October 21st, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Today AOL is thrilled to announce that it has launched a new open developer site at http://dev.my.aol.com designed specifically to support the gadget specification on myAOL. AOL originally announced its support of OpenSocial and its plans to adopt gad…
October 21st, 2008 | by Adam Lasnik | published in Google Webmaster Central
No matter where in the world you are, you can vote right now on webmaster-oriented questions by registering for our free Webmaster chat (“Tricks and Treats”) which is scheduled for tomorrow at 9am PDT (5pm GMT). Even better: you can suggest …
October 21st, 2008 | by Aaron Boodman | published in Google Gears
Andrei Popescu, Gears TeamGuess what? The Gears Geolocation API got even better! We have just released a new version of Gears, 0.4.24.0, which contains an enhanced implementation of the Geolocation API. This new version uses WiFi access point signals t…
October 21st, 2008 | by Aaron Boodman | published in Google Gears
Andrei Popescu, Gears TeamGuess what? The Gears Geolocation API got even better! We have just released a new version of Gears, 0.4.24.0, which contains an enhanced implementation of the Geolocation API. This new version uses WiFi access point signals t…
October 21st, 2008 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
One of our goals here on the location team is to keep shrinking that magical blue circle that shows you where you are. In fact, just a few weeks ago, we released new optimizations for My Location that helped us calculate location even more accuratel…
October 21st, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Benjamin Grol, Product Manager, Google ContactsAfter hearing consistent feedback that you wanted more control over your contacts, we’ve changed the way Gmail suggests contacts to you. Up to this point, if you emailed someone five times, we’d …
October 21st, 2008 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
Tax and shipping estimation is one of the features most commonly asked for by shoppers on Google Product Search. Today, I’m happy to announce that you can now submit tax and shipping information for your products via your Google Base account. We’ll s…
October 21st, 2008 | by Aly Makishima | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Please join us at ad:tech New York on November 4th where Mike Steib, Director of Google TV Ads, will be speaking at the Power Panel: TV 3.0 session. The panel will explore theory and research on how viewers watch television, attitudes towards new forms…
October 21st, 2008 | by Scott Lininger | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Scott Lininger, SketchUp EngineerDrawing foodstuffs in SketchUp is fantastically cool, but at the end of the day you wind up with a meal that is, sigh, static. You can push your food about manually, of course, or you can hide or change its ap…
October 21st, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Chris DiBona, Open Source TeamAs you might have heard, on the 22nd of October we will start to see the first deliveries of the T-Mobile G1, the first phone based on the Android mobile platform. This is an incredibly exciting time for us, the culmina…
October 21st, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
In the final webinar of our 5-part series with NTEN, we discussed evaluating your AdWords performance. Jessica from our team led the session and spoke about the importance of monitoring and evaluating your account to fully maximize it. The majority o…
October 21st, 2008 | by Jason Chen | published in Google Android
Over the past year, we announced Android, released several SDKs (eventually resulting in the 1.0 SDK), gave out the first half of the $10,000,000 prize money for the Android Developer Challenge, and prepared the first Android-powered device for users….
October 21st, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
For months you’ve heard very little on the news but the latest twists and turns of this thrilling – though everlasting – presidential race. By now you’ve seen the debates, watched the campaign commercials, and hashed out the issues with friends. You’ve…
October 21st, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Charles Wiles, Product Manager, Google Mobile TeamI am thrilled to announce that today we have enhanced the Gears Geolocation API so that developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of citie…
October 21st, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
In January we announced Predict and Prevent, Google.org’s global public health initiative that aims to help prevent the next pandemic. Since then our team has traveled far and wide to meet with partners, particularly in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan A…