August 22nd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Search for [cambridge bay] on Google Maps and you’ll fly to a tiny hamlet located deep in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut in Canada’s Arctic, surrounded by an intricate lacework of tundra, waterways and breaking ice. High above the Arctic circle, i…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Search for [cambridge bay] on Google Maps and you’ll fly to a tiny hamlet located deep in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut in Canada’s Arctic, surrounded by an intricate lacework of tundra, waterways and breaking ice. High above the Arctic circle, i…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’re excited to announce that we’re organizing our Pan-European AdSense In Your City event! This event will take place in September, in our European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. We’re offering an option of dates on either Friday, September 7th…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Not too long ago, I arrived here in Zurich, and on August the 31st I am to leave Google. During the last three months as an intern at Google, I have gained years of practical and theoretical knowledge that has made everything I’ve learnt over the pas…
August 22nd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Today we’re introducing the YouTube Elections Hub, a one-stop channel for key political moments from now through the upcoming U.S. election day on November 6. You can watch all of the live speeches from the floor of the upcoming Republican and Democr…
August 22nd, 2012 | by YouTube Staff | published in Youtube API
If you ever pay attention to your browser’s location bar, you may have noticed that, for a while now, the YouTube.com website has used playlist IDs that are prefixed with the characters “PL” when constructing the URLs for playlist pages. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL72CF07D200AA2AFA is one example of that. This practice of prepended playlist IDs previously didn’t extend over to the Data API—PL72CF07D200AA2AFA would not have been recognized as a valid playlist ID, but 72CF07D200AA2AFA would have.
Starting later today, Wednesday, August 22, the YouTube Data API will accept playlist IDs with the “PL” prefix whenever they’re used as metadata or in API request URLs. In most responses, the API will return playlist IDs with “PL” prefixes. The one exception is that for the next few days, searching for playlists will return playlist ids without the “PL” prefix. This will change on Tuesday, August 28, at which point the “PL” prefix will be included in playlist search results as well.
While we will continue to support using unprefixed playlist IDs as metadata or in API request URLs for the time being, at some point in the future we may require the “PL” prefix to be used whenever a playlist ID is provided. We’ll provide additional guidance if we do decide to stop supporting requests with unprefixed playlist IDs.
This change should be backwards compatible, but if you’re currently manipulating or comparing the playlist IDs that are returned via the API in any way, or making any assumptions about the length of the ID (which you shouldn’t be), please make sure that your code will handle IDs that contain the “PL” prefix.
If you have any questions about this changes, please let us know in our developer forum.
Cheers,
—Jeffrey Posnick, YouTube API Team
August 22nd, 2012 | by Research @ Google | published in Google Research
Posted by Afshin Rostamizadeh, Google ResearchOur machine learning book, The Foundations of Machine Learning, is now published! The book, with authors from both Google Research and academia, covers a large variety of fundamental machine learning topics…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Hailed as the birthplace of the automotive revolution, the city of Detroit, Mich. is taking its transportation legacy down new paths. As Detroit embraces a greener, non-motorized outlook, cycling is steadily increasing in popularity. The Michigan Trail…
August 22nd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Hailed as the birthplace of the automotive revolution, the city of Detroit, Mich. is taking its transportation legacy down new paths. As Detroit embraces a greener, non-motorized outlook, cycling is steadily increasing in popularity. The Michigan Trail…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Google Apps administrators can use a new feature in the administrator control panel to manage routing and basic filtering of email to on-premise systems as well as email to Google Apps users. These changes are a part of the integration of Postini and G…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
The login dialog for users who have enabled Single Sign On (SSO) login to Google Apps, but not Google password login has been simplified (shows only one option for entering a password), and the authentication landing page better redirects users back to…
August 22nd, 2012 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Spreadsheets: Users now have the ability to name a range in a spreadsheet. You can then protect such a named range instead of protecting the whole sheet. You can also use the name of the range in formulas.Spreadsheets: Users can now pick the color and …
