September 16th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
As you may have read, we’re holding a 5-part webinar series during this month and next with the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). In this series, we’ll discuss Google Grants and how to maximize its effectiveness for your organization. This past Thur…
September 16th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Rishi Jaitly, Policy Analyst, South AsiaHow do we develop points of view about places we have not seen and people we have not met?Newspapers, TV networks, film studios, radio broadcasters, and book publishers have, of course, exerted signific…
September 16th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamGoogle’s Open Source Team recently hosted DjangoCon 2008, the first ever international conference for developers and users of this popular web framework. While we’re always pleased to host Open Source events at the G…
September 16th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Clay Wood, Software EngineerThe new Photo Viewer that ships with Picasa 3 is quick and straightforward, so I’ll try to keep this blog post equally focused.We designed Photo Viewer to be a better, faster image viewer. A quick double-click on a…
September 16th, 2008 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
A few weeks ago, Tom Barrett wrote about how he introduces Year 5 students to Google Docs. This week he shares some common challenges teachers face when students begin working together on collaborative projects.Communication is important, not the toolT…
September 16th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Hal Varian, Chief EconomistThere has been some recent discussion in the press about the potential impact of our advertising agreement with Yahoo! on ad pricing, and we wanted to help clear up a few misconceptions.Some of those misconceptions …
September 16th, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Back in June, we launched Video Annotations, a feature that allows you to add background information, create branching (“choose your own adventure” style) stories or add links to any YouTube video, channel, or search results page — at any point in you…
September 15th, 2008 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
My Location just got better for all the applications that use Google’s geolocation service!In November 2007 we launched My Location on Google Maps for mobile, and in the past few months, we’ve location-enabled other applications from third parties and …
September 15th, 2008 | by Cyrus Mistry | published in Google Enterprise
A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine did something amazing: he displayed a Google Docs presentation on his iPhone! Afterwards, I wanted to find out more information: How can I view a Google Docs presentation on my iPhone? What other mobile devic…
September 15th, 2008 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Jon Kotker, Gmail engineering intern, Summer 2008I spent this last summer as many of the Gmail engineers do, armed with a cup of coffee or a can of soda, poring through lines of code, winding my way through the code base, and every once in a …
September 15th, 2008 | by Adam Feldman | published in Google Ajax API
As the AJAX APIs have undergone tremendous growth and adoption, developers have used these APIs in many new and exciting ways. When things move fast, sometimes details get left behind, and our Terms of Service has not been keeping up with the rapid rat…
September 15th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Three days after Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas as a Category 2 hurricane, severe flooding has challenged Gulf Coast residents from Texas to Louisiana. A team at Google has been gathering information we hope will be useful to residents of …
September 15th, 2008 | by Karl Rosaen | published in Google Android
Years ago I was addicted to a simple game that I played on my then state-of-the-art Pentium-75. In this game, balls would bounce around, and I would try to partition them into small enough spaces so that I could go to the next level where more and mor…
September 15th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
A brand new version of Google Desktop is here. (See the announcement.) This release fixes several bugs and adds features based on reports from the issue tracker and developer group. Please check the release notes to see what’s new.UPDATE (Sept 17): To …
September 15th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Greetings from Fairbanks! I’m writing from the Discovery Lab at the University of Alaska, where members of Google’s Geo Education team have just kicked off a series of workshops with educators and students who are interested in learning more abou…