July 3rd, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager When we launched the Gmail blog exactly one year ago, our goal was to provide you with new feature announcements, insight into how the Gmail team works, and tips on how to become a Gmail ninja….
Google Spreadsheets adds full-sheet gadgets and charts, new functions and number formats, and more
July 3rd, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
Google Spreadsheets now includes the following enhancements:– Gadgets and charts can be displayed in full-sheet view– Numbers can now be displayed in scientific notation format– New functions to convert information between binary, octal, decim…
Google Talk available for the iPhone
July 3rd, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
You can now access Google Talk from the iPhone to instant message with your contacts on the go.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted:US EnglishHow to access what’s new:From your iPhone’s browser, vi…
July 3rd, 2008 | by mrw | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Garnet GrattonGarnet Gratton is back, and in the mood for summer. In her last post, she detailed a creative lesson plan using Docs and Mars Phoenix Lander in the news. This time, she’ll be telling us about her experience using Docs forms to …
Summer in Zurich
July 3rd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamYou may recall from our previous write up that Google Zurich hosts a semi-monthly gathering of Free and Open Source Software aficionados known as the Zurich Open Source Jam. Should you find yourself in or around Zur…
Google Talk for iPhone
July 3rd, 2008 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Scott Knaster, Google Mac TeamOur busy mobile team is at it again, coming up with cool new iPhone stuff: check out Google Talk for iPhone, now available!
Building spiral stairs
July 3rd, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, SketchUp EvangelistThe key to modeling spiral stairs, I’ve found, is to think in terms of components. If each stair tread is an instance of the same component (a single stair tread), you can build relatively complex—and flexib…
July 2nd, 2008 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs in the iPhone’s browser, so you don’t need to download or install anything. …
July 2nd, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Adam Connors, Software Engineer, Google mobile teamWe’ve just released in the US a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch browsers. In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, …
July 2nd, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Google TV Ads makes it incredibly easy to launch a TV campaign. After you’ve created your campaign, what do you do if your ads haven’t aired? Here’s how to identify what might be happening.First, you’ll want to check that your TV ad has successfully up…
July 2nd, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager For those of you using newly released Firefox 3, or willing to give it a try, you can take advantage of a new feature that lets you set Gmail as the default for all email links — those that c…
Traffic Estimator Service Explained
July 2nd, 2008 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
As you could imagine, Google has a lot of historical data about keywords and the traffic they generate. Harnessing this data can give you a helpful starting point when you’re trying to choose cost-per-click (CPC) bid ranges and keywords for a new produ…
You Know Testing is Going Mainstream When…
July 2nd, 2008 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Website Optimizer
Posted by Tom Leung, Website Optimizer TeamPeople start drawing testing cartoons. I was speaking at a conference in Chicago about Website Optimizer and after the talk, one of the people in the audience showed me some cartoons he had doodled during my p…
Preparing for the final push…
July 2nd, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, orkut teamThe orkut team has been hard at work, making improvements to the performance and user experience of the application platform, preparing to complete our launch and enable OpenSocial apps for all users. We’re going t…
July 2nd, 2008 | by Sapna | published in Google Video
Posted by Justin Donnelly, Software EngineerThe “Hot videos” section of the Google Video homepage offers up the web’s most popular videos, determined by how often they’re being watched, shared and blogged about across the Web. If, like me, you think t…