August 14th, 2008 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
(This week, TotT issued our 100th internally published episode. That’s more than have been published to this Testing Blog — after all, the internal episodes had an 8-month head start, and many would make no sense to readers outside our own stalls — …
August 14th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
When we launched the mobile (xhtml) version of orkut back in April on m.orkut.com, we were overwhelmed by its adoption. However, Google always tries to build our products for a diverse group of users. Many people access orkut from their smartphones, ma…
Get your Google Calendar in 38 languages
August 14th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Ken Norton, Product ManagerOne of our goals at Google is to give everyone the information they want in the language they speak. We’ve been hard at work making Google products available in as many languages as possible. Recently we launched Go…
orkut for S60, now with photo uploads and picture galleries
August 13th, 2008 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
When we launched the mobile (xhtml) version of orkut back in April on m.orkut.com, we were overwhelmed by its adoption.However, Google always tries to build our products for a diverse group of users. Many people access orkut from their smartphones, ma…
Summer of Coders at Google’s Bangalore R&D Center
August 13th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Ajay Kumar, 2008 Student for the Sahana projectAt the end of July, several Google Summer of Code™ students got a chance to visit Google Bangalore. This being my first Summer of Code, I was very excited to visit the Google office and get a feel…
Pick your friends!
August 13th, 2008 | by dolapo | published in Google Reader
Today we’re excited to announce several improvements in the way sharing works in Reader. You’ve given us lots of feedback on the way our experimental sharing features work and we heard you loud and clear: you want more control over your sharing. We’ve …
Party report: Rooftop lounge open house
August 13th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)If you weren’t at the open house for our Lively rooftop lounge, you really missed out. The turnout was good, and we were pleased to see new faces.It wouldn’t be a Google gathering wi…
Gmail supports easier access to contacts when composing a message
August 13th, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
When composing a message in Gmail, users can now just click the ‘To:’ link to access Gmail’s contact list. Before, the Gmail contact list was available through a link labeled ‘Choose from contacts’. Contact sharing must be enabled in the control pane…
August 13th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Posted by James Su, Software EngineerTo celebrate the opening of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, we’ve just released Google Gadgets for Linux 0.10.1. This version contains two new built-in gadgets:Photos – Displays your favorite photos (from either the…
Video units more widely available
August 13th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
UPDATE: The video units feature has been retired — however, you may wish to review the other revenue opportunities available for video content owners.We’ve heard your feedback about the availability of video units, so we’ve expanded the languages and …
Poetry, community, and forty fabulous islands
August 13th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
The poet John Donne once said, “No man is an island” – and for those of us who’ve had the opportunity to see our users map their world, we believe in the collective knowledge of communities sharing what they know best about the places where they’ve liv…
Plotting more than news on the charts
August 13th, 2008 | by Google Finance Team | published in Google Finance
Posted by Vivi Costache, 20% Charting WizardPlotting news stories on the company charts has always been one of my favorite features of Google Finance. Today, I’m happy to announce that we’re pushing it even further! First,you’ll notice that we moved th…
August 13th, 2008 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
Today we launched DFA 6, the new version of DART for Advertisers, which includes a completely revamped trafficking interface. Based on feedback from our agency and advertiser clients, we know that trafficking can be one of the most complicated and time…
Using the AJAX Language API while Travelling
August 12th, 2008 | by Derek Collison, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
Back in March we introduced the Google AJAX Language API, which you can use to incorporate translations from Google Translate into your projects. Lots of people have been excited about this API, including some engineers here at Google. Last Friday we r…
Where is Georgia on Google Maps?
August 12th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
The recent conflict in Georgia has raised some questions about how Google Maps has handled mapping in that part of the world. The most obvious question is, why doesn’t Google Maps show any cities or roads for Georgia, or its neighbors Armenia and Azer…