April 22nd, 2010 | by Jason | published in Google Talk
If you’re like most people, you probably have different groups of friends. Now, with Google Chat in iGoogle, you can connect these friends by suggesting people they might already know, or who share their interests.In addition, Google Chat will automa…
April 22nd, 2010 | by Jessica Smallman | published in Google Checkout
Ed Note: This continues our series of posts about features that make running your business on Google Checkout even easier.As the US tax season comes to an end, the Checkout team’s been doing a lot of thinking about taxes too. We’re happy to ann…
3 Buzz tips: Deliver posts to your inbox, disable comments, and favicons for links
April 22nd, 2010 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Matt Steiner, Software EngineerWe’ve been constantly updating Google Buzz, adding features that you’ve requested and making small tweaks that improve the experience for power users. Here are three things that have rolled out over the last cou…
Sometimes blue text just isn’t enough
April 22nd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
Nearly every iGoogle user has an RSS feed or two on their homepage – from top news to celebrity gossip, recipes, and much much more. In true Google fashion, we originally launched RSS support with a simple headline-only presentation. However, we all know the power of pictures, and so, we’re happy to announce the addition of image support to our standard RSS gadget.
With this new feature, users have three different display views.
Headline only
SlideshowHeadline and lead story
When users go to iGoogle today, they’ll notice that not all feeds have the same view. We default each feed to what we believe is the optimal display based on the images currently available in the feed. Of course, users can change the display setting by choosing “edit settings” in the drop down menu for each feed.
These new views not only create a better experience for users, but also give publishers an opportunity to more easily expose rich content, often already present in their RSS feeds. To take advantage of this new feature, publishers simply need to add images and associated Media RSS and/or enclosure elements to their existing RSS feeds. We’ll then grab the images, resize them down as necessary, and provide hosting/caching. Additionally, we’ll make the images clickable and display a 150 character snippet in the “Headline and lead story” view.
Here are a sampling of feeds to try out:
- CNN
- NYTimes
- BBC
- The Economist
- Time.com
- People Magazine
- Entertainment Weekly
- Wikihow
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National Geographic (try it in slideshow mode)
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Simply Recipes (try it in slideshow mode)
This feature is launching in the US over the next day with full international support coming soon. Please see our feed publisher instructions for more information.
Posted by James Lee, iGoogle Engineer
Sometimes blue text just isn’t enough
April 22nd, 2010 | by Rob Russell (Google) | published in iGoogle
Nearly every iGoogle user has an RSS feed or two on their homepage – from top news to celebrity gossip, recipes, and much much more. In true Google fashion, we originally launched RSS support with a simple headline-only presentation. However, we all kn…
Webinar: Extending Google Apps with the Google Apps Marketplace
April 22nd, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
If you’re a Google Apps user, you’re already running part of your business in the cloud, and realizing the benefits around speed, efficiency and collaboration it brings. The Google Apps Marketplace enables those same cloud benefits for your entire busi…
Happy Earth Day!
April 22nd, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
Today marks one of our favorite holidays, Earth Day, which is a day designed to inspire appreciation and awareness for the environment. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out today’s doodle in honor of the special day.
We thought we’d take this opportun…
April 22nd, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
In February, we announced the roll-out of Google’s next generation ad server, DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP). Today, we completed the upgrade of Google Ad Manager publishers to DFP Small Business, a streamlined version of DFP designed to meet the n…
Content ID and Fair Use
April 22nd, 2010 | by Aaron | published in Youtube
Over the past decade, the evolution of the Internet has altered the landscape for both traditional media companies and the doctrine of fair use, and the media industry has tried to keep up. The new ways that consumers create and distribute content are …
Eating our way through Earth Day
April 22nd, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Today, Earth Day turns 40 and is now celebrated in more than 198 countries. Here at Google, we’ll be focusing on one of the planet’s more enjoyable aspects: its food. (Though, to be fair, we’re always focused on food around here). Our offices are…
April 22nd, 2010 | by Elaine Filadelfo | published in Google Earth
In 2008, Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol joined the Google Earth Outreach team to train the Surui people of the Brazilian rainforest on Google tools to help preserve their way of life. One year later, in 2009, another team went back to the Amazon to…
April 22nd, 2010 | by Elaine Filadelfo | published in Google Earth
The Suggest feature for Google Maps helps you find what you want faster and more accurately by showing search suggestions for the most relevant places, businesses and points of interest as you type. We experimentally launched suggest for Google Maps i…
April 22nd, 2010 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
On April 22, 1970, 22 million people participated in the first-ever Earth Day, which was designed to raise awareness about the environment and inspire citizens to take action to protect it.
Forty years later, Earth Day has become a global phenomenon. …
April 22nd, 2010 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
You might remember that six months ago we announced that on April 22, 2010 we would be sunsetting many v13 services. Since then, we’ve posted reminders over the last 100 days right here on the blog. It’s finally April 22, so today we’re sunsetti…
St Louis is now available in Building Maker
April 21st, 2010 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
Today, we’re pleased to announce the “Gateway to the West”, Saint Louis, Missouri, is available for modeling in Google Building Maker. Building Maker is a fun, easy-to-use 3D modeling tool for adding 3D buildings to Google Earth. Choose St. Louis…