By Detlev Schwabe, Software EngineerMany developers and partners use the Picasa Web Albums Data API to enable users to upload photos to Picasa from web sites and desktop applications. Now, we are excited to announce the same PWA Data API can be used to…
By Nir Bar-Lev, Product ManagementHere at the Google Visualization HQ we focus hard on making the Visualization API the easiest and simplest platform for visualizing and reporting data on the web. We’re always excited to see the community uptake …
By Dan Peterson, Product ManagerWith the fall semester rapidly approaching at universities all over, we’re happy to share that we’ve recently made more content available on Google Code University. In case you’re not familiar, Google Code University is …
By DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer ProgramsThe Google Code team is pleased to announce the availability of content licenses for projects hosted on code.google.com. Projects owners may now select from either the Creative Commons Attribution license or…
By Jackie Bodine, Google Data APIs TeamWe love open standards, and we’ve just added support for a new one: OAuth is now supported on all of the Google Data APIs.OAuth is an open standard for authentication that allows applications to authenticate users…
By Steven Soneff and Casey Ho, Google Finance TeamIn case you haven’t seen the announcement on the Google Data API blog, there is a new API available for Google Finance Portfolios.The Google Finance API makes it easy to create and access investment dat…
By Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamThe YouTube APIs team had so much fun at Google I/O that we thought it was about time to have our own event at our office in San Bruno. (Check out the announcement on the YouTube API Blog for a video of the …
By Kevin “Grendelzilla” Lim, Custom Search TeamHave you ever wished that you could harness the power of Google to create a customized search engine for your website or a collection of websites? Custom Search lets you do that in under five minutes—an…
By Kathleen Ko, iGoogle TeamWe are excited to open up an updated Themes API for developers to customize new features coming to iGoogle. Features you can modify include the left navigation and UI updates introduced in the iGoogle developer sandbox in Ap…
By Christian Sonntag, Google Health TeamWith the recent launch of Google Health, we also launched the Google Health Data API, which we hope will further contribute to the goal of making personal health management easier for people. The API can be used …
By Nir Bar-Lev, Product ManagerWe are excited to announce that we are opening up the Google Visualization API beyond Google Spreadsheets and adding more capabilities for developers. Earlier at the Google I/O developer conference, we launched several n…
By Nir Bar-Lev, Product ManagerWhen we launched the Visualization API we wondered, which new visualization types will the developers out there come up with? Which one will be successful? Will we quickly see the long tail of visualizations being develop…
By Peter Chane, Sami Shalabi, Mussie ShoreWe figured you might be tracking the conversations about Google Friend Connect and Facebook. We want to help you understand a bit more about how it works on the Friend Connect side with respect to users’ infor…
By Mark Pilgrim, Google Code TeamThe open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousan…
By Steve Souders, Member of Technical StaffThis post is one in a series that previews Google I/O, our biggest developer event in San Francisco, May 28-29. Over the next month, we’ll be highlighting sessions and speakers to give Google Code Blog reade…