Sign-Up for the Google Grants Workshop by Friday, July 9th
July 8th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
In case you haven’t already heard, we will be holding a Google Grants workshop at our Mountain View, California campus in early September. This two-day event is designed for existing Google Grantee organizations interested in strategies to maximize the…
Democracy Photo Challenge
July 7th, 2010 | by Picasa Team | published in Google Photos (Picasa)
Posted by Michael Bolognino, Product Marketing ManagerWhat does democracy mean to you? This is a personal question whose answer can be expressed in many ways–with lines of prose, a video documentary, or a even single photo.To inspire people around the…
YouTube Leanback offers effortless viewing
July 7th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
A click here, a search there, a browse on this page — sometimes it can take more than a few flicks of the wrist and finger taps to get your daily dose of video. Luckily, YouTube Leanback wants you to conserve your energy for actually watching more vid…
July 7th, 2010 | by Sarah Nahm | published in Google Chrome
Last year we launched Chrome Experiments, a website showcasing innovative web experiments built with open standards like JavaScript and HTML5. Today we’re pleased to announce that the site now points to 100 experiments — each one made, hosted, and s…
Android Love at OSCON
July 7th, 2010 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
Android developers who aren’t already going should take a moment to check out the OSCON 2010 schedule, and give serious thought to a trip to Portland in a couple of weeks. OSCON is one of the world’s premiere events for those who care about Open Sourc…
YouTube Mobile gets a kick start
July 7th, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
It’s well known that the mobile Internet is huge and growing fast; what’s surprising is exactly how fast. According to a recent report, within five years more users will connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs. YouTube consumpti…
July 7th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog)We’re always looking for opportunities to partner up with organizations that promote diversity and encourage women to excel in technology. Girl Geek Dinners is a world-wide initiative that does exac…
July 7th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: Continuing our “Going Google Everywhere” series, we’ve invited Stijn Van Vreckem, Founder and Managing Director of XAOP, a small Belgium-based software development company specializing in content integration, to talk about a quick …
July 7th, 2010 | by Mistique Cano | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Mistique Cano, public policy communications Liquid nitrogen. Deconstruction. Physics. Three terms not typically associated with cooking. Unless, of course, you’re talking about Chef José Andrés, of Jaleo, Oyamel, Zaytinya, Café Atlantico…
Upcoming Datastore Downtime
July 7th, 2010 | by The App Engine Team | published in Google App Engine
We have two scheduled upcoming maintenance periods for the Datastore:
July 7th, 2010 – 5pm-6pm Pacific Time (July 8th, 0:00 GMT) – Later today
July 14th, 2010 – 5pm-6pm Pacific Time (July 15th, 0:00 GMT)
As part of our on going Datastore reliabilit…
Happy Festival of San Fermin!
July 7th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
If you’re in Pamplona, Spain between July 6 and 14, you’ll be able to watch one of the world’s more interesting events, the Festival of San Fermin.
Commonly referred to as the Running of the Bulls, it attracts thousands of people from all the world. The highlight is the “encierro,” a half a mile route through the historical streets of Pamplona where people do all they can to escape from the bulls.
This year, we decided the orkut logo should participate in the festivities:
To learn more about the San Fermin Festival, join the Spain community. If you’re actually participating this year, be sure to upload your photos so that your orkut friends can see all of your outtakes!
Posted by Barbara Veloso, Google designer
July 7th, 2010 | by Nate Weinstein | published in Youtube
Every day, 6.7 billion people view the world through their own unique lens. Imagine if there was a way to collect all of these perspectives, to aggregate and mold them into the cohesive story of a single day on earth.Today, we’re excited to announce …
July 6th, 2010 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
Six months ago, we released a bevy of new articles to help with your coding through the dark winter months. OK, they were not so dark South of the equator, but here in Mountain View, well, it rained a few times. Anyway, now that it’s winter South of…
July 6th, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
As we just announced on the Google Australia blog, Google Commerce Search is extending its availability beyond the U.S. and U.K. to include Aussie retailers. With this launch, Australian e-commerce sites will be able to respond to the growing proportio…
July 6th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Fiction: AdSense disables accounts and issues warnings at random.Fact: We rely upon a detailed set of guidelines when looking at policy violations, and these policies are published in our Help Center. Our intent is to keep Google’s content and search n…