Designing an infinite digital bookcase
October 18th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
(Cross-posted on the Google Code blog)
As digital designers, we often think about how to translate traditional media into a virtual space. Recently, we thought about the bookcase. What would it look like if it was designed to hold digital books?
A di…
October 18th, 2011 | by Inside Google Book Search | published in Google Books
Posted by Mireya Sémelas, Google eBooks StrategistMy beloved grandmother loves to talk to others about her grandchildren and how proud she is of what each one of us has become. Although, I always worried — actually, I had solid evidence — that she d…
Making search more secure
October 18th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
We’ve worked hard over the past few years to increase our services’ use of an encryption protocol called SSL, as well as encouraging the industry to adopt stronger security standards. For example, we made SSL the default setting in Gmail in January…
Google Geo Teachers Institutes bring innovative educators together
October 18th, 2011 | by Gopal Shah | published in Google Earth
Educators have created many exciting lessons with Google’s tools. These tools help students learn about the world in fun ways. Recently they had the opportunity to share this work with peers from all over the US at two Google Geo Teachers Institute e…
Making search more secure: Accessing search query data in Google Analytics
October 18th, 2011 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
As search becomes an increasingly customized experience, particularly for signed in users, we believe that protecting these personalized search results is important. As part of that effort, today the Google Search team announced that SSL Search on http…
Making search more secure
October 18th, 2011 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Evelyn Kao, Product Manager (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) We’ve worked hard over the past few years to increase our services’ use of an encryption protocol called SSL, as well as encouraging the industry to adopt stronger se…
New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions
October 18th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By Dominic Mazzoni, Software EngineerInterested in making your Chrome Extension (or packaged app) talk using synthesized speech? Chrome now includes a Text-to-Speech (TTS) API that’s simple to use, powerful, and flexible for users.Let’s sta…
Google Geo Teachers Institutes bring innovative educators together
October 18th, 2011 | by Gopal Shah | published in Google SketchUp
[Cross-posted from the Lat Long blog]Educators have created many exciting lessons with Google’s tools. These tools help students learn about the world in fun ways. Recently they had the opportunity to share this work with peers from all over the US a…
A fresh look at Google presentations
October 18th, 2011 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Whether you want to wow your professor with an end-of-year presentation, persuade friends to join the study abroad program, or share a dynamic book report with classmates, the new Google presentations can help. With more than 50 new format and design f…
A fresh start for Google presentations
October 18th, 2011 | by Lauren Kolodny | published in Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Enterprise
Posted by: Steven Saviano, Software Engineer(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google Docs Blog.) A year and a half ago, we released completely new document, spreadsheet and drawing editors. Google Docs has been picking up speed ever sin…
A fresh start for Google presentations
October 18th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog, Uncategorized
A year and a half ago, we released completely new document, spreadsheet and drawing editors. Google Docs has been picking up speed ever since with more than 60 new features and millions of new users. Today we’re rounding out the suite by previewing a…
October 18th, 2011 | by Google Docs | published in Google Docs
A year and a half ago, we released completely new document, spreadsheet and drawing editors. Google Docs has been picking up speed ever since with more than 60 new features and millions of new users. Today we’re rounding out the suite by previewing a…
How Google Analytics can help improve your online checkout
October 18th, 2011 | by Google Analytics | published in Google Analytics
[The following is a follow-up post for a video (see above) that we made about websites that are difficult to use. Please watch, share and comment!] Poor “nick4ever”. All he wants to do is buy a loaf of bread from the supermarket, but the store’s polici…
UPDATE: More Hack4Transparancy for everyone
October 17th, 2011 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago we told you about the Hack4Transparancy event, bringing techies together November 8th and 9th in the European Parliament for an all-expenses-paid good time eating, talking, and making important data accessible to everyone.Well, now we
Bring OpenSocial gadgets to Moodle
October 17th, 2011 | by Jonathan LeBlanc | published in Google OpenSocial
We present here a plugin that allows to bring OpenSocial gadgets into Moodle. OpenSocial gadgets are rendered via Apache Shindig (extension of version 2.0 that supports Spaces).Moodle is a Learning Management System used in many Educational Institution…