December 23rd, 2009 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Thomas Kang & Jon Wray, Software EngineersA helpful feature of Picasa Web Albums is that when you view photos, they’re automatically resized to fit your browser. We always display the largest-size photo that will fit inside your browser w…
December 23rd, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Paul Feng, Group Product ManagerSince we announced our plans to acquire AdMob, we’ve been excited about the positive reaction — particularly from advertisers and publishers who have told us that they’re enthusiastic about the possibilities f…
December 23rd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Indigenous people worldwide face special challenges in planning, policy and advocacy work. Issues such as cultural preservation, sovereignty, land use management, and handling mineral rights are just a few that they have to tackle. Recognizing this, we…
December 23rd, 2009 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
2009 has been a year filled with lots of product changes, many scholarship opportunities, programs and competitions geared specifically for students. We’ve had so much fun working on ways to improve our connection to and relationship with students like…
December 23rd, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Jason Toff, Associate Product Marketing ManagerAh 2009…turning five, finally shedding that beta label, and adding more than 40 new features. As we wind down after a busy year, here’s a look back at a handful of our favorite additions to Gma…
December 23rd, 2009 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
Location, location, location: so goes the mantra of the real estate business. Although, in this constantly connected world where people are carrying Internet-enabled mobile devices more and more, location is important to every retail business. Often, u…
December 23rd, 2009 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
Since we launched extensions for Google Chrome on the beta channel for Windows and Linux a few weeks ago, we’ve seen over 1,000 extensions submitted to the gallery. Several of them have already become browser staples for me. But since I’ve been spend…
December 23rd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Sipping warm cider, watching the snow fall, unwrapping gifts — these holiday traditions always seem to produce many of the year’s sweetest memories. Several years ago, we added another holiday tradition to our list — helping NORAD keep tabs on Sant…
December 23rd, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Oooh, it’s almost Christmas! And that means that Santa is about to leave his digs at the North Pole to embark upon his ’09 World Tour, placing presents under the trees of good little girls and boys all over the planet. Where will he be, and when will h…
December 23rd, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Maps
We’ve made a change to the NORAD Santa Tracker this year.
In years past, we’ve created a .kmz file that users could download to watch the Big Man in Red travel around the globe on Christmas Eve using the Google Earth desktop client. This year, we’re …
December 23rd, 2009 | by effie | published in Google Mobile
Like most kids, all I wanted to do on Christmas Eve was stay up and wait for Santa to arrive. One year, I went downstairs in the middle of the night and sat down in front of the Christmas tree to wait for Santa. Unfortunately, I soon fell asleep. When …
December 22nd, 2009 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Keeping track of gifts can be overwhelming, especially when you’re buying and delivering gifts for people in a lot of different places. If you haven’t done all of your holiday shopping or deliveries yet, check out the holiday gift shopping list templat…
December 22nd, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University Relations and Jeff Walz, Head of University RelationsWe do a significant amount of in-house research at Google, but we also maintain strong ties with academic institutions globally, pursu…
December 22nd, 2009 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Just in time for your holiday coding enjoyment, we have three new articles to get you started on adding maps to mobile and using App Engine for spatial search.
Overview of Mobile Development Options for the Google Maps API
Putting a map on a phone see…
December 22nd, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
If you’re developing a Java application on App Engine you probably already know that you can use JPA and JDO, both standard Java persistence APIs, to interact with the datastore. What you may not know, and what I’m here to point out, is that for t…