July 21st, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Jim Payne and Brandon Badger, Maps API Team
Our Maps API team strives each day to develop features to help developers build the next generation of great maps mashups. One of the requests that we’ve received from our developer community is t…
YUI and GWT… How do you test?
July 21st, 2008 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
Posted by Patrick Copeland, Engineering Productivity DirectorA smart person once said that, “all computer science problems can be solved by introducing another abstraction layer.” From a testing perspective, every new abstraction layer also introduces …
A Gaggle of Googlers Are Going to OSCON Next Week
July 21st, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Cat Allman, Open Source ProgramsThe Annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON ) is returning to Portland, Oregon, USA next week from July 21-25, and like swallows to Capistrano, Googlers will be there in force.Between speakers, tutorial instruct…
July 21st, 2008 | by mrw | published in Google Docs
Don Campbell is President of Expand2Web, and dedicates his career to helping small business owners with local store-fronts connect with customers over the web. Here, he proves his tech-savvy creativity by showing us a very fun, and seasonally-appropria…
July 21st, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical WriterName: Binary Decimal Converter Author: Teodor FilimonDescription: Easily convert binary numbers to decimal values, and the other way aroundMore information | Download gadgetEach week this blog features a recentl…
July 18th, 2008 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
Unless you’re living on a deserted island — and maybe even if you are — you know about Apple’s 3G iPhone and App Store launch last week. Hopefully you know about the Google Mobile App that we launched last week, as well. And some of you may have no…
OpenSocial apps now available to all users
July 18th, 2008 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, orkut teamWe’ve finished our rollout of OpenSocial apps to all orkut users, and we’ve seen more interest in apps than ever before. Several apps experienced extremely high usage, but after utilizing the URL rewriter and other…
Updates and Fixes for July 18th
July 18th, 2008 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Here’s a quick summary of recent fixes and changes we’ve made to Blogger:Blogger is now available in Malay! Blogger has a large base of users in Malaysia and we are excited to now bring them Blogger in their native language.Comment moderation can n…
Google chimes in as U.S. Senate explores investment in clean energy
July 18th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Joe Sexton, Google Public Policy TeamWith high fuel prices and a troubled credit market dragging down the U.S. economy, why is now the right time for more investment in breakthrough energy technology?Earlier this week, Google.org’s Director o…
Getting Giddy with Git
July 18th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
For Episode 18 of the Google Summer of Code™ podcast, we were fortunate enough to be joined by two mentors from the Git project, Shawn Pearce and Johannes Schindelin. Among other topics, we discussed the pleasures and perils of distributed versio…
Newbie, newbie do
July 18th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
(To the tune of “Strangers in the Night”)”Publishers with websites, creating contentWondering about their sitesIf with their content, they could show some adsBefore the day was doneSomething in AdSense, was so invitingSomething about those ads, was so …
AdWords Editor service release for Windows and Mac
July 18th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Today we released version 6.0.1 of AdWords Editor. In response to user feedback, it’s now possible to download performance statistics for selected campaigns and ad groups, instead of always downloading statistics for the whole account. Once you’ve inst…
Matt Cutts on ranking, spam and the future of search
July 18th, 2008 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
During a recent visit to the Mountain View Googleplex, I had the chance to interview Matt Cutts for our German Webmaster Blog. While enjoying the California sunshine we chatted about how to rank in Google, resources for webmasters and Matt’s first enco…
Intro to the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub)
July 18th, 2008 | by api.rboyd | published in Google Code
Posted by Joe Gregorio, Google Data APIs TeamBefore learning about the Google Data APIs, it may be helpful to get a little background and learn about the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub), since that’s what the Google Data APIs are based on. To help w…
July 17th, 2008 | by Adam Borelli | published in Google RechargeIT
Posted by David Bercovich, Program Manager, Climate & Energy TeamGoogle welcomes the Solar Taxi today on its trip around the world. The solar-powered vehicle is two-thirds of the way through its trip which will encompass 50,000 kms (over 30,000 mil…