August 22nd, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
You may have heard or seen information about a growing technology called 2D bar codes (sometimes called QR, or “Quick Response” bar codes). These bar codes are a way to encode information, just like conventional bar codes – but 2D bar codes can encode …
New Gears Geolocation API powers mobile web sites
August 22nd, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Imagine if web sites could provide you with customized information based on your current location, even if you don’t have GPS. Today we’re launching the Gears Geolocation API for mobile and desktop browsers, while two third-party developers are launch…
August 22nd, 2008 | by Chris Prince, Gears Team | published in Google Gears
Posted by Andrei Popescu, Gears EngineerBut where exactly is ‘here’? Well, that’s a question that takes on a whole new meaning with this new release of Gears: we have added a new Geolocation API, which allows you to build applications that can do new a…
August 22nd, 2008 | by Chris Prince, Gears Team | published in Google Gears
Posted by Andrei Popescu, Gears EngineerBut where exactly is ‘here’? Well, that’s a question that takes on a whole new meaning with this new release of Gears: we have added a new Geolocation API, which allows you to build applications that can do new a…
August 21st, 2008 | by api.rboyd | published in Google Code, Youtube
Posted by Jeff Fisher & Stephanie Liu, Google Data APIs TeamWe’ve added a lot of new tools and functionality to the YouTube APIs in the past year (we launched the new Google Data-based API last August!), and we recently gave our overview page a fac…
Quality Score improvements
August 21st, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
In July 2005, AdWords introduced minimum bids for keywords based on Quality Score. This system allows us to show very high quality ads to Google users, while also giving advertisers control over their keywords. Since 2005, we’ve improved Quality Scor…
Hey Google, I no longer have badware
August 21st, 2008 | by Evan | published in Google Webmaster Central
This post is for anyone who has been emailed or notified by Google about badware, received a badware warning when browsing their own site using Firefox, or has come across malware-labeled search results for their own site(s). As you know, these warn…
August 21st, 2008 | by Jeff Bailey | published in Google Open Source
By Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Open Source TeamIf you’re passionate about web development and will be in or around Szeged, Hungary next week, be sure to stop by DrupalCon 2008. Nearly 500 developers will be descending on the city to discuss all things Drupal…
Tip of the week: Shortcuts
August 21st, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Here’s a brief primer on some of the shortcuts you can use while browsing Google Maps. With your mouse, you can zoom in and out: double left-click to zoom in on the area you’re clicking, and double right-click (also known as Ctrl+Click for Mac users) t…
August 21st, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Urban planning and community development should be a shared activity. Houseal Lavigne Associates, a Chicago-based planning firm has broken down the walls between residents, business owners, elected and appointed officials to create a truly communal de…
Let’s get this Partuza started!
August 21st, 2008 | by Arne Roomann-Kurrik | published in Google OpenSocial
Do you wish you could develop and test your OpenSocial gadgets on your own local development machine or server? Or are you thinking of becoming an OpenSocial container but need an example of how you can get started? If your answer to either of these qu…
August 21st, 2008 | by Ali Pasha | published in Google Code
By Steve Block, Gears EngineerWe just launched two new ways to give your web apps free and secure access to a user’s location, without requiring that user to enter it manually.First, there’s the AJAX API property that provides a simple way to get an ap…
August 21st, 2008 | by dastels | published in Google Testing
You’ve got some code that uses threads, and it’s making your tests flaky and slow. How do you fix it? First, most of the code is probably still single-threaded: test those parts separately. But how to test the threading behavior itself?Often, threaded …
August 21st, 2008 | by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
Have you ever written an app and wanted to do something simple like center a map on your user’s location? Consider a simple little map gadget. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to center that map on your user’s home country, state, or city, instead of jus…
August 21st, 2008 | by Misko | published in Google Testing
by Miško HeveryIn Singletons are Pathological Liars we discussed the problems of having singletons in your code. Let’s build on that and answer the question “If I don’t have singletons how do I ensure there is only one instance of X and how do I get X…