May 30th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
The YouTube Slam Dunk Challenge has moved into Round Two! Our esteemed panel of judges — Chris Bosh, Jalen Rose and Team Flight Brothers — have studied all the entries and selected six finalists. These finalists have each uploaded a new video showc…
May 29th, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
As you may have read, YouTube and the YouTube Nonprofit Program recently launched a new initiative called Video for Change which is designed to connect nonprofits and YouTube users to bring about meaningful change. As part of Video for Change, YouTube …
May 29th, 2009 | by Rich | published in Google CPG
Once again a CPG company is raising the bar (and yes, eyebrows) with another video hit. Hopefully you’ve seen Cadbury Dairy Milk Eyebrow video. Below is a graph from Google Trends showing search volume for both videos. (Gorilla in Red, Eyebrows in Blu…
May 29th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Steve Grove, YouTube News & PoliticsVirginia voters – want to know what your next governor is going to do about traffic, taxes, or schools? You have just two more days to ask — through YouTube or Google Moderator.Google and YouTube team…
May 29th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Though the United Nations has had a presence on YouTube for several years, it recently re-vamped and re-launched its channel with the goal of providing more relevant videos to citizens around the world. Now, you can find pertinent information about a w…
May 29th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Social networking features are all the rage these days. (AdSense has even joined the trend with Twitter!) Now your site can be part of the social web by using the features offered through Google Friend Connect to awaken and strengthen your community of…
May 29th, 2009 | by Roman Nurik, Android Developer Relations | published in Google Maps
When the Earth API launched back in May 2008, there was a simultaneous addition to the Maps API that allowed creating an ‘Earth’ map type with just a single line of code:
map.addMapType(G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP);
This was really the first time that the 2D…
May 29th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
The Free Network project is the community that creates and maintains Freenet, free software that allows you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship by means of a decentralized, anonymous network. Since version 0….
May 29th, 2009 | by Custom Search Team | published in Google Custom Search
Posted by: Nicholas Weininger, Software EngineerCustom Search enables anyone to create a tuned search experience that’s contextually relevant. For example:Individuals can create a personalized search experience around their bookmarks, blogs, and public…
May 29th, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
It is amazing how much information can be displayed on even the smallest map, yet we sometimes forget that geographic content is not always available visually.If you’re out and about, you can call GOOG-411 and get local information about businesses. No…
May 29th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Harry Wingo, Policy CounselAs the world becomes more and more connected, a cyberattack on any nation’s critical infrastructure — its telecommunications system, electrical grid, and banking network — could pose as serious a threat to its sec…
May 29th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Despite a late night letting loose at the After Hours party, developers managed to wake up in time for the early morning Day 2 keynote (after having been promised yet another exciting surprise). This morning, we unveiled an early look at Google Wave, a…
May 28th, 2009 | by Inside AdWords Group | published in Google Adwords
With more AdWords advertisers using the new interface each week, we’d like to take a moment to recap the topics we’ve covered on New Interface Thursdays these past two months.We started the series with a list of learning resources including the new AdW…
May 28th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Google I/O is well underway, and we’re excited that we’ve been able to highlight some Chrome Experiments at the event. During the keynote on Wednesday, we opened with the following video. Matt Waddell from our Developer team composed the music playin…
May 28th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
As discussed in our Google Code Blog post on HTML5 for Gmail Mobile, Google’s new version of Gmail for iPhone and Android-powered devices uses the Web Storage Portability Layer (WSPL) to let the same database code run on browsers that provide either Ge…