February 25th, 2009 | by Pamela Fox | published in Google Maps
Posted by Jez Fletcher, Maps API team
Ever wanted to be someone else? No, we’re not offering a Being John Malkovich service, but we are offering Maps API developers the default look-and-feel of maps.google.com, all with one simple function call.
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February 24th, 2009 | by Stephanie Liu | published in Youtube API
Posted by Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamYouTube has been getting more social lately, using activity feeds to make it easier to find cool videos and channels that your YouTube friends are favoriting, rating, subscribing to, etc. But what if …
February 24th, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
The Android UI toolkit offers several layout managers that are rather easy to use and, most of the time, you only need the basic features of these layout managers to implement a user interface. Sticking to the basic features is unfortunately not the mo…
February 24th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
Can’t figure out if your account is in the developer sandbox or not? Sometimes the “Welcome to the iGoogle Developer sandbox” message is obscured. Sometimes developers are confused about the behavior of the http://google.com/ig/sandbox page (which acts…
February 24th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By René Nussbaumer, Systems Administration TeamWe started the evening slowly, and by around 18:30 almost everyone had arrived to enjoy the food and beer. Thirty-three guests from all over Switzerland and surrounding countries were there, and we even h…
February 24th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
As you may have read here a couple of months back, we’ve been focused recently on the “art of findability” – or the ability to find and locate critical information quickly through the power of enterprise search. At Google, we believe that finding rel…
February 24th, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Brett Slatkin, App Engine Team
We’re psyched to announce that developers can now purchase additional computing resources on App Engine, enabling apps to scale beyond our free quotas. This has been our most requested improvement to App Engine…
February 24th, 2009 | by Tom Stocky | published in Google Code
By Pete Koomen, Google App Engine TeamWe just announced that developers can now grow their applications beyond App Engine’s free limits that have been in place since it launched last year.The pricing for resources beyond those free quotas is:$0.10 per …
February 24th, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
Advanced Segmentation is one of Google Analytics’ most powerful features – you can use it to slice and dice your Google Analytics data by, well, pretty much anything. We’ve made it a little easier to see what your iPhone visitors are doing on your site…
February 24th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
A big thank you to everyone who sent us feedback about the blog, and if you haven’t had chance to speak your mind, please take a minute to send us your thoughts on the blog. Here’s a quick update on what you’ve said so far:67% of you read the blog …
February 24th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Acacio Cruz, Gmail Site Reliability Manager Gmail had a major outage early this morning: for about two and a half hours starting at 1:30 am PST while many of our users in the US were asleep, many people couldn’t access their email. Lots of pe…
February 24th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted By Sundar Pichai, Vice President Product ManagementLast month the European Commission confirmed that it had sent a statement of objections to Microsoft about the tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system, which it said “harms co…
February 24th, 2009 | by Aly Makishima | published in Google TV Ads Blog
The retail industry is facing new challenges with declines in consumer spending. These changes require a renewed focus on managing your marketing resources effectively – in particular, your media dollars – in order to maximize ROI.Join us at our up…
February 24th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Today, maps of 16 countries have graduated from Google Maps Maker to Google Maps. Adding the data generated in Map Maker to Google Maps has been highly requested by the Map Maker community from practically the day it was launched. Following our recent …
February 24th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
We always enjoy going “back to school” – visiting college campus quads and K-12 classrooms – especially because we get to learn from our users, who are always happy to tell us what they want. One idea we hear a lot is, “Build a learning management …