Congratulations to Catalin Avram!
March 19th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)A new gadget by Cătălin Avram is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: Miniclip Games Gadget.
Introducing the Google Visualization API
March 19th, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Nir Bar-Lev, Product ManagerWe spend a fair amount of time on data display and visualization projects at Google, and we have found that the “last mile” of these projects tend to become full projects in and of themselves.Thus when we acquired Gapmind…
March 19th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
By Robert Hamilton, Product Manager, Google mobile teamA few weeks ago, we launched a plug-in for Symbian devices that put a Google search shortcut onto the phone’s home screen. This shortcut reduces the time it takes for you to get answers from Google…
March 19th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical WriterName: Miniclip Games Gadget Author: Cătălin AvramDescription: Play a hundred Miniclip games right from your desktopMore information | Download gadget Each week this blog features a recently added Google Desk…
March 19th, 2008 | by JR | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Zach Lloyd and Mike Harm, Google spreadsheets engineersAlthough we like to think we move fast, the list of great ideas, needed features and new ways to look at data continues to grow. So, today we’re giving developers outside our little team…
March 18th, 2008 | by Andrew Chang | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Joelle Fornengo, Google Docs OperationsWe’re hearing that teachers are using Google Docs in innovative ways. For example, a 9th-10th grade teacher in California recently told us:”I first started using Docs last year in my Freshman English cl…
Google for Non-Profits goes live!
March 18th, 2008 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
Posted byChris Busselle Google.org Earlier today, we launched Google for Non-Profits, a website tailored to the needs of non-profits where people can learn about products that will help make their important work just a little bit easier. Check out our…
Upcoming change to signed makeRequest on the orkut sandbox
March 18th, 2008 | by Arne Roomann-Kurrik | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Arne Roomann-Kurrik, Developer Programs Issue 103 describes a problem in orkut’s makeRequest implementation that keeps POST data parameters from being included when generating the signature for signed requests. We have a fix for this that wi…
Using data to help prevent fraud
March 18th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)We recently began a series of posts on how we harness the power of data. Earlier we told you how data has been critical to the ad…
Google Code University: CS Educational Materials
March 18th, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Noel Gorelick, Software EngineerLast summer we launched a site aimed to help educators and students alike become more familiar with the technology behind Google and the massive internet in general. Recently, we’ve redesigned that site and given it a…
iGoogle chart gadget fixes
March 18th, 2008 | by Design Ninja | published in Google Finance
Posted by Vivi Costache, Software EngineerA while ago we launched an iGoogle Finance tab with various gadgets. We received a ton of feedback from you, and one of the main questions was “why are there no fancy finance charts there”? It was a bit of a ch…
Tip: Play media files in a gadget
March 18th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Stefan Van Damme, Gadget DeveloperDid you know you can insert a Windows Media Player into your Windows-only gadget to play music or even video clips? It takes just two easy steps:Step 1: Paste the following code into main.xml within the
Cross-domain messaging with Gears
March 18th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamMalte Ubl has written a small abstraction library called xssinterface that enables cross domain callbacks. The site specifies which methods may be called as well as which domains are allowed to call the methods.The libr…
Lifting the limit on calls to the Google Chart API
March 18th, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Sebastian Wilhelmi, Google Chart API SREWe got a lot of feedback after releasing the Google Chart API in early December. By far the most questions were about the limit of 50,000 queries per user per day. Some of you who are webmasters of larger site…
March 18th, 2008 | by Matt Wytock | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Talia Brodecki, AdSense Product MarketingIf you’re currently making money from CSE with AdSense, here are a few optimization tips to help you improve your current performance. (If you’re not already earning money this way, scroll down to lea…