Seattle is a Cloudy Kind of Town
September 15th, 2008 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Two weeks ago, there were two App Engine events in Seattle, and I have to say, Seattle is rocking cloud computing.
The first event was at StartPad, a coworking facility where lots of great start-ups are based. Yours truly gave a presentation, interr…
Open-Sourced Goodies for your Flash Maps: KMLParser, MarkerManager, and Planetary MapTypes
September 15th, 2008 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team
Sometimes there’s functionality that’s ridiculously useful for a niche group of developers, and completely unnecessary for others. That’s the kind of functionality that’s now available in our brand spanking new “Go…
September 15th, 2008 | by Janelle | published in Google RechargeIT
Posted by Adam Borelli, RechargeIT TeamToday over 95% of our transportation fleet runs off petroleum. As many people say, “America is addicted to oil”. However, many argue this might be better than the alternative of being addicted to coal if transport…
September 15th, 2008 | by Janelle | published in Google RechargeIT
Posted by Adam Borelli, RechargeIT TeamToday over 95% of our transportation fleet runs off petroleum. As many people say, “America is addicted to oil”. However, many argue this might be better than the alternative of being addicted to coal if transport…
Strengthening the study of computer science
September 15th, 2008 | by John | published in Google Student Blog
The study of Computer Science can be challenging and fun, and Google wants to inspire students to become active participants and leaders in creating technology. With this in mind, our educational outreach group, University Programs, and Diversity and …
September 15th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Here in Google Desktop land, we value two things: 1) feedback from people who use Google Desktop and 2) chocolate malt balls (good to eat, good to throw). While we love hearing how much you enjoy Google Desktop, we also want to know what we can do bett…
Quality Score improvements to go live in coming days
September 15th, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
Last month, we posted about upcoming Quality Score improvements — and today, we’re following up to notify you that these changes will take effect in all advertisers’ accounts over the next few days. In addition, we’d like to answer a number of the mor…
Cmockery: Easier Unit Tests for C Applications
September 15th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Justin TerAvest and Stewart Miles, Platforms Engineering TeamWe’re pleased to announce the initial release of the Open Source project Cmockery, a lightweight library to simplify and generalize the process of writing unit tests for C applications. Th…
Calling all teachers: Share your ideas and projects
September 15th, 2008 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Last week we rolled out some back to school features, many of them inspired by your requests and stories of using Google Docs in K-12 classrooms. Now we’re turning our sights to a new initiative. We want to collect your example projects and ideas fo…
September 15th, 2008 | by Jeremy Moskovich, Gears Team | published in Google Gears
Posted by Jeremy Moskovich and Matt Perry, Gears EngineersWe’re really excited to announce the official release of Gears for Safari on OS X (minimum requirements are Leopard 10.5.3 or Tiger 10.4.11).You can download it today from http://gears.google.co…
September 15th, 2008 | by Jeremy Moskovich, Gears Team | published in Google Gears
Posted by Jeremy Moskovich and Matt Perry, Gears EngineersWe’re really excited to announce the official release of Gears for Safari on OS X (minimum requirements are Leopard 10.5.3 or Tiger 10.4.11).You can download it today from http://gears.google.co…
Sharing photos with Creative Commons licensing
September 14th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Mark Geller, Business Product ManagerWe know that many photographers on Picasa Web Albums are interested in having their photos be seen by as large an audience as possible. We also know that some users–but by no means all–are happy allowing…
The Google Apps Bus stops at the beginning
September 12th, 2008 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
Back in October 2006, the Google Apps team met with Adrian Sannier, the Chief Technology Officer at Arizona State University. Just two weeks later we announced that ASU was the first major university to fully deploy Google Apps to its 65,000 students. …
Design Your Dwelling: Runners-Up
September 12th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
As promised, here are the runners-up from the Design Your Dwelling Competition, as determined by the judges at SketchUp and Dwell. They’re not presented in any particular order:Matt Hutchins | ModelModern means giving back to the community. In this cas…
Digging Deep with Google SketchUp
September 12th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
A core piece of Google’s efforts to fight global warming is our Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal initiative. We’ve created a series of tools demonstrating a new renewable energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). We’re extremely ex…