New Google Web Elements for Spreadsheets and Presentations
June 8th, 2009 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
We conclude our Spotlight on Developers series with a look at Google Web Elements for spreadsheets and presentations.At Google I/O, the concept of “copy/paste development” was introduced in the form of Google Web Elements. For Google spreadsheets and p…
Google submits initial comments supporting a National Broadband Plan
June 8th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselOpen, ubiquitous broadband connectivity holds the promise to catapult America to the next level of competitiveness, productivity, education, health, and security — but how do we get there fr…
June 8th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
2009 has been a busy year for the App Engine team, but all along we’ve looked forward to Google I/O and the excitement it brings to Google’s developer community. At I/O last year, App Engine was brand new and many attendees were just getting familiar w…
June 8th, 2009 | by Sebastian Tonkin | published in Google Analytics
Recently Microsoft released a new search engine called Bing, which has begun sending traffic to websites with Google Analytics installed. Bing currently shows up as a referring site in the Traffic Sources reports. We are actively working on an update…
June 8th, 2009 | by Leslie Hawthorn | published in Google Open Source
The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledg…
Google I/O: Reflections on the Enterprise Track
June 8th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
The Google Enterprise team was really energized to see the strong turnout for the 8 enterprise-track sessions at Google I/O last week. It was a treat to meet developers face to face and share stories about how things like Google App Engine, gadgets, GW…
Google Web Toolkit at Google I/O
June 8th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
Another Google I/O has come and gone, and speaking personally I think it’s going to be hard to top this year’s conference. Free Android unlocked developer devices and the unveiling of a very cool new product built with developers in mind? I already don…
A vote for keeping the Internet awesome
June 8th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Jacob Glick, Canada Policy CounselIf you’ve ever wondered about the power and popularity of user-generated content in Canada, consider this: if all three Canadian television networks began broadcasting Canadian content 24 hours a day, seven d…
Design It: Shelter Competition
June 8th, 2009 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
Today, Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp are kicking-off the Design It: Shelter Competition, a global competition that will challenge users to design a simple shelter in 3D with Google SketchUp, geo-locate the shelter in Google Earth, and share i…
Spotlight on Google Analytics features part 3: Motion Charts
June 8th, 2009 | by Evelyn O'Keeffe | published in Google Analytics, Google Conversions
Today, in part 3 of our spotlight on Google Analytics features, we are looking at Motion Charts. What are Motion Charts?Motion Charts allow you to animate your Google Analytics reports so you can easily visualise and explore trends in your data. They …
Remembering Rajeev Motwani
June 8th, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP of ResearchMany hundreds of us at Google were fortunate to have been educated, advised, and inspired by Professor Rajeev Motwani. Six of us were his PhD students and very many others (including our founders) were advised b…
Announcing the Design It: Shelter Competition
June 8th, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
[Cross-posted from the Official Google SketchUp Blog]We teamed up with the folks at the Guggenheim Museum to create a design competition that’s open to people everywhere. Design It: Shelter Competition challenges participants to create a simple shelter…
Announcing the Design It Shelter Competition
June 8th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
We teamed up with the folks at the Guggenheim Museum to create a design competition that’s open to people everywhere. Design It: Shelter Competition challenges participants to create a simple shelter for a specific geographic location anywhere in the w…
Design It Shelter Competition: Unleash your inner architect
June 8th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Today, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 142nd birthday, we’re excited to announce the Design It: Shelter Competition. Held by the Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp, the competition is inspired by Wright’s assignment for his apprentices at Taliesin: If you want…
June 8th, 2009 | by Adam Feldman | published in Google Ajax API
Last year we launched the Transliteration API as an addition to the AJAX Language API. This gave users the ability to transliterate (the process of phonetically converting words from one script into another) text into several Indic languages using a normal English keyboard.
We’re happy to announce that we’ve now added Arabic to the list of supported languages. Now, you can allow your users to easily input Arabic-language text into any text field or text area on your web page without switching to a non-Latin alphabet keyboard – just like on the Labs page. For example, if the user types ‘mar7aban bekom’, the API will transliterate each word, with the result ‘مرحبا بكم‘ (Arabic for welcome). The API will even automatically adjust the direction of the text area to support this right-to-left language.
Take a look at the documentation and then head over to the Code Playground to give it a try for yourself. If you have any questions, stop by the Google AJAX API developer forum or IRC channel.