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You may not know it, but the busiest shopping day of the year, Black Friday, is shortly followed by the biggest online shopping day of the year, Cyber Monday. This year Cyber Monday falls on December 1st, and a little preparation can help you make the …

Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamWe launched a new Application Gallery to feature projects that integrate with YouTube. This supersedes our previous forum wiki page and now also allows you to rate and comment on your favorite applicati…

Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke last Thursday at a Natural Resources Defense Council event held at Google offices in New York. The topic for the evening was “Partnership for the Earth: Strategies and Solutions for Energy Security.” Eric spoke about Goo…

This Google logo, initially created to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Understanding DNA, is a great representation of what happened when Genentech turned on Google Calendar for its 12,000 employees last month. Located in South San Francisco, Genente…

A little over a week ago, the OpenSocial Foundation celebrated — along with 250+ close friends — the one year anniversary of the introduction of OpenSocial. It was a great opportunity for everyone involved to get together and reflect on the past year…

On Friday, November 14, we hosted the Grand Finals of Google Code Jam. The event brought together the top 100 coder participants from around the world, who’d been taking their programming skills to the limit over the last few months, solving fiendish a…

Today, we announced new improvements to the Google TV ads program targeting feature. With program targeting, you can reach more customers when your message is most relevant, which means you’re more likely to see better results.Simply enter a keyword re…

We’re excited to announce a new enhancement to our program targeting feature that will provide you with additional, relevant program targeting suggestions. Simply enter a keyword into the TV programs search field on the Target Campaign screen, and Goog…

(Cross-posted from the Official Google Africa Blog)Having been in Africa for the past several months, I am beginning to see firsthand how access to information by regular citizens is starting to transform the continent. A single newspaper could be read…

As a designer, you use drawings to communicate much more than just the appearance of spaces or objects. Great drawings “set the tone”; they provide a window into the actual experience of your ideas. Drawings also help communicate the state of your desi…

Over the years we’ve heard a lot of feedback from you about what you’d like to change about YouTube, and the size of our video player is always top of mind. That’s why today we’re excited to announce a bigger YouTube player.We’re expanding the width o…

Posted by Björn Brala, GeoStart Lead Developer

Hi, my name is Björn Brala! In the last 2 years, I’ve been working on GeoStart, a framework based on the Maps API. In that time the community has been an invaluable source of information and help. Whil…

One of the fun things about the 3D Warehouse is that we get to see how “globally dispersed” 3D modelers are. There are models from Brazil, China, Russia – just to name a few. Often, these models are described in the languages of the people who posted…

A new gadget by Edwin Lee is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: On-Screen Ruler.Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)

A new gadget by Edwin Lee is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: On-Screen Ruler.Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)