July 9th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Allyson McDuffie, SketchUp for Education Program ManagerWe’re happy to announce the winners for the Google 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition! Congratulations to the talented students who took on such a challenging project. T…
AdWords system maintenance on July 12th
July 9th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
On Saturday, July 12th, 2008 the AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT, for maintenance. While you won’t be able to sign in to your accounts during this time, your campaigns will continue to run as usual.AdWords sy…
Chat with your Gmail contacts on the iPhone
July 9th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Marc Wilson, Software Engineer, Google mobile teamLast week, we launched a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone. It works right in your Safari browser, so there’s no need to download or install anything — just go t…
July 9th, 2008 | by Jason | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Jason Cooper, Developer ProgramsThe big day is almost here! Tomorrow marks the beginning of the final stage of the application roll-out to orkut users, giving you several hours to get your apps in tip-top shape in order to handle the expected…
Geeks Find an Alternative Way to Spend a Summer Evening
July 9th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By J-P Stacey, Oxford GeekWhat with the football and the tennis, and the Glastonbury Festival and Reboot 10, we had no idea how many people might turn up at the Jericho Tavern for our latest Oxford Geek Night. So it was with relief that we finally coun…
July 9th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Posted by Taylor, AdWords TeamThe ‘My Account’ tab is the administrative center of your account. You won’t find any ads, keywords, or creative aspects here. This is where you can edit and update administrative aspects of your account, such as add…
July 9th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Code
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsWe are trying an experiment, putting up Code Review in a variety of formats, from text to audio (iTunes) and video.After a great trip to Brazil and Mexico for the Google Developer Day events (Europe in September…
July 9th, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
I recently returned from a research trip across four East African countries. Every time I return from the region, I am energized by the dynamism of the young people I meet but overwhelmed by the challenges the region faces. The combination of high oil …
AdWords API: Ten Best Practices
July 9th, 2008 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
by Matt Matyas, Google Sales Engineer Recently the API team got together to think about ways you can get the most out the AdWords API. If you’re new to the AdWords API, or even a longtime user, we hope you’ll find these tips useful. 1) Stay i…
July 9th, 2008 | by mrw | published in Google Docs
Posted by: Amit Agarwal, a professional technology blogger at Digital Inspiration and an exceptionally creative Docs userWe were first introduced to Amit Agarwal when he sent us a video, detailing how to use Docs as an RSS feed reader (check out the ac…
Privacy implications of online advertising
July 9th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Jane Horvath, Senior Privacy CounselThe Senate Commerce Committee is taking a look at privacy issues surrounding online advertising, and I’ll be testifying at their hearing this morning about Google’s own privacy practices. Although the focu…
Keyword Tool updated with search volume data
July 9th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Based on advertiser feedback, and our commitment to provide useful tools and information for our advertisers, we’ve now added search volume data to the Keyword Tool. Now, when you use the Keyword Tool to search for relevant keywords to include in your …
HealthMap paving the way for earlier disease detection
July 8th, 2008 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Major kudos to HealthMap, one of our early grantees, for their work using free, web-based data sources to facilitate early outbreak detection and make it public on Google Maps.HealthMap just published an excellent overview of their work and findings in…
Gadgets in another dimension
July 8th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)Google is always looking to enhance the browser, and a new release called Lively aims to add a bit of fun and playfulness to the online experience.Lively adds virtual reality to web …
Using Static Maps and HTTP Geocoding to Location-enable Lonely Planet Mobile
July 8th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
We at Lonely Planet are thrilled to share some experiences from our latest project, http://m.lonelyplanet.com, a location-based world travel guide for mobile devices enabled by mashing the Google Static Maps API, the Google HTTP geocoder, and our new …