Taking the Wraps Off Google’s Public Policy Blog
June 18th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government AffairsAt the beginning of 2005, I was Google’s lone public policy guy. Today, there’s a bigger – and growing – team of us scattered around the world, working on issues like priva…
What Do We Mean By "Net Neutrality"?
June 16th, 2007 | by Adam | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselNetwork neutrality — the concept that the Internet should remain free and open to all comers — has been a major public policy priority for Google over the last two years. But anyone who ha…
Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Raph Levien
June 15th, 2007 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Code
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamOn Monday, June 25th, Raph Levien will join us to present Lessons from Advogato. Raph, Advogato’s founder, will give us insights into attack-resistant trust metrics and the other mechanisms used to build the website…
Adding color to your Earth snapshots
June 15th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Nathan Kohrmann, GeomodelerWith a little effort, you can substitute a higher-resolution, color image for the black and white snapshot that appears when you import context into SketchUp from Google Earth. It’s a nice way to get started when yo…
Local Search for the United Kingdom Launched
June 15th, 2007 | by Ali Pasha, Product Manager | published in Google Ajax API
We just launched local search for the UK this morning. For users already using the AJAX Search API for local search, you should now be able to search for businesses in the United Kingdom without having to make any changes to your code. Go ahead and now…
Weekly Google Code Roundup for June 11-15th
June 15th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsIn API and developer-product news…I will start by going meta. Linking to a roundup from a roundup makes your head spin, but we have two good ones:Google Web Toolkit Video from Developer Day and Some Great Tech…
Salesforce SOA Integration with Google data APIs
June 15th, 2007 | by Kael Edward Stahl-Mastropietro | published in Google Code
Salesforce.com recently announced the AJAX Proxy feature for Salesforce SOA. This feature, scheduled for availability in early July, avoids the cross-domain issues normally associated with communicating with external web services using client-side Jav…
A success story from India
June 14th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
When the Internet first boomed in India, many people proceeded with caution — adoption was fairly slow compared to the U.S. But a few adventurous spirits jumped right in and have stuck with it for the long haul. Among them is Babychen Mathew, who left…
June 14th, 2007 | by Scott McMullan | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Scott McMullan, Enterprise Partner TeamPhil Wainewright’s recent How SaaS changes the SI universe post highlights some important points about the impact Software as a Service is having on professional services.In interviews with Appirio and B…
It’s More than Bid Management, of Course
June 14th, 2007 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
Eric Enge recently published an article called “Are Bid Management Tools Still Useful?” on ClickZ Search Engine Watch. The article reviews a session at the recent Search Engine Expo conference about whether or not bid management is dead. According to E…
June 13th, 2007 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today we released something for Blogger that we’ve long wanted to do – an experimental version of the site where the early adopters among you can try out new features before they’re ready for full release. We’re calling it Blogger in draft because the …
June 13th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistI remember the first time I saw the shadows feature in SketchUp; I just about broke my ankle getting to my computer to download the software. When someone in our office first noticed Keyhole (which is what Goog…
June 13th, 2007 | by Vanessa Fox | published in Google Webmaster Central
Posted by Vanessa FoxYou’ve probably already figured this out if you use webmaster tools, the webmaster help center, or our webmaster discussion forum, but the webmaster central team is a fantastic group of people. You have seen some of them helping ou…
June 13th, 2007 | by niceredfrog | published in Google Testing
When a method is long and complex, it is harder to test. You can make it easier by extracting methods: finding pieces of code in existing, complex methods (or functions) that can be replaced with method calls (or function calls). Consider the following…
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June 13th, 2007 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Peter Deng, Google Developer ProgramsThanks to everyone who has sent in feedback about Google Developer Day. It really makes a difference. For instance, some of you pointed out that the U.S. session videos looked blurry, so we reencoded them at a h…