With Google I/O 2010 finally upon us, what better time to introduce developers to the latest updates to the Google Buzz API? As announced at the launch of Google Buzz, the Google Buzz API aligns itself with the ever-growing family of freely available a…
This morning we announced Google Buzz, a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more, and start conversations about the things you find interesting.We’d like to take this opportunity to invite developers to join us as we prepare the Google Buzz A…
Inspired by the convenience of embeddable YouTube videos, Google Web Elements build on favorite products like Google Custom Search (a Google-powered search engine that automatically tailors itself to your site), Google Docs, and Google News to easily a…
By Steve Souders, Member of Technical StaffI’ve been working on a follow-up book to High Performance Web Sites called Even Faster Web Sites. As I finish chapters, I talk about the findings at conferences and tech talks. The first three chapters are Spl…
By Steve Souders, Member of Technical StaffDoug Crockford, from “The Yahoo!” (his words), gave a talk at “The Google” (again, his words) last week. The talk is based on his recent book of the same name, JavaScript: The Good Parts. Doug is a, perhaps th…
By Nir Bar-Lev, Google Product ManagementWe are now offering Visualization API developers an opportunity to preview upcoming release candidates. Developers can opt in to these bleeding-edge builds simply by changing one line of code when loading …
By Vic Gundotra, Vice President, EngineeringGoogle has long believed that thoughtful iteration is the best way to build useful products for our users. As part of that process, we are always looking for ways to better focus our teams on the products tha…
By Brad Chen, Native Client TeamModern PCs can execute billions of instructions per second, but today’s web applications can access only a small fraction of this computational power. If web developers could use all of this power, just imagine the rich…
By Eric Sachs and Ben Laurie, Google Security TeamOne of the major conferences on Internet identity standards is the Internet Identity Workshop(IIW), a semiannual ‘un-conference’ where the sessions are not determined ahead of time. It is attended by a …
By Eric Sachs, Google Security TeamYesterday we announced one step we took to help increase adoption of single-sign on across websites on the Internet. For more details, you can watch today’s episode of thesocialweb.tv which covers the launch. While …
By Charles Wiles, Product Manager, Google Mobile TeamI am thrilled to announce that today we have enhanced the Gears Geolocation API so that developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of citie…
By Dan Holevoet, Developer ProgramsWe’re happy to announce the launch of the canvas view feature to iGoogle users in the U.S., rolling out over the course of the day. The canvas view feature allows gadget developers to build richer content, games…
By Venu Vemula, Google Book Search TeamSince I joined Google, I’ve been working on Book Search, our project to help users discover what’s inside all the world’s books.Today we are happy to include the developer community in this historic effort with th…
By Alyssa England, Google Developer ProgramsWe are excited to open registration for one last Google Developer Day this year, to be held on November 2 in Tel Aviv, Israel.At this Google Developer Day, developers will learn about the latest with our…
By Eric Sachs, Product Manager, Google SecurityFederated login has been a goal of the Internet community for a long time, but its usage is still quite low, especially in the consumer space. This has led to the constant need for users to create yet anot…