By Amanda Surya, Google Developer ProgramsIn May, we’ll be holding two Google App Engine Hack-a-thons at Google’s offices. The first one will be in New York, May 7th, from 10am – 6pm, and the second one in San Francisco, May 16th, 10am – 10pm. This is …
By Elizabeth Yin, Google Developer ProgramsGoogle Developer Days 2008, a set of one-day developer events, are back and will take place in locations around the world. We’ve designed these events for developers with strong coding backgrounds, so that we…
By Saurabh Mathur, iGoogle TeamToday, we’re excited to open up a developer sandbox for iGoogle. The sandbox includes support for OpenSocial, a common API designed to let you easily build social applications that run on a growing number of web containe…
By Naomi Bilodeau, Google Code TeamDevelopers speak lots of languages, not just English and C++. We know that you use Google Code from all over the world, and we understand that the love of a good API is universal.We’re excited to announce that devel…
By Jackie Bodine, Google Data APIs TeamThe goal of the Google Data APIs is to give developers a consistent (and familiar) way to integrate with Google products. At their heart is Atom and the Atom Publishing Protocol, and we’ve created extensions on to…
By guest author, Michael “Van” Riper, Silicon Valley Google Technology User GroupEver wondered how to create maps like this Primary Election Results Map, created by Michael Geary? If so, please join us in at the Googleplex (Bldg 43, main campus, room T…
By Michael Herf, Photos TeamIf you’ve ever wanted to make your favorite software or website work with Google’s Picasa software, there’s a new Picasa Button API that lets you add your own buttons to the desktop interface.The BlogThis! button in Picasa u…
By DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer ProgramsToday we are pleased to announce that Google is joining together with Yahoo! and MySpace in the creation of a non-profit foundation for the open and transparent governance of the OpenSocial specifications and…
By Marcus Boerger, Software Engineer, Chart API teamMany of the features you’ve requested via Google Chart API forum are now live in the Google Chart API:Easily create Sparklines (&cht=ls) without having to manipulate other kinds of graphs. Support…
By Nir Bar-Lev, Product ManagerWe spend a fair amount of time on data display and visualization projects at Google, and we have found that the “last mile” of these projects tend to become full projects in and of themselves.Thus when we acquired Gapmind…
By Noel Gorelick, Software EngineerLast summer we launched a site aimed to help educators and students alike become more familiar with the technology behind Google and the massive internet in general. Recently, we’ve redesigned that site and given it a…
By Sebastian Wilhelmi, Google Chart API SREWe got a lot of feedback after releasing the Google Chart API in early December. By far the most questions were about the limit of 50,000 queries per user per day. Some of you who are webmasters of larger site…
By Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamAs promised in my last post announcing the new YouTube developer offerings, we’re hosting a hackathon for the YouTube and Picasa Web Albums APIs at the Googleplex on March 27th, 2008.We’ll give overviews of …
By Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools Team Ever wanted to get in on the online video craze? Now’s a good time! We’ve just added upload, write, and authentication functionality to the YouTube Data API. Brand new player APIs and tools are also no…
By DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer ProgramsA common contact list has helped power applications like Gmail, Google Reader, and Google Calendar. And now, with the launch of the Google Contacts Data API, we’re opening up this contact list to your appli…