By Charles Wiles, Product Manager, Google Mobile TeamIt’s a mobile zoo out there. If you’ve ever tried coding up a mobile client application, you’ve probably noticed that the huge variety of mobile operating systems makes it tough to build rich applica…
By Ben Lisbakken, Google Developer ProgramsOn Friday, February 29th, Google will be holding a developer hackathon to get you started on our JavaScript APIs. We will be doing short introductions of the APIs and then breaking up into groups for coding …
Post by Joe Gregorio, Google Developer ProgramsOn February 11 and 12 Google hosted the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Application Area Architecture Workshop. This was a chance for people active in the IETF Applications Area to get together and …
By Min Li Chan, Google Developer Programs – APACIt’s cold and cloudy in Hong Kong and Taiwan this week, as our trusty weather gadgets indicate. At the Googleplex, where a quintessentially Californian winter is holding up, we had the distinct honor of …
By Brad Fitzpatrick, Software EngineerSo you’ve just built a totally sweet new social app and you can’t wait for people to start using it, but there’s a problem: when people join they don’t have any friends on your site. They’re lonely, and the experie…
By Jesse Shieh, Software EngineerRecently, on a trip to Shanghai, I snapped a bunch of incredible street photos for my friends and family back home. When I logged into my iGoogle page and was greeted by my iGoogle theme, I suddenly wished I could creat…
By Dan Peterson, Product ManagerOn Wednesday (tomorrow!) Six Apart will be hosting an OpenSocial Hackathon at their office in San Francisco to let people get their hands dirty with OpenSocial, Shindig, and Caja. In addition to the Googlers working on O…
By DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer ProgramsSince we launched the Google Chart API last month we’ve been thrilled to see so many creative tools written to use it. From Ruby, to Python, to Groovy, it looks like languages are being covered one by one.Ev…
By Brad Neuberg, Google Gears TeamMany thanks to all of our users and developers for helping to make Google Gears one of PC World’s 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year! And congrats to everyone else who made the list. It’s been quite an exciting ri…
By Pamela Fox, Google Developer ProgramsI was scheduling a trip to New York City last month to visit some friends and thought, “Well, it’d be nice to take in a conference or two.” I proceeded to search online for hours — including queries like “new yo…
By Steve Crossan, Chart API TeamToday we’re launching the Google Chart API, a really simple tool for creating charts and graphs that are perfect for websites.Let’s get straight in with an example. This URL:http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&…
By Ryan Propper, Google Apps TeamWith hundreds (if not thousands) of popular email clients and mail servers out there, importing email into another service can be challenge, especially when you consider the troves of old email most people save. To eas…
By DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer ProgramsIn 2005 we launched Google Code to provide a home for our developer and open source programs. Two years, dozens of new products and new programs, and one major redesign later, Google Code is bigger and more d…
By Jimmy Caputo, Product Marketing Last week the folks at Pearson Education sat down with Bruce Johnson and Joel Webber to discuss the creation of Google Web Toolkit and Pearson’s December conference Voices that Matter: Google Web Toolkit. Listen to t…
By Sierra Michels-Slettvet, Engineering InternEarlier this year, the University of Washington partnered with Google to develop and implement a course to teach large-scale distributed computing based on MapReduce and the Google File System (GFS). The go…