Google Calendar interface improvements available
August 15th, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
It’s now easier to manage multiple calendars in Google Calendar. Calendars that you manage and other calendars that you don’t manage (but can view) are more clearly identified. Clicking the name of a calendar lets you show or hide that calendar in th…
Google Docs makes it easier to set up and share a new form
August 15th, 2008 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
Google Docs users can now select ‘Form’ from the ‘New’ item menu to customize and send an interactive form. Form submissions are automatically recorded in a spreadsheet.Editions impacted:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner EditionsLanguages…
Seeing clicks but no revenue?
August 15th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Have you ever checked your reports and noticed that you have clicks reported, but no revenue? We’d like to explain why this may happen, as we frequently receive emails and questions on our Help Forum about this issue. What you’re seeing may be due to o…
SciFoo: 200 of the World’s Top Scientists Meet at Google’s Annual Meeting of Really, Really Smart People
August 15th, 2008 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
By Cat Allman, Open Source TeamOrganized in collaboration with Nature Publishing Group and O’Reilly Media (“FOO” stands for “Friends of O’Reilly”), and hosted at the Googleplex, the third annual Science Foo Camp (SciFoo) unconference boasts…
August 14th, 2008 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
We’ve added a few new features and things in today’s release:There’s a new look for the Blogger Dashboard, which we think you’ll find more attractive and functional. If you have a ton of blogs (as we do) try out the “hide” and “show all
Forms move out of their parents’ basement (and other improvements)
August 14th, 2008 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
We made a few improvements to the spreadsheets editor this week, which you can read about in our user group. Among the changes were some improvements to Forms.The most visible change makes the whole Forms feature more accessible to you, since “spreadsh…
Tip of the week: Learning from Mapplets
August 14th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
As students prepare to head back to school, it seems like a good time to share some fun ways to use Mapplets to get students and curious minds interested in discovering new places. To start, you can grab their attention with dynamic 360º panoramas of …
Plot Feeds unavailable for the moment
August 14th, 2008 | by Google Finance Team | published in Google Finance
Posted by Ayan Mandal, Product ManagerAs you may have noticed, the Google Finance site was inaccessible to some users for several hours earlier this morning. We’ve now restored the site, but it will take us a bit longer to restore the blogs and feeds…
Opportunities for Students at the Linux Plumbers Conference
August 14th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWe love helping our colleagues congregate together in the spirit of collaborative learning, and we’re even more delighted to do so when it gives us the chance to help students learn more about Free and Open Source So…
SES San Jose is here!
August 14th, 2008 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Analytics
And boy do we love it. The Search Engine Strategies conference is right up our alley. Google will be there in force, sponsoring the show, with a giant booth for AdWords and Google Analytics. Googlers will be headlining or participating in numerous sess…
More African countries now have their own edition of Google News
August 14th, 2008 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Divon Lan, Product ManagerGoogle News is a truly international project, spanning dozens of countries and over 20 languages. But that still leaves plenty of countries without their own dedicated edition of Google News.Today, we are delighted t…
August 14th, 2008 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Dan Peterson, Product ManagerWith the fall semester rapidly approaching at universities all over, we’re happy to share that we’ve recently made more content available on Google Code University. In case you’re not familiar, Google Code University is …
Grants Account Tour: Tools
August 14th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Have you ever wondered why you couldn’t find your ads if you searched on Google? Have you wanted to add a few keywords to your campaign but not known what to add? That brings us to the Tools section of your Grants account. In the Campaign Management t…
August 14th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
During the Google 2008 International Model your Campus Competition this past Spring, our Google Mexico City team simultaneously ran a contest with a top Mexican university, ITESM (The Technology Institute of Monterrey), and offered separate prizes for …
August 14th, 2008 | by Kate Pacher | published in Google TV Ads Blog
So you’ve just created a campaign with Google TV Ads, and now you want to know when your ads are scheduled to air before they run. Is this possible? Of course! Now, you can access this information by midnight before the day of airing through the new re…