October 27th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop
Name: Radio Energy ZürichAuthor: Andreas HorlacherDescription: Listen to online radio from Energy ZürichMore information | Download gadget Each week this blog features a recently added Google Desktop gadget that looks promising. If you’d like to see…
Addressing Youth Violence on YouTube
October 27th, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Like you, we’re continually surprised, moved, and entertained by the videos people post on YouTube. And, like you, we’re occasionally dismayed when people use YouTube for less positive purposes. That’s why we count on you to know our Community Guidelin…
Google Earth now available for the iPhone
October 27th, 2008 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Mobile
(cross posted with the Google LatLong Blog)The world just got a little bit smaller. Google Earth is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch, allowing you to fly to the far reaches of the world from the palm of your hand. Since we launched Google …
Google Earth now available for iPhone
October 27th, 2008 | by Kate | published in Google Earth
(cross-posted from the Official Google Mobile Blog)The world just got a little bit smaller. Google Earth is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch, allowing you to fly to the far reaches of the world from the palm of your hand. Since we launched…
October 25th, 2008 | by Jason | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Jason Cooper, orkut teamThis past week saw one notable bug fix relating to character encoding in Internet Explorer. Specifically, applications depending on message bundles with accented characters from the UTF-8 set were being replaced with q…
YouTube Live TOKYO: All Systems Go
October 25th, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Today we are pleased to announce that Japan will be hosting its own YouTube Live event on Sunday, November 23, in Tokyo, with the show available to view on the site for an audience across the globe. After the curtain falls on YouTube Live in San Franci…
October 24th, 2008 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, App Engine Team
We now have App Engine T-Shirts for sale in the Google Store.
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Go get your shirt and show us how you rock it!
"Vox populi" applies everywhere
October 24th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
“Vox populi” is a Latin phrase that means “the voice of the people” or, in our case, the voice of the users. A good way to tap into this great source of feedback and to get a gratifying feeling, as well, is to compile accurate statistics about how many…
AS3 + You(Tube)
October 24th, 2008 | by Jeff Fisher | published in Youtube API
Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamWe now have a demo of the YouTube Chromeless Player working from within ActionScript 3. Even better, this demo is part of an open source project on Google Code. Best of all, there is an article about th…
October 24th, 2008 | by Panayiotis Mavrommatis | published in Google Online Security
Written by Oliver Fisher”This site may harm your computer”You may have seen those words in Google search results — but what do they mean? If you click the search result link you get another warning page instead of the website you were expecting. But …
October 24th, 2008 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Given our recent launch of 2008 US Voter Info, we thought we’d share a behind-the-scenes look at where this data comes from. Google is collecting official election information from many sources - our earlier blog post noted that we’ve worked with s…
Customize Your YouTube Homepage
October 24th, 2008 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
We’ve heard lots of suggestions ever since we launched our new personalized homepage a few months ago. We just launched three of those suggestions to make your personalized homepage even more useful and customizable:You can now customize the number of …
Reading The Guardian, full-text style
October 24th, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Reader
We’ve always used Reader to keep up to date on news and current events and today it just got a little easier: The Guardian just moved all of their RSS feeds from partial to full-text. They are the first major newspaper in the world to do so, and this i…
Apply for summer 2009 Google Policy Fellowships
October 24th, 2008 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Jen Marsh, Policy Analyst and Joe Sexton, Fellowship CoordinatorPassionate about freeing the white space airwaves? Excited about about privacy and data protection? Interested in the debates surrounding net neutrality? If you’re a undergraduat…
Looks Good To Me, Part Deux — Assigned Code Reviewers
October 24th, 2008 | by Christine Songco | published in Google Code
By Steve McKay, Jason Robbins, Mike ParentIn our continuing effort to improve project hosting, we have just launched a new code review feature called “assigned reviews”. Assigned reviews builds on the post-commit source code review tool we announced b…