April 12th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Today we are hosting nearly 400 CIOs and IT professionals from around the world at Atmosphere, our inaugural event at the Googleplex dedicated to cloud computing. The discussion is centered on how companies can focus their technology expertise on proj…
April 12th, 2010 | by Carol Smith | published in Google Open Source
Our application deadline for student applications to Google Summer of Code™ has now passed. Thank you to all the students who applied this year! We got 5,539 proposals in all.If you are a student waiting to find out if you will be accepted into the p…
April 12th, 2010 | by Hicham Alaoui | published in Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Enterprise
Over the last year, we’ve been hard at work rewriting the infrastructure underlying Google Docs to take advantage of the latest advances in modern browsers. Our updated codebase will help us deliver richer functionality more quickly, and over the ne…
April 12th, 2010 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
They say a house is only as good as its foundation, and we believe the same holds true for web applications like Google Docs. With our old foundation, we could continue delivering most features you wanted quickly, but over time it became clear that so…
April 12th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Guest post written by the team at Bluerank, a Google Analytics Authorized ConsultantOnline forms. You enter information into them all the time. You fill them out to make online purchases, sign up for things, sign into things, complete surveys, and more…
April 12th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Urs Hoelzle, Senior Vice President, Operations and Google FellowFor the past decade, we have been working to make our data centers as efficient as possible; we now use less than half the energy to run Google’s data centers than the industry a…
April 12th, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps, Google Docs
If your username is being collected when you submit to a form created in Google Spreadsheets, you now have a new option to also receive an email summary of your responses for your reference.Editions included:Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partn…
April 10th, 2010 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
Today, YouTube and See3 Communications announced the winners of the YouTube Nonprofit Video Awards, a celebration of the best videos from organizations in the YouTube Nonprofit Program over the past year. The four victorious videos are spotlighted on t…
April 9th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. – Ed.Here’s what’s happening this week in search:Site speed in web search rankingWe made an announcement today ab…
April 9th, 2010 | by Chris Dale | published in Youtube
This Sunday, April 11, a handful of us here at YouTube will head to Los Angeles for the second annual Streamy Awards. The Streamy Awards are presented by the International Academy of Web Television to honor great original Web programming and visionarie…
April 9th, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
In a blog post I wrote awhile back, I talked about using SketchUp Pro to generate tabular reports — lists, basically — from the groups and components in your models. I created a simple picket fence, then generated a report that helped me figure out h…
April 9th, 2010 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
If I told you that Google had helped fund an ARM code optimised version of the Theora video codec, most people’s reaction would be immediately to skip forward to the next blog entry. Audio and video codecs are the classic example of things that no o…
April 9th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Earlier today, our Websearch team announced that we now consider the speed it takes for a website to load when ranking it in Google search results on google.com. As an AdSense publisher and website owner, you may have questions about this change, so w…
April 9th, 2010 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Reader
Posted by Brian Shih, Product Manager
Wow. Who knew your hunger for points and badges was so insatiable? While ReaderAdvantage™ was a joke, we actually ordered and are distributing Reader badges as part of the joke. Unfortunately, so many people ordered them that we ran through our stockpile a mere 27 minutes after we announced the program. Which got us to thinking… just how much do our users read?
A few stats about the badge submissions:
For comparison, the average Reader user reads about 105 items a day, which isn’t bad unless you want to get to the Totally Sweet level of over 314,159 lifetime read items – at that rate it’s going to take you over 8 years to get there. And if you’re aiming to join the (recently founded) One Million Club, we’re talking over 26 years. So, uh, time to start reading?
While we were at it, we took a look at what users are starring, sharing, and liking the most. While many of the most-starred items are reference posts, collections of tips, or tutorials from our friends over at Lifehacker, the most starred item lately is actually this hilarious video. That same video also shows up near the top of the latest and most liked or shared items, along with a collection of interesting images, designs, and bizarrely useless machines. It’s clear that the crowd is onto something here, so if you’re not getting these items in your current feeds, maybe it’s time to check out Reader Play or the Recommended items section in Reader.
P.S. We’re shipping the badges soon. Really.
April 9th, 2010 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Reader
Wow. Who knew your hunger for points and badges was so insatiable? While ReaderAdvantage™ was a joke, we actually ordered and are distributing Reader badges as part of the joke. Unfortunately, so many people ordered them that we ran through our s…