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We launched YouTube Video Volunteers last June at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service (NCVS) to help nonprofits who struggle with creating great video, engage the passionate YouTube community, and introduce the idea that the Internet ca…

Posted by Roni Zeiger, MD, Chief Health StrategistToday the Institute of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are hosting an event called The Community Health Data Forum to highlight the power of transparency in health ca…

The sun is shining and the school year is ending – summer is here! And at Google, summertime means interns! Our summer interns, bright-eyed and ready to get to work, are currently arriving in Google offices around the globe.This summer, the Google for …

Posted by Wiktor Gworek, 20% task force (Krakow, Poland)

Last year we announced that we wanted to hear your wish list for features in Google Reader, and one of most highly requested features was the ability to rename folders and tags. Today we are rolling out this feature with a little bit of Polish help from Krakow.

You can rename folders and tags on the settings page:

And you can also edit these names right from the contextual menu in your subscription list.

Also, as we announced last week, today we’ve disabled offline access through Gears, and phased out support for older browsers.

As always, if you have any questions or comments, please head over to our help forums, or send us a message on Twitter.

Post by Wiktor Gworek, 20% task force (Krakow, Poland)

Last year we announced that we wanted to hear your wish list for features in Google Reader, and one of most highly requested features was the ability to rename folders and tags. Today we are rolli…

Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from the Open Source at Google Blog.

Google App Engine is a powerful system, designed to take all the pain of infrastructure management and performance scaling out of web application programming. App Engine applications are…

This year’s Google I/O was one to remember, with demos and presentations that showcased the power of HTML5 for consumers and businesses, as well as a complete proliferation of Android apps and devices (some of which ended up in the hands of attendees)….

This year’s Google I/O included a flurry of announcements and presentations for the App Engine team. Thanks to everyone who attended our sessions, stopped by the Sandbox, or came to meet the team at our office hours. It was great to meet all of you…

Fiction: Targetable placements are difficult to set up and don’t do anything for my siteFact: It only takes seconds to convert your custom channels into targetable placements. This simple change can help increase your visibility to advertisers, and b…

Posted by John Burchett, Public Policy Director of US State and Local, Latin America and CanadaThe Florida laws governing political advertising were first written in 1951. Back then phones looked like this and the Internet hadn’t even been invented.L…

We’re kicking off June with the start of a new round of webmaster Q&A on the Webmaster Central YouTube channel. You submitted and voted on questions for Matt Cutts to answer, and Matt sat in the studio for a full day sharing advice for webmasters…

Millions of people view, upload, share, and comment on YouTube videos every day. The vast majority of these people have good intentions, but as with any community, a few don’t. This month, we’re celebrating the 3rd Annual Internet Safety Month by spo…

If you want to learn more about Google Apps Script and meet the Apps Script team, here’s your chance! We will be holding an Apps Script hackathon in New York on Thursday, June 24 from 2pm-8pm.After we cover the basics of Apps Script, you can code al…

People often ask us what it really means to go Google – how it will impact their business and productivity? What are the actual savings? To answer some of those questions, we’ve built a little tool we’re calling the Go Google cloud calculator tha…

We’ve talked about the power of cloud computing and how millions of businesses have already gone Google by switching to Apps. But sometimes it’s hard to imagine what working in the cloud would really mean, and frequently, people ask us how they ca…