July 2nd, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Student Blog
Computer science is a tough field to teach, especially at the high school level. Not only do you need to persuade teenagers that coding isn’t too geeky to attempt, but since CS is a growing field, it’s hard for teachers to keep up with all the late…
CS4HS: helping high school teachers reach their potential
July 2nd, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Computer science is a tough field to teach, especially at the high school level. Not only do you need to persuade teenagers that coding isn’t too geeky to attempt, but since CS is a growing field, it’s hard for teachers to keep up with all the late…
July 2nd, 2010 | by Carol Smith | published in Google Open Source
Following up on my post from a few weeks ago, I’d like to give you all some more statistics about our Google Summer of Code™ program participants this year. • We have 69 student countries represented this year. New countries represented by studen…
July 2nd, 2010 | by Chang Kim | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Guest post by Boštjan ‘Bos’ Špetič, Zemanta CEOAbout a year ago this blog featured Zemanta, a tool that helps you get more out of blogging. Previously, Blogger users could install a Zemanta browser plugin to recommend content while you blog, enablin…
Decide who from YouTube will perform on America’s Got Talent
July 2nd, 2010 | by Mia | published in Youtube
The submission phase of our America’s Got Talent contest has closed, and now comes the important part: Vote for your favorite YouTube performer here and one grand prize winner will perform live on the August 10 episode of the NBC show.From the looks of…
Join an AdWords focus group in Mountain View, California
July 1st, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
“Focus on the user and all else will follow.” That’s always been Google’s philosophy. It’s also why we’d like to talk to you about how we can best serve you as an advertiser.On Wednesday, July 14th, 2010, we’ll be hosting advertisers at our headquarter…
Finding soccer stats with the Google Search Appliance
July 1st, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
For the past few weeks, many football fans have been living and breathing just one thing: the World Cup. When they’re not watching on the matches, many people have flocked to FIFA.com, the source for the latest info on players, standings and scores.W…
July 1st, 2010 | by Hicham Alaoui | published in Google Enterprise
We’re right in the middle of football fever worldwide and as the number of competing teams dwindles, the interest is only growing. Of course, many of these eyeballs around the world are turning to FIFA.com to get the latest scores, updates, and analy…
July 1st, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Today, almost half of all airline tickets are sold online. But for many people, finding the right flight at the best price is a frustrating experience; pricing and availability change constantly, and even a simple two city itinerary involves literally …
July 1st, 2010 | by Hicham Alaoui | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
The web is the epicenter of innovation, and Google’s multi-tenant infrastructure lets us push improvements to our customers seamlessly, enabling businesses that have Gone Google to move beyond the slow, multi-year innovation cycles typical of legacy …
July 1st, 2010 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
Authorization tokens were introduced with v2009 as part of the authorization mechanism adopted for the new version, ClientLogin. This new approach allows us to separate authorization from API requests, making it a two step process: first retrieve a tok…
Grandmother’s guide to video chat
July 1st, 2010 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)Often when I tell people that I work on Google video chat, I hear stories about how they’ve used it to give a video tour of a new home to friends, introduce a baby to relatives, keep in touch with traveling loved one…
Grandmother’s guide to video chat
July 1st, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)Often when I tell people that I work on Google video chat, I hear stories about how they’ve used it to give a video tour of a new home to friends, introduce a baby to relatives, keep in touch with traveling loved one…
July 1st, 2010 | by Jason | published in Google Talk
(Cross-posted from the Gmail Blog)
Often when I tell people that I work on Google video chat, I hear stories about how they’ve used it to give a video tour of a new home to friends, introduce a baby to relatives, keep in touch with traveling loved ones… the list goes on. This got me thinking about how convenient— and sometimes even magical — the experience of video chatting is.
So when I saw that my grandma, who loves keeping in touch with family more than anyone, wasn’t set up to use video chat, I decided to help her get started. While doing so, it occurred to me how many people there must be out there in similar situations. If only there were a simple way that any grandmother could use to get started on her own…
Introducing the Grandmother’s Guide to Video Chat:
This video, along with a printable guide, can be accessed at google.com/chat/grandma. Feel free to share this link with your grandma—or grandpa—or, well, anyone who wants to video chat to help get them up and running.
And after your grandma is all set up, take a screenshot of you video chatting with her and email it to to share it with us. The first 100 people to do so will get a t-shirt, printable guide and VHS of the video (because if your grandma’s like mine, she’s still a cassette kind of girl).
In a few weeks, we’ll feature the best photos submitted on the Gmail blog.
Posted by Jason Toff, Grandson of Evelyn & Ida
July 1st, 2010 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Jason Toff, Grandson of Evelyn & IdaOften when I tell people that I work on Google video chat, I hear stories about how they’ve used it to give a video tour of a new home to friends, introduce a baby to relatives, keep in touch with traveli…