April 23rd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
It could happen to anyone– you get to know someone, find them on orkut and ask them to add you as a friend. But instead of responding, they ignore you, and as the days creep on, you start to get a little upset. Or, even more extreme, you find out tha…
April 23rd, 2009 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
My friend Chrystina is an Operations Coordinator at a small software company in Sunnyvale, CA. A few days ago, she told me that she just started using Google Docs. As a beginner, she was trying to figure out how to collaborate with her coworkers and ac…
April 23rd, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Today is the beta launch of YouTube RealTime, a new way of discovering what your friends are doing on YouTube. Through this persistent toolbar, which appears in the lower right corner of the page, you’ll be able to see which of your YouTube friends are…
April 22nd, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
We’ve released version 1.2.1 of the SDK for the Python runtime. Here are some highlights from the release notes:
Stable, unique IDs for
User objects. The Users service now provides a unique user_id for each
user that stays the same even if a user chang…
Creating an Input Method
April 22nd, 2009 | by Amith Yamasani | published in Google Android
To create an input method (IME) for entering text into text fields and other Views, you need to extend android.inputmethodservice.InputMethodService. This API provides much of the basic implementation for an input method, in terms of managing the state…
Analytics and AdWords tips – Part 3 of 4
April 22nd, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Once again we’ve asked the Google Analytics team to share some of their tips on how to use Analytics and AdWords together. Last week we talked about how to link your two accounts and view your results. To recap, the three steps you need to take …
Happy Earth Day!
April 22nd, 2009 | by Jessica Bagley | published in Google Student Blog
Today is Earth Day. What are you doing to celebrate? Googlers around the world are celebrating in many different ways, some of which you can read about here.Even our homepage has gotten in on the fun with another innovative doodle:For tips and ideas on…
Who’s @ Google I/O – spotlight on Google Web Toolkit
April 22nd, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Google Web Toolkit, or GWT for short, recently went live with their 1.6 release, which also included a Google plugin for Eclipse and integration with App Engine’s Java language support. Google I/O will be rich with GWT content, including a number of se…
Policy-enforced TLS in Google Apps
April 22nd, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
In the year and a half since we acquired Postini, we’ve integrated a number of their message security features into Google Apps Premier Edition, including additional spam and virus filtering, content policy management tools, and archiving. Today we’re …
Now Accepting Nominations for the 5th Annual Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards
April 22nd, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
The Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards are back again for 2009! These awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of Open Source Software. Past recipients for…
Category filtering feature being developed
April 22nd, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
One of the top requests we’ve heard from publishers is to have more control over the ads appearing on their sites. We’ve been working to address your feedback, and today at ADSPACE, our team announced an upcoming beta test of a new feature in the Ad Re…
Happy Earth Day from Google Earth
April 22nd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
It probably comes as no surprise that the Google Earth team gets very excited about Earth Day. Today we’re celebrating Earth Day by featuring a special collection of KMLs in our Gallery to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environmen…
Update from the Google Apps ecosystem: Ping Identity and PivotLink
April 22nd, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
A few weeks ago we hosted one of our Google Campfire One events to announce new developer tools that we think businesses will find pretty interesting. Several companies participated in the event by sharing how these tools improve their products and ser…
Books Are Full of Visual Gems: Sea Creatures edition!
April 22nd, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Ryan Sands, Book Search Online TeamIt may come as no surprise to the book nerds out there (you know who you are), but the annals of written history are full of visual gems.When you come across something amazing in a public domain title scanne…
Find your online friends with the new orkut chat roster
April 22nd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
If you’re anything like me, the recent launch of the built-in chat feature within orkut has made hanging out with friends online much easier and a whole lot more fun. Yet, while it’s always great to come across a little green ‘available’ bubble next to…