«It’s Fab Friday again! I missed last week, felled by a nasty cold. But you can’t keep Fab Friday down. Just back, I decided to roll out this screencast on Autocomplete in the Places Library of the Google Maps API: As you can see, there’s a lot you can do with autocomplete. Continu...»   » source  |  + cache

«The big game is almost here, and Yahoo! Sports takes it seriously. Check out “ Yahoo! Brings the Super Bowl to You ” for details about all the special coverage Y! is planning around the big day. If online searches are any indication of who will win this year’s game, the New England ...»   » source  |  + cache

«To help you learn about the big stories of the week, we’re kicking off a new series from CitizenTube, a YouTube channel focusing on global news and politics. Everyday on the CitizenTube channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful , we look at how the ...»   » source  |  + cache

«Quench your thirst for rich media with Gatorade’s muscular custom pushdown video and wallpaper on the Sports front page To promote its G series of energy drinks, Gatorade kicked off its Win from Within campaign in G-force style with a rich media custom (sporting) event front and cent...»   » source  |  + cache

«Since introducing Dynamic Search Ads in beta in October, we’ve seen questions from around the web asking about real-world performance and recommendations for implementation. Today we’re grateful to share the perspectives of Matt Mierzewski and Jen Syverud at RKG, an online marketing services...»   » source  |  + cache

«Computers store every piece of text using a “character encoding,” which gives a number to each character. For example, the byte 61 stands for ‘a’ and 62 stands for ‘b’ in the ASCII encoding, which was launched in 1963. Before the web, computer systems were siloed, and there were hun...»   » source  |  + cache

«By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor Most software developers started getting interested in technology at an early age. With that in mind, Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) is a program that annually awards grants to groups that come up with great new ways to teach st...»   » source  |  + cache

«In addition to our award-winning sports reporting, Yahoo! is going to be all over Super Bowl XLVI with insider access to one of the hottest events of the year. Here’s a look at everything we’ve got going on before, during, and after the game: Bud Light Hotel Super Bowl concert broadcast live...»   » source  |  + cache

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«Gertrude Stein. (Courtesy Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room.) What exactly did renowned U.S. writer and art collector Gertrude Stein mean when she said “there is no there there” about Oakland, California? In honor of Gertrude Stein’s 138th birthday today, we...»   » source  |  + cache

«Yesterday we let everyone know about the chance to win Pepsi MAX during Super Bowl weekend with IntoNow . Today, we’ve got more news. As you’re following the game with IntoNow and getting ready for your potential Pepsi MAX windfall, we’re adding a special feature where you̵...»   » source  |  + cache

«Today, Flickr Friday, marks the release of our very first Flickr Trend report! This engaging document highlights some of the most popular trending themes and tags on Flickr. It also focuses on the impressive stats around Flickr’s impressive array of images. The report will be distributed to a var...»   » source  |  + cache

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«Game day can’t come soon enough? Get in the spirit today with the official premiere of Madonna’s “Give Me All Your Luvin” featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. on YouTube. You can find the video on the Madonna YouTube Channel , along with teasers for her halftime show performance. We�...»   » source  |  + cache

«As the nation awaits Super Bowl 46, people are heading to Yahoo! to get the inside scoop on one of the most popular sporting events of the year!  Yahoo! searches this week for “ Indianapolis Super Bowl 2012 ” are up 1,743%. Who Will Win? If online searches were an indicator...»   » source  |  + cache

«This is a cross-post from the Google Mobile Blog . The last year has been a phenomenal one for the Android ecosystem. Device activations grew 250% year-on-year, and the total number of app downloads from Android Market topped 11 billion. As the platform continues to grow, we’re focus...»   » source  |  + cache

«  The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.3 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame.  This build contains following stability and bug fixes: Fixed URL handling of settings page. [Issue: 111900 ] Fixed crash when unpacking extension. [Issue: 112301 ] Fixe...»   » source  |  + cache

«By James Whittaker This will be my last post on this blog. Tomorrow is my last day at Google. It was a great ride and a great pleasure to work alongside such brilliant engineers. I will hand over this blog to another test director and then find a new place for whatever blogging I do in the futu...»   » source  |  + cache

«We frequently get asked about how we defend Android users from malware and other threats. As the Android platform continues its tremendous growth, people wonder how we can maintain a trustworthy experience with Android Market while preserving the openness that remains a hallmark of our overall a...»   » source  |  + cache

«More than two-thirds of Earth is covered by oceans. If you drained all of that water away, you'd see huge basins that have never been explored, an undiscovered planet in our own backyard. Today is the three year anniversary of an explorable ocean seafloor in Google Earth . We just released a ma...»   » source  |  + cache

«By Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Engineering, Android The last year has been a phenomenal one for the Android ecosystem. Device activations grew 250% year-on-year, and the total number of app downloads from Android Market topped 11 billion. As the platform continues to grow, we’re focused on ...»   » source  |  + cache

«Recently, there’s been a lot of news coverage of malware in the mobile space. Over on our Mobile blog, Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Android engineering, has posted Android and Security . We think most Android developers will find it interesting reading.»   » source  |  + cache

«In November, our friends at Next Limit Technologies announced the release of the Maxwell for Google SketchUp plugin, a dedicated photo-renderer that operates entirely inside of SketchUp. Soon after, they issued a challenge to see who could make the juiciest render using either the free or licensed...»   » source  |  + cache

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«Good news for Google Site Search owners who manage multiple Google Site Search engines!  You can now share query quota between paid GSS and free Custom Search engines. This may be useful for you if you pay for a quota with Google Site Search and you’d like to share that quota with your...»   » source  |  + cache

«[This post is by Daniel Lehmann , Tech Lead on the Android Apps team. — Tim Bray] [We’re trying something new; There’s a post over on Google+ where we’ll host a discussion of this article. Daniel Lehmann has agreed to drop by and participate. Come on over and j...»   » source  |  + cache

«Women make up more than half the global population, but hold fewer than a third of the world’s engineering jobs. In the U.S., female students comprise fewer than 15 percent of all Advanced Placement computer science test takers. Even in high-tech Israel, few girls choose computer science. Not only...»   » source  |  + cache

«Editors note: Today’s guest blogger is Lee Tae Kyu, CEO of MS Autotech, which specializes in car-body parts for auto manufacturers such as Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors and Daimler-Benz. In 2011, the company had revenues of approximately 500 billion KRW, and anticipates revenues in 2012 o...»   » source  |  + cache

«As I wrote in the Huffington Post recently, we here at YouTube believe that great educators can come from all walks of life, and we want to see more teachers - in the broadest sense of the word - turn YouTube into their global classroom. The demand on YouTube for educational content - from m...»   » source  |  + cache

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