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Precipitate is an application from the Google Mac team that lets you search your online documents via the popular Spotlight feature available in OSX.

From the release…

That’s where Precipitate comes in. After you install Precipitate, you can use Google Desktop or Spotlight to find files online (such as those in your Google Docs list) just as you would find files stored on your Mac. Then, you can open them in your browser with a single click. Once Precipitate is set up, it stays out of your way, regularly getting the latest contents of your documents automatically, so you’ll never need to think about it — or where you store your information — again

This version supports Google Docs and Google Bookmakrs, with more features being teased at for future releases.

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• Automatic Macro Insertion
  - Ad Manager will automatically detect the ad tags from several popular
  3rd party vendors when you paste them in as new creatives. When
  properly detected, the click-tracking and cache-busting macros will be
  inserted automatically.
• Competing Line Item Report
  - The quantity booked, amount delivered, and the current delivery
  status have all been added as new columns to the competing line items
  report.
• Overbook Details - When
  warned about possible overbooking, you now have the option to book only
  the inventory that is available. A new link to a “Detailed Inventory
  Check” will also provide quick access to more information.
• Export Ad Slots - The new
  “Download Ad Slots” link on the Ad Slots tab will export your entire
  slot list to a CSV file. This is useful to audit your inventory and
  verify AdSense settings.
• Edit Company Name - The company display name is now editable on the Admin > Settings tab. This name is seen by advertisers who you invite to log in and see their orders.

By the way - I love Google Ad Manager…

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Google Android on one of the next gen HTC phones. Very cool … wondering if I should wait til this comes out or get the iPhone 2.0 in a couple weeks?

Street View is pretty cool too…

Engadget has additional coverage.

Techcrunch coverage

Technorati Tags: google, android, htc, mobile

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Today Google announced version 2.0 of Google Maps for Mobile which basically allows Google to track your whereabouts…

From the press release:

The My Location technology takes information broadcast from cell towers and sifts it through Google-developed algorithms to approximate a user’s current location on the map. This approximation is anonymous, as Google does not gather any personally identifiable information or associate any location data with personally identifiable information as part of the My Location feature. The feature can also be easily disabled by anyone who prefers not to use it.

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Well we didn’t exactly get what we were looking for.

Today Google announced the Open Handset Alliance and the Android mobile phone software platform - not exactly a GPhone but a big step forward.

More details later as they come in, but here’s a what Andy Rubin (who was in the NYTimes this weekend) said on the Official Google Blog:

“Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications — all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation. We have developed Android in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance, which consists of more than 30 technology and mobile leaders including Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC and T-Mobile. Through deep partnerships with carriers, device manufacturers, developers, and others, we hope to enable an open ecosystem for the mobile world by creating a standard, open mobile software platform. We think the result will ultimately be a better and faster pace for innovation that will give mobile customers unforeseen applications and capabilities.” - Andy Rubin, Director of Mobile Platforms, Google

Tags: Open Handset Alliance, Android, Google, GPhone

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