April 26th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival is in full swing in sunny New York City, showcasing some of the year’s best independent films. With its reputation for high quality programming and cutting edge panels, the Festival has quickly emerged as a must-stop for…
April 24th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
Love our Open Source project hosting service but wish it supported distributed version control? Pine no longer! You can find full details about Mercurial support for hosted projects on the Google Code Blog.For those of you who are Git fans, you may wan…
April 24th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
You may use your AdWords campaigns to drive people to your site or to drive sales online, but did you know that paid search can also be a powerful brand-building tool?In a recent study, Google and the OTX research firm explored how search can impact br…
April 24th, 2009 | by Jessica Bagley | published in Google Student Blog
Google for Students has made its way to Twitter! Check out our daily updates at @googlestudents.
April 24th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Since launching Street View in new cities and countries around the world we’ve heard a bunch of stories from friends, colleagues and the media about how it’s been put to use – from the practical to the downright surprising.We’ve been told about virtual…
April 24th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
We on the orkut team love using this blog to communicate with all of you guys about new features, special promotions, and the general goings-on here in our offices. We’ve found however, that some of the most interesting posts are actually the ones that…
April 24th, 2009 | by Jack Palevich | published in Google Android
GLSurfaceView is a new API class in Android 1.5. GLSurfaceView makes OpenGL ES applications easier to write by:Providing the glue code to connect OpenGL ES to the View system.Providing the glue code to make OpenGL ES work with the Activity life-cycle.M…
April 24th, 2009 | by Brian White | published in Google Webmaster Central
Do you think your site might be penalized because of something thathappened on it? As two leaders of the reconsideration team, we recently madea video to help you discover how to create a good reconsideration request,including tips on what we look for …
April 24th, 2009 | by Romain Guy | published in Google Android
Live folders have been introduced in Android 1.5 and let you display any source of data on the Home screen without forcing the user to launch an application. A live folder is simply a real-time view of a ContentProvider. As such, a live folder can be u…
April 24th, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
Want to know what’s on our minds or what we’re up to at any given moment? Google Maps is now talking on Twitter under the name GoogleMaps. @GoogleMaps will share information on cool uses and product tips for Google Maps, behind-the-scenes musings from…
April 24th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Back in November 2007, we announced the official launch of Project Spectrum. Because I know that readers of this blog are dedicated, never-miss-a-post-and-even-go-back-and-read-the-archived-stuff-that-was-posted-before-you-discovered-this-blog type fol…
April 24th, 2009 | by Ali Pasha | published in Google Code
We are happy to announce that Project Hosting on Google Code now supports the Mercurial version control system in addition to Subversion. This is being initially rolled out as a preview release to a few invited users on a per-project basis, so that we …
April 24th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
If you or someone you know has formidable dunking skills, the window of opportunity to be named “Best Dunker on YouTube” is closing quickly — the last chance to submit a dunk video to the YouTube Slam Dunk contest ends at midnight this Sunday, April …
April 24th, 2009 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
If you’re an active Gmail user, you probably know that you can open Microsoft Word and Excel attachments from within Gmail and import them to Google Docs. Gmail also provided a basic View as slideshow option for PowerPoint attachments.Today we’re impro…
April 24th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
After several months of hard work (and little sleep), our longtime friend Bonnie Roskes has completed a new tutorial book on Google SketchUp 7. This time around, Bonnie has placed an extra emphasis on presentation, styles, scenes, and animation. You c…