Update : A spokesperson from Google just sent me the following;
Just saw your post from today and wanted to let you know that we do have some improvements to the Places dashboard coming, but they may not make it onto Santa’s sleigh for delivery by the holidays. 
Google recently pushed out an upgraded Places Dashboard analytics view that included significantly more detail, mobile information and viewing options. As of last night, the new analytics have disappeared in the US and the UK and reverted to the old style analytics. Whether we were seeing a test, a final product that was not yet finished or someone pulled the switch too early is unclear.
How soon or whether we will see the new view is not known.
Update 12/18: For reference and for use by Rasmus, I am uploading a complete screen shot of the “new but missing” analytics (click to view at full size):
It’s gone in Australia as well.
One thing I noticed while it was there was that only some pages used the new design and others the old one.
Comment by Tiggerito (14 comments) — December 17, 2010 @ 11:25 am
Not only am I seeing the old dashboard, but one of those accts is still showing nice volume of actions w/ zero impressions.
(must be getting info from Bizzarro Google World)
Comment by earlpearl (784 comments) — December 17, 2010 @ 11:39 am
We saw the analytics dashboard here as well…now back to the old again. Note to self: remember to take screenshots when writing blog posts..
Comment by Rasmus Himmelstrup (16 comments) — December 17, 2010 @ 4:18 pm
On 12-16-10 at 3:00 pm PST I was tickled half to death to be looking at the New Google Places Analytics and pondering the possibility of having analytics that might actually produce usable info.
Went for a bike ride, checked again later that night, and… poof! — not there. A Google Places disappearing act or, as @earlpearl suggests, we have been sucked into the G – Bizarro World!
Comment by Maui_Rick (12 comments) — December 17, 2010 @ 8:08 pm
Unfortunately it was too good to be true, at least for now. Perhaps they will deliver us a new year treat instead of Christmas gift. Only time will tell.
Personally, the sooner I can review the GMM Only stats, the better.
Comment by Daniel Hollerung (15 comments) — December 17, 2010 @ 10:47 pm
Also heard stuff about new GA interface… coincidence?
Comment by Martijn Beijk (59 comments) — December 18, 2010 @ 9:44 am
@Rasmus
You are are welcome to use my American example.
@Earl, Maui
This one was still obviously buggy…. note the existence of mobile numbers in the new screen shot but no desktop numbers…. they were totally reversed…and were that way on all of them
@Daniel
Amen
@Martijn
Interesting I was struck by the GA feel to it and that was my first thought.
It would make sense to use the same data and create a more meaningful link between the two that could be further exploited going forward… (ie drill into analytics for additional details),
Comment by Mike (2500 comments) — December 18, 2010 @ 10:34 am
I really liked the new Places data for as long as it lasted. What I would really like to see is an easy way to track traffic from the Places page in Google Analytics. I know that there is a method out there, but it seems a bit complicated for most people. Given that Google owns both Places and Analytics it doesn’t seem like it should be too hard for them to make the data available.
Comment by David Rubin (13 comments) — December 18, 2010 @ 10:37 am
@David Rubin,
I agree that there should be an easy way to incorporate the traffic into GA. Just like as with adwords they could enable Auto-Tagging where a gclid is being added to the url transferring all information about keyword used, impression data, etc.
Comment by Martijn Beijk (59 comments) — December 18, 2010 @ 11:34 am
@Martijn/David
One interesting change in the reality of Places is that the URL from Places is the one used in the blended organo-local SERP. Thus tracking would mostly show the results of lesser used mediums not the main game.
Comment by Mike (2500 comments) — December 19, 2010 @ 9:49 am
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