How to have your (Cup)cake and eat it too
July 12th, 2010 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Adam Powell, his second touchy-feely outing in just a few weeks. I asked him to send me a better picture than we ran last time, and got this in response. Photo by our own Romain Guy. — Tim Bray]Android developers concerned with tar…
HTML5 features now in Safari too
July 12th, 2010 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Michael Davidson, Software EngineerWe’ve been posting a bunch recently about new Gmail features built on top of HTML5 and other advancements in browser platforms, but so far you’ve only be able to drag in attachments and drag images into mess…
Our highlights from Vidcon
July 12th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Wow. Let’s hope vlogbrothers Hank and John Green are somewhere tropical right now, resting up after the coup they just pulled off in Vidcon 2010. The sold-out online video conference took over L.A.’s Hyatt Regency Century Plaza from July 9 -11 in a…
July 12th, 2010 | by Ryan Boyd | published in Google Apps, Google Code
Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sites and all Google Apps were designed as cloud-based services from day one. Google’s web-centric approach allows any application to work seamlessly on any device with a browser, allowing users to work when, where, and h…
July 12th, 2010 | by Ali Pasha | published in Google Code
Sharing the joy of building software with someone that doesn’t have an engineering background is hard. Today it got a little easier with App Inventor for Android.App Inventor for Android is a Google Labs project that makes it possible to create compl…
July 12th, 2010 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code
We are proud to announce a new release of the Google Data API .NET SDK. This new release, version 1.6, adds support for the latest Contacts and Documents services, as well as support for Google Analytics. It also sports a very easy to use ResumableUplo…
A Guide to Getting Started with Google drawings
July 12th, 2010 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Last year we published Getting Started Guides for spreadsheets, documents, and presentations — because using a product for the first time can sometimes be challenging. People have found these very helpful, so we’ve created a Getting Started Guide fo…
Analytics Intelligence Tips: Custom Alerts
July 12th, 2010 | by Jeff Gillis | published in Google Analytics
Last week, we shared a video on how to get the most out of your automatic alerts. Now that you’re familiar with automatic alerts, you know that Google Analytics has an intelligence engine that monitors your traffic and posts alerts when it sees somet…
What’s new with the DoubleClick Benchmarks Report 2009 Year-in-Review
July 12th, 2010 | by Pamela Eng | published in Google DoubleClick
We published the DoubleClick Benchmarks Report in 2009 to give advertisers and agencies a resource to measure their display campaigns’ performance against industry norms. As a result of feedback and interest from our clients and others in the industr…
Happy Obon Festival
July 12th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
Wondering why the orkut logo is floating on a series of paper lanterns today? Hint: it’s not because we wanted to improve the sign-in page’s ambiance.
Today’s doodle is inspired by the Obon Festival, a highly traditional event (over 500 years old!) in Japan and around the world honoring one’s ancestors. Each year, throngs of people gather to witness and participate in the Bon Odori folk dance and launch paper lanterns on rivers– hoping to light the return path of their ancestor’s souls.
It’s a pretty incredible festival to experience, but you don’t have to be in Japan to participate. Join the Japan community on orkut and find out if there’s an Obon Festival celebration taking place near you.
Posted by Koji Pereira, Google designer
Google Summer of Code BoF at USENIX
July 12th, 2010 | by Carol Smith | published in Google Open Source
USENIX is a technical organization that has a lot of community members associated with our open source efforts as well as lots of strong ties to the research community. A couple weeks ago I attended the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC). Googler…