Featured Modeler: John from Dursley, England
July 1st, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
John is a retired British architect whose passion for photography and knowledge of his town’s architectural history helped shape his beautiful 3D models of Dursley, Gloucestershire in England.”The alignment of the buildings on Castle Street is a bit on…
Enabling Public Service: All for Good and Google App Engine
July 1st, 2009 | by Christine Songco | published in Google Code
You may have seen the post on the Google Blog about All for Good, the new site that makes it easy to find and share volunteer activities within the United States. The site was built collaboratively by Google and several partners. We’re especially proud…
Google Grants Workshop Lottery Closed
July 1st, 2009 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
The invite lottery for the Google Grants Workshop is now officially closed.Thank you for all the interest. We’ll be reaching out to let you know if you were selected or not over the next few weeks. For those of you who were not selected or who cannot a…
The evolution of Gmail labels
July 1st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
I love labels in Gmail. Most email programs use folders, which only let me put mail in one place at a time. With labels, I can organize mail in multiple ways. Combined with filters to automatically label incoming messages, Gmail offers powerful ways to…
Google Search results optimized for feature phones in 38 languages
July 1st, 2009 | by Lawrence Chang | published in Google Mobile
One of our top goals on the mobile search team is to bring you the comprehensiveness of Google’s web search while optimizing the search experience for your mobile device and in your language. Here is an update on our progress.After launching new optim…
July 1st, 2009 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
On June 24, Google Ad Planner turned one year old, and what a busy year it’s been. Marketers and media planners worldwide now manage tens of thousands of media plans with Google Ad Planner. Additionally, with publishers directly contributing their own …
July 1st, 2009 | by Ali Pasha | published in Google Code
Google Code now has a home on Twitter – introducing @GoogleCode! Expect our tweets to be a nice mix of developer product announcements, Code Blog coverage, coding tips and tricks, interesting tech news and commentary, developer events, and more.If you …
Introducing Apache Commons Math SimplexSolver
July 1st, 2009 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
SimplexSolver is an easy-to-use, object-oriented method of solving linear programming problems. We’re happy to announce today that we’ve Open Sourced the code that runs the newly released Google Spreadsheets Solve Feature and made it a part of Apache …
July 1st, 2009 | by mquagliarello | published in Youtube
Many of you have been asking for an increase in the size limit of your uploads. We’re happy to announce that the size of standard uploads has doubled from 1GB to 2GB. The increase means you can upload longer videos at a higher resolution as well as lar…
July 1st, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
The following improvements have been made to contacts:– Labels are now located above the chat list in Gmail– The ability to hide labels so they only appear when you click the “more” link– New drag and drop capabilities to organize labels more eas…
July 1st, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Premier Edition administrators can now add profile information to users of their domain. This profile information is visible to all domain users in Contacts. Profile data is managed with the User Profiles Data API.Editions included:API, Premier Edition…
What we’ve learned about spam
July 1st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Blended threats. Payload viruses. Spam. If you’re one of the more than 15 million people whose work email is protected by Postini’s email security products, we hope you don’t spend a lot of time thinking about these things. And if we’re doing our job r…
Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more
July 1st, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Damian Gajda, Software EngineerA few months ago Gmail got some new buttons and keyboard shortcuts to make labeling easier, especially for those of you accustomed to that familiar folder feel. Now we’re making some more changes to Gmail’s labe…
Explore a book in 10 seconds
July 1st, 2009 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Diego Puppin, Software EngineerIn his 1979 novel Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore (If on a winter’s night a traveler), Italian writer Italo Calvino imagines a character, Lotaria, who uses an “electronic brain” to read her books. Her comp…
July 1st, 2009 | by Anita | published in Google Checkout
Need a quick and easy way to start selling your new software or your band’s music?You can now use Google Checkout’s Buy Now buttons to sell your digital goods online in a few simple steps. Just use the button creation wizard on the ‘Tools’ tab of your …