June 21st, 2010 | by Naomi Bilodeau | published in Google Code, Youtube
Did you notice the new Interactive Transcript feature that lets you scan quickly through the full text of any owner-captioned video that you’re watching on YouTube? For videos from I/O, that means you can quickly scan through a 60 minute talk to find…
June 21st, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
This week the Google Enterprise team is excited to be participating in the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit. From today through Wednesday, IT and business executives responsible for information security, risk management, compliance, and busi…
June 21st, 2010 | by Chris Messina | published in Google Code
At About.com we’ve always valued coding and serving our Web pages efficiently. It’s good business sense: reducing operating costs while delivering on the promise of giving users the relevant, quality knowledge they need to quickly and easily accomplish…
June 21st, 2010 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Reto Meier AKA @retomeier, who wrote the book on Android App development. — Tim Bray]As a developer, I’m excited by Android’s potential as a single development platform that can make my apps available on a wide range of devices. …
June 21st, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
A popular question on our Webmaster Help Forum is in regard to best practices for organic link building. There seems to be some confusion, especially among less experienced webmasters, on how to approach the topic. Different perspectives have been shar…
June 21st, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: Today’s guest blogger is Kevin Crawford, Assistant General Manager for the City of Los Angeles Information Technology Agency. Kevin was part of a team of technology executives that chose Google Apps six months ago to support the city’s 3…
June 21st, 2010 | by Heaven | published in Google Mobile
In April 2009, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iOS and Android. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application’s underlying code which allows us to more rapidly develop and release new features that users have …
June 21st, 2010 | by Kristin Hall | published in Google Affiliate Network
To help retail sites get ready for the summer shopping season, the Google Commerce Search team launched Google Commerce Search 2.0 for retailers in the US and UK. The new version of Google Commerce Search gives merchants greater control and shoppers a …
June 21st, 2010 | by Google Apps Team | published in Google Apps
In the past six months, over 50 new features have been rolled out to Google Apps. Here are the ones customers have found most useful:Upload any file to Google DocsGoogle Apps users can easily upload and securely share any type of file internally and ex…
June 21st, 2010 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
Last week we started a blog series with WITNESS, a human rights video advocacy and training organization, highlighting the role that online video is playing in human rights advocacy. And though activists around the world have shown how powerful YouTube…
June 21st, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
It’s the longest day of the year, and time to prepare your ears. Not quite sure what I’m talking about? Allow me to explain: in countries all over the world, today is the World Music Day.
Created in France in 1982, the World Music Day (or “Fête de la Musique”) was envisioned as a way to encourage the people to pick up their abandoned instruments and start playing music again. The festival has taken place on the summer solstice of each year since then, and has spread to a number of different countries.
Never ones to be the left out of the fun, we created a special doodle to commemorate:
Concerts, shows, musicians jamming in the streets– all of these are core elements of what the Fête de la Musique is all about. While orkut may not be able to fly you to France so that you can join in the fun in person, we can certainly help you create your own personal music day at home:
- Join a music community and talk with other enthusiasts about your favorite genres, artists and songs
- Check out the Music iLike app and show off your favorite songs and artists
- If you play an instrument, join a related community (here are a few popular ones: guitar, piano, violin) to get advice and support from other musicians
- Use orkut promote to share videos that highlight your musical prowess with the orkut community. Just be sure to thank us when you get famous
Hope you enjoy the celebrations!
Posted by Marco Domingues, orkut operations team
Happy Fathers’ Day!
June 19th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
Today, in many countries all over the world, it’s Father’s Day. We all know how special fathers are, so it’s great to be able to take a day just to celebrate them. There are tons of great ways to show the fathers in your life how much you care about them, from letters and home-cooked meals, to something as simple as a phone call. Orkut’s also got a great set of tools for recognizing all that dads do:
- Send your dad a “Happy Fathers’ Day” scrap
- Join the Dad I Love You community to show your dad how much you appreciate him
- Create a photo album with all of your favorite memories of dad, and share it with your family
This Father’s Day is extra special for the orkut team as one of our own, Eduardo Thuler, just became a dad! We’ve already had the chance to congratulate him, but we wanted to be sure that we found a way to congratulate all of the rest of the dads, both new and veteran, out there. To do so, we created a special doodle for our homepage:
To all the fathers, congratulations and Happy Fathers’ Day!
Posted by Karen Callahan, orkut operations team
Football fever? Now you’ll never miss a game!
June 18th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
We hope you guys have been enjoying watching football this past week as much as we have – just one week in, and there’s already been some incredible games! With another week of group play left, all the teams’ schedules can be tough to keep track of, especially when you’re trying to schedule meetings or meals around important games.
Our friends on the Google Calendar team recently released some cool calendars to help keep track of all the games. All you need is a Google Calendar account (it can be under the same username and password you use to sign-in to orkut), and you’re all set! Then just check out each of the 32 team’s calendars and add the ones you’re following, so you don’t miss any games.
Once group play is over, if your team makes the next round, the calendar will automatically update with the new games as they’re announced. Once each game ends, the score will also show up in the event details.
And if you want to show all your orkut friends which team you’re cheering for, check out the new football themes on orkut. We have a theme for all 32 countries playing this year:
We wish your team the best of luck. Enjoy the rest of the tournament!
Posted by Igor Cananea and Ranveer Kunal, software engineers, and Charlie Kubal, Google Calendar team
Google Apps highlights – 6/18/2010
June 18th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
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.Over the last couple of weeks we introduced several new features to Google Docs,…
Caitlin Talks to a UI Designer
June 18th, 2010 | by Carolyn Lee | published in Google Student Blog
Episode 8 – Jonathan, UI DesignerI caught up with UI Designer Jonathan during a recent visit to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. Jonathan explained how he and the rest of the UI crew keep Google’s products fun, interactive and e…