April 29th, 2008 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
Posted by Arne Roomann-Kurrik, Developer ProgramsNow that the iGoogle sandbox has been live for a week, you may have some questions about developing on the new platform. To help you get answers, we’ll be holding official IRC office hours this Thursday…
April 29th, 2008 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By David Phillip Oster, Google Mac TeamBack in the days of Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), you could drag your Applications folder to the Dock and get a nice menu of your applications there. If you had any folders in the applications folder, you’d get hierarchi…
April 29th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe’re always delighted when we can share news about students working to improve Free and Open Source Software. You may recall that we recently let you know about the results of Finnish Summer Code 2007. While we we…
April 29th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical WriterIf you’ve ever thought about creating your own Google Desktop gadget, try the latest version of Gadget Designer, a Windows application that’s part of the Google Desktop SDK. You can find instructions for downloa…
April 29th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsSteve Souders, member of the performance group at Google, has released a new open source tool called Cuzillion. Steve was constantly creating sample test web pages that he used to test out theories on Web site p…
April 29th, 2008 | by Pete Koomen | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Ken Ashcraft, Software Engineer
Google App Engine makes writing scalable apps easier, and a well-designed app should be able to grow automatically from one user to millions. What does it mean for a Google App Engine application to be “well-…
April 29th, 2008 | by Patrick Chanezon | published in Google OpenSocial
Patrick Chanezon, Developer AdvocateIn march hi5 and MySpace deployed OpenSocial to all their users and OpenSocial started to gain some real traction with developers. Here is a video interview with Charles Ying from PixVerse from March 15th at the hi5 …
April 28th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamLast week, we excitedly announced that we’d accepted over 1100 students into Google Summer of Code™ 2008. Now that we’ve had some time to get everything in order for this new crop of students, we’re happy to br…
April 28th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Have you heard of iGoogle, Google’s personalized homepage? Well, tens of millions of users have, and with a just a little bit of effort you can share that traffic. iGoogle allows users to bring together their favorite content and services from around …
April 28th, 2008 | by Alyssa | published in Google Merchant
Posted by Alyssa England, Associate Product Marketing ManagerIn Q1, we attended several industry events where merchants were interested in hearing about other merchants’ experiences with our commerce solutions products, particularly Google Product Sear…
April 28th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Vlad Patryshev, Software EngineerThanks for all the great feedback on privacy, and we’re glad to hear that so many of you appreciate our continued work to make orkut a place that allows you to be as public or private with your information as …
April 28th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Posted by Jess, Google Apps TeamIT infrastructure is hard work for any organization. Having worked at a non-profit prior to coming to Google, I know that the combination of long-standing legacy systems and limited resources certainly doesn’t make thing…
April 27th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerNow that I’m back from OpenSocial’s London Hackathon (write-up, pics), and meeting fellow Shindig folks at ApacheCon EU, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some important happenings in the community:Just a…
April 25th, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
You can now add speaker notes and embed YouTube videos in Google Presentations.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacted:US EnglishHow to access what’s new:Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation an…
April 25th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)The Google Desktop team hopes you can join us at Google’s biggest developer event of the year. Google I/O will be held May 28-29 in San Francisco, California.Google Desktop engineers…