March 3rd, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
OpenSocial v0.9 is coming right along, and we’ve prototyped some new features so that app developers can try them out. This stage in the iterative process is crucial to ensuring that containers are improving their OpenSocial platforms by adding the fe…
March 3rd, 2009 | by Rick Klau | published in Google Blogger Buzz
The fact that there are tens of thousands of results for “blogger’s block” suggests that more than a few of you have struggled to think of what to say on your blog at one time or another. If that sounds like you, you might want to take a look at Plinky…
March 3rd, 2009 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Did you know that you can publish a spreadsheet and embed it in your website or blog? An embedded spreadsheet is a perfect way to display an event calendar, team checklist, or your favorite list of things. Publishing a spreadsheet is really flexible. Y…
March 3rd, 2009 | by Adam Feldman | published in Google Ajax API
As recently announced, a new program was introduced today for Google Code Labs. We’re proud that the AJAX Search API has already graduated from Labs, which demonstrates our long-term commitment to it.Also part of that announcement was that the SOAP Se…
March 3rd, 2009 | by Tom Stocky | published in Google Code
Tom Stocky, Director, Google Developer ProductsAs Google’s developer program continues to grow — already over 60 APIs and tools on Google Code today — we credit much of this growth to a culture of exploration and rapid iteration, and to the invaluabl…
March 3rd, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Michelle Lee, Head of Patents and Patent StrategyAfter the last time I blogged about patent reform in late 2007, the House went on to approve the Patent Reform Act. The bill unfortunately got bogged down in the Senate the following year. Sin…
March 3rd, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
In the previous installment of Android Layout Tricks, I showed you how to use the tag in XML layout to reuse and share your layout code. I also mentioned the and it’s now time to learn how to use it.The
March 3rd, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
In today’s economic climate, data-driven marketing and website decision making is increasingly important. If you have solid Google Analytics skills, more than ever, your talents are needed. But, even if you’re just starting out learning Google Analytic…
March 3rd, 2009 | by Ruth Brennan | published in Google Conversions
This week we are looking at how you can get more conversions at a lower cost from your existing AdWords campaigns with the Conversion Optimiser. The Conversion Optimiser is a free AdWords feature that manages your campaign costs based on your cost-pe…
March 2nd, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Steve Grove, YouTube News and Politics Since before President Obama’s inauguration, we at YouTube have been working with the federal government and the transition team to help make government more accessible and open through the use of video….
March 2nd, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Madison, New Jersey took a big step towards becoming only the second town in the US to organize a community effort to develop a 3D model of their downtown for Google Earth.It all started with Mayor Mary-Anna Holden attending the National Main Street Co…
March 2nd, 2009 | by DeWitt Clinton | published in Google Code
By Steve Souders, Member of Technical StaffDoug Crockford, from “The Yahoo!” (his words), gave a talk at “The Google” (again, his words) last week. The talk is based on his recent book of the same name, JavaScript: The Good Parts. Doug is a, perhaps th…
March 2nd, 2009 | by Jessica Bagley | published in Google Student Blog
How would you define innovation? Environmentalism? Or entrepreneurship? The Juicy Ideas Competition asked college students to demonstrate all three. Attracting nearly 900 college students from roughly 30 schools, The Juicy Ideas Competition asked stude…
March 2nd, 2009 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
Last Friday, I spoke at the MivaMerchant conference. MivaMerchant is an ecommerce platform used by a lot of companies. I demonstrated an easy test that users of MivaMerchant can do: testing different variations of your “Add to Cart” button across your …
March 2nd, 2009 | by Jochen Hartmann | published in Youtube API
Posted by Jochen Hartmann, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamIf you are using the PHP Client Library to upload your videos to YouTube.com you may have had to deal with memory issues, such as the common Fatal error: Allowed memory size of … bytes exhausted e…