Charts API in PHP. I seem to be discovering and bookmarking alot dealing with Google Charts API lately.

This is a way to get an RSS feed from your Gmail account. PHP. Haven’t tried it yet, but no doubt useful.

I mentioned about the Google Charts coming out, but people are building better interfaces for it. GChart 0.2 alpha is a javascript wrapper and TalkPHP seems to do the job in PHP.

Google Chart API seems very easy to use.

Saw this on iLounge this morning. Apparently you just have to go to google.com (the home page) on your iphone or itouch to see it.

Cloaked or disguised agents can mimic Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Ask… so here’s a way to verify if they are actually who they say they are. Reverse and forward DNS lookup warning.