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Editors note: Today’s guest blogger is Silicon Valley veteran Andy Bechtolsheim. While at Stanford University, Bechtolsheim devised a powerful computer (which he called a workstation) because he was tired of waiting for computer time on the central …
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On Monday, several thousand high school students will descend on San Jose for this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). A project of the Society for Science & the Public, Intel ISEF brings together more than 1,500 high …
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.This week was a big one for search. We announced a number of new enhancements:A new look for GoogleBy now, y…
This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label “Google Apps highlights” and subscribe to the series. – Ed.We’ve been busy over the last few weeks with improvements to make Google Apps mo…
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Our letter to data protection commissioners on privacy
Posted by Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy CounselToday, we responded to a letter that a group of data protection commissioners recently sent us about privacy at Google, relating to the launch of Buzz in particular. In our letter, we…
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Schools are (almost) out for the summer…and in for Apps
Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog.With school almost out for summer, things are hitting a frenzied end-of-year pace in classrooms; and life is similarly fast-paced for the Google’s Apps for Education team as we work with the s…
The latest beta release of the DFA WebServices API, version 1.10.2, will be released on May 8, 2010. Read the release notes (DFA sign-in required).Posted by Ruben Perez, Customer Solutions Consultant
(Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog)With school almost out for summer, things are hitting a frenzied end-of-year pace in classrooms; and life is similarly fast-paced for the Google’s Apps for Education team as we work with the schools adoptin…
Jak wielokrotnie robiliśmy w przeszłości, ekipa Google Reader poświęciła czas pomiędzy wypuszczaniem wiekszych projektów na pracę nad małymi usprawnieniami i naprawę istniejących błędów.
Oh wait, not that kind of Polish, this kind of polish.
As we’ve often done in the past, the Reader team has taken the time between major releases to work on small features and bug fixes. Here’s a round-up of the changes we’ve made over the past month:
We’ve added support for the HTML5 and tags, so that when you come across an awesome video you can share it in such a way that your mobile device-using friends can see it too.
We realize that our recommended items may not always hit the spot (though who wouldn’t like a water slide in their house). There is now a “Not interested” link at the bottom of recommended items, so that you can both hide that item and provide signals to our algorithms about the kinds of things you like and dislike.
Reader is the kind of application that people keep open in a tab all day. While it’s flattering that our users are so dedicated, we want to make sure that they don’t miss out on any new features and bug fixes that we release. We’ve therefore added a small banner that appears whenever we release a new version. If you’re in the middle of something, you can ignore it (and it’ll go away for a while), but if not, newest and shinier things are just a click away. Incidentally, today we built the 500th version of Reader; over the 5 years that we’ve worked on Reader, that works out to almost two builds a week.
A few improvements to Reader Play: When you hit space (or shift-space), you’re now automatically moved between posts, and for posts with multiple images, cycled through each image. We’ve also added made Play more configurable by letting you change the URL used:
If you add a welcome=0 query parameter, the welcome screen is skipped, even for new and signed-out users.
An autoplay=1 query parameter can be used to start moving through posts automatically.
A #feed/ fragment allows you to display a specific feed.
You can combine all these to make automatically playing slideshows of your favorite photoblogs.
Finally, we’ve done a few other small things, like the Home view loading faster, and the Send to functionality being less susceptible to being stymied by popup blockers when used with services such as Twitter.
The way we prioritized these tweaks and fixes was based on forum and Twitter feedback, so please keep it coming.
Jak wielokrotnie robiliśmy w przeszłości, ekipa Google Reader poświęciła czas pomiędzy wypuszczaniem wiekszych projektów na pracę nad małymi usprawnieniami i naprawę istniejących błędów.
Oh wait, not that kind of Polish, this kind of po…