February 28th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Glenn Rivkees, Gadget DeveloperSometimes you might have more text than your gadget can display. Making that text scroll in a marquee is a great alternative to increasing the gadget’s area.The first step is to initialize a label with the text …
February 28th, 2008 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Chiu-Ki Chan, Software EngineerA few months ago, we launched My library. We are always looking to improve this feature and make it more useful for book lovers, so we recently made a few tweaks to make your library feel more personal and to ma…
February 28th, 2008 | by Jonathan Simon | published in Google Webmaster Central
by Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Tools TeamWhen you plan to do something, are you a minimalist, or are you prepared for every potential scenario? For example, would you hike out into the Alaskan wilderness during inclement weather with only a wool overcoat…
February 28th, 2008 | by Jeremy Milo | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Rishi Chandra, Google Apps Product ManagerToday, information is created in all types of formats, such as documents, presentations, and even videos, and one thing we hear a lot from our customers is how hard it is for a company to organize all…
February 28th, 2008 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
Yesterday, we released a new feature called HD Video that makes it possible for a rich media ad to expand into a fullscreen video ad in HD quality. We worked with Adobe on this release to incorporate their latest Flash technology into our fullscreen ca…
February 27th, 2008 | by A Googler | published in Google Webmaster Central
Posted by Prashanth Koppula, Product ManagerLast spring, the Sitemaps protocol was expanded to include the autodiscovery of Sitemaps using robots.txt to let us and other search engines supporting the protocol know about your Sitemaps. We subsequently a…
February 27th, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, Developer ProgramsThe Orkut sandbox is back to normal. If you’re still experiencing problems, please post in the Orkut developer forum.Happy coding!
February 27th, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, Developer Programs The Orkut sandbox is currently experiencing some issues when installing or rendering gadgets.Please stay tuned for further updates.
February 27th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Brian Fitzpatrick, Open Source TeamIn the past year, we’ve seen a lot of enhancement requests from you in our issue tracker for project hosting, and we can tell which issues are the most important to people by sorting them according to the number of…
February 27th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerWe’ve seen people recreate the M from the Gmail logo out of dominoes and even sand, but until our colleagues in Google’s Moscow office created this video, we’re pretty sure no one had ever made a gi…
February 27th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Michael Fisher, Mobile Strategic Partner Development ManagerIf you’re one of the millions of people with an Opera Mobile or Opera Mini browser on your phone, you may be pleased to know that Google will soon be the default search engine on the…
February 27th, 2008 | by Scott McMullan | published in Google Enterprise
Posted by Scott McMullan, Google Enterprise Partner TeamOne of the steps every organization takes when adopting Google Apps is user provisioning. Quite simply, before users can log in, they need an account to log in to!There are a number of methods a …
February 26th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)The gadget gallery now has an RSS feed of the latest gadgets: http://desktop.google.com/feeds/gadgets.xml Add it to your reader and be sure to tell all your friends. You could even …
February 26th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Cat Allman, Google Open Source Team When I asked Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist and UC Berkeley professor for his elevator definition of “collective intelligence”, he replied, “People and computers collaborating.” In conjunction with our co…
February 26th, 2008 | by kushal | published in Google Notebook
Posted by Kushal Dave, Tech Lead, Google NotebookFor some time now, Notebook has automatically detected correctly-formatted U.S. addresses in your notes, letting you view them by choosing “View on a map” from the Tools menu. And we recently made it pos…