For Earth Day, some of us planted trees
May 12th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Simone Nicolo, QA Engineer & Friend of NatureA whole bunch of us headed over to Sawhill Ponds (just East of Boulder) to help out Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado with a project we conceived and created together. We spent the afternoon clea…
IIT Google Desktop Gadget Challenge – I
May 12th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by Lahiru Lakmal Priyadarshana, Gadget DeveloperOn Feb 28th 2008, we held IIT Google Desktop Gadget Challenge – I, the very first Google Desktop Ambassador event at our institute (Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka).The contest was…
Open Source Googlers at Large
May 12th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Cat Allman, Open Source TeamThere is lots going on in May, starting this week with Connectathon in San Jose, California, USA from Thursday, May 8th through Thursday, May 15th. Samba guy Jeremy Allison will be taking part Monday – Thursday in this …
Brand new Google Reader for iPhone
May 12th, 2008 | by dolapo | published in Google Reader
Mobile web browsers have come a long way since we first introduced an XHTML version of Reader back in 2006. For example, iPhone and iPod Touch owners know how powerful having a full-featured browser is. We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari use…
Our Optimal User Community
May 12th, 2008 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Website Optimizer
Posted by Tom Leung, Website Optimizer TeamEver since we launched Website Optimizer as an invitation-only beta a year ago, we created a Google Group for our users to exchange advice and discuss how to get the most out of the product. This small group h…
Video advertising & monetization: A discussion at Ad:Tech San Francisco
May 12th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Last month, Google product managers and marketers held a workshop on video advertising and content monetization at the Ad:Tech conference in San Francisco. We thought our publishers would be interested in hearing some perspectives on industry trends, s…
Functions, Formulas and how you can relieve the Frustration
May 12th, 2008 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Regina Dinneen, Docs User Operations (aka Google Docs Guide 2) If you haven’t been following along in the user group, you may have missed the new spreadsheet function documentation that we released a few months ago. Due to frequent reque…
May 11th, 2008 | by Natalie Schwartz | published in Google Orkut
Posted by the orkut teamTo honor the thousands of mothers and mothers-to-be that we have on orkut, we’ve put this special doodle on the login page today. We expect that you’ve already called home, seen your mom, or at least sent her a scrap, and if you…
May 9th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product ManagerAs a follow-up to the post earlier this week, we’re now only a few days away from the OpenSocial Summit happening on Wednesday, May 14th at the Googleplex (1400 Crittenden).We’re looking forward to discussing the …
Google Base account now international
May 9th, 2008 | by Google Base Blog | published in Google Merchant
Posted by Gilbert Dietrich, German Google Base Team Many of you have been asking for a way to easily upload and publish items for different countries to Google Base from the comfort of your account. We listened to your feedback and have created an i…
May 9th, 2008 | by Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform | published in Google Android
The last few weeks were both extremely intense and rewarding. Based on feedback from the judges, it was apparent that large number of applications were compelling, innovative and well implemented. The quality of these entries clearly reflects the crea…
May 9th, 2008 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Here’s a quick summary of recent fixes and changes we’ve made to Blogger:Layouts now has a blog.pageName datum that gives the name of the current page without the “[Blog Name]: ” prefix that blog.pageTitle adds.Picture page element can now opti…
May 9th, 2008 | by api.rboyd | published in Google Code
Jeff Scudder, Google Data APIs TeamAs you may have heard, Google recently released Google App Engine, which allows you to run your code on Google’s highly scalable infrastructure.Since App Engine currently runs Python code, I thought it would be a good…
Moments of Inspiration
May 9th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamSometimes you have a good week, other times a great week. This week has definitely been one of the latter. We spent Monday morning with some incredibly bright youngsters from the Watershed School in Colorado, all of…
Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content
May 9th, 2008 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Written by T.V. Raman, Research ScientistAs a follow-up to my previous posts on accessibility, here are some design recommendations for creating web content that remains usable by the widest possible audience while helping ensure that the content gets …