Posted by Diego Puppin, Engineer, and Brandon Badger, Product ManagerOn April 1st we launched a 3D viewing mode on Google Books. We took the feature down on April 2nd in order to focus our efforts on a 4D version. That effort failed miserably, but I
Posted by Jeff Breidenbach, Dan Bloomberg, and Nathan Naze, Software EngineersThese days, 3D seems to be everywhere. From Hollywood blockbusters to LCD televisions, those iconic cardboard glasses seem to be everywhere, even on President Obama. Our fri…
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager, Google BooksI’m happy to announce a few fresh features for Google Books. We’ve updated the home page by adding the ability to scroll through categories of books and magazines.We also integrated the My Library …
Posted by Jeffrey Peng, Software Engineer, Google BooksI’m a software engineer on Google Books. One of my main projects is adding magazine content and features to the site. In September we were excited to announce the availability of over 1,860 issue…
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product ManagerWhen I was a kid I used to enjoy thumbing through a collection of older magazines that my grandfather had at his house. I remember flipping through the pages and feeling as though I was peeking through a window…
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product ManagerI’m a sucker for a cool piece of technology. The Espresso Book Machine, which can print a book in minutes before your eyes, fits the bill. If sentient robots ever succeed in taking over the world, this is how t…
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product ManagerOver the years, we’ve heard a lot from people who’ve unearthed hidden treasures in Google Books: a crafter who uncovered a forgotten knitting technique, a family historian who discovered her ancestor once travel…
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager, Google BooksThink about how you use a book. You want to read it, sure–but there are a host of other ways for you to interact with the words between the covers. You might want to flip through the pages to fi…
by Gokul Nath Babu and Anupama Dutta, Software EngineersWe’re excited to announce a new addition to the AJAX Language API – the Transliteration API. Transliteration is the process of phonetically converting a word written in one script into another. …
With Google I/O just a few weeks away (May 28 – 29), if you haven’t already registered then now is the time. There are now more than 80 technical sessions posted. In addition to the AJAX APIs sessions that we talked about before, we’ve recently adde…
We recently announced Google I/O, our largest developer event of the year. It takes place May 28-29 in San Francisco. The purpose of the event is to bring developers together to learn about and to discuss the latest web development technologies. Ove…
Posted by Ben Lisbakken, Software EngineerThe AJAX Search and Feeds team is happy to announce a new member to their API family — the Language API. This new API boasts two functions, language translation and language detection – which cover 13 languag…
Post by Yoah Bar-David & Itai Raz, Software Engineers, Tel-AvivWe are excited to launch the Google Visualization API, a new API designed for visualizing structured data. The API adds the ability to send queries to data sources and process the response….