Google Data » Jackie Bodine https://googledata.org Everything Google: News, Products, Services, Content, Culture Thu, 02 Apr 2015 17:58:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 Google Contacts API update https://googledata.org/google-code/google-contacts-api-update/ https://googledata.org/google-code/google-contacts-api-update/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 01:41:00 +0000 Posted by Tomek Dziekonski, Google Contacts Team

We here on the Contacts team are thrilled with the response we've been getting for the new Contacts API, but we always knew it could be better. And now it is. We've been listening to your feedback, and are happy to announce several new features:

Support for contact groups
Have you ever wanted to group your contacts? Ever wanted to get your Google contact groups? Now you can create, read, edit and delete contact groups.

Support for contact photos
Google contacts API now gives you access to contact photos. You can read, edit and remove photos through the API.

Support for extended properties
Have you ever wanted to add new properties to a contact? Thought that the contact element does not have enough fields? Extended property allow you to store client-specific properties.

Support for batch processing
Google Contacts API now allows you to collect multiple insert, update, delete and query operations in one request. Please see http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/batch.html for more information. Please also note that the maximum number of operations per request is 100.

We are not resting on our laurels - by continuous tracking of Google Contacts API group (http://groups.google.com/group/google-contacts-api) we want to select the best ideas for extending our feeds and make your life easier.

The documentation has been updated and is located at:
http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/

and if you happen to find bugs or have suggestions, please post them here:
http://code.google.com/p/google-gdata/issues/list
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Along with the release of Google Health, we are happy to announce the availability of the Google Health Data API.

This API gives developers programmatic access to view and update Health content via AtomPub feeds. Your client application can use the API to create new medical records, request a list of medical records, and query for medical records that match particular criteria.

Here are some of the things you can do:

  • Upload patient medical records.
  • Get patient medical data and provide personalized functionality based on that data.

The API supports a subset of the CCR. CCR ("Continuity of Care Record") is a format defined by the medical industry, designed to facilitate the transfer of a snapshot of a patient's medical history when that individual moves from one medical provider to another. In the case of Google Health, a partner site can send a patient's CCR to Google. Given the proper user permissions, another partner site can then download that person's CCR.

Please take a look at our documentation for more information on how to integrate. We want to work with you to improve the Google Health Data API, so we'd like to hear back from you in our discussion group.

We hope that there will be many applications and services integrating with Google Health to make personal health management even easier for people. We look forward to working with you to make this happen!

]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/google-health-data-api/feed/ 0 Using the YouTube API with the PHP client library https://googledata.org/google-code/using-the-youtube-api-with-the-php-client-library/ https://googledata.org/google-code/using-the-youtube-api-with-the-php-client-library/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 20:45:00 +0000 Posted by Stephanie Liu, Google Data APIs Team

If you've been interested in learning more about the YouTube Data API, you may be interested in a new screencast that was just posted to the YouTube API blog. The video explains how AuthSub authentication and browser-based video uploads have been implemented in the demo application for the PHP client library.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/using-the-youtube-api-with-the-php-client-library/feed/ 0 Google I/O Is Approaching, and so are the Google Data APIs sessions https://googledata.org/google-code/google-io-is-approaching-and-so-are-the-google-data-apis-sessions/ https://googledata.org/google-code/google-io-is-approaching-and-so-are-the-google-data-apis-sessions/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 00:12:00 +0000 Posted by Jimmy Caputo, Developer Team

May is here, which means Google I/O is just a few weeks away (May 28 - 29). If you haven't already, don't forget to register for the event.

Google I/O will be our largest developer event of the year. We'll have over 80 in-depth, technical sessions focused on building the next generation of web apps. If you haven't visited lately, you may want to check out the sessions related to the Google data APIs, including:

Extend the Reach of Your Google Apps Environment with Google APIs:
Jackie Bodine and Ryan Boyd from Google, and Ron Hess from Salesforce will show how to use the Calendar, Spreadsheets, Doc List, and other APIs to integrate Google Apps with other systems and add custom functionality

Creating a Google Data API Client:
Jeff Scudder will explain how to create your own client library when there isn't one in the language that you need or it doesn't fit your needs.

Authenticating to Google Data Services:
Jeff Fisher and Jeff Scudder discuss current options for authenticating users to Google services, their limitations, and some advanced use cases.

YouTube on Your Site:
John Harding will give an overview of the updates to the YouTube API since it launched last Fall and how you can use the new features on your own site.

Hands-on YouTube: Creating an Applications with the YouTube APIs in Python:
Jochen Hartmann and Stephanie Liu will lead this Code Lab on how to use the Python Client Library to control and interact with embedded YouTube videos.

Be sure to visit the website to see the complete list of sessions and to
register. For those coming from out of town, we've arranged discounted room rates at nearby hotels. Read the details on the website to take advantage of the discount, but move fast because the hotel discount ends May 6th.

We're looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco in just a few weeks!

Update: Fixed Typo
]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/google-io-is-approaching-and-so-are-the-google-data-apis-sessions/feed/ 0 Announcing an Authentication Proxy Service for Google Apps https://googledata.org/google-code/announcing-an-authentication-proxy-service-for-google-apps/ https://googledata.org/google-code/announcing-an-authentication-proxy-service-for-google-apps/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:47:00 +0000 Posted by Radha Chandika, Google Accounts Team

As a third party web application developer, you may know about AuthSub, an authentication proxy service bundled with the Google Data APIs. AuthSub gives you access to service data protected by a user's Google account without your web application ever having to handle usernames and passwords. We are excited to announce that AuthSub has now been extended to support Google Apps accounts as well!

Google Apps brings together essential services to help businesses, schools, groups or families communicate and collaborate more effectively. A large and growing number of organizations are choosing Google Apps, including more than 500,000 businesses and thousands of Universities. With our latest release of AuthSub, you do not need to make any code changes to reach these Google Apps users. As part of the AuthSub flow, users are directed to a sign-in page where they can choose to grant you access to either their Google account or to their Google Apps account. You can choose to customize this default behavior by making minor code changes, a handy option if, for example, you are developing applications for one particular managed domain. For details on the new authentication flow and customization options, please see our documentation.

AuthSub helps keep accounts secure by making it possible to share certain information from those accounts without sharing the username and password that protect them. We hope you and your Google Apps users will enjoy the added protection.

Update:changes made
]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/announcing-an-authentication-proxy-service-for-google-apps/feed/ 0 Google Data APIs patent license https://googledata.org/google-code/google-data-apis-patent-license/ https://googledata.org/google-code/google-data-apis-patent-license/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:14:00 +0000 Posted by Joe Gregorio, Technical Program Manager, Google Data APIs Team

We've always encouraged other developers to adopt Atom, the Atom Publishing Protocol, and the extensions that Google has created on top of those standards, but we realized the issue of patents may have held back some adopters. Well, those concerns end today as we are giving a no-charge, royalty-free license to any patents we have that you would need to implement Atom, AtomPub, or any of those extensions. Here is a link to the exact license text.

Now the official way to announce such a license for specifications under the IETF is to register them in the IETF IPR Disclosure Database. You can read the disclosures yourself in the IETF Disclosure Database.

Google's extensions are also covered by this patent license, and you can find a link to them on the bottom of the authentication schemes AuthSub and ClientLogin on our core Google Data extensions and Common Elements, and on the following Data APIs:

We hope this will encourage sites who want to expose APIs for things like photos, videos, calendar, or contacts to reuse our schemas where they can, rather than reinventing the wheel.

]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/google-data-apis-patent-license/feed/ 0 Objective-C Library brings Google Data APIs to iPhones https://googledata.org/google-code/objective-c-library-brings-google-data-apis-to-iphones/ https://googledata.org/google-code/objective-c-library-brings-google-data-apis-to-iphones/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:19:00 +0000 Greg Robbins, Google Mac Team

Objective-C, the native application development language for Mac OS X, is now the development language for the iPhone as well. That makes our open-source Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library the natural way to write iPhone software that interacts with Google's services.

The source files in the new version 1.4 of the library compile without a hitch under the iPhone SDK. They also support the latest Google Data APIs, such as the Contacts Data API and YouTube video uploading.

If you are a Mac or iPhone developer looking to integrate Google's services with your application, or if you're just curious, take a look at the project and the examples on our Google Code site.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/objective-c-library-brings-google-data-apis-to-iphones/feed/ 0 Google I/O registrations open! https://googledata.org/google-code/google-io-registrations-open/ https://googledata.org/google-code/google-io-registrations-open/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:50:00 +0000 Posted by Stephanie Liu, Google Data APIs Team

In case you haven't heard, we're holding our annual developer event, Google I/O, on May 28th-29th in San Francisco, CA. Our team is focused on helping people make better web applications, so this two-day gathering is all about how to do that.

We've got all kinds of sessions lined up -- AJAX & JavaScript, Maps & Geo, Social apps, Development Tools, and Mobile. Check out the full list for all the sessions.

For the Google Data enthusiasts, members of the team will be doing talks on extending Google Apps using APIs, the ins and outs of authentication, how to write client libraries for Google Data APIs, and how to bring YouTube onto your sites.

There will also be plenty of time for more casual discussion -- our engineers will be around at booths and after talks to answer questions and hear your thoughts.

Google I/O homepage -
http://code.google.com/events/io/

Google I/O registration page -
https://www.weboom.com/sparks/google_io/forms/

Sign up early (or start bugging your bosses to send you to the conference). We hope to see you there!

For those of you can't make it to San Francisco, or are wondering what happened to Google Developer Day from last year, don't despair! We'll also be holding many Developer Days around the world (more info to come later).
]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/google-io-registrations-open/feed/ 0 Upload your old email with the Google Email Uploader open source tool https://googledata.org/google-code/upload-your-old-email-with-the-google-email-uploader-open-source-tool/ https://googledata.org/google-code/upload-your-old-email-with-the-google-email-uploader-open-source-tool/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:54:00 +0000 Posted by Subir Jhanb with Param Reddappagari and Shaunak Godbole, Google Apps Team

If you're a Google Apps Premier or Education Edition developer, you may have noticed that we launched the Google Apps Email Migration API last November. With that launch, we aimed to enable any type of email migration scenario, supporting the upload of email into Google Apps from any data source. But what about all that email you had to store on your desktop ... six years ago ... when you had a 5 megabyte quota?

We've been trying to solve this problem since I was a software engineering intern with Google in July of 2006. We called the solution 'Scavenger', which sadly did not survive a trademark search.The project was put down (I went back to school), then picked up again (I got rehired), then rewritten a couple of times as new options presented themselves (like the Email Migration API). Ultimately, the project turned into a collaboration between three Google offices: Mountain View, Kirkland, and Hyderabad.

We're now happy to share the Google Email Uploader with you. It's both a .NET reference implementation of an Email Migration API client, as well as an Apache 2.0 licensed open source project to be extended to upload any type of email archive you have lying around. The Google Email Uploader is available for Google Apps Premier and Education edition users.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/upload-your-old-email-with-the-google-email-uploader-open-source-tool/feed/ 0 Ideathon Wrapup https://googledata.org/google-code/ideathon-wrapup/ https://googledata.org/google-code/ideathon-wrapup/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:56:00 +0000 Posted by Stephanie Liu, Google Data APIs Team

Last week we held our first Google Data Ideathon (part unconference, local user group, hackathon, food, and fabulous prizes -- word of the year 2008, here we come!). About 30 people showed up and spent their Thursday night with us -- eating, sitting in on sessions, and mingling with us and each other. We ended up having talks on a variety of topics: intro/tutorials on Google Data, advanced Google Data, using Google Data feeds with Google Maps, Gears, and Mashup Editor. A variety of demos rounded out the presentations. Everyone on the team had a lot of fun, and we hope everyone who attended did too. Thanks to Max U. for the pictures!








If you couldn't make it, check out some of the materials/docs from the sessions here. It was also great hearing from everyone who wrote in asking us to hold events near them, or even offering to host them! We'll definitely be doing more of these in the future -- keep an eye on this blog for where and when future Ideathons will be held.

You can also check out the developer events calendar where you can keep track of this event and others like it: http://code.google.com/events/
]]> https://googledata.org/google-code/ideathon-wrapup/feed/ 0 Mash it up with Google data and Salesforce.com https://googledata.org/google-code/mash-it-up-with-google-data-and-salesforce-com/ https://googledata.org/google-code/mash-it-up-with-google-data-and-salesforce-com/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:23:00 +0000 Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, Google Data APIs Team

Flex your mashup muscle with Salesforce.com's Ajax proxy and Google data APIs by working through this new tutorial on using Google data on Salesforce.com.

This article is a great place to get up to speed if you're new to Salesforce.com application development. The tutorial uses an existing Salesforce.com mashup with Google Calendar to help set up your development environment and to show how companies can find apps you write and integrate them into Salesforce.com using the AppExchange. You'll also learn how to write your own application by creating a mashup that exports Salesforce.com contacts into a spreadsheet in Google Docs.

If you hit a snag while working through the tutorial, you can post your issue in the Google Docs data APIs forum, or in the Salesforce.com discussion boards.

Happy coding!
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