How you start is as important as how you finish.
March 11th, 2008 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
This is the first of a series of practitioner posts from our team on best practices we’ve seen through developing and working with customers on Google Analytics. A Planned ApproachThere can be few scarier moments in the humble Google Analytics practiti…
Google Acquires DoubleClick
March 11th, 2008 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
I am pleased to share the news that Google has acquired DoubleClick. Please go here to read Eric Schmidt’s blog post.Posted by David Rosenblatt
A File System Change Logger for Leopard
March 11th, 2008 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Amit Singh, Google Mac TeamWhen you use Mac OS X, you frequently access files and folders. But you might not realize how often you are creating and modifying files and folders. Developers, power users, and even curious regular users have long been i…
Webmaster Tools keeps your "messages waiting"
March 11th, 2008 | by Jessica Wong | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by Jessica and Uli, Search Quality TeamWe’re happy to announce that the Message Center supports a new “messages waiting” feature. Previously, it could only store penalty notifications for existing verified site owners (webmasters who had…
Google Closes DoubleClick Acquisition
March 11th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Today, Google completed its acquisition of DoubleClick. This acquisition is one of many steps we’re taking toward enhancing monetization and serving technology for advertisers, agencies, and publishers, making search and display advertising more target…
Google Acquires DoubleClick
March 11th, 2008 | by Sally Cole | published in Google DoubleClick
I am pleased to share the news that Google has acquired DoubleClick. Please go here to read Eric Schmidt’s blog post.Posted by David Rosenblatt
March 10th, 2008 | by Andrew Bowers | published in Google Code
By Andrew Bowers, Google Developer ProgramsIts been about a year since I last blogged about a big Google developer event. During that time, we’ve seen a number of new technologies emerge which developers can use to build killer web applications. Open…
Sandbox push – 3/10/2008
March 10th, 2008 | by Arne Roomann-Kurrik | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Arne Roomann-Kurrik, Developer ProgramsWe pushed some new code to the sandbox today (3/10/2008) with a few changes:Fixed some issues with activity creation. Added better messages when an application’s API usage exceeds quota. Be an agent …
hi5’s Hosting a Hackathon — Hooray!
March 10th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, Developer Programshi5.com, an international social network, is very far along implementing OpenSocial as part of their developer platform, and they’re gearing up to launch OpenSocial apps to 80 million users, spanning over 20…
OpenSocial for the REST of us! A proposal for an OpenSocial RESTful API
March 10th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Chris Schalk, Developer AdvocateJohn Panzer recently posted a draft proposal for the highly-anticipated OpenSocial RESTful API, enabling server to server communication between OpenSocial containers.The proposed API defines a language-neutral …
March 10th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Posted by Joe Monical, Consumer OperationsHave you ever wanted to keep track of the newest Google Desktop gadgets right from your sidebar? With our brand new XML feed, that’s now as easy as adding it to your favorite RSS gadget.If you don’t already hav…
Policy and law in a changing world
March 10th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Kent Walker, General Counsel, and Daphne Keller, Senior Product CounselThis past Friday and Saturday we had the pleasure of co-hosting, together with Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, the inaugural Legal Futures conferenc…
Reminder: Website Optimizer Online Seminar Tomorrow
March 10th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We’d like to remind you that the Website Optimizer team will be presenting a free online seminar tomorrow, March 11th at 9 am PDT. This one hour session will provide a brief introduction to Website Optimizer, review testing best practices, and discuss …
App highlight: Hangout
March 10th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Guest post by Paul Paturi, Auciti Info Technologies[As we get ready for apps to go live on orkut, we’re excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and preview their apps here. -The orkut Team]You have long loved to hang out on orkut with your fri…
Getting social at SXSW: join us at the OpenSocial OpenBar
March 7th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Kevin Marks, Developer AdvocateAs thousands of designers, developers, film makers, indie rockers, entrepreneurs and geeks begin to descend on Austin, Texas for this year’s South by Southwest, I’m looking forward to a non-stop flurry of panels…