Speech Input API for Android
March 5th, 2010 | by Alex Gruenstein | published in Google Android
People love their mobile phones because they can stay in touch wherever they are. That means not just talking, but e-mailing, texting, microblogging, and so on. So, in addition to search by voice and voice shortcuts like “Navigate to”, we included a vo…
Low-Impact Operating System Tracing
March 5th, 2010 | by Carol Smith | published in Google Open Source
The Google Open Source Team has the privilege of funding some really great projects in the Open Source space. Mathieu Desnoyers, a student at Ecole Polytechnique, recently defended his Ph.D. thesis, which we helped to fund. The topic of his thesis was …
Generating reports from your models
March 5th, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
SketchUp Pro 7 can generate tabular reports (fancy lists, basically) from the groups and components in your models. It’s a simple operation, and provided you’ve set things up properly, it can save you a ton of time. Let’s look at a pretty straightforwa…
Working on a more collaborative writing process with Google Apps Edu
March 5th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
While feedback and revision are crucial steps to successful writing, it’s not always easy to do in practice. Keeping track of revisions, deciphering edits, and arranging reviews can keep us from repeating this editing cycle more often.The collaborati…
Working on a more collaborative writing process with Apps Edu
March 5th, 2010 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Cross posted on the Google Enterprise BlogWhile feedback and revision are crucial steps to successful writing, it’s not always easy to do in practice. Keeping track of revisions, deciphering edits, and arranging reviews can keep us from repeating …
March 5th, 2010 | by Faustina | published in Google Analytics, Google Conversions
If your business operates in many countries and across many different languages, you will more than likely want to be able to report on the performance of each region and or language separately. You may also want to report on all regions in aggregate (…
Google and the Tor Project
March 4th, 2010 | by lhawthorn | published in Google Open Source
When it comes to code, Google’s support has made a big difference to the Tor Project. Providing privacy and helping to circumvent censorship online is a challenge that keeps our software developers and volunteers very busy. The Google Summer of Code™…
March 4th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Whether it’s utilizing new techniques, telling a story in a novel way or focusing on a groundbreaking subject, filmmaking is a craft in which innovation takes center stage. So it’s with great pleasure that we introduce a new round of films in the Scree…
March 4th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
A video’s life on YouTube is just the beginning; embedding gives it a life off of the site. Just look at your favorite blogger and they’re likely to be embedding YouTube content in their posts. In fact, almost every popular video on the site is first m…
YouTube + You
March 4th, 2010 | by Kuan Yong | published in Youtube API
YouTube is an extremely team-oriented, creative workplace where every single employee has a voice in the choices we make and the features we implement. We work together in small teams to design, develop, and roll out key features and products in very …
Improved Gadget Administration in Google Sites with the FSCT
March 4th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Thousands of businesses and schools have been using Google Sites as a collaboration platform for teams, classes, or entire intranets.In the past year, we’ve helped simplify the site creation process with site templates and let businesses create domain-…
Over 4,000 developers at Google I/O 2010
March 4th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
As of today, this year’s Google I/O conference has sold out and registration is closed. That means more than 4,000 developers will be joining us on May 19-20 at Moscone West in San Francisco.Like years past, I/O will feature over 90 in-depth sessions a…
Custom search and data liberation in Translator Toolkit
March 4th, 2010 | by jessicang | published in Google Translate
Yesterday, we released some cool, new features in Google Translator Toolkit. Google Translator Toolkit is a language translation service for professional and amateur translators that builds on Google Translate and makes translation faster and easier.C…
March 4th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Tens of millions of people in the U.S. experience some kind of hearing impairment and recent studies have predicted that over 700 million people worldwide will suffer from hearing impairment by 2015. To address a clear need, the broadcast industry bega…
The forums, they are a-changin’
March 4th, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
iGoogle developers, your lives are about to get a bit easier. For the last few years, the iGoogle Developer Forum has been the place for gadget developers to discuss development of gadgets for iGoogle. Despite the name, the forum only provided help and…