April 19th, 2011 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Peter Harbison, Product Marketing Manager Team
A little over three months ago, we announced Google.com/Weddings to help couples during the wedding planning process. Since launch, we’ve been overwhelmed by the positive feedback with over 700,000 visits.
As part of that announcement, we partnered with Michelle Rago to not only help us with creative direction but also with hosting a wedding sweepstakes. The prize is $25,000 towards a dream wedding designed by Michelle.
The sweepstakes ended on March 29th and today we’re pleased to announce that the randomly selected winning couple was Philong Nguyen and Nhu-Y Nguyen of Houston, Texas.
Philong and Nhu-Y are currently using Google Docs to organize every facet of their wedding; Google Sites to build their wedding website, Picasa Web Albums to share photos with friends and Picnik to edit their photos. Philong had this to share about their engagement:
“We had already been looking at rings so I decided I wanted the time and place to be a complete surprise. Luckily she was working one weekend and had to go to work very early since she works in a hospital in the lab. I’m usually sleeping at that time, so I knew she wouldn’t expect to see me at 5 AM in the morning when she left for work. I woke up very early, brought dozens of roses that I had bought the day before and plucked, and created a trail of rose petals that led her from her door to the backyard where it ended in a heart with me waiting on the grass. Of course, the hardest part was waiting for her to open the door but when she did she followed the trail, found me and said Yes.”
The couple will be working with Michelle Rago to design their September wedding. We can‘t wait to see the pictures. Congratulations to Philong and Nhu-Y!
Cross-posted on Blogger Buzz
April 19th, 2011 | by Jessica | published in Google Student Blog
When a visitor asks you for directions to a building at your university, you can probably help them find any location on campus. Students in over 180 countries and regions around the world have been able to share this knowledge using Google Map Maker, …
April 18th, 2011 | by Pamela Eng | published in Google DoubleClick
When talking to advertisers about mobile advertising, one topic that comes up again and again is the need for consistent, independent ROI tracking for their mobile campaigns. As users spend even more time in Mobile Apps and on the Mobile Web, these hav…
Travel and Taxes are Top of Mind in February’s Ad Planner 1000
April 18th, 2011 | by Alex Lin, Product Specialist | published in Google DoubleClick
The second installment of the Ad Planner 1000 list for 2011 saw similar trends to January in a few major areas, while a couple major events drove attention to additional sites.Travel is still on the rise, as the popular travel aggregators priceline.com…
April 18th, 2011 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
In this post, we will share best practices for downloading large data sets. Specifically, we will outline how to accomplish this using reports and why this is more efficient than paging with selectors.When you request a large amount of data using gener…
New Analytics Help Center
April 18th, 2011 | by Shane Cassells | published in Google Analytics, Google Conversions
This is part of our series of posts highlighting the new Google Analytics. The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to a number of Analytics users. We’ll be giving access to even more users soon. Sign up for early access. An…
April 15th, 2011 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Analytics
If you have been a reader of the Google Analytics blog for any amount of time, you’ve likely seen the work of Jeff Gillis. In fact, if you go all the way back to the very first post on this blog from June 2006 you’ll see Jeff as the author.Jeff has…
April 15th, 2011 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine, Uncategorized
Here on the App Engine team, we’re always looking for new ways to make it easier for developers to build applications and services. Today, I’m happy to introduce ProtoRPC, a new tool for creating simple Python services, which requires minimal set …
April 15th, 2011 | by Brett Wiltshire | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Posted by Brett Wiltshire, Product Operations (This message only applies to a tiny fraction of users who haven’t logged in to Blogger since 2007. If you’ve logged in to Blogger at least one time since 2007, you won’t be affected and can disregard…
April 14th, 2011 | by Jessica | published in Google Student Blog
Google has partnered with Lime Connect for the third year in a row to recognize students with disabilities who have not only shown achievement in Computer Science, but have also demonstrated passion, dedication, and leadership within their studie…
April 14th, 2011 | by dly | published in Google Translate
(Cross-posted on the Google Mobile blog)Today we launched an update to Google Translate for Android that allows you to listen to translations in several more languages.We’ve dramatically improved the quality of our spoken translations in over 15 lang…
April 14th, 2011 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Arun Prasath, Tech Lead and Dimitris Meretakis, Product ManagerWhile the Google News team has been hard at work redesigning our service for smartphones, we’ve also been thinking about our milllions of users around the world who access the w…
April 14th, 2011 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Aimin Zhu, China University RelationsWe’re excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with Tsinghua University to provide educational support to five major universities in Western China: Qinghai, Xinjiang, Guizhou, Ningxia, and Yunnan. Toge…
April 13th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Nick Butcher, an Android engineer who notices small imperfections, and they annoy him. — Tim Bray]Since the introduction of the Action Bar design pattern, many applications have adopted it as a way to provide easy …
April 13th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Bridgette Sexton, an innovation advocate for the African tech community. — Tim Bray]En Français.In the past year alone, we have met with over 10,000 developers and techies across Sub Saharan Africa. We are contin…