October 22nd, 2009 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
Earlier this week, I read an interesting article in the New York Times about shokunin kishitsu, or the ‘craftsman’s spirit.’ The craftsman’s spirit in Japanese culture basically appeals to all of us, regardless of vocation, to aspire to beauty in every…
October 22nd, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media CounselThis morning, the FCC will propose and ask for public feedback on rules designed to protect and promote open broadband pipes to the Internet. (The Commission will be streaming live video of t…
October 21st, 2009 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
To continue the momentum from our recent Ning Apps launch — our Apps program based on OpenSocial — we’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding a special developer event called the Ning Appathon at our offices in Palo Alto, CA on Thursday, Novembe…
October 21st, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, and Lowell McAdam, President and CEO of Verizon Wireless(Cross-posted on the Verizon PolicyBlog.)Verizon and Google might seem unlikely bedfellows in the current debate around network neutrality, or a…
October 21st, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
This Thursday, October 22nd, our Dublin-based AdSense team will host a webinar geared towards publishers with sites related to education. We welcome you to join us for an hour, starting at 9am PST/5pm GMT, and learn how you can improve your ad performa…
October 21st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged — real-time updates like those on Twitter have appeared not only as a way for people to co…
October 21st, 2009 | by Miles Johnson | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Moishe Lettvin, Software EngineerToday we’re enabling “Chat Gadgets” in the orkut sandbox. This feature allows you to share gadgets with your friends and interact in real time in the gadget itself. The gadget will appear in a window in the lo…
October 21st, 2009 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
Posted by Moishe Lettvin, Software EngineerToday we’re enabling “Chat Gadgets” in the orkut sandbox. This feature allows you to share gadgets with your friends and interact in real time in the gadget itself. The gadget will appear in a window in the lo…
October 21st, 2009 | by Michael Wyszomierski | published in Google Webmaster Central
Earlier this year, we launched our very own Webmaster Central channel on YouTube. Just today, we saw our total video views exceed one million! On the road to this milestone, we uploaded 154 videos, for a total of nearly 11 hours of webmaster-focused me…
October 21st, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Earlier this year, we teamed up with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to launch the Design It: Shelter Competition. People all over the world were invited to use Google SketchUp to design small buildings and submit them for consideration. We received o…
October 21st, 2009 | by Aaron Stein | published in Google Earth
[We've invited Chief Almir Surui to write a guest post about the ways the Surui tribe of Brazil has been using Google Earth -- Ed.]Among the Surui tribe of the state of Rondonia in Brazil, a gift is given when a gift is received. This is how our Bionee…
October 21st, 2009 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
Some enhancements to Google Calendar have been released:- Snooze alerts: Ability to be reminded again after a pop-up notification.- Hide calendar from the list: Ability to hide unwanted calendars from your list of calendars.- Your primary calendar time…
October 21st, 2009 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
Want to watch the first ever global concert webcast?This Sunday, October 25th @ 8:30 p.m. (PDT) tune in to see the world’s biggest band performing on the world’s largest stage. YouTube and U2 have joined forces to live stream U2′s performance this S…
October 21st, 2009 | by Ryan Pollock | published in Google Maps, Google Mobile
We’re excited to announce that version 3.2 of Google Maps for mobile is now available for BlackBerry. This release contains many of the same features we recently launched on Windows Mobile and S60, including Layers.Layers make it easy to view various …
October 21st, 2009 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy CommunicationsEarlier this week, Vint Cerf, one of the original architects of the Internet and our Chief Internet Evangelist, joined other pioneers in a letter to the FCC expressing support for the Commis…