February 25th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLately many folks have been asking us, “Are you going to hold Google Summer of Code again this year?” The answer is a resounding “Yes!” For full details on our program to introduce university students to open source…
February 23rd, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Tyson Kartchner, Learning GuruNo, not the “deep meaning of life” kind of reflections — I’m talking about the kind of reflection you’d see in a mirror. More specifically, the kind you might see when looking across a pool or lake. Here’s a qui…
February 23rd, 2008 | by amarg | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Louis Ryan, Software EngineerWe just released our first release candidate on the sandbox that fixes the following issues:Issue 39: Url parameter passing fixed in gadgets.views.getParams() and gadgets.util.getUrlParameters() Issue 41: Thumbnai…
February 22nd, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Gmail now supports Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portugue…
February 22nd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Post by Manu Cornet, Software Engineering TeamThe first time I wrote a piece of code with the intention of making it open source was, like many other people, when I was still a student. As a project for a computer vision class, a classmate and I wro…
February 22nd, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)Teo has created some good gadgets, but what makes him unique are his in-depth development articles. (You can find links to his gadgets and articles on his Hall of Fame page.) Natural…
February 22nd, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
With GrandCentral, a free service from Google, you can receive phone calls and post voicemails right on your blog. Though GrandCentral is currently in a private beta test, bloggers can skip the wait and get a free account immediately. Sign up nowWebCal…
February 22nd, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Alma Whitten, Software Engineer To protect privacy, you first have to identify what data is personal. That’s why there has been a lot of discussion in recent months around the world to try to define “personal data” (as it is referred t…
February 22nd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamAs we mentioned last week, many of the mentoring organizations participating in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest had a difficult time choosing their Grand Prize Winners. All of our projects had stellar p…
February 21st, 2008 | by Googler | published in Google News
Posted by Gina Bonzani, News Support TeamTwo weeks ago we launched a new feature that lets you create local sections on your personalized Google News page. After some feedback we’ve been getting, we wanted to clarify a couple of issues. We want to make…
February 21st, 2008 | by Matt Wytock | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Vrishali Wagle, Software EngineerCreating a basic Custom Search Engine (CSE) is very easy. You enter a list of sites, select a few basic preferences, and you are done, right? But in fact there’s more to Custom Search — consider it a very po…
February 21st, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer This blog periodically features a Google Desktop gadget and a quote from someone who uses it. If you’d like to recommend a gadget, send an email to desktop-gadgets AT google DOT com. Kev Sherman, an applica…
February 21st, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
You may remember Fred Vallaeys, Product Evangelist for AdWords, who joined us towards the end of last year for our popular multi-part series on ROI (Return on Investment) and how to track it. Well, we’re pleased to let you know that you can chat with F…
February 21st, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, Developer ProgramsWe are making updates to the app data store and will be doing somemaintenance work today. You may notice some inconsistencies whenreading and writing app data during the afternoon today.We’ll also be enabli…
February 21st, 2008 | by Brad Neuberg | published in Google Gears
Posted by Brad Neuberg, Developer AdvocateAs a Developer Advocate who wants to help developers use Gears, I’ve created some simple open source utilities to make it much easier to work with Google Gears without having to delve into JavaScript. This new …