April 22nd, 2008 | by Google Docs | published in Google Adwords
In celebration of Earth Day, we’ve decided to take a brief break from AdWords news and tips to share our favorite “green” tips for the office. 1) Turn off the lights in conference rooms after you’re finished with a meeting.2) Turn off computers when yo…
April 22nd, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Shirin Oskooi, Product ManagerThanks for all the feedback you have sent us about Google Calendar Sync. We’re rolling out an update that should make it a lot more useful.Previously, your Google Calendar email address needed to be the organizer…
April 22nd, 2008 | by Patrick Chanezon | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Patrick Chanezon, Developer AdvocateI interviewed Steve Repetti from Zude at MashupCamp 2008 last month. He talks about Zude’s implementation of an OpenSocial container, the fine grained access control they provide for it, their data portabil…
April 22nd, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Brittany Bohnet, Google Elections Team(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)As you know, the Democratic primary is coming down to the wire, and American voters are following each set of state results more closely than ever before.We won…
April 22nd, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Chris Cronin, Green GiantThis year, we’re celebrating Earth Day with the launch of a new website: SketchUp: Go Green! Our site highlights green projects by design professionals who use SketchUp. One such person is Michelle Kaufmann. Her epony…
April 22nd, 2008 | by mrw | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Matt Doublestein, teacher and earth-friendly Google Docs userRecently, we talked to Matt Doublestein, who told us about how Google Docs helped him save huge amounts of paper, and go effortlessly green. We were impressed, and figured that the…
April 22nd, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Posted by Jessica, Google Grants TeamEarth Day is a big deal on the Google Grants team, and to get in the spirit, we wanted to give you environmental organizations a little extra love today.Inspired by healthy competition and a little caffeine, we narr…
April 22nd, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs EngineerOn this Earth Day 2008, we’re very pleased to announce the release of the Energy Saver gadget. This Google Desktop gadget for Windows XP and Vista helps you save energy (and money) by minimizing the power…
April 22nd, 2008 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
Posted by Shannon Oliver, Associate, Google.orgIn the spirit of Earth Day, I took a look at how the environmental movement can foster job growth. Here’s what I found:First, what exactly are green jobs and what can they do to spur the U.S. economy and s…
April 22nd, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Elizabeth Yin, Google Developer ProgramsGoogle Developer Days 2008, a set of one-day developer events, are back and will take place in locations around the world. We’ve designed these events for developers with strong coding backgrounds, so that we…
April 21st, 2008 | by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
Three weeks ago, we quietly launched support for accessing the AJAX Search, Feed, and Language APIs from Flash, and other non JavaScript environments. Check out the relevant documentation for: Google AJAX Search APIGoogle AJAX Feed APIGoogle AJAX Langu…
April 21st, 2008 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Dick Wall, Google App Engine Team
In May, Google will be holding two free Google App Engine developer events: one in New York and one in San Francisco.
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The events will include training on the major features o…
April 21st, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistI’m happy to announce that we’ve combined our two old websites into one; sketchup.google.com is now your single source for information about all of our products, plugins, training and other resources. We’ve ove…
April 21st, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Jason Cooper, Developer ProgramsNow that the orkut development platform is live in India and new apps are being added to the directory daily, we want to make sure any questions you have related to the multi-stage launch process and app develo…
April 21st, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe’ve been running Google Summer of Code™ for four years now, and each year gets better and better. Competition was fierce for 2008, as we received nearly 7,100 applications, almost 1,000 more than last year. We …