September 28th, 2012 | by Jeremy W | published in Youtube, Youtube API
We’re constantly amazed at the innovative ways that developers incorporate YouTube into their applications. At Google I/O this year, 12 partners (over 30% from outside the U.S.) demonstrated their apps in the YouTube section of the Developer Sandbox, a demo area highlighting applications based on technologies and products featured at I/O.
Google’s own Daniel Sieberg, an Emmy-nominated journalist, interviewed some of our partners about their use of the YouTube APIs.
With Daniel’s hectic schedule, he only had time to interview a handful of our great partners. With that in mind, we highlighted all the awesome apps showcased by our partners at the YouTube API Developer Sandbox.
Business.me (YouTube Data API and YouTube Player API)
| Overview |
Business.me, headquartered in Singapore, is the place to share and discover videos about business. They have created a video-sharing site to help producers of business videos reach their audience. The site also helps business professionals discover relevant business information in video format. |
| Fun Fact |
Oscar Moreno, CEO, not only holds Business and Law degrees, he helped launch several startups (Business.me, Netjuice, Keldoo, and Tuenti). |
Code Hero (YouTube Data API)
| Overview |
Code Hero teaches you to code through a fun, 3D game. Become a code hero and shape the future! |
| Fun Fact |
The Code Hero Team implemented the recording mechanism in the game that exports to YouTube at a 3 day hackathon!
Bonus: The game has sharks with lasers attached to their heads!
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Flipboard (YouTube Data API and YouTube Player API)
| Overview |
See everything on Flipboard, all your news and life’s great moments in one place. Using the YouTube Data API, Flipboard lets users discover, rate, share, and comment on top videos from YouTube. In addition, users can access their own videos and subscriptions, and subscribe to other YouTube users. |
| Fun Fact |
Flipboard launched an Android app one week before I/O with a YouTube and Google+ integration! |
LOOT Entertainment by Sony DADC (YouTube Data API)
| Overview |
Gather your friends and set up your own production crew inside PlayStation®Home! What will you be? Director? Actor? Cinematographer? Extra? Try them all! Check out the amazing Machinima tools to help you record, light and build your film or television sets! What will you make?
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| Fun Fact |
LOOT gives you tons of sets to make your own movies (machinima) on the PS3, including a Ghostbusters Firehouse Stage Set!
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Moviecom.tv (YouTube Data API and YouTube Player API)
| Overview |
A simple and easy online video platform for businesses. Record, centralize and share instantly. Moviecom.tv also allows you to link directly to your YouTube account through the YouTube APIs. |
| Fun Fact |
The founders flew all the way from Glasgow to attend Google I/O! |
Parrot (YouTube Data API and YouTube Player API)
| Overview |
The Parrot AR.Drone is a quadricopter that can be controlled by a smartphone or tablet. Get more out of your AR.Drone with the AR.Drone Academy. Keep track of all your flights on the Academy map. Watch your best videos with added statistical feedback and directly share online with pilots from all over the world! |
| Fun Fact |
Parrot makes remote controlled flying devices that can record and track their flights!
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PicoTube – Vettl, Inc. (YouTube Data API and YouTube Player API)
| Overview |
Picotube uses content from YouTube and allows users to create avatars, watch clips together, create playlists, and rate videos selected by other video jockeys. |
| Fun Fact |
Picotube was the Grand Prix winner of TechCrunch Tokyo 2011!
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Skimble (YouTube Data API and YouTube Player API, and new Android Player API)
| Overview |
Here to power the mobile fitness movement, Skimble offers fun, dynamic and social applications for everyone. Available now are Skimble’s Workout Trainer and GPS Sports Tracker apps that help motivate people to get and stay active. Skimble uses the YouTube Player API to display fitness videos. |
| Fun Fact |
Co-founder Maria Ly got the crowd moving at one of YouTube’s Google I/O Sessions!
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Squrl (YouTube Data API and YouTube Player API)
| Overview |
Squrl is a great place to watch and discover video. Know what videos are trending, receive recommendations on what to watch and see what your friends are watching. |
| Fun Fact |
Co-founders Mark Gray and Michael Hoydich also founded the successful software development company IndustryNext together in 2004!
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Telestream (YouTube Data API and YouTube Player API)
| Overview |
Telestream demonstrated Wirecast for YouTube, a live video production and streaming product, which was developed specifically for Google YouTube partners. Telestream specializes in products that make it possible to get video content to any audience regardless of how the content is created, distributed or viewed (entire process). |
| Fun Fact |
Telestream’s NASCAR Project won the IBC2012 Innovation Award!
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Vidcaster (YouTube Data API and YouTube Player API)
| Overview |
VidCaster is a video site creation platform that allows you to create a video portal instantly from your existing video library on YouTube or other video hosts. Choose from a beautiful set of designer themes and customize to your heart’s content using VidCaster’s powerful template language. |
| Fun Fact |
Kieran Farr, CEO and co-founder, used to drive a taxi full-time in San Francisco before becoming a successful entrepreneur!
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WeVideo (YouTube Data API)
| Overview |
WeVideo is a cloud-based video editing suite that allows easy, full-featured, collaborative HD video editing across Google Drive, Chromebooks, and Android devices. |
| Fun Fact |
WeVideo partnered with Marvel and YouTube to allow fans to create their own trailers!
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September 28th, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Technology offers so many opportunities to help improve users’ lives. This means it is really important to focus or we end up doing too much with too little impact. So today we’re winding down a bunch more features—bringing the total to nearly 60…
September 28th, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth
On the Google Earth Outreach team, we’re very lucky to work with organizations around the world who are practicing “Geo for Good:” using maps to help make the world a better place. We’ve worked with organizations that save elephants in Africa, …
September 28th, 2012 | by Mano Marks | published in Google Maps
It’s Friday again, and on Maps DevRel we’re feeling good. Geo for Good in fact! Today marks the last day of the Geo for Good User Summit hosted by the Google Earth Outreach team. Paul Saxman and I gave a couple of talks there. Frankly, I’m hum…
September 28th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
In case you missed last week’s announcement about the online learning open source project called Course Builder, we’re here to extend an invite for you to join an upcoming course delivered on the platform so you can see it in action. You can enroll…
September 28th, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Every Friday, we’re posting Google+ tips to help publishers make the most of all of the features and resources available. Be sure to check back each week for the latest in our educational Social Fridays series!We know publishers love metrics, and so …
September 28th, 2012 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
On October 8th and 9th the second German-speaking Google Analytics User Conference (http://www.analytics-konferenz.at) is coming up. The conference will be held at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria. The Google Analytics User Conference is…
September 28th, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Our quest to create the most comprehensive and accurate map of the world is ongoing, but we’re happy to take a pause and share some impressive progress that our Google Maps and Earth imagery teams have recently made. We’ve refreshed the high resolu…
September 28th, 2012 | by Paul Saxman | published in Google Maps
Since we launched the Place Autocomplete feature of the Google Places API, we’ve been excited to see a number of developers use it to make entering addresses into HTML forms quick and easy for users. Today, we aim to delight developers and their user…
September 27th, 2012 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
We always say that SketchUp is at its best when modeling real things, especially when the modeling happens before the making. The thing is, there’s no penalty for screwing up in SketchUp; heck, mastering SketchUp screw-ups might just be the best way to learn 3D modeling.
So there’s a special place in our heart for folks out there who use SketchUp to design and make things. These are modelers who routinely demonstrate an utter disregard for screwing up. Instead, they embrace trying again, figuring it out, solving for, and sometimes just rolling the dice.
This weekend, we’re thrilled to be trekking out to New York City for World Maker Faire. In our second year as a Maker Faire sponsor, we’re looking forward to celebrating the projects of SketchUp modelers, and learning about countless other tools that people use to make ideas real.
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| World Maker Faire, here we come! |
Are you heading to Maker Faire this weekend? Whether you’ve sawed, soldered, open-sourced, or 3D-printed a project you’re proud of, we want to hear about it. Need help with a tricky SKP? With the help of our friends at MakerBot, we’ll be 3D-printing models-in-progress all weekend. Looking to meet like-minded makers? Sync up with other SketchUp modelers heading to Maker Faire. Just exploring Maker Faire for fun? Stop by the SketchUp booth and say hi; we’ll be screwing up and figuring it out all weekend.
Posted by Mark Harrison, SketchUp Marketing
September 27th, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
(Cross posted to the Google Mobile Ads Blog) Earlier this week we shared how today’s consumers expect more — much more — from mobile sites. They told us so in our recent research survey, What Users Want Most From Mobile Sites Today. Today we’ll share…
September 27th, 2012 | by Pamela Eng | published in Google DoubleClick
Attribution modeling, even with the Path to Conversion report, can be a daunting task, with the data inputs required and the approaches varying greatly depending on one’s level of experience. Countless hours can be spent manipulating and setting up d…
September 27th, 2012 | by The Gmail Team | published in Gmail (Google Mail)
Posted by Jeff Ellingson, Product Manager
For many years, we’ve supported two open protocols for accessing Gmail and Calendar from mobile apps
and devices: IMAP for email and CalDAV for calendar. These protocols, combined with the options to
access Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts with your desktop or mobile browser and via native apps on iOS and
Android, help ensure you have a great experience regardless of the device you use.
Starting today, we’re adding CardDAV – an open protocol for contacts – to that list. CardDAV enables 3rd
party clients, like the iOS contacts app, to sync your Google contacts. By supporting IMAP, CalDAV, and
CardDAV together, we’re making it possible for 3rd parties to build a seamless Google Account sync
experience.
To sync your Google Contacts on iOS using CardDAV, please follow these instructions in our Gmail Help
Center.
September 27th, 2012 | by Google Analytics team | published in Google Analytics
Mobile app measurement is critical to the future of marketers, developers and entrepreneurs. Since the Mobile App Analytics beta launch in July, we’ve been receiving great feedback from many app developers and advertisers in the beta testing program….
September 27th, 2012 | by Blog | published in Google Orkut
At Google, we take account security very seriously. Our team of experts work daily to ensure that your personal information is protected. One of the additional tools we’ve created to give you even more control over your account security is email verifi…