Calling all Supermodel(er)s
February 12th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Allyson McDuffie, Google SketchUp Education Program DevelopmentI’m pleased to announce the launch of the Google 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition! We’re back with another opportunity for you to show off your 3D modeling skill…
Upload more photos, faster!
February 12th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Abhishek Surana, Software Engineer Back from a vacation? Had a party? Surely you must have a ton of photos to share with your orkut friends. Well, we’re happy to tell you that we’ve made sharing those photos with your orkut friends even easi…
February 12th, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Gadgets
Posted by Paul Wilcox, iGoogle Support TeamIt’s always exciting when our users share stories with us about some cool and unique way they’re using Google products. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we thought it was a perfect time to share H…
Mobile World Congress 2008: Google and Nokia Team Up on Search
February 12th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Sumit Agarwal, product manager, Google mobile teamThe days when mobile phones were just for making and taking calls are far behind us as more and more of us are using these sleek little bundles of silicon and plastic as a key access point for…
Go Go Gadgets in Asia
February 12th, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Min Li Chan, Google Developer Programs – APACIt’s cold and cloudy in Hong Kong and Taiwan this week, as our trusty weather gadgets indicate. At the Googleplex, where a quintessentially Californian winter is holding up, we had the distinct honor of …
Looking on the bright side: Google mobile and Brightpoint
February 12th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Michael Fisher, Mobile Strategic Partner Development ManagerPretty soon you’ll be able to find Google search and Google Maps for mobile pre-installed on more smartphones around the world, making it easier for some of you to start using these …
Announcing the Grand Prize Winners for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest
February 12th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWhen we announced GHOP, we were excited to perform an experiment to see how many secondary schoolers would be interested in spending a few weeks contributing to open source development. We’re pleased to say that the…
Important Info That Could Affect You!
February 11th, 2008 | by Stephanie Liu | published in Youtube API
Hi everyone,Starting today, we’ll be pushing out some changes to the serving infrastructure in a limited rollout. Developers using our APIs and embedded players should not notice any issues — but if you’re using an unsupported method to get at YouTube…
Google Docs adds support for two new languages
February 11th, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
Google Docs now supports US English, UK English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian…
Gadgets spec and new API preview
February 11th, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Gadgets
Posted by Brian Shih, Google Gadgets TeamWe’ve been working on the open source implementation of the gadgets stack and we’d like to share a preview of the gadgets specification and new gadgets.* JavaScript APIs. Consider this an early look at where gad…
February 11th, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Gadgets
Posted by Brian Shih, Google Gadgets TeamWe’ve been working on the open source implementation of the gadgets stack and we’d like to share a preview of the gadgets specification and new gadgets.* JavaScript APIs. Consider this an early look at where gad…
February 11th, 2008 | by Panayiotis Mavrommatis | published in Google Online Security
Written by Niels Provos, Anti-Malware TeamIt has been over a year and a half since we started to identify web pages that infect vulnerable hosts via drive-by downloads, i.e. web pages that attempt to exploit their visitors by installing and running mal…
AdWords Downtime: February 16, 10am-2pm PST
February 11th, 2008 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
We’ll be performing routine system maintenance on Saturday, February 16 from approximately 10:00am to 2:00pm PST. You won’t be able to access AdWords or the API during this time frame, but your ads will continue to run as normal.Cheers,-Jeffrey Posnick…
Valentine’s gadgets
February 11th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Posted by James Yum (Google Desktop Team)When I was a kid, Valentine’s Day meant a lunch bag full of chalky candies and paper cutouts. While candy and paper hearts are still options, now you can celebrate digitally with Desktop gadgets. Here’s a romant…
February 11th, 2008 | by Kevin McCurley | published in Google Research
Posted by Andrew Schwerin, Software EngineerManaging huge repositories of data and large clusters of machines is no easy task — and building systems that use those clusters to usefully process that data is even harder. Last year, we held a conference …