May 20th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog EditorDid you participate in Google I/O last week? Nearly 1 million people did, by attending in person in San Francisco, gathering at dozens of I/O Extended events around the world, or watching the live streamed keyno…
May 19th, 2011 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Code
By T.V. Raman, Research ScientistCross-posted with the Chromium BlogWe recently unveiled ChromeVox — a built-in screen reader for Chrome OS — during Google I/O 2011. This is an early developer beta that is designed to help authors of web applicatio…
February 4th, 2011 | by Amanda Surya | published in Google Code
Ever since we launched Google TV last October, we’ve seen web developers optimize their sites for TV with amazing results. However, designing a 10 foot UI and implementing controls optimized for the television is still a foreign concept for most web …
January 31st, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
As part of our Make The Web Faster initiative, Google announced the availability of mod_pagespeed, an open-source module for Apache webservers to automatically accelerate the sites they serve. Go Daddy, the top web hosting provider and world’s largest…
January 24th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
One of our aims of the Google Analytics Data Export API is to provide access to all the data you find in our reporting UI. To that end, we are releasing 127 new dimensions and metrics via the API today!Some of the powerful new data points are:Unique vi…
January 24th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
(Cross-posted from the Google Open Source Blog)Despite the recent devastating floods in Australia, the open source community is converging on Brisbane this week for the annual linux.conf.au (LCA). The LCA team “encourages everyone to still come to Br…
January 18th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
Have you ever noticed a bug or typo in your code but not been in a position to fix it? Perhaps you were browsing the code online from your Cr-48, or perhaps you just didn’t have Subversion or Mercurial handy. Today the Google Project Hosting team is …
January 10th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
When we launched Google’s URL shortener externally back in September, there was no accompanying API to allow people to integrate goo.gl into their applications and web pages. However, we said that we were working on one, and today we’re happy to anno…
January 6th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Code, Google Docs
Since announcing BigQuery at Google IO last May, we’ve been very excited by the response and feedback we’ve received from the developer community, enterprises and academia. The one consistent request we heard from everyone is the ability to interac…
December 17th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
Today we announced a fun 20% robotics project that resulted in three ways you can play with your iRobot Create®, LEGO® MINDSTORMS®, or VEX Pro® through the cloud. We did this by enhancing App Inventor for Android, contributing to the op…
December 16th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
(Cross-posted from the Chromium Blog)We’re happy to announce that WebGL is now on by default in Google Chrome’s beta channel, with some shiny new demos to show off what the technology can do.WebGL is a 3D graphics API for JavaScript that developers…
December 15th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
When Google acquired Instantiations in August 2010, everyone knew about our Java Eclipse products. Shortly after we joined, we talked about how best to help developers now that we are part of Google. We have always wanted to get these tools in more dev…
December 13th, 2010 | by Ben Collins-Sussman | published in Google Code
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has had a profound influence on everything I’ve worked on over the last decade, and a new partnership with them is a great opportunity for saying “thanks” and giving back. Today we’re announcing the launch …
December 9th, 2010 | by Ali Pasha | published in Google Code
Simplicity is key to longevity. Since we launched in 2006, even as we’ve added new features, we’ve had very little desire to change our user interface. It’s simple, it’s clean, it’s quick — and as engineers, we like it.However, the look of o…
December 7th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Code
You’ve already been able to simply include a photo in a Google Buzz post using the Buzz API. Today we’re making it much easier to add photos to Buzz posts. Additionally, using Picasa as the photo repository, you’ll now be able to wield the Buzz…