Seeking the Americas’ brightest young minds for a spot at Zeitgeist Americas 2011
July 7th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This year, we’re mixing up our annual Zeitgeist conferences with the launch of Young Minds, a competition hosted by youth engagement agency Livity, supported by Google and hosted on YouTube. Starting this week, we’re searching for 12 inspirational …
The go_faster Parameter
July 7th, 2011 | by Scott Lininger | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Scott Lininger, SketchUp TeamSo I’ve been sitting in on a lot of product demos recently from some great Ruby API developers, and in a couple of cases they did not know about the “go_faster” parameter.The “go_faster” parameter, you say. What’s…
July 7th, 2011 | by Brian Hendricks | published in Google Earth
On July 9, South Sudan will officially be independent, becoming Africa’s 54th state.In anticipation of this significant development, the World Bank, UNOSAT, RCMRD, Satellite Sentinel Project and Google organized a South Sudan Community Mapping event …
July 7th, 2011 | by James Whittaker | published in Google Testing, Uncategorized
Attending conferences can be a great way to network and learn new concepts. However, taking those concepts back to your office and trying to convince your team apply them can be daunting. In order to make GTAC attendees more successful at implementing …
July 7th, 2011 | by Lisa Ding | published in Google Blogger Buzz, Uncategorized
Posted by Bruce Polderman, Product ManagerHello Bloggers! I’m relatively new to the Blogger team, but have been a Product Manager on Google’s “Geo” team since 2006, specifically for the Google 3D Warehouse. Product Managers work closely with so…
July 7th, 2011 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Beginning this week, you’ll be able to go beyond simply playing your videos within Google Docs — you can now insert your videos into Google Sites, embed them anywhere on the web, and caption them for your viewers. Embed videos in Google SitesWhile o…
July 7th, 2011 | by Nick | published in Google Analytics, Uncategorized
With our recent Social Plugin Analytics launch you now have the ability to analyse how users engage with any social plugin such as Google’s +1 button and Twitter’s Tweet button. Now it’s time for the lowdown on how to set this feature up to work …
July 7th, 2011 | by effie | published in Google Mobile, Uncategorized
(Cross-posted from the Google Docs blog)Google Docs is about collaboration, but as many of us know, others often rely on us even when we’re nowhere near a computer. That’s why we’re excited to bring the features you need to your tablet and mobile…
July 7th, 2011 | by Peter Harbison | published in Google Docs, Google Enterprise
Posted by: Hossein Attar, Software Engineer(Cross-posted to the Mobile blog and Docs Blog) Google Docs is about collaboration, but as many of us know, others often rely on us even when we’re nowhere near a computer. That’s why we’re excited to b…
July 7th, 2011 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
Google Docs is about collaboration, but as many of us know, others often rely on us even when we’re nowhere near a computer. That’s why we’re excited to bring the features you need to your tablet and mobile device’s browser. Today, we’ve update…
July 7th, 2011 | by Lat | published in Google Earth
(Cross-posted on the Official SketchUp Blog)Looking for new 3D cities to explore in far off places? Well, you’re in luck! We’ve been hard at work expanding our 3D coverage by adding ten of thousands of 3D buildings to these cities:Berkeley, Calif…
July 7th, 2011 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp, Uncategorized
Looking for new 3D cities to explore in far off places? Well, you’re in luck! We’ve been hard at work expanding our 3D coverage by adding tens of thousands of 3D buildings to these cities:Cologne, GermanyThe Hague, NetherlandsBerkeley, California…
“Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android
July 7th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted from the Mobile and Lat Long Blogs)One way we bring you new product features is through Google Labs—a collection of fun, experimental features you can turn on if you’re interested in the functionality. In fact, Google Maps itself star…
“Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android
July 7th, 2011 | by Brian Hendricks | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)One way we bring you new product features is through Google Labs—a collection of fun, experimental features you can turn on if you’re interested in the functionality. In fact, Google Maps itself started as …
“Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android
July 7th, 2011 | by Brian Hendricks | published in Google Mobile, Uncategorized
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)One way we bring you new product features is through Google Labs—a collection of fun, experimental features you can turn on if you’re interested in the functionality. In fact, Google Maps itself started as …