April 11th, 2008 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
We’re bidding farewell today to Eric Case. Eric joined Google five years ago so that he could do something — anything — for Blogger. Since then, he’s answered support tickets, launched blogs, designed features, hung out with MC Hammer, eaten ve…
Do you have nomophobia?
April 11th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Lawrence Chang, Product Marketing Manager, Google mobile teamA recent article in the Evening Standard introduced a “new, peculiarly 21st century affliction” called nomophobia or “no mobile phobia,” which is exactly what it sounds like – the f…
Join us at ad:tech in San Francisco next week
April 11th, 2008 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Do you have anything to do with digital media or online marketing? If so, you might want to check out the ad:tech conference next week in San Francisco. It’s an energetic and fun few days packed with informative seminars and vendor displays, with an at…
Information and the developing world
April 11th, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Aleem Walji, Head of Global Development Initiatives, Google.orgTwo members of our team recently attended an international conference at the Carter Center on the right to information (RTI). I must admit that I didn’t have much knowledge in thi…
Site maintenance on April 12 at 10am PDT
April 11th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance tomorrow, April 12th from 10am to 2pm PDT. You won’t be able to log in to your account, but we’ll continue to serve ads to your pages and track your earnings as usual.Located in a different time…
Crawling through HTML forms
April 11th, 2008 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy, Crawling and Indexing TeamGoogle is constantly trying new ideas to improve our coverage of the web. We already do some pretty smart things like scanning JavaScript and Flash to discover links to new web pages…
We’re up and running!
April 11th, 2008 | by Pete Koomen | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Pete Koomen, Product Manager
Google App Engine has been live for several days now and we’re thrilled with the response we’ve gotten so far! We filled our initial batch of accounts within a few hours after Monday night’s Campfire One. And t…
Calling all woodworkers
April 11th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistThe universe of SketchUp-related blogs and websites is ever-expanding, but one of the best is Design. Click. Build. Thoughtfully written, beautifully illustrated and chock-full of tips and techniques, this blog…
Joomla!’s Runner Ups
April 10th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamEarlier this year, we concluded the first Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP), our pilot initiative to get pre-university students involved in Open Source development. Given how difficult it was for the p…
April 10th, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Gadgets
Posted by Jeff Regan, EngineerWe’ve launched a new feature for iGoogle that allows people to use a gadget collaboratively, similar to Google Docs. Its now possible for multiple instances of a gadget – on the home pages of different users – to access t…
April 10th, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Gadgets
Posted by Jeff Regan, EngineerWe’ve launched a new feature for iGoogle that allows people to use a gadget collaboratively, similar to Google Docs. Its now possible for multiple instances of a gadget – on the home pages of different users – to access t…
Google Earth for non-profits
April 10th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Posted by Tanya, Google Earth Outreach TeamIt’s an old problem — you’re a non-profit trying to reach the largest audience possible to educate them about your cause. You’re moving beyond sending out snail mail membership requests, and embracing Web 2….
April 10th, 2008 | by Peter Harbison | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Amar Gandhi, Group Product ManagerWe’re now about a week away from making OpenSocial apps available to millions of users in India, corresponding to 10% of all orkut users. With this update we also want to increase the number of apps included…
Publishing priority for Base API items
April 10th, 2008 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
Posted by Dimitris Meretakis, Product ManagerThe Google Base data API is used to manage and publish all kinds of data. Some of this data is particularly time-sensitive, like news or events that will expire in a matter of hours. Other data has more valu…
April 10th, 2008 | by Andrew Chang | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Andrew Chang, Marketing ManagerOops. As many of you have noticed, yesterday I accidentally posted my personal to-do list onto this blog. I realized my mistake only when a fellow Googler IM’d me: “any idea what’s going on here? Just checked t…