July 24th, 2008 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
We’re happy to announce we’ve released some small updates to Google App Engine. Among the more significant changes:
More apps: Want to create more than 3 applications with your App Engine account? Now you can now create up to 10!Time windows for …
July 24th, 2008 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Posted by Bjørn Sandvik,thematicmapping.org
Thematic Mapping Engine (TME) lets you create thematic or statistical maps on-the-fly in the web browser. It then returns a KMZ file which you can view directly with the Google Earth browser plugin, or you…
July 24th, 2008 | by Andrew Bowers | published in Google Code
By Elizabeth Yin, Google Developer ProgramsToday, we’re opening registration for Google Developer Days in the UK, France, Germany and Spain.London, UK (Sept 16)Paris, France (Sept 18)Munich, Germany (Sept 23) Madrid, Spain (Sept 25)For those of you in …
July 23rd, 2008 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Several months ago, Joelle asked teachers to tell us how they’ve been using Docs in the classroom. We received stories from professors and instructors all over the world. In today’s post, I’d like to highlight three specific educators from México, Ger…
July 23rd, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
This summer, we’re offering a number of webinars covering a broad range of topics — if you’re interested in learning inside tips about Google AdWords, check out our webinar calendar. Topics range from getting started with AdWords and improving ROI, to…
July 23rd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Logan Hanks, Software Engineering TeamOpen source projects often consist of much more than just source code. Resources like documentation and artwork are a significant component of many projects, but sometimes licenses designed for source code are n…
July 23rd, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer ProgramsThe Google Code team is pleased to announce the availability of content licenses for projects hosted on code.google.com. Projects owners may now select from either the Creative Commons Attribution license or…
July 23rd, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Derek Slater, Policy AnalystIt may sound strange, and it’s certainly not what we’re used to. Today we have a “carrier-centered” model; phone and cable companies spend billions to build, operate, and own the “last-mile” connection — the copp…
July 23rd, 2008 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Genevieve Brennan, Strategic Partner Manager, Book SearchA few months ago we announced on the Official Google Blog that we were testing a new product called Knol. Today, we’re making it available to everyone. In addition to our official annou…
July 23rd, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
A few months ago, we announced a new web authoring tool called Knol. Well, today we’ve announced its public launch, and we wanted to tell you a little bit more about it and how you might use it to complement your blog. Blogs are great for quickly and …
PixelJunk™ Eden: now fortified with YouTube APIs
July 23rd, 2008 | by Christine | published in Youtube API
Posted by Christine Tsai, YouTube Syndication Product Marketing ManagerBack in May, you may remember that we announced a unique partnership with the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3TM) team which would allow game developers to integrate direct upload to YouTube …
July 23rd, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Laurence Gonsalves, Software Engineering TeamGoogle XML Pages (GXP) is a templating system we use at Google. Its main focus is markup: we mostly use it for generating HTML and XHTML, but it can work with other flavors of XML, like Atom, KML, and RSS…
July 23rd, 2008 | by Niki Fenwick | published in Google.org
Last June Google.org launched RechargeIT, an initiative to accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles. At that time we announced a request for investment proposals (RFP) from teams working on technologies relevant to this goal. Today we are p…
July 22nd, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
Over the past few weeks, there have been a lot of interesting things happening in the broader OpenSocial community. Here are some recent updates: orkut has completed its OpenSocial rollout for users worldwide, Webon was just launched by Lycos supportin…
July 22nd, 2008 | by Jeff Bailey | published in Google Open Source
By Jeff Bailey, Open Source TeamHello from OSCON! This evening, we hosted the fourth annual Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards. I’m pleased to announce, for those who weren’t present, the winners of the 2008 awards:Best Community Amplifier: Chris Mes…