Code Review: Start your App Engine and run the cloud offline with your docs
April 18th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsThe big buzz continues to revolve around our Google App Engine launch. We are seeing a host of applications being developed, and were even pleasantly surprised to see people port the APIs allowing you to run App…
Latency lurks around every corner…defend yourself!
April 18th, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, Developer ProgramsOver the past few weeks, we’ve been studying the behavior of apps on orkut and have discovered several ways to make them faster. We’ve made a few enhancements on our side that have improved response time co…
April 18th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Kathryn McGarr, Online Operations AssociateWe hear reports that many users don’t archive their email. If you don’t regularly click on the “archive” button or never even thought about it, here are some reasons you might want to get in the habi…
Improvements to AdWords Conversion Tracking
April 18th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
AdWords conversion tracking is a free AdWords tool to help you understand what happens after a user clicks on your ad. By knowing which clicks most often lead to conversions, you can spend your money most effectively – on the clicks most likely to le…
Google Video gets a facelift
April 18th, 2008 | by Sapna | published in Google Video
Posted by Greg Billock, Software EngineerAs part of our mission, we on the Google Video team want you to be able to search, browse and discover videos from across the web. More than a year ago, we described our renewed focus on organizing all the web’s…
April 18th, 2008 | by Sapna | published in Google Video
Posted by Greg Billock, Software EngineerAs part of our mission, we on the Google Video team want you to be able to search, browse and discover videos from across the web. More than a year ago, we described our renewed focus on organizing all the web’s…
April 18th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Ekalavya Bhattacharya, Contests2win.com[Since apps recently went live on orkut, we’re excited to invite orkut developers to guest blog and tell us about their apps here.] myHangman lets you play the classic game of Ha…
Manipulating keyboard LEDs through software
April 18th, 2008 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Amit Singh, Google Mac TeamOver the last few years, on my websites and in my book, we have discussed how to access or manipulate several interesting Mac components: the sudden motion sensor, trusted platform module, infrared remote control, system m…
3D Collections: Share and share alike
April 18th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Rich Feit, 3D Warehouse EngineerUntil now, the 3D Collections feature in the Google 3D Warehouse has allowed individuals to gather together sets of models and share them with the world. We’ve watched our users organize the 3D Warehouse into b…
Android Developers Have Risen to the Challenge
April 18th, 2008 | by Azhar Hashem, Product Marketing Manager for Android, Google Developer Products Team | published in Google Android
I’m thrilled to share the news that developers from over 70 countries submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge!Here are a few facts that I thought were interesting. When we announced the Android Developer Challenge back in January, de…
Summer of Coders at AsiaBSDCon 2008
April 17th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamFrom time to time, Google’s Open Source Team sponsors student travel to conferences. Dongmei Liu and Zhou Zhouyi, two of our Google Summer of Code&trade Graduates, recently attended AsiaBSDCon 2008 and were kind eno…
Bob Lee is a lot of Twubble
April 17th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsBob Lee is a Software Engineer at Google, currently leading up the charge on the core Android APIs. He is also one of the founders of the Google Guice project, and was the interviewee on the very first Google De…
GNOME’s Runner Ups
April 17th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamThe good news from the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP) keeps on coming. This week, Andre Klapper, one of GNOME’s mentors for GHOP, wrote in to tell us about three additional outstanding contributors. …
Better Know Your Mobile: Using Shortcut Keys and BlackBerry Convenience Keys for Google Maps
April 17th, 2008 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
Posted by Chris Nguyen and Tom Dimopoulos, Mobile Product Specialists, Google mobile teamHave we mentioned that we like doing things faster? In the spirit of speed and helping you to Better Know Your Mobile, the next couple of videos in our series will…
Organizing conferences with Google Docs
April 17th, 2008 | by mrw | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Chris Pirillo, Gnomedex Conference founder, video blogger and CNN.com Live technology contributorWe’re happy to welcome Chris Pirillo as a guest blogger to the Google Docs blog and a featured contributor to the Google Docs Community Channel …