With a touch of style, Gmail gets some new threads
November 9th, 2007 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Kevin Systrom, Associate Product Marketing ManagerCongratulations to Robert Gould, the winner of our Threadless t-shirt competition. With much deliberation, we picked his design out of 420 submitted designs to win a pretty sweet prize package…
November 9th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Tomorrow, November 10th, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance. Although you won’t be able to log in to your account between 10 am and 2 pm PST, we’ll continue to serve ads to your pages and track all earnings in your account as usu…
Early container sample available
November 9th, 2007 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Cassie Doll, Software EngineerAs promised in the last post, we’ve just released an open source container sample. It’s an early version, but should give you some idea of the Service Provider Interface (SPI) we will provide to any website which…
Keeping your username and password secure
November 9th, 2007 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Filipe Lima, orkut Operations TeamThese days many users’ accounts can be compromised through social engineering techniques such as phishing schemes or malicious scripts and programs guised as being legitimate, and lose their usernames and pas…
November 9th, 2007 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)By now, you should be familiar with the container div technique. A container div is useful for organizing and positioning related elements, but did you know it can act as clipping vi…
November 9th, 2007 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Sasha Cagen’s To-Do List blog (which you may recognize as a blog of note) has just been released as a book! Both blog and book are collections of, well, to-do lists, mailed or emailed in by people. Think PostSecret meets Getting Things Done.Watch the…
Teaching revision writing with Docs
November 9th, 2007 | by The Gmail Team | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Cristin Frodella, Product Manager, Education InitiativesSome of Google Docs’ most loyal users are teachers; we get lots of emails, suggestions, and lesson ideas from you. Based on what you’ve told us, one of your favorite things about using …
November 8th, 2007 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Thanks for all of the immediate feedback on our new Manage Ads feature. Your comments have helped us identify a technical issue causing delays in some publisher accounts. This is not directly related to the capabilities of the new feature, but it has b…
Google Presentations adds more editing options
November 8th, 2007 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
Google Presentations now supports slide dragging to reorder slides, and right clicks to change slide background and to duplicate slides.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted:US EnglishHow to access what’s…
Now you can cancel that order when you have an "oops" moment
November 8th, 2007 | by Alyssa | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Anita Barci, Product Marketing Manager, Google Checkout TeamHaving second thoughts about that sweater you just ordered? Maybe you want to get a different size, or accidentally entered the wrong shipping address?Now with Google Checkout you ca…
We’re here, listening, and working.
November 8th, 2007 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerWe’re thrilled to see how much interest there is in websites hosting OpenSocial apps. While we’ve posted a fair number of articles and docs on how to build social applications, we know that there isn’t a lot of do…
AdWords system maintenance on November 10th
November 8th, 2007 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
On Saturday, November 10th, the AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PST due to our regularly scheduled maintenance. While you won’t be able to sign in to your accounts during this time, your campaigns will continue t…
SketchUp 6 now in 6 languages
November 8th, 2007 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistIt’s my pleasure to announce that Google SketchUp 6 is now available for download in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. Both the Free and Pro versions of SketchUp 6 (which in…
November 8th, 2007 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by John Burchett, State Policy CounselWhile we know that the Internet allows people and organizations to operate much more efficiently, the reality is that personal computers, servers and data centers use too much energy. Right now, the average…
New Stuff – 11/8
November 8th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamWe have a new release of GME this week with several feature improvements and bug fixes. For a complete list of changes see the GME Release Notes App. Some highlights below.New header in the Editor that…