March 17th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
Just over 6 months ago we launched our web browser, Google Chrome. Since then, we’ve pushed 29 updates, each working to improve Google Chrome’s speed, stability, and usability. Today we’re launching the Google Chrome Blog. Here we will post feature …
March 17th, 2009 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product ManagerWe’re excited to announce today that 8 news agencies, which are members of the European Pressphoto Agency, will be joining our existing Hosted News partners. As with our existing agreements, these new part…
March 17th, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Talk
You can now chat right from iGoogle, Google’s personalizable homepage, while checking news, watching videos, or playing games. iGoogle chat works from your browser, like Gmail chat, and you can exchange instant messages with any of your contacts that…
SketchUp 7 For Dummies book
March 17th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Our friends over at Wiley Publishing have just released the popular Google SketchUp For Dummies book in a new edition that covers SketchUp 7 – both free and Pro! You can find the book online and at brick-and-mortar booksellers. The new edition is full…
March 17th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament starts this week, with a play-in game tonight and a full slate of first round games starting Thursday. If, like fans around the country, you’re filling out a bracket and making your picks for the Sweet 16, the Elit…
March 17th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise, Google Video
In the past week, we’ve released some cool new features in Google Video for education in Google Apps, including captioning of audio tracks, and ability to upload videos up to 1GB in size for users with Google Gears-enabled browsers. We mentioned that b…
March 16th, 2009 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
An interesting article making a case for the use of online information for earlier detection of disease outbreaks came out last week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The article, co-authored by HealthMap co-founder and Google.org grantee Jo…
Developers Wanted: JaikuEngine
March 16th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamThe Jaiku code base is now Open Source and running on Google App Engine. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to check out the code and help shape the future of Jaiku. You can find full details on the Jaikido Blog.
Model the world – one bridge at a time
March 16th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
[Cross-posted with the SketchUp Blog]Are you in awe of the engineering that goes into designing a bridge? Do you have a favorite local, famous, or historical bridge you’d like to see in Google Earth? I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Google S…
Help model the world – one bridge at a time
March 16th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Are you in awe of the engineering that goes into designing a bridge? Do you have a favorite local, famous, or historical bridge you’d like to see in Google Earth? I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Google SketchUp 2009 International Student Brid…
Back to Basics: Quick tracking code fixes
March 16th, 2009 | by Parkie | published in Google Analytics
While browsing through some of the entries in the Google Analytics Help Forum, I found a useful thread on how to troubleshoot tracking code errors. Borrowing heavily from the conversations in the thread, I’ve summarrized the top ways to fix your trac…
Spreading the Summer Love is Easy!
March 16th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
By Borja Sotomayor, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago and Summer of Code 2008 MentorGoogle Summer of CodeTM is on, and it’s time to spread the Summer love. As Leslie noted in a previous post, former students and mentors are hosting more than 20 inf…
March 16th, 2009 | by Google News Blog | published in Google News
Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product ManagerAs we mentioned last month, for some time we’ve been experimenting with a variety of ads on Google News. Our goal with all these programs is to provide the best experience for users, advertisers and publish…
Media Planners Gather to Learn More About Google’s Products
March 16th, 2009 | by Aly Makishima | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Last week we hosted Video View, Google’s first event designed specifically for the media planning community, in our New York offices. This event brought together over 200 media planners and executives from the agency world to learn more about Google TV…
Jaiku moves to App Engine, new article on remote_api, and more!
March 16th, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
A number of exciting App Engine-related snippets have made the rounds over the past couple of weeks. Here’s a quick summary:
Jaiku moves to App Engine
Last April, Jaiku’s official blog confirmed that Jaiku was being ported to App Engine. We are pleas…