December 11th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistMany moons ago, while working as an in-house graphic designer for a mining company in Vancouver, I was paid to make exploratory drilling results look compelling to investors. Not an easy task, to be sure. The d…
December 10th, 2007 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Code
By Steve Marquess, Open Source Software InstituteOpenSSL is perhaps the most widely used of all cryptographic libraries, both in the open source world and by commercial enterprises. The OpenSSL team is often approached by such enterprises seeking assis…
December 10th, 2007 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by David Bercovich, Project Manager, Google.orgThe theme today in Bali perhaps could best be summarized by the bumper sticker maxim, “think globally, act locally.” While the delegates continued negotiations on an international climate change a…
December 10th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Zachary John, Business Product ManagerRecently, we wrote about the new functionality that allows you to chose whether to let everyone or just your friends view your testimonials, videos and photos. And now, we’re announcing that we’ve expande…
December 10th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’ve been listening to your comments on our new ad management feature, and so we’re excited to tell you about a few updates that stem directly from your requests:You can now view the ID number associated with a specific custom channel by visiting the …
December 7th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Our engineers have now resolved the phone verification issue we reported on Tuesday. If your account is still on a phone verification hold, please feel free to retry the verification process. For instructions on removing any holds on your account, visi…
December 7th, 2007 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
By: Chris Azalde, Google Base SupportWe’ve been listening to your feedback, and we recognize that our terminology ‘bulk uploads’ isn’t necessarily jiving with the way that you refer to your large content submissions. In light of that, we’ve recently re…
December 7th, 2007 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
I read a blog post recently that gives advice to advertisers looking for an SEM. The blogger insists that in today’s world an SEM firm must have a solid background in global equity markets and hedge funds. The article states, in so many words, that a m…
December 7th, 2007 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)We know that technologies like the “v-chip” can be used to keep kids from seeing inappropriate content on TV. And while technology has an important role to play i…
December 7th, 2007 | by Googler | published in Google News
Posted by Sharad Jain, Software EngineerThe goal of Google News has always been to offer as many perspectives on a story as possible to help you better understand current events. That’s why we crawl thousands of sources from around the world. We try to…
December 7th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistLast week, I spent the better part of three days obsessing about modeling curvy, lumpy things in SketchUp. Given the time of year, I started with Saint Nick himself. That model was successful, so I worked on so…
December 7th, 2007 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Code
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLooking for a cool place to hack with like-minded colleagues? Going to be in or around Zurich on December 13th? If so, please join us for our inaugural Open Source Jam held at Google Switzerland. We’ll provide the ha…
December 7th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)Umakanthan Chandran is the current leader in the Developer Hall of Fame and the author of 30+ gadgets.How did you get introduced to Desktop gadgets?Actually, I started developing gad…
December 7th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Keyla Ribeiro, orkut Operations Team We all love orkut, but no one likes to come accross profiles or communities of questionable content. It’s important to keep in mind that orkut is a place for people to communicate freely about all sorts o…
December 6th, 2007 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
The Gmail Mobile application now supports most Java-enabled phones, in addition to many smartphones and BlackBerry devices.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted:US EnglishHow to access what’s new:From you…