July 22nd, 2008 | by api.rboyd | published in Google Code
Posted by Steven Soneff, Google Finance TeamThe latest version of the JavaScript Client library is now available, and it includes support for easy access to the Google Finance Portfolio Data API. The API lets you keep your portfolios and watchlists up…
July 22nd, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Today Glam Media is happy to announce the upcoming Glam Application Platform with support for OpenSocial. Glam Media is a network of 600+ high-end content publishers, with over 77 million monthly visitors globally. The Glam Platform will serve third-pa…
July 22nd, 2008 | by mrw | published in Google Docs
A quick note to point you, yet again, to an exceptional use case described in the Teaching With Technology blog. In a recent post, Mr. Kirkpatrick goes through the steps of setting up parent:teacher meetings easily using Docs. Take ins…
July 22nd, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
I recently had the pleasure of attending a valuable non-profit session in Detroit, presented by the NEW Center and CASA of Washtenaw County. This seminar, led by members of these two non-profits, offered demos of various Google products offered to non…
July 22nd, 2008 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
It turns out we’re not the only ones excited about the new Google Mobile App for iPhone and iPod Touch. Adam Pash, of the productivity blog Lifehacker, shows off how he uses the Google Mobile App.Our friends at Blendtec got a new 3G iPhone and loaded i…
July 22nd, 2008 | by Adam Borelli | published in Google RechargeIT
Posted by Rolf Schreiber, RechargeIT Engineer
Last summer Google.org launched the RechargeIT program, an initiative to accelerate the commercialization of plug-in vehicles. As part of this project, we created the GFleet, a free car-sharing program for Google employees. The GFleet includes a handful of hybrid vehicles converted to plug-ins with a Hymotion conversion module.
Our plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have been on the road for about a year now, and the RechargeIT team has been diligently collecting statistics on their performance. We noticed that employees primarily use our plug-ins for short trips close to our headquarters, so the data weren’t truly representative of typical U.S. driving patterns. We were curious to see how the cars would perform under controlled conditions – and how they would stack up against other conventional automobiles typically found in U.S. households. With that, the RechargeIT Driving Experiment was born!
In total, it took just over seven weeks to complete all the trips in all the vehicles. And with the results in, our plug-ins did great, with the Priuses getting more than 90 miles per gallon. The PHEVs not only greatly outperformed the average American fleet fuel economy of 19.8 MPG, they did significantly better than the standard hybrids – 53% fuel economy improvement for the plug-in Ford Escape and 93% improvement for the plug-in Prius.
Check out our newly improved RechargeIT website for more details on our Driving Experiment.
July 22nd, 2008 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
Last summer Google.org launched the RechargeIT program, an initiative to accelerate the commercialization of plug-in vehicles. As part of this project, we created the GFleet, a free car-sharing program for Google employees. The GFleet includes a handfu…
July 22nd, 2008 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Philippe Colombet, Strategic Partnership Development Manager, Google Book Search, FranceAs a native of Lyon, France, I often visited the Municipal Library of Lyon during my student days. I was always impressed by the building itself, and of c…
July 22nd, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Radio drives people to pick up the phone and dial – a fact to which any unfortunate owner of the number “Eight, six, seven, five, three-oh-nieeeeine” can attest. So how do you tap into the trend and adapt your campaign strategies to your listenin…
July 21st, 2008 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Website Optimizer
Lately, we’ve heard more and more people ask us how to use Website Optimizer on a Joomla-powered site. If you’re interested, the folks at Compass Designs have a great step-by-step tutorial on how to patch Joomla to accept Website Optimizer tags. Joomla…
July 21st, 2008 | by Misko | published in Google Testing
by Miško HeveryEvery time I see Law of Demeter violation I imagine a haystack where the code is desperately trying to locate the needle.class Mechanic {Engine engine;Mechanic(Context context) { this.engine = context.getEngine();}}The Mechanic does no…
July 21st, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Derek Slater, Policy AnalystThe FCC’s public hearing today in Pittsburgh, on “Broadband and the Digital Future,” raises the question: what does the future of broadband have in store for us?The most important answer is that we don’t know, and …
July 21st, 2008 | by Ali Pasha | published in Google Code
By Andy Chu, Google Code TeamWe get a lot of feedback on Google Code and one of the biggest requests have been for feeds (as you can see in issue 8, issue 131, or issue 190). Therefore, I’m happy to announce that we now have Atom feed available for you…
July 21st, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
If you’re an avid Inside AdSense reader, you know that we frequently post about the latest developments in AdSense and new features you can take advantage of. However, we’ve heard from some publishers that they want to know more about what’s happening …
July 21st, 2008 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
If you’re in San Francisco this Wednesday, July 23, join us for a great seaside party. We’re sponsoring a Web Analytics Wednesday at the Gordon Biersch Brewery (map), right next to Google’s San Francisco office, with beautiful views of the bay and the …