Posted by Teresa Wu, Community Manager (Cross posted to the Docs Blog)Recently we opened our Product Ideas page to gather your feedback about what you’d like to see next in Google Docs. Over a two-week period, nearly 4,000 of you participated, …
Posted by: Hossein Attar, Software Engineer(Cross-posted to the Mobile blog and Docs Blog) Google Docs is about collaboration, but as many of us know, others often rely on us even when we’re nowhere near a computer. That’s why we’re excited to b…
(Cross-posted to the Enterprise blog)In March, we launched discussions in Google Docs, replacing comments with discussion threads, @mentions, email notifications, and much more. This week, we’re launching a handful of improvements based on your feedb…
Files stored 100% on the web can be accessed from any computer or device and shared with co-workers with ease. Over the past year, many of you have been taking advantage of the ability to upload any file to Google Docs. With more files and a variety of…
Effective collaboration has become a key driver to improve team productivity. Project teams, often located across disparate locations and time zones, produce and distribute content in different formats and platforms. Teams need to consolidate relevant …
Have you recently toiled over instructions to assemble furniture? Now imagine the agony if you had no illustrations to fall back on. What’s the best way to teach kids about nutrition without a food pyramid?Sometimes when working with text you realize…
On Monday we launched a preview version of the new Google spreadsheets. We completely rebuilt the user interface to be faster, stabler, and more feature-rich, while maintaining the real-time collaboration that has made Google spreadsheets a powerful t…
Posted by Jason Cooper, Developer ProgramsLast month’s prelaunch testing of the orkut developer platform brought a small set of third-party applications to less than 1% of orkut users. After implementing various improvements, tweaks, and fixes, we are …
Posted by Amar Gandhi, Group Product ManagerWe’re now about a week away from making OpenSocial apps available to millions of users in India, corresponding to 10% of all orkut users. With this update we also want to increase the number of apps included…
Posted by Amar Gandhi, Group Product ManagerWe’ve discovered and fixed numerous bugs during prelaunch testing and have been working on a number of UI improvements based on developer and user feedback. You will be able to see these changes on the sandb…
Posted by Lane LiaBraaten, Developer ProgramsThe orkut user base is an expressive and lively bunch. Knowing how users interact with orkut (and each other) will help you improve the reliability and user experience of your apps. In this first installme…
Posted by Arne Roomann-Kurrik, Developer ProgramsLike Oscar Goldman says, “We can rebuild it. We have the technology.” The orkut developer’s guide has just undergone a major revision to match the current state of the orkut sandbox. We’ve made the fo…
Posted by Amar Gandhi, Group Product Manager We’ve made a couple of modifications to the launch plan detailed in this post. We’ve decided to have a pre-launch testing period in which we’ll push just a few apps to production — this will likely happen …