August 14th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Jonas Shen, Associate, Consumer OperationsAccording to Wikipedia, the world’s most accomplished hyperpolyglot is Ziad Fazah. This guy can readily communicate in 58 (f-i-f-t-y e-i-g-h-t) languages. Wow.Well Mr. Fazah, while we’re not quite…
August 13th, 2007 | by Scott | published in Google Mac Blog
by Mike Morton, Mac Team EngineerEach summer for more than 25 years, thousands of developers have flocked to Northern California to attend Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (which everyone calls WWDC). It’s a week of lectures and labs, schmooz…
Getting the right kind of top view in LayOut
August 13th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistSome of you might know about LayOut, the all-new 2D presentation tool that we developed to accompany SketchUp. It’s included with SketchUp Pro 6; if you don’t already have it, you can download a free trial of P…
August 13th, 2007 | by Bill Kee | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Kevin Systrom, Gmail TeamOn July 16th, we launched a Gmail t-shirt design contest with Threadless.com. Needless to say, we’re psyched to see the quality of work that is pouring in. At last count, we had 192 submissions from designers around t…
August 13th, 2007 | by Panayiotis Mavrommatis | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Anti-Malware TeamIn the past year, the number of sites affected by malware/badware grew from a handful a week to thousands per week. We noted your suggestions to improve communication for webmasters of affected sites …
Meeting user expectations: interacting with items
August 13th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Omar Khan, Software Engineer (Google Desktop Team)Computer users learn all kinds of arbitrary conventions: blue underlined text is a hyperlink, an I-beam over text means you can select it, during an installation just click OK through all the …
Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series: Michael Still
August 13th, 2007 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Code
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamTired of your current DVR? Prefer to DIY? If so, please join us for Michael Still’s upcoming presentation on Practical MythTV . Michael, one of Google’s Site Reliability Engineers and MythTV developer, will be join…
Online Video is Incremental to TV – Not Detrimental
August 13th, 2007 | by Ramin Oskoui | published in Google CPG
Posted By: Ramin Oskoui, Account Planner – MBA Intern, CPG TeamAccording to a new report released by eMarketer (subscription required), the interconnectedness between TV and the Internet will play a leading role in how the market for online video evolv…
Weekly Google Code Roundup for August 10th
August 11th, 2007 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsIn API and developer-product news…ExtMapTypeControl 1.1 contains a smarter traffic button. In this week’s release of API v2.86, there is a “changed” event for GTrafficOverlay that sends a boolean indicating wh…
Spice up your Scraps!
August 10th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Patrick Barry and Anisha Malhorta, Software EngineersSending scraps to friends has always been the most popular way to stay in touch on orkut. Despite having only colored text and smilies to play with, you have gotten creative and left some p…
Site maintenance on Saturday, August 11th
August 10th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Tomorrow, our engineers will be performing routine system maintenance from 10am to 12pm PDT. Although you won’t be able to log in to your account for 2 hours, we’ll continue to serve ads to your pages and track your earnings as usual.For our internatio…
August 9th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistHas SketchUp ever crashed on you? Is the sky blue?The good news is that SketchUp has an Auto-save feature that automatically saves your model every five minutes by default. The bad news is that most people don’…
Finance in iGoogle
August 9th, 2007 | by Design Ninja | published in Google Finance
Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designerThere are some great Finance gadgets available on iGoogle (personalized Google search page), but it can be challenging to find the best Finance gadgets. Recently the iGoogle team have introduced the ‘Share tab…
Publishers go Dutch with newest AdSense forum
August 9th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Two weeks ago, our blog team celebrated the first birthday of the Dutch AdSense blog. We’re now happy to announce the launch of the Dutch AdSense Help Forum! Visit the new forum to ask troubleshooting questions, offer optimization advice, and meet othe…
Interview With Ari Paparo on ClickZ
August 9th, 2007 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
ClickZ is posting an interview with yours truly. I discuss mobile, rich media, video, widgets, a little bit of everything…Posted by Ari Paparo