March 25th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWhen Jono Bacon told us he wanted to bring LugRadio Live from the United Kingdom to the United States, we were all for it. We’d heard great things from so many colleagues about how fun and community-oriented the show…
March 25th, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer ProgramsToday we are pleased to announce that Google is joining together with Yahoo! and MySpace in the creation of a non-profit foundation for the open and transparent governance of the OpenSocial specifications and…
March 24th, 2008 | by Adam Lasnik | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Adam Lasnik, Search EvangelistMany of us Webmaster Help Group guides have happily gotten to meet Group members at various functions around the world. Over sandwiches in San Jose. Salads in Stockholm. Sweets in Sydney. And it’s been super!But…
March 24th, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Bennet Marks, Google.org volunteerGoogle.org recently hosted the aids2031 Young Leaders Summit at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA. More than 40 leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS, most of them between 20 and 40 years of age, tra…
March 24th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe are now accepting student applications for Google Summer of Code&trade 2008. Our flagship program to introduce university students to Open Source development is now in its fourth year, and we’ve welcomed 175 proje…
March 24th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by the orkut team In case you were busy egg hunting and didn’t sign in to orkut, here’s the doodle we posted.
March 24th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Chris Cronin, Account Manager, SketchUpAt the International Builder’s Show in Orlando this year, green building was an important theme, and it was great to see an architecture firm there lending a helping hand. Alan Mascord Design Associates,…
March 24th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Guest post by Sizhao Yang, MyMiniLife [As we get ready for apps to go live on orkut, we’re excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and preview their apps here.] Are you stylish? Do you like to decorate and accessorize every…
March 21st, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing ManagerThose of you who read the Gmail team’s blog may have seen an announcement a while back about Gmail’s faster, more flexible new codebase. The changeover was successful, and now we’re rolling it out t…
March 21st, 2008 | by Scott Lininger | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Scott Lininger, SketchUp Software EngineerYou’ve just SketchUped an amazing Robot Monkey, and you’re ready to include him in your company brochure. Excitedly, you email the 3D PDF over to the legal department for approval, and you’re faced wi…
March 21st, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsI got to meet developers in Colorado this week. Working from the Google Boulder office with its fun climbing wall (*so* Boulder) was a treat, and there were several API announcements that were really exciting.Fi…
March 21st, 2008 | by Googler | published in Google News
Posted by Cliff, Ted and Namita, the Comments TeamIn the several months since the launch of Comments, we’ve made some improvements that we wanted to let you know about. For those of you who aren’t familiar, the Comments feature allows people mentioned …
March 21st, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Gadgets
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Google Gadgets TeamI thought I’d let you all know about Google I/O, a developer event upcoming on the 28th and 29th of May at Moscone West in San Francisco. There are a lot of exciting opportunities at the event, including: bre…
March 21st, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, Developer ProgramsWe just fixed a bunch of issues on the sandbox:51 Access to the application’s ID79 adjustHeight only works for first app on profile page98 requestNavigateTo(“canvas”) from profile goes to a different app’s c…
March 21st, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Gadgets
Posted by Dan Holevoet, Google Gadgets TeamI thought I’d let you all know about Google I/O, a developer event upcoming on the 28th and 29th of May at Moscone West in San Francisco. There are a lot of exciting opportunities at the event, including: bre…