June 16th, 2008 | by R S | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing ManagerLast week we launched Gmail Labs, a way for you to test out experimental Gmail features before they’re ready for prime time. This week, we want to show you what the most popular Labs features ca…
Speaking the language of small businesses
June 16th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Following our recent testimony in front of the U.S. House Small Business Committee, we revisited Washington D.C. to deliver our first seminar for small businesses on the web — specifically those in the Hispanic-American community. The Spanish-language…
Unused "white space" spectrum and wireless microphones
June 16th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Phil Gossett, Senior Staff EngineerIn previous postings, we’ve made the case that the TV “white spaces” could be used to provide broadband internet for all Americans without harming current users of this spectrum (TV broadcasters and wireless…
Google I/O session videos posted with slides
June 15th, 2008 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Pete Koomen, Google App Engine Team
On May 28th and 29th the Google Developer Team hosted Google I/O, a developer gathering in San Francisco. For anyone who wasn’t able to join us in person, you can now now catch videos of more than 70 talk…
Taming the Beast (a.k.a. how to test AJAX applications) : Part 1
June 14th, 2008 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Markus Clermont, John Thomas This is the first in a two part blog series titled ‘Taming the Beast: How to test AJAX applications”. In this part we discuss some philosophies around web application testing and how it should be done the…
Geo @ Google I/O: Relive the magic!
June 13th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
On May 28th & 29th, several thousand developers descended upon the Moscone Center in San Francisco to participate in Google I/O, our largest developer event to date. Among those were hundreds of geo developers, and I felt fortunate to be able to meet f…
Google Docs supports PDF upload, viewing and sharing
June 13th, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
Google Docs now allows you to upload PDF files to store them online. You can view uploaded PDFs right in your browser, and determine who else should have access.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages impacte…
FOSS Gaming for Friday
June 13th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamTim Ansell, Google Summer of Code™ mentor and organization administrator for the Thousand Parsec project recently visited Google Mountain View, so we took the opportunity to sit down with him and catch up with him …
June 13th, 2008 | by Jen | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Jen Mazzon, Product ManagerI spend a good chunk of time each week combing our Google Docs Help group, where users share questions and information with each other, and with me! (You’ll see me as Google Guide Jenmazz in the group.) The questio…
June 13th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears Team
We had a great time at Google I/O at the end of May, and there were plenty of Gears-related content. Fortunately, video cameras were at the ready, and all of the sessions have been published on YouTube.
I put together a playlist (embedded player above) of the Gears content which includes:
- Improving Browsers in New Ways: Gears++
- Google Gears for Mobile
- HTML 5, Brought to You by Gears
- Gears and MySpace – Search on the Client
- Taking Large-Scale Applications Offline
- Gears Case Studies
Also, you may be interested in other Ajax related content such as:
GWT
- Using GWT to Build a Diagramming Tool
- GWT and Client-Server Communication
- GWT Extreme by Ray Cromwell
- JavaScript and DOM Programming in GWT
- Resource Bundles and Linkers in GWT
- Deferred Binding with GWT
General Ajax
- Alex Russell on “Can We Get There from Here?”
- Spice up Your Apps with Google AJAX APIs
- Yours truly, Dion and Ben, State of Ajax: The Universe Is Expanding
- Steve Yegge on Server Side JavaScript
Plug-in conference highlights, day 2
June 13th, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by David Bercovich, Project Manager, Google.orgDay two of the Google.org-Brookings Institution conference was punctuated by a panel moderated by Tom Friedman. The lively discussion covered topics including policy leadership, innovative business …
June 13th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Gears
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears TeamWe had a great time at Google I/O at the end of May, and there were plenty of Gears-related content. Fortunately, video cameras were at the ready, and all of the sessions have been published on YouTube.I put together a …
Season of Usability 2008 Kicks Off
June 12th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Ellen Reitmayr, OpenUsabilityInspired by Google’s Summer of Code, the OpenUsability project – an initiative to bring more emphasis on usability to FLOSS development – offers a similar student programme: the Season of Usability. The program is aimed…
June 12th, 2008 | by Elizabeth Yin | published in Google OpenSocial
Posted by Kevin Marks, Developer AdvocateA couple of weeks ago, Google’s developer conference Google I/O was held in San Francisco and 3,000 developers came to listen, talk and hack together. If you couldn’t make it, or if you came but found that two s…
Bombay Stock Exchange pricing data
June 12th, 2008 | by Google Finance Team | published in Google Finance
Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data GnomeWe’ve just added support to Google Finance for Bombay Stock Exchange listings. In addition to news and descriptive data (which we already offer for these listings), you’ll now see intra-day data and pretty ch…