Announcing the "Internet for Everyone" campaign
June 24th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselToday Google joined a national initiative of public interest, civic and industry groups to help launch the Internet for Everyone campaign, whose goal is to make ubiquitous and open broadband …
June 24th, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Gadgets
Posted by Justin Kosslyn, Google Spreadsheet Team
Want to develop new features for google spreadsheets? Want a dynamic, collaborative data store for gadgets embedded in your site? If you answered “yes” to either question, you’re in luck – spreadsheet gadgets can be embedded directly in spreadsheets or use spreadsheets as dynamic data stores.
For example, here’s a Motion Chart gadget that’s reading data from a spreadsheet. You or a collaborator can add more data to the gadget by modifying the underlying spreadsheet.
Or here’s a much simpler example that just integrates Google maps with a simple spreadsheet:
You can extend any existing gadget into a spreadsheet gadget with the Google Visualization API. When your gadgets are ready for prime time, you can submit them to the Gallery and possibly get your gadgets featured on our Gadget picker within the Google Docs spreadsheets editor. So, whether you’re just looking for a simple, dynamic database for your gadget, or want to integrate your other web products or services with Google Docs, check out this platform.
For more information, please check out our new developer documentation, Getting Started with Spreadsheet Gadgets.
We’ll also soon be expanding our APIs to allow your gadgets to write data back to an underlying Spreadsheet.
Give us feedback using our Feedback Form, where you can also let us know if you are interested in participating in early testing of the expanded read-write API.
June 24th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Effie Seiberg, Mobile TricksterMobile phones are awesome. I use mine all the time, from using it as a flashlight to find my keys, to a calendar to see just how late I am for an appointment. But people do much more interesting things than that…
June 24th, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Gadgets
Posted by Justin Kosslyn, Google Spreadsheet TeamWant to develop new features for google spreadsheets? Want a dynamic, collaborative data store for gadgets embedded in your site? If you answered “yes” to either question, you’re in luck – spread…
Five steps to optimising your AdSense performance
June 24th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
“I want to improve my AdSense performance, but I don’t know how to get started!”We hear you. The myriad of optimisation tools and options AdSense offers can be a bit overwhelming. Colors, placements, channels, ad sizes — there are more options to choo…
June 24th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Robin Norvell, orkut Operations Team A few months ago, we invited our Portuguese orkuteers to visit Google’s Belo Horizonte office. But we weren’t going to rest until we’d given our orkuteers in India the same chance to meet the orkut team a…
Grants account tour: Reporting Center
June 24th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Posted by Taylor, AdWords TeamOnce your Google AdWords ads are up and running, an important part of managing your campaign is reviewing their performance. A quick and easy way to review comprehensive statistics is to run a report, which you can do in t…
June 24th, 2008 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Jerry Morrison, Software Engineer and Ryan Pollock, Product Marketing ManagerWe’re excited to release an update to Google Maps for mobile for Palm OS. For Palm Centro users, this update includes the My Location feature which allows you to …
It’s raining real-time quotes!
June 24th, 2008 | by Google Finance Team | published in Google Finance
Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome; Ayan Mandal, Product Manager Today, we’re pleased to extend the availability of real-time quotes on Google Finance, Google.com and other Google search properties to include companies listed on the New Yo…
The Presidential Showcase
June 24th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Brittany Bohnet, Google Maps Special Projects(Cross-posted from the Google LatLong Blog)If you’ve been following politics (or our blog) closely this year, you may have seen some Google Maps mashups from the Iowa Caucus, Super Tuesday, and the…
Introducing Google Ad Planner
June 24th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
If you’re a media planner at an ad agency, you know that planning an online display buy can be challenging, particularly in scaling your campaign’s reach while keeping it relevant for your target audience. Plus, how do you keep track of the millions of…
June 24th, 2008 | by John Mueller | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Kaspar Szymanski and the European Guides Team, DublinA year ago Google Guides from the Search Quality Team started monitoring Google Webmaster Help Groups in European languages. It has been an interesting time and a great, rewarding experien…
Love Python? Love YouTube? Love App Engine?
June 23rd, 2008 | by api.rboyd | published in Google Code
Posted by Ryan Boyd, Google Data APIs TeamIf you answered ‘yes’ to one or more of the questions in the post title, we’ve got you covered. Jochen just announced Python client library support for the YouTube Data API over in the YouTube developer blog. …
Congratulations to Haymarket Media!
June 23rd, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)A new gadget by Haymarket Media is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: Qantas Socceroos Widget.
Details on the iGoogle Canvas View Launch
June 23rd, 2008 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsI thought I’d take a moment to clarify some details of upcoming iGoogle features and their release schedule. I’ve spoken to many of you who had questions about exactly what features would be available in iGoogle when ca…