July 3rd, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Update (9/16): The remaining items on our to-do list for new channels have been taken care of (with a few remaining bugs expected to be fixed in the next two weeks), so we’re planning on switching all user channels still using the older version on Sept…
July 2nd, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
Over the last few days, we’ve introduced several improvements to the sandbox to help flesh out what the full social experience will look like for your users.First, sharing a gadget is a richer experience — requestShareApp invites now display notifica…
Picking a good test page with Google Analytics
July 2nd, 2009 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Website Optimizer
A common question we hear from users of Website Optimizer is, “What page should I test?” Of course, people have different opinions. For example, some experts say that you should never run a test on your homepage while others may disagree. We recommend …
London Open Source Jam 13
July 2nd, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Here in London, we recently hosted London Open Source Jam 13 (Our 14th jam, as naturally we count from zero.) – unlucky for some, but not for us! We threw the floor open to talks of any kind and we had a bumper crop of lightning talks on a diverse ran…
July 2nd, 2009 | by Vincent Paquet | published in Google Voice
Your Google Voice number is tied to you rather than a device or a location, so it stays with you as you move, change jobs, or switch phone companies. Your forwading phones may change but your Google number remains the same, so you don’t need to send ou…
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009) in Montreal
July 2nd, 2009 | by Research Admin | published in Google Research
Posted by Eyal Even Dar and Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research, NYThe 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2009) was recently held in Montreal in conjunction with the 22nd Conference On Learning Theory (COLT 2009) and the 25th Conferenc…
New ways to search within a book
July 2nd, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Casey Ho, Software EngineerAt Google we want to make it easy for you to find the information you need. As such, we’ve made searching for passages within a book part of the core experience of Google Books.Earlier this month we revamped the se…
July 2nd, 2009 | by Alden DeSoto | published in Google Analytics
A couple of months ago, we published a post on making your site a closer. But, before your website can close a sale, it has to get the visitor’s attention. Presenting your visitor with a landing page that’s relevant to what she’s looking for is the bes…
July 2nd, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We released the new AdWords interface early to get your feedback on it as soon as possible. And you haven’t disappointed us! We receive thousands of comments every month covering likes, dislikes, and ideas for ways to further improve the AdWords interf…
A festive Fourth with Google Maps
July 2nd, 2009 | by elaine | published in Google Earth
I’ll be heading to the nation’s capital to celebrate Independence Day this weekend, so I’ve been browsing the many maps that the Washington Post has put together to help people take in the festivities. If you’ll be in DC too, you can find a map of the…
Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Using Timers Effectively
July 2nd, 2009 | by Christine Songco | published in Google Code
On April 7th, Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. We shared the behind-the-scenes story through this blog and decided to share more of what we’ve learned in a brief series of follow-up blog posts. T…
Recapping last week’s Google D.C. Talk on cybersecurity
July 2nd, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Harry Wingo, Policy CounselTo help spark ideas and stimulate discussion following the release of the President’s cyberspace policy review, last Friday we teamed up with the Center for a New American Security to bring together a panel of exper…
New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts
July 2nd, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Ever since the new Google Blog Search homepage launched, we’ve been fielding requests for a myriad of different features. Today we’re happy to announce the launch of our most requested feature: RSS and Atom feeds. Simply click on the links under “Subsc…
July 2nd, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
Apache Shindig aims to make it simple to create your own OpenSocial container by providing an open source implementation (in both Java and PHP) of the OpenSocial APIs. The Shindig team recently made creating and maintaining an OpenSocial container eve…
Stem the 401 Tide
July 2nd, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
Some of you may have noticed that OpenSocial API calls in the sandbox have started returning 401s, regardless of whether or not you’ve enabled social ACLs in your gadget. We’re in the process of changing a few things behind the scenes, one of which has…