We’ve just finished collecting final evaluations for our fifth Google Summer of Code, our flagship program to introduce college and university students to Open Source development practices. With nearly 3,000 mentor and student participants this year al…
At Google we’re excited about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). SVG is an open, browser-based standard that makes it easy to create interactive web graphics with new HTML-like tags such as the CIRCLE tag. We like it because it’s part of the HTML 5 family…
The Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group (GTUG) held the first GTUG Campout, a 46 hour hackathon, over the weekend of August 7-9. Nearly 200 developers, designers, and business people came to build working applications using Google Technology, f…
Back-to-School usually means preparing new courses and topics. Educators as well as students are looking for exciting and fresh content. We are happy to announce that we are able to share some new additions to Google Code University’s repository of CS …
Why shouldn’t the web itself be programmable? A programmable web enables one application to be extended by another to create new applications that people haven’t imagined before. This goes beyond mash-ups, which primarily combine data sources together …
After a successful set of Google Developer Days in Asia and Brazil this past June, Google Developer Days 2009, a set of one-day developer events, are returning to Eastern Europe and Russia this fall. We’ll host Google Developer Day in these locations:P…
Developers using the OpenSocial API can now reach tens of millions of iGoogle users! As of this week, iGoogle now supports OpenSocial in both the US and Australia, with the plan to roll it out to more users soon. In general, we think “social is bette…
A few months ago, we challenged you to discover exploits in the Native Client system and more than 600 of you decided to take us up on our invitation. We’re very pleased with the results: participants found bugs that enabled some really clever exploits…
If you attended Google I/O 2009 a few weeks ago, you may have noticed a kiosk station on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Moscone West labelled ‘Interactive Conference Map, powered by Google Maps’. The kiosk simply pointed to a JavaScript Maps API-based inter…
On April 7th, Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. We shared the behind-the-scenes story through this blog and decided to share more of our learnings in a brief series of follow-up blog posts. This …
One of the best things about attending Google I/O is the chance to meet developers who are using our APIs and interacting with Google technology in ways we could never imagine. Not only was it amazing to see exciting examples of apps built on the AJAX …
I had a great time at Google I/O — meeting lots of developers from around the world who are interested in developing applications that use social data. In addition to building web applications for traditional social networks like orkut, MySpace and h…
2009 has been a busy year for the App Engine team, but all along we’ve looked forward to Google I/O and the excitement it brings to Google’s developer community. At I/O last year, App Engine was brand new and many attendees were just getting familiar w…
The Google Enterprise team was really energized to see the strong turnout for the 8 enterprise-track sessions at Google I/O last week. It was a treat to meet developers face to face and share stories about how things like Google App Engine, gadgets, GW…
Another Google I/O has come and gone, and speaking personally I think it’s going to be hard to top this year’s conference. Free Android unlocked developer devices and the unveiling of a very cool new product built with developers in mind? I already don…