Analytics Demystified – Part 1: What is Google Analytics?
May 20th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Posted by Jessica, Google Grants TeamAfter our recent post covering ways that some of our Grants recipients are using analytics, we’d like to walk through the basics of Google Analytics: how to implement it and how to make the most of it as a non-profi…
May 20th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Benjamin Lynn, Google Developer ProgramsGit is a popular member of the latest generation of version control systems. Learn why at our Open Source Blog, where we show how to use Git with Google Code Project Hosting.
Develop with Git on a Google Code Project
May 20th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Benjamin Lynn, Google Developer ProgramsDo you often work offline? Wish you could make local commits that you can reorganize and upload later? Would you like to have your own copy of the entire history of the project which you can peruse at your lei…
Simply scientific
May 20th, 2008 | by mrw | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Stephen Rahn, Information Technology Specialist at Kennesaw State University, currently teaching and working on a Ph.D in Instructional TechnologyWe’ve been using Google Docs for some time. The fact that it’s free helps our rural school dist…
Promoting free expression on the internet
May 20th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Pablo Chavez, Senior Policy CounselGoogle’s commitment to freedom of expression is at the core of everything we do — whether it’s independent media organizations using YouTube to express themselves in Venezuela, or citizen journalists using …
Connecting the library to the rest of the school
May 19th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Susan Willard, SketchUp EngineerA while ago, I was asked to participate in a SketchUp workshop for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders at my niece’s elementary school in Manchester By The Sea, Massachusetts. The students used SketchUp to design a 30 f…
San Francisco Hack-a-thon
May 19th, 2008 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Team
On Friday, May 16th, we had our second Google App Engine Hack-a-thon at the Google offices in San Francisco. For 12 hours, developers coded, talked with the Google App Engine engineering team and each other,…
Google Health, privacy, and HIPAA
May 19th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Mike Yang, Senior Product CounselEver since we announced in late February that we were launching a pilot program with the Cleveland Clinic and building Google Health — a new service for users to store and organize their health information on…
AndroidGlobalTime
May 19th, 2008 | by Megha Joshi | published in Google Android
We are pleased to announce that a new open source sample application—called AndroidGlobalTime — has been added to the apps-for-android project.
It’s a 3D world clock developed by an engineer at Google and may serve as an illustrative example …
Dan Reicher on plug-ins
May 19th, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Katy Bacon, Google.org TeamCheck out this video of Fortune Magazine’s Mark Gunther interviewing Dan Reicher. Dan explains the RechargeIT program, talks about the potential for vehicle to grid technologies, and discusses the future of electri…
Our Mac team in Macworld
May 19th, 2008 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Scott Knaster, Google Mac TeamJust a quick note today: the folks over at Macworld have written a nifty article about the work of our Mac team. If you’re interested in finding out more about us, you might want to check out the story at the Macworld s…
Accelerate Your Maps with GeoWebCache
May 19th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Chris Holmes, OpenGeoAs far as web browsers are concerned, our maps don’t change all that often, and rendering map images can be very time-consuming. Serving images, on the other hand, requires no computation and is trivial to implement. Google Maps…
Analytics Seminars for Success coming to Boston, Orlando and Chicago
May 19th, 2008 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Seminars for Success are day-long seminars designed to help you improve your online marketing and get the most out of Google Analytics (separately offered for AdWords as well). We’ve selected industry professionals from our Google Analytics Authorized …
Dialogue with Sen. Lieberman on terrorism videos
May 19th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by the YouTube Team(Cross-posted from the YouTube blog)Last week, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) contacted us to voice his concerns about seeing videos from several Islamic terrorist organizations on YouTube. We appreciated our dialogue with Senat…
Docs on the iPhone with Chris Pirillo
May 19th, 2008 | by mrw | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program ManagerChris Pirillo, Gnomedex Conference founder, CNN.com Live technology contributor, and one of our regular guest bloggers, uploaded a new video recently, giving an overview of using Docs on the iPhone (one of …