May 27th, 2011 | by Takashi | published in iGoogle
Did you know we are continuously adding new features to the iGoogle Gadget Dashboard? Today I’d like to let you know about a few of them.First of all, we added two new data sets to the details page of your gadgets. Now you can see intuitive graphs in…
April 4th, 2011 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
The iGoogle Gadget Directory just got better. Users can now interact with a gadget in the directory before adding it to their page. Have a look at a couple examples like the Google News or Google Hot Trends gadgets.Your gadgets can have live previews t…
July 27th, 2010 | by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager | published in Google Apps, iGoogle
The Start Page is being automatically be converted to iGoogle. The Start Page gadgets your users have configured will be migrated to iGoogle pages, after which users can modify their iGoogle gadgets, tabs and themes. Your Start Page web address will …
June 23rd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
OSDE (OpenSocial Development Environment) is an Eclipse plugin for developing and testing OpenSocial applications.It’s an Apache-2-licensed open-source project hosted at:http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-development-environment/Its milestone versi…
June 23rd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle, Uncategorized
OSDE (OpenSocial Development Environment) is an Eclipse plugin for developing and testing OpenSocial applications.It’s an Apache-2-licensed open-source project hosted at:http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-development-environment/Its milestone versi…
May 26th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
Did you know gadgets can use html5? The key is in the doctype. Normally the doctype of a gadget isn’t mentioned. Specify the html5 doctype in the gadget and it will be used when the gadget is rendered. Let’s look at a quick example using the popular ca…
May 26th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle, Uncategorized
Did you know gadgets can use html5? The key is in the doctype. Normally the doctype of a gadget isn’t mentioned. Specify the html5 doctype in the gadget and it will be used when the gadget is rendered. Let’s look at a quick example using the popular ca…
May 13th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
The OpenSocial 0.9 specification introduced a simpler API called OS Lite (also known as OSAPI) which uses a syntax that’s friendlier for Javascript developers.Some steely eyed developers have already noticed that iGoogle works with most OpenSocial 0…
May 13th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle, Uncategorized
The OpenSocial 0.9 specification introduced a simpler API called OS Lite (also known as OSAPI) which uses a syntax that’s friendlier for Javascript developers.Some steely eyed developers have already noticed that iGoogle works with most OpenSocial 0…
May 10th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
We announced a couple weeks ago that iGoogle now supports images in RSS. The initial launch was for the US only, but we’re launching globally over the next few days. All users will now be able to use our two new views (headline and lead story and sl…
May 10th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
We announced a couple weeks ago that iGoogle now supports images in RSS. The initial launch was for the US only, but we’re launching globally over the next few days. All users will now be able to use our two new views (headline and lead story and sl…
May 3rd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
Gadgets use messages, stored in messagebundles, for internationalization. The most common way to access the messages your gadget has is with variable substitution. For example, a message called north can be specified as<msg name=”north”>Nord&…
May 3rd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle, Uncategorized
Gadgets use messages, stored in messagebundles, for internationalization. The most common way to access the messages your gadget has is with variable substitution. For example, a message called north can be specified as<msg name=”north”>Nord&…
April 27th, 2010 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code, iGoogle
Not everyone likes to start their day with just a search box and logo (no matter how cool it is!). Many users want email, videos, news, weather, games, and other information to be at their fingertips each time they open up a browser window. We launched…
April 22nd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
Nearly every iGoogle user has an RSS feed or two on their homepage – from top news to celebrity gossip, recipes, and much much more. In true Google fashion, we originally launched RSS support with a simple headline-only presentation. However, we all kn…
