April 2nd, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
Yesterday you might have seen our blog post about “Google Chrome with 3D.” You might have even downloaded our special version of Google Chrome and our printable 3D glasses. As someone of enormously high intelligence, you probably realized that this wa…
April 2nd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
It’s always fun to hear about the creative things people are doing with our geo tools. Recently, we heard about a local landscape architecture and planning firm using Google Earth to save themselves plenty of time and money. The team was able to creat…
Google Summer of Code™ by the Numbers
April 2nd, 2009 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
As the fifth instance of Google Summer of Code gets underway, we thought it would be interesting to look back at the first four years. Our team is frequently asked things like, “How many countries are represented by the participants?”, or “Did anyone …
April 2nd, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
As Congress considers this year’s budget and the many areas that require funding — health care, education, defense, the stimulus — they’re going to have some tough choices to make due to the economic crisis. That’s why this week’s Representative of t…
April 2nd, 2009 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Maps
Posted by Roman Nurik, Google Geo APIs team
Last month, the Google Earth team made a splash in the news (pun intended) with the release of Google Earth 5.0. The update included the ability to dive underwater to explore the world’s oceans, record and pl…
April 2nd, 2009 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
“There’s a time for everything.” This is something I’ve been hearing since I was a kid, but today I’m not here to tell you that you shouldn’t have your dessert before your meal or play with noisy toys after dark; rather, I’d like to talk to you about w…
April 1st, 2009 | by Sara | published in Google OpenSocial
Although OAuth and OpenSocial make a powerful combination, it’s important for developers to know specific implementation details for each container. If you’re a developer using the OpenSocial REST and RPC protocols, either with the client libraries or…
April 1st, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Project Eyes-Free aims to enable fluent eyes-free use of mobile devices running Android. Target uses range from eyes-busy environments like driving, to use by people who are unwilling or unable to look at the visual display. You can get a high-leve…
April 1st, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Alon Levi, App Engine Team
It’s been almost a year since we’ve launched App Engine with support for Python, and what a year it’s been! We’ve gotten fantastic feedback from developers, and we’ve released loads of new features! When we launc…
April 1st, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
We must admit, given all the trickery going on today we didn’t quite believe it when we heard it, but it’s true: YouTube has won a Peabody Award. The Peabody Awards recognize outstanding achievements in electronic media, including radio, television and…
April 1st, 2009 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Analytics
We are intrigued and only vaguely fearful to announce that after just half a day’s tracking the reports from CADIE’s homepage and other web properties suggest rather forcefully that the world is not yet entirely acclimated to her post-Web 2.0 design an…
April 1st, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
[Cross-posted with the google.org blog]To solve the climate crisis and meet our growing demand for energy, we need to move to clean, renewable energy sources that will cut global warming pollution and power our economic recovery. This goal requires con…
April 1st, 2009 | by Aly Makishima | published in Google TV Ads Blog
Are you curious to know exactly how effective your TV ad campaigns are, but have not been tracking your TV campaigns with unique phone numbers or URLs? Worry no more. In addition to the TV Campaigns reports discussed in this post, Google Analytics offe…
April 1st, 2009 | by Sara | published in Google OpenSocial
My name is Farhang Kassaei, I am a platform architect at eBay.We are very excited to announce that our Selling Manager (SM) suite of productivity tools is now offered as a gadget container – with the same extensibility technology behind OpenSocial. In…
April 1st, 2009 | by Sketchup Guide Bryce | published in Google SketchUp
Updated Ruby API DocumentationThe guys over at the SketchUcation Community Forums have been submitting documentation corrections to us and we just pushed a bunch of updates to our Ruby API Site . Thanks to everyone who’s been helping us improve our do…