March 17th, 2008 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
The evolution of digital advertising has grown from a tool for direct marketing and brand awareness initiatives into a vehicle for content distribution and delivery. Today, DoubleClick is introducing a new rich media format for interactive agencies and…
March 15th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Jason Robbins, Open Source TeamIn one Dilbert cartoon, Dogbert confronts a long-winded technology “guru” by showing him some actual code, which blows him away. It’s funny because it’s true: some long, abstract discussions can turn into short, concr…
March 15th, 2008 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by T.V. Raman, Research ScientistMany people talk about the effect the Internet has on democratizing access to information, but as someone who has been visually impaired since my teenage years, I can certainly speak to the profound impact it ha…
March 14th, 2008 | by Alyssa | published in Google Checkout
Posted by Alyssa England, Product Marketing ManagerDid you know about the ways Google Product Search and Google Checkout can work together to increase traffic and sales to your site? For those not familiar with the service, Product Search allows mercha…
March 14th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerCongrats to MySpace and the thousands of hardworking developers in the MySpace sandbox — OpenSocial apps have gone live on MySpace! This marks the second phase of the MySpace Developer Platform where developers c…
March 14th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Jacob Moon, Google Developer ProgramsIf you’re a frequent visitor to code.google.com for product updates and reference materials for Google APIs you’re working with, you might have noticed that the page loading time (or page rendering time dependin…
March 14th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Vidya Rangasayee Narayan, Software EngineerHave you discovered that you have more friends on orkut through our find friends feature on Gmail, but wished you could do the same with other address books? Do you use a non-Gmail account and feel …
March 14th, 2008 | by Googler | published in Google News
Posted by Inbal Drukker, News Support TeamThe Google News Support team works with news publishers and with people who use Google News. We’re proud to be the group that can address your concerns and questions, and help get your feedback implemented into…
March 14th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)A popular gadget by Paulo Santos is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: Date Display.
March 14th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Posted by Kathy Walrath, Google Desktop TeamThe Date Display gadget is one of the most popular Desktop gadgets by an external developer.A reviewer named Srinivas says: “cool gadget..this has become one of my default gadgets ;)”An anonymous reviewer say…
March 14th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Posted by Kristie, Google Grants TeamWhen we launched this blog, we touched on the premise of the Google Grants program: providing free advertising on Google to non-profits that share our philosophy of community service.What this program amounts to is …
March 14th, 2008 | by Search Quality Team | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Juliane Stiller, Search QualityOur German Webmaster Central Blog celebrates its first birthday and we’d like to raise our glasses to 57 published posts in the last year! We enjoy looking back at an exciting first year of blogging and communi…
March 14th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Benjamin Schirmer, Gadget DeveloperMany developers create new elements at runtime by using appendElement() and a string that contains the complete structure of the element.But if you add an element with text content, such as a label, the text…
March 14th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Jason Cooper, Developer ProgramsLooking to kick off this summer with a bang? The Google Developer team recently announced a two-day gathering for developers keen on discovering a wide variety of products and tools that will help shape the web…
March 14th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamPyCon 2008 has already kicked off in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A, and we have two Googler Open Sourcerers giving keynote addresses at the conference: Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, and the Open Source Team’s v…