November 23rd, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
Googlers live all over the world, and so do Google’s users. In fact, more than half of iGoogle’s users are outside the US, which is why we’re pleased today to announce the release of support for social gadgets on iGoogle in more than 30 languages, from…
November 23rd, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
Googlers live all over the world, and so do Google’s users. In fact, more than half of iGoogle’s users are outside the US, which is why we’re pleased today to announce the release of support for social gadgets on iGoogle in more than 30 languages, from…
November 20th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
As Googlers, we love data. More data lets us make better decisions and make improvements to our products. As fellow gadget authors, we know that once you’ve developed a gadget, it can be difficult to get data that lets you know how your gadget is doing…
November 20th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
As Googlers, we love data. More data lets us make better decisions and make improvements to our products. As fellow gadget authors, we know that once you’ve developed a gadget, it can be difficult to get data that lets you know how your gadget is doing…
October 19th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
A little over a month, we announced the deprecation of the legacy gadgets API, and in the intervening time have been hard at work on resources to help with the transition. The first of these resources, a gadgets.* migration guide, has just been posted …
October 19th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
A little over a month, we announced the deprecation of the legacy gadgets API, and in the intervening time have been hard at work on resources to help with the transition. The first of these resources, a gadgets.* migration guide, has just been posted …
September 29th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
If you don’t know about or use the shareable-prefs API, you can safely stop reading now. If you do, we want to let you know that we’ll be deprecating this API and feature.A little over a year ago, iGoogle added shareable-prefs, enabling gadgets to shar…
September 29th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
If you don’t know about or use the shareable-prefs API, you can safely stop reading now. If you do, we want to let you know that we’ll be deprecating this API and feature.A little over a year ago, iGoogle added shareable-prefs, enabling gadgets to shar…
September 18th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
On the iGoogle team we’re always working to balance the needs of our users with the needs of our developers, to make sure we’re creating an environment where everyone benefits. We want users to have access to the very best gadgets, hence we want to mak…
September 18th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
On the iGoogle team we’re always working to balance the needs of our users with the needs of our developers, to make sure we’re creating an environment where everyone benefits. We want users to have access to the very best gadgets, hence we want to mak…
September 14th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code, iGoogle
If you’re a gadget developer, you’ve probably used the gadgets.* API, a re-namespaced and improved version of the original legacy, or _IG_*, gadgets API. The gadgets.* API has gained wide acceptance, both on Google and non-Google gadget containers, and…
September 14th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
The legacy gadgets API has had a storied life, as both the first version of the gadgets API that drove iGoogle, and the direct predecessor of the current gadgets.* API. As with many APIs there comes a time when we must say goodbye to the past, and embr…
September 14th, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle, Uncategorized
The legacy gadgets API has had a storied life, as both the first version of the gadgets API that drove iGoogle, and the direct predecessor of the current gadgets.* API. As with many APIs there comes a time when we must say goodbye to the past, and embr…
August 31st, 2009 | by Dan Holevoet | published in iGoogle
Users love fast gadgets. Fast gadgets are more likely to remain installed, and will see higher usage. Fast gadgets may also cost less to keep running.Slow gadgets make users unhappy, both with individual gadgets, and with iGoogle. Unfortunately, there …
August 12th, 2009 | by Mike Marchak | published in Google Code, iGoogle
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…