September 8th, 2009 | by Brian Hutchins | published in Google Voice
A few days ago, I decided to spend some quality time poking around the Google Voice Settings page. I’m glad I did, because I found a Voice feature I never knew existed! It’s the “ring schedule” feature. I’d never thought about setting up a preset sched…
September 8th, 2009 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
In the past month, many of you told us how you’ve “gone Google” with Google Apps in your workplace. We’re excited that the #goneGoogle movement continues with the millions of students who have switched to Google Apps in schools, as well as growing adop…
September 8th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted on the Google Students Blog)It’s always tough to bid farewell to summer and hit the books again, but for a few million students this back-to-school season, things are looking up. As of this fall, over five million students at thousands of…
September 8th, 2009 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
It’s always tough to bid farewell to summer and hit the books again, but for a few million students this back-to-school season, things are looking up. As of this fall, over five million students at thousands of schools in more than 145 countries have “…
September 8th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
If you’re as much of an orkut addict as I am, you probably spend a decent amount of time visiting friends’ profiles and seeing what they’re up to. While browsing, I’m often surprised to find people that I know (friends of friends), who I didn’t even re…
September 8th, 2009 | by Jenny Liu, Industry Marketing Manager, CPG | published in Google CPG
Posted by Guest Blogger Susan Viamari, Editor of Times and Trends, Information Resources, Inc. Recent reports point to an improving U.S. economy, but battle-weary shoppers remain fully entrenched in savings mode. Consumers are looking to trim back exp…
September 7th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Lots of good news to report since we last spoke about Adopt a Feature v2. This round, the number of submissions to the program more than doubled — 76 videos were made about annotations, tags, Quicklist, mobile uploads, the customized homepage and a fe…
September 4th, 2009 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
As recently announced on the Google App Engine Blog, the 1.2.5 SDK for Python now includes a GUI for creating, running, and deploying App Engine applications when developing on Windows. We call this the Google App Engine Launcher.
About a year ago, a…
September 4th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This past Monday, when my co-workers asked me what I did over the weekend, I casually mentioned that I ran a 197 mile race. Thankfully, Hood to Coast is a relay, so I finished with my legs intact after journeying from Mount Hood to Seaside, Oregon with…
September 4th, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
Ahhh, fall: the morning air gets crisp, the leaves start to change to their autumnal hues… and most importantly, gridirons across the land are again alive with the pomp and pagentry of college football! This weekend marks the beginning of the 2009-20…
September 4th, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
With more and more kids going online, whether to connect over social networking sites, mingle in chat rooms or play games, it’s become increasingly important for families, schools and service providers to work together to ensure that the younger genera…
Episode 3 Of Bottlenecks To Implementation: Should You Use An Agency?
September 4th, 2009 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Here is the final episode of our three part series on bottlenecks that companies face implementing web analytics. In this episode, we ask the question, “Should you use an agency, or can you do everything (implementation and analysis) in house?”Bottom l…
September 4th, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Derek Slater, Policy AnalystWe’ve spent a lot of time with authors, publishers, academics, civil rights groups and other communities this summer discussing how the Google Books settlement will impact them. We’ve met individually with a number…
September 4th, 2009 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Jake Knapp, UI Designer and Manu Cornet, Software EngineerManu: Hey Jake, you still using that same old theme?Jake: Well, yeah. I mean, I like it — but I don’t know… I guess it just doesn’t feel as new as it used to.Manu: I hear ya. Well, …
September 4th, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
The following updates have been made in Google forms:– A new Grid question type has been added– Support for bi-directional languages– Improved formatting of statistics and better formatting of charts for each question type– The ability to pre-p…