Sonico.com announces the launch of its OpenSocial Container
May 15th, 2009 | by Sara | published in Google OpenSocial
Hola! My name is Alvaro Teijeiro and I am Sonico’s development manager.I’m happy to announce that Sonico has recently launched its OpenSocial developer sandbox! Sonico.com is one of the leading social networks in Latin America with more than 35 mil…
SketchUp is now available in Chinese (Traditional)
May 15th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
As of today, Google SketchUp is available in fifteen of the world’s most popular languages. It has taken us a while to get there, but I’m proud to announce that we’ve just added Chinese (Traditional) to the list of languages we support, along with Fren…
YouTube Project v51: Words via Wordle
May 15th, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
If you follow us on Twitter or Facebook, you might remember that a few weeks ago we asked you two questions: * What three adjectives describe the YouTube of today? #youtubetoday * What three adjectives describe your ideal YouTube of the future? #…
May 15th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Chrome
If you’re an IT administrator, you may be interested to know that today, on the Open Source blog, we announced a way to manage the update cycle for Google Chrome via Google Update for Administrators. This means that administrators are now able to spec…
Step into the spotlight with YouTube Insight
May 15th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This post is the latest in an ongoing series on The Power of Measurement. Previous topics have covered ways to make your website as successful as possible through tools such as Analytics and Website Optimizer. – Ed.Online video has become increasing…
May 15th, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
Let’s face it: Social media is here to stay, and day by day it continues to encroach on nearly every aspect of our online lives. But to publishers, promoters, advertisers and site owners, there’s one essential question left hanging in the air long …
Zurich Open Source Jam 7
May 15th, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
We did it again, and we are getting better at it. Last Thursday, May 7th we hosted the 7th Open Source Jam in Zurich. It was probably our largest event, with close to 50 participants!It was a bit more than 3 hours of event, and 10 projects were present…
Congratulations to the 2009 Google Fellowship recipients
May 15th, 2009 | by Jessica Bagley | published in Google Student Blog
(For the full story, please visit the Official Google Blog & Google Research Blog)We started the Google Fellowship Program this year to support graduate students in their quest to discover and achieve great things. Our goal was to find the best and…
Google Fellowships, the Nuts and Bolts
May 15th, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Leslie Yeh Johnson, Google University RelationsAs you may have read, today we announced the recipients of the 2009 Google Fellowships. (You can read the announcement over on the Official Google Blog.) This is fantastic news, and the blog po…
The best and the brightest
May 15th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
I can’t think of a better environment than academia for asking hard questions and trying to solve the unsolvable. It’s at universities that graduate students perform some of the most exciting and game-changing research in computer science and technolog…
Closing the Loop – Version Control and Issue Tracker Integration
May 15th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
If you are a developer on an open source project hosted on Google Code, and you are committing a change that fixes a known defect or adds a requested enhancement, you will want to update the associated issue. You could do that by first committing the c…
Spotlight on Google Analytics features part 1: Advanced Segmentation
May 15th, 2009 | by Evelyn O'Keeffe | published in Google Analytics, Google Conversions
Over the past few months we’ve added some cool new features to Google Analytics, so this week we’d like to kick off the first in a series of posts showing you how to use these features to analyse your site further. This week we’ll look at Advance…
Temporary ad serving issue resolved
May 15th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
For about an hour this morning, beginning at 7:48am PDT, we experienced a global network routing issue. As a result, fewer or no ads were served to some publishers during this time. Our engineers have since resolved the issue, and we’re working to ensu…
May 14th, 2009 | by Larry Adams | published in Google Affiliate Network
We just updated a new feature for advertisers that should benefit both our advertisers and publishers. Advertisers can now view lists that highlight high performing publishers that are either underperforming for the advertiser, or have not joined the…
The importance of being unsociable
May 14th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
A lot of the content we post on this blog is about social. Social is new, social is big, social is better (all true!) … but, non-social is important too, and gadgets should behave gracefully when users have not enabled social features, or they aren’…