Today, we announce the release of Interactive Spaces, a new API and runtime which allows developers to build interactive applications for physical spaces.Imagine walking into a room where the room recognizes where you are and responds based on your pos…
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Analyzing your Google App Engine Logs with Google BigQuery
Developers know that logging and logs analysis can often mean the difference between delighting and disappointing users. With the Google App Engine LogService API, it’s easy to add logging to your App Engine App with just a few lines of code. But of …
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Making Google Analytics Content Experiments Even Better
A few weeks ago, we announced Google Analytics Content Experiments. Since our announcement, we have been busy making Content Experiments available to Google Analytics users and improving it based on your feedback. We’d like to tell you abou…
Today we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Landsat satellite program — now the longest-running continuous acquisition of satellite images of the Earth’s surface. Over the years, Landsat has collected petabytes of images offering an historic perspe…
Today, more than a billion Muslims around the world begin to observe the holy month of Ramadan, fasting from dawn to sunset. This year, we’re bringing some of the most venerable Ramadan traditions online.We’re sharing the Islamic prayers live from …
While some children spend their youth fascinated by model cars and legos, I was always more interested in aerial photography. For years I amassed a collection of books capturing this unique perspective of the world, and it was obvious from looking thro…
The Tokyo summer heat brings just enough of a breeze to ring my neighbor’s wind chime on his balcony but it’s not enough to stop the unbearable humidity from transforming into sweat. The onset of summer here coincides with my halfway point as an in…
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Maps for good: Google Earth Outreach Developer Grants 2012
In 2011, the Google Earth Outreach team awarded a first round of Developer Grants to organizations with outstanding mapping ideas. These grants support the technical development of maps and enable nonprofits to implement cutting-edge mapping technology…
Over the past few years we’ve heard two specific pieces of feedback from the YouTube API community:
Developers haveclamored for yearsfor a way of embedding a webcam YouTube upload widget on their web pages, similar to the webcam upload tool available atyoutube.com/my_webcam.
Developers who have usedYouTube Directin the past have asked for a simpler solution that doesn’t require the same level of technical expertise to set up and manage.
Knowing about this demand made us particularly excited for ourGoogle I/O announcementsof theYouTube Upload Widgetthat supports webcam uploads, andYouTube Direct Lite, both of which are now available for public use.
YouTube Upload Widget Using theYouTube Upload Widgeton your site is as simple asadding an , like so:
Developers who want more control over the uploads experience can use a fullJavaScript APIto initiate the widget, and listen for events related to the upload.
YouTube Direct Lite YouTube Direct Liteis a complete rewrite of the existingYouTube Directplatform. The goal of the project remains the same: make it possible to solicit videos from your users and then moderate those submissions into standard YouTube playlists for display. The difference is that YouTube Direct Lite is implemented purely in client-side HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and unlike with YouTube Direct, no Java App Engine deployment is needed. You can download the YouTube Direct Lite code, customize it, and deploy it on your own web server along with the rest of your site’s content. To make things even easier, we’re hosting a canonical deployment of YouTube Direct Lite that you could include on your pages without having to deploy anything at all—just add the appropriate
You can find a live example of YouTube Direct Lite integration, including the use of the YouTube Upload Widget, onthis sample page. Feel free to use that page to submit a video letting us know how you plan on using the new tools.
Bringing theYouTube Upload WidgetandYouTube Direct Liteto web developers and community maintainers will give you new tools to hear from (and see!) your community, and who knows what great things will come from that!
Cheers, —Eric Lundberg, Jeff Posnick and Vladimir Vuskovic, YouTube API Team
With a growing number of searches happening on mobile devices, it’s more important than ever to provide consumers with a positive mobile web experience when they click on your ads. We know that many of you are considering whether to build a mobile webs…
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Telling the full story with SketchUp Pro and LayOut
We often describe SketchUp as both design and communication software. Some folks don’t get the communication element, but for anyone who needs to share and collaborate with clients or partners, the fluid nature of SketchUp Pro and LayOut is essential.
Recently Nick Sonder, who runs a one-man shop for architectural design, sat down with us to talk about how he uses SketchUp Pro through the entire design process: using one 3D model as the basis for interior and exterior detailing, as well as for robust, unified, and precise construction documents used by contractors.
Posted by Mark Harrison, SketchUp Marketing
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Explore “This Exquisite Forest” with Chrome and London’s Tate Modern
This morning, in partnership with the Tate Modern in London, we released an online art experiment called This Exquisite Forest, which lets you collaborate with others to create animations and stories using a web-based drawing tool.Seven renowned artist…
The following post originally appeared on the Google Mobile Ads Blog.As more of your competitors Go Mo, building a mobile-friendly site becomes more of a priority for your business. Over the past two years alone, mobile search traffic has increased fiv…
As part of Google’s mission to provide the most complete and authoritative maps to everyone, we’re excited to announce upgraded maps for Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lesotho, Macau, Portugal, San Marino, Singapor…
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More detailed maps in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia
Whether you’re travelling abroad or exploring your own city, the maps you carry with you should be comprehensive, accurate and easy to use. We’re constantly making improvements to Google Maps to help you find and discover places that are meaningful t…