February 4th, 2010 | by Lane LiaBraaten | published in Google OpenSocial
Greetings…As many of you know, IBM is committed to building and advancing open standards and platforms. Openness fosters an ecosystem of innovation, promotes customer choice, and allows enterprises to build solutions that best meet their needs. We’…
February 4th, 2010 | by Kate | published in Google Earth
With the launch of our new Ocean Showcase, you can now tour the ocean from the comfort of your web browser using the Google Earth plugin.Follow along as National Geographic explorer, Sylvia Earle, narrates a tour through highlights of the Explore the O…
February 4th, 2010 | by Jamie Yood | published in Google.org
We are pleased to share with you that the Global Health Corps (GHC) is now accepting applications for their 2010-2011 class. GHC sent their inaugural class of 22 recent university graduates to complete year-long assignments in public health organizatio…
February 4th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
We’re always looking for ways to improve Google Analytics – not just the product itself, but also the ways in which we provide information about the product. So help us help you – take a minute to fill out this quick survey on our Help Center, and let …
Donate your AdSense earnings to help Haiti
February 4th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
As you may have already seen, Google has made various efforts to contribute to the earthquake relief response in Haiti. We’ve heard repeatedly from AdSense publishers on forums about wanting to help, and today, we’re pleased to let you know how you can…
Hiding individual 3D buildings in Google Earth
February 4th, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
As tips & tricks go, this is a pretty darn simple one: You can individually hide the buildings on the default 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth. This is helpful when a model you’re trying to show conflicts with a building that already exists. When…
Life’s a Beach: Google Summer of Code and the Abelian Sandpile Model
February 4th, 2010 | by Carol Smith | published in Google Open Source
The Abelian Sandpile Model (ASM) is a mathematical model of a pile of sand developed by physicists around 1990 to exemplify self-organized criticality, a phenomenon conjecturally ubiquitous in nature. Roughly, self-organized criticality describes a sys…
Morph Fun with Friends
February 4th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
Today we’re launching a new orkut application in Google Labs called People Hopper that lets you take your profile image and “morph” it into your friend’s photo, using publicly available images from other orkut users along the way. No computer graphics tricks are used here, every image along the transition comes from real orkut users.
This new application hops across millions of user images in orkut so that one image is smoothly transformed into another. To do this, People Hopper uses “image matching technology.” First, faces are automatically detected in public profile images and normalized in contrast and size. Then, for each image, we find other public profile images that are similar to one another. Finally, when you pick a friend you want to be your end match, we just hop along similar public images, step-by-step, until the connection is made.
It’s a fun, new application that also allows you to make new connections. Since the images that show in your Hopper all come from people who’ve chosen to make their orkut profiles public, you can click through to their profiles to learn more about them and reach out to them.
Curious? Just click to try People Hopper on orkut right now!
We are eager to hear your feedback on how we can make this application more fun and useful. Also, if for any reason you would prefer your profile image not to appear in any Hopper path, you can choose to opt out by visiting our People Hopper homepage. Note that we don’t use any face-specific features during this process and no facial recognition technology is involved. It’s just simple, automatic image matching to find similar photographs.
Don’t forget that a path between the same pair of images is likely to change every few days as new photos are uploaded to orkut, so try it frequently. Have fun matching photos!
Posted by Henry Rowley and Sanjiv Kumar, Google research scientists
February 4th, 2010 | by Kate | published in Google Earth
Many of us have heard stories, read books and watched films which show the many impacts of WWII across the world. Today we’re giving you another way to understand this period in time – by exploring a new set of historical aerial images, taken over Euro…
Bringing log search to the cloud: Introducing Message Log Search for Postini
February 4th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
Today, we’re introducing a new feature for Google Postini Services: Message Log Search. This feature delivers the search and analysis capabilities normally available with on-premise solutions, but without the associated complexity or maintenance.When m…
February 4th, 2010 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
Today is World Cancer Day, which was created by the World Health Organization to raise awareness about one of the world’s leading causes of death. And in an effort to raise awareness of not only cancer, but all major health issues, we’re kicking off a …
February 4th, 2010 | by seanmccullough | published in Google Blogger Buzz
By Sean McCullough, Software EngineerAnother top user-requested feature has just graduated from Blogger In Draft! Blogger now makes it easy to create Pages linked from your blog. This feature lets you easily publish static information on stand-alo…
February 4th, 2010 | by Kate | published in Google Earth
When I think about Poland, I think about my grandma. Babcia fondly recalled the Polish-American community of her childhood in Yonkers, N.Y., she told stories of traveling to Poland with my uncle, she read out loud the letters she received from our fami…
February 3rd, 2010 | by Kai | published in Google Mobile
Last September we announced Google Sync with push Gmail support and 2-way sync for calendar and contacts for iPhone, Nokia E series, and Windows Mobile devices.Tomorrow we are taking the next step towards access from any location, on any device by laun…
February 3rd, 2010 | by Siobhan Quinn | published in Google Blogger Buzz
By Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineer (Krakow, Poland) A while back, Google announced that they were shutting down Google Page Creator and offered users the option to upgrade to Google Sites. In the past, some custom template designers used Page Cre…