September 27th, 2010 | by Hicham Alaoui | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Google Apps is designed to provide a secure and reliable platform for your data. Until today, Google Apps administrators had to sign requests for calls to Google Apps APIs using their username and password (this is called ClientLogin Authorization).Yet…
September 27th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Linus Torvalds and Jeremy Allision were both in Sao Paulo, Brazil a few weeks ago for LinuxCon, where they were both presenters. Later in the week when they were waiting to go on a safari at the Sao Paulo Zoo, Jeremy seized the opportunity to go on a…
September 27th, 2010 | by Alberto Savoia | published in Google Testing
Update! Speakers & Talks for GTAC 2010We are thrilled to announce the speakers and talks for the 5th Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC). This year’s event will have a total of 11 talks. This includes the three keynotes that we announces ear…
September 26th, 2010 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
It’s one of the most-watched hours of TV every week, and now it’s coming to YouTube. 60 Minutes, CBS’s long-standing, Emmy-award winning Sunday night news program, has started a YouTube channel to post stories from the show. Now, if you miss 60 Minut…
September 26th, 2010 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
It was 50 years ago today that then-Senator from Massachusetts John F. Kennedy took on then-Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever general election presidential debate. The debate was a turning point not only for the 1960 election, but also for…
September 24th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Chrome version 6.0.472.55 was an incremental update to a new version of Chrome released on September 7 and announced here. There was a bug in the JavaScript engine that reported the wrong type of some JavaScript objects in a very specific case. This ca…
September 24th, 2010 | by Jarek Wilkiewicz | published in Youtube API
The importance of mobile applications in our day-to-day lives continues to grow. We can now do so many things with our phones that would have been impossible not too long ago. While watching videos on mobile devices has been popular for quite some time…
On recruiting “cold calls”
September 24th, 2010 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Amy Lambert, Associate General Counsel, EmploymentGoogle grew by more than 16,000 people between 2005 and 2009 — a five fold increase in the size of our company. In fact, we were hiring so fast that on average 40 new recruits were joining ev…
Finding your hidden treasure: international campaigns with AdWords
September 24th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted on the Google Small Business Blog)In 2000, Antoine Assi founded Middle Eastern export website www.aldoukan.com—it was one of the first e-commerce businesses in the Middle East. He was just 20 years old and he made time to develop the bu…
Google Apps highlights – 9/24/2010
September 24th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed.This week, our updates include a better Gmail experience for Android devices, an…
September 24th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
New import options have been added to spreadsheets. When importing, you now can create a whole new spreadsheet, append to the current sheet, add a new sheet to your existing spreadsheet or even replace your entire spreadsheet with this new version.Ther…
September 24th, 2010 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
In less than two weeks, Conversion Conference East will take place in Washington DC. Google Website Optimizer will be there along with Google Analytics.
Conversion rate optimization is still a young discipline in the world of interactive marketing. The event was founded by Tim Ash, president of Site Tuners (a Website Optimizer Certified Partner). What’s exciting about Conversion Conference is that the entire program is dedicated to the discipline. Experts in the field, as well as those who are just learning the art and science of conversion optimization, now have a forum to share best practices, network, and learn from each other.
If you are anywhere near Washington DC October 4-5, we hope you’ll join us there. We have a coupon for $250 off for Website Optimizer blog readers. Enter the code CCE631 when registering at the Conversion Conference site.
Here’s a taste of some of the presentations at Conversion Conference:
Monday, October 4th
The Four Pillars of Building Instant Trust Online (Tim Ash)
The Power of Split Testing (Brooks Bell and Lance Loveday)
Pay Per Click Landing Page Continuity (Lauren Vaccarello and William Leake)
Tuesday, October 5th
Getting Started with Google Website Optimizer (I’ll be giving this one)
Multivariate Testing (Eric Hansen and Chris Duskin)
The Science of Pursuasion (John Whalen)
Be sure to stop by the Google booth and say “Hi” and grab a squishy HiPPO. Looking forward to seeing you.
Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Website Optimizer team
September 24th, 2010 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
In less than two weeks, Conversion Conference East will take place in Washington DC. Google Website Optimizer will be there along with Google Analytics. Conversion rate optimization is still a young discipline in the world of interactive marketing. The…
September 24th, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
Sunil Pant uses SketchUp (along with lots of other tools) to create some really beautiful concept art for movies and games. We ran into him at SIGGRAPH this year, and thought we’d ask him a few questions. Where did you grow up and where do you live …
September 24th, 2010 | by Michael Bolognino | published in Google Voice
Heading off to college usually means packing up the car and saying goodbye to your family and friends, so the Google Voice team put together a bunch of ways to make it cheaper and easier to stay in touch while you’re on campus. We also thought back t…