November 15th, 2007 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
DoubleClick Ad Exchange recently hosted two roundtable dinners to engage with publishers, agencies and marketers, foster direct dialogue between buyers and sellers of online display media, and learn more about issues on the minds (and budgets) of dispa…
November 15th, 2007 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Public Policy and Government AffairsBarack Obama added another “first” to his already notable list yesterday: he became the first U.S. presidential candidate — and, I’m guessing, the first high-level elected o…
November 14th, 2007 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Michael Terrell, Team Member, Google.orgToday Senator Barack Obama visited Google as part of our [email protected] series. Unveiling an innovation agenda, the Senator emphasized the need to employ technology and innovation to solve the world’…
November 14th, 2007 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Developer AdvocateLawrence Sinclair and Sudha Jamthe recently asked us to host a Facebook Application Development Meetup to discuss OpenSocial, a common set of APIs that enables social application development. We’re happy to…
November 14th, 2007 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Katharine Lu, Book Search Support TeamIf you’ve ever slogged through a boring novel and thought, “Hey, I could write something better than that,” now’s your chance. November is National Novel Writing Month, and while writing a whole n…
November 14th, 2007 | by Alyssa | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Stephanie Bilodeau, Strategic Partner ManagerThe Google Checkout team welcomes TigerDirect, a 20-year-old business that currently ranks as the #24 top retailer in Internet Retailer’s 2007 Top 500 guide. TigerDirect offers digital and electron…
November 14th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team
There have been a few question recently about the best ways to authenticate users given GME’s restriction on only allowing authenticated users to write data to the datastore feeds. I wanted to give some background on the decisions we made a provide a mini tutorial on how to handle authentication.
When developing GME we wanted to make sure we weren’t contributing to the spam issues in applications. The best to do that was to prevent users who were not logged in from adding data to the datastore. To do this we created a set of controls for creating, editing and deleting data that would only be shown when the user is logged in. To make it easy for developers to specify when a user should be logged in we added a simple authenticate attribute to the gm:page tag.
There are times when you want the edit controls to be displayed for logged in users but not require everyone accessing your application to have to sign in. To do this we created a simple javascript function that you can use to send users to the sign in page.
Displaying the login screen when a link is clicked
Sign in to add entries
Check a working sample of this application in our demo gallery or access it here. If you have feedback on the Google Mashup Editor let us know about it in our developer forum.
November 14th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamThere have been a few question recently about the best ways to authenticate users given GME’s restriction on only allowing authenticated users to write data to the datastore feeds. I wanted to give some…
November 14th, 2007 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy CounselWe’re gratified that Google’s recent call for global privacy standards has sparked a healthy debate. Nearly everyone agrees that factors such as globalisation, the growing recognition of privacy right…
November 14th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Anna Hentzel, Software EngineerIf you’re not busy checking scraps, chances are you are checking out who visited your profile lately. After all, aren’t you curious who’s taking an interest in you, checking out your photos, and keeping up with …
November 13th, 2007 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Administrators can now set email policy rules using regular expressions, which allows for inbound and outbound filtering on content like social security numbers, phone numbers and other structured information.Editions impacted:Premier EditionLanguages …
November 13th, 2007 | by Matthew Glotzbach | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Adam Swidler, Product Marketing Manager, PostiniOne of the things I’ve heard a lot since joining Google is “speed matters,” and it’s been great to have a hand in the rate at which we innovate.In that spirit, today we’re taking another step to…
November 13th, 2007 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Liz Eraker, Policy Analyst Let’s say you’re looking for some publicly available government information online. Maybe you’re searching for property records or background on your local school district. Chances are, you’ll start your quest not…
November 13th, 2007 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Many of our readers have emailed us asking for more information about the Google content network. As you ramp up your advertising efforts for the holiday season, we wanted to provide you with an overview of the content network, including recent improve…
November 13th, 2007 | by Alyssa | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Ryan Pollock, Site Search TeamIf you’re a Google Checkout merchant, you’re probably interested in learning about other Google products that can help you run your website and increase sales. In particular, your website needs its own search eng…