What’s new on orkut?
July 6th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
Since we launched the new version of orkut, back in 2009, so much has changed around here! Because the new orkut was built on top of cutting edge technologies, we were able to add cool new features and improvements to orkut like never before.
With launches happening every month, we don’t want you to miss out on any action! That’s why we created a one-stop link for all the monthly updates on what’s new on orkut: www.orkut.com/whatsnew
This link was added to the right column of this blog, and will also be added to the orkut footer itself, so you can keep watching that space to see what’s been keeping us busy.
You can also follow all the updates on that page by subscribing to it on Google Reader. Stay tuned!
Posted by Sagari Venkata, orkut operations team
July 6th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
As a former professional cyclist, nothing beats the thrill of being in the peloton and racing towards the finish line. Although I’ve traded in my cycling career for life as a Googler, I’m still a fan and enjoy watching my former teammates and frien…
July 5th, 2010 | by Evelyn O'Keeffe | published in Google Analytics, Google Conversions
Late last week, we made a change that caused some visits and campaign data to be processed incorrectly. All data was properly collected, but your reports may currently be missing some visits and campaigns information for the dates June 24th through Jun…
July 4th, 2010 | by Elaine Filadelfo | published in Google Earth
We’re happy to announce our latest imagery update, and with America’s 234th birthday today, it’s fitting that we’ve got some great updates for over a dozen cities in the US. Maybe I just have summer travel on the brain, but much of what caught …
July 3rd, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
Think riding a bike is easy? Try riding one for 2240 miles with only 2 days of rest. Sound crazy? Well if you’re competing in this year’s Tour de France, that’s exactly what you’ll be doing.
This year, the Tour de France is celebrating its 97th anniversary, and is certain to continue its tradition of bringing together some of the world’s top cyclists for a fierce and grueling competition.
It’s a sight to behold, so the orkut team thought we’d create a doodle to pay tribute to all of the athletes and their fans:
Join the Tour de France community to get to know the others like you who are excited about the race. And don’t leave your bike in the garage, include it in your routine and forget about that traffic!
Posted by Carlos Aranha, Googler and bike commuter
UPDATE: Experience the Tour de France like never before! Follow Team HTC – Columbia in real-time as they make their way through the 3,642 kilometers of the Tour de France. The nine riders on Team HTC – Columbia are carrying HTC Legend phones that use My Tracks to capture their location along with their power, heart rate, cadence and speed. Visit www.google.com/mytrackstour and see a Google Map showing the riders’ location and their telemetry data.
July 3rd, 2010 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
The most difficult moment in Shakira’s musical career? Her thoughts on her song being picked as the official World Cup song instead of an African artist? The one question she’s always wanted to answer? You asked, and today, Shakira answers.Last wee…
July 2nd, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Before we head into the holiday weekend, wanted to update you on a couple of things that went down in sunny San Bruno recently:Processing progress status: Those of you who upload know that there’s a short period of time between uploading a video and it…
July 2nd, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: Today’s guest bloggers are Aaron McCarthy, IT Director for Limbach Facility Services, Cristine Leifheit, Team Lead. McCarthy and Leifheit recently spearheaded the move to Google Apps for Limbach’s 500 employees. A mechanical contra…
Google Apps highlights – 7/2/2010
July 2nd, 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.In the last couple of weeks, we added a set of new features to help you handle v…
July 2nd, 2010 | by Trevor Claiborne | published in Google Analytics
Late last week, we made a change that caused some visits and campaign data to be processed incorrectly. All data was properly collected, but your reports may currently be missing some visits and campaigns information for the dates June 24th through Jun…
June’s Discussion Forum Hot Topic
July 2nd, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
In this month’s edition of “Discussion Forum: Hot Topics”, I’d like to address an issue that’s come up in a few discussion threads over the past month – whether it’s possible to run ads for multiple websites or domains owned by your organiz…
Strike you’re out! Or maybe not?
July 2nd, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Imagine you’ve spent hours editing and shooting your latest YouTube video, when only a few days after its debut on the site, the video comes down and you’ve received — what? — a strike for a violation of our Community Guidelines? Is this baseball…
What’s new in the Ad Planner 1000
July 2nd, 2010 | by Pamela Eng | published in Google DoubleClick
In May we introduced the Ad Planner 1000, a list of the top 1,000 global sites on the web by unique users as measured by Ad Planner. It’s a great reference for checking out the most popular sites on the web and observing interesting trends in this la…
July 2nd, 2010 | by Ellen Petry Leanse | published in Google Enterprise
Editor’s note: For this week’s guest blog post, we head to Plymouth, England to hear from Jon Stacey, a partner at Riley Chartered Accountants, an eighteen strong firm of Chartered Accountants. Riley offers accounting, tax and business development …
July 2nd, 2010 | by acd | published in Google Wave
Over the course of the last week, we held 5 days of mini-conferences on different Google developer technologies in the Google Sydney office. Since some developers couldn’t get time off work (or life :)) to come to the event in person, I wanted to make …