September 4th, 2008 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
Google Grants launched in Brazil at the beginning of 2007, and since then, our biggest reward as volunteers for the program has been the opportunity to extend online publicity to help NGOs that otherwise wouldn’t have a presence in this highly competit…
September 4th, 2008 | by Dan Peterson, Product Manager | published in Google OpenSocial
As promised a few months ago, the OpenSocial Foundation is up and running. This organization seeks to ensure that OpenSocial will remain implementable by all, at no cost, in perpetuity. This Foundation will also help nurture the real power behind OpenS…
September 4th, 2008 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Tara Morrison, Software QA EngineerAs you may have seen in yesterday’s post, the beta version of Picasa 3 offers many improvements and additions to the existing Picasa software. One of the new features I’m most excited about is our powerful r…
September 4th, 2008 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWhen Guido van Rossum mentioned that one of our Google Highly Open Participation Contest™ (GHOP) students, Benjamin Peterson, was interested in doing a more extensive project on Python testing, we were happy to…
September 4th, 2008 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Amanda Surya, Google App Engine Team
We’re happy to announce Google App Engine hack-a-thon in Tokyo, Japan. This hack-a-thon is mainly for Japanese speaking people, but if you can only speak English, no problem, you are also welcome to att…
September 4th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Today we are relaunching one of our oldest and most popular Global Awareness layers, the Altas of Our Changing Environment by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). This Google Earth layer now showcases 187 sites around the world (over twice …
September 4th, 2008 | by Alyssa | published in Google Merchant
We understand it can be time-consuming for merchants to prepare their product feeds for multiple shopping engines, each with their own formats and standards. That’s why we’re introducing a new uploading option that enables merchants to submit informati…
September 4th, 2008 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
I’m pleased to announce that a new open source sample application—called Photostream—has been added to the apps-for-android project. Photostream is a simple photos browser and viewer for Flickr. All you need to use it is a Flickr screen name or use…
September 4th, 2008 | by Stephanie Liu | published in Youtube API
Posted by Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamHere are some of the recent features that you may have missed.Player updatesSpecify starting point in an embedWant to skip to the good part? You can now specify when your video embed starts with the s…
September 4th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
In the days since Hurricane Gustav first appeared on the radar (swiftly followed by several other storms), a team of Googlers has been gathering information we hope will be useful to residents of the affected regions and the relief agencies working to …
September 4th, 2008 | by Kate | published in Google Earth
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post explaining why our map of Georgia was blank, and letting users know that that we would soon be adding more data to the region. As promised, we’ve just released new data for Georgia and a number of other countries. Th…
September 3rd, 2008 | by api.rboyd | published in Google Code
Posted by Eric Bidelman, Google Data APIs TeamIf you’ve thought about diving into the Google Health Data API, there’s no better time to start. Today the documentation got a major face-lift. There’s a slew of new content and several new pages: Getting…
September 3rd, 2008 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
In August, I announced our sponsorship of Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future, an online writing and publishing opportunity for U.S. high school students. I invited teachers to ask their students to write to the next U.S. president about …
September 3rd, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Whether it’s your high school yearbook, the ticket stub from a movie you saw with your first sweetheart, or the lock of hair from your child’s first trim, we all have mementos that we like to keep around. However, we hope that your AdSense check isn’t …
September 3rd, 2008 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
A new report is now available in the AdWords Report Center: the Geographic Performance report. This report provides you with an understanding of the geographic distribution of your impressions, clicks, and conversions down to the ad group level. Do you…