<<Posted by Gilbert Dietrich, German Google Base Team Many of you have been asking for a way to easily upload and publish items for different countries to Google Base from the comfort of your account. We listened to your feedback and have created an international dashboard within your Google B...>>   (more...)

<<By David Phillip Oster, Google Mac Team Vidnik is our newest application in the Google Mac playground . It's a simple program for using the built-in camera on your Mac to create movies and upload them to YouTube. You can use Vidnik to create a video diary, or just to quickly record a vide...>>   (more...)

<<Here’s a quick summary of recent fixes and changes we’ve made to Blogger: Layouts now has a blog.pageName datum that gives the name of the current page without the “[Blog Name]: ” prefix that blog.pageTitle adds. Picture page element can now optionally link the picture to a URL. War...>>   (more...)

<<As you may have heard, Google recently released Google App Engine , which allows you to run your code on Google's highly scalable infrastructure. Since App Engine currently runs Python code, I thought it would be a good idea (and fun) to get the gdata-python-client to run in this new environ...>>   (more...)

<<By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team Sometimes you have a good week, other times a great week. This week has definitely been one of the latter. We spent Monday morning with some incredibly bright youngsters from the Watershed School in Colorado , all of whom had spent the past three days ex...>>   (more...)

<<As a follow-up to my previous posts on accessibility, here are some design recommendations for creating web content that remains usable by the widest possible audience while helping ensure that the content gets indexed and crawled. Avoid spurious XMLHttpRequests Pages that enable users to...>>   (more...)

<<There's four big Geo events in the San Francisco Bay Area this month, and Mano and I will be at all of them. Here's the details: Where2.0 : May 12-14th Sharing Your Content on the Google Maps API In this session, you'll roll up your sleeves and learn about publishing and sharing usin...>>   (more...)

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<<One of the features of the iGoogle sandbox is the notion of views, the ability to target content to different display areas. Views are supported across OpenSocial containers, but each container may support a different set of views. To help you re-use your gadgets, we've added a new views feature...>>   (more...)

<<Aliza Sherman , author, speaker, TV and radio producer Aliza Sherman first wrote a version of these posts in a shorter item for Web Worker Daily, entitled Learning to Love Google Docs . She's generously expanded the ideas in that post for us here, and included tips and tricks for those of...>>   (more...)

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<<At Direct Relief International , we rely on Google Earth in both our ongoing and emergency response efforts to help target medical assistance. As part of our response to Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma), we plotted all of the Myanmar Ministry of Health facilities (over 700 sites) using data f...>>   (more...)

<<By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team Last Monday, we brought you news on the Top 10 countries from which we're welcoming this year's Google Summer of Code™ students. Many thanks to everyone from the community for their suggestions about which program statistics they'd like to see next....>>   (more...)

<<I’m Matt Brown, a kml developer and designer at concept3D in Boulder, Colorado. Google Earth has provided a new group of developers with the opportunity to build virtual ‘geowebsites’ specific to vertical markets. Armageddon Pills , a travel book by John Higham, combines this power o...>>   (more...)

<<The situation in Myanmar (Burma) continues to deteriorate in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. It is estimated that more than 22,000 lives have perished and 41,000 people are missing. One million people are left without shelter, electricity, and clean water. Some reports suggest that the death to...>>   (more...)

<<Google I/O is just a few weeks away (May 28 - 29). If you haven't already, don't forget to register for the event. We now have over 80 sessions posted, including a number of new sessions on Gears and AJAX technologies, including: Taking Large-Scale Applications Offline - Lessons Learned ...>>   (more...)

<<Last week at the annual meeting of our Online Sales and Operations (OSO) organization, a group of us (1,211 Googlers from around the world, to be exact) made an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the "largest cake decorating lesson." This isn't the first time we've taken our culin...>>   (more...)

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<<By Steve Souders, Member of Technical Staff This post is one in a series that previews Google I/O , our biggest developer event in San Francisco, May 28-29. Over the next month, we'll be highlighting sessions and speakers to give Google Code Blog readers a better sense of what's in store for ...>>   (more...)

<<By Steve Souders, Member of Technical Staff This post is one in a series that previews Google I/O , our biggest developer event in San Francisco, May 28-29. Over the next month, we'll be highlighting sessions and speakers to give Google Code Blog readers a better sense of what's in store for ...>>   (more...)

<<As a fan of gadget blogs such as Gizmodo and Engadget , Tom Whitwell started Music Thing in 2004 after realising that there were no similar blogs for music gear. The blog showcases unique and strange instruments, and traffic grew as gadget sites began to link to Music Thing. Now, the site recei...>>   (more...)

<<In early March, we announced that we'd soon incorporate an additional factor into Quality Score , namely landing page load time -- where load time is defined as the amount of time it takes for a user to see the landing page after clicking an ad. Now, we'd like to post with an update. Starting ...>>   (more...)

<<Based on the positive response to our new Analytics Seminars for Success , we've added 6 additional sessions in Boston, Chicago, and Orlando. Industry experts will teach you how to use and apply Analytics knowledge to make smarter marketing decisions. Sign up seven days before the seminar date and...>>   (more...)

<<Yesterday, Google App Engine held our first ever hack-a-thon at the Google Office in New York City. We had a great turn out of App Engine developers. Some programmed along with us, building a wiki, and some developers brought along their own ideas and spent the day building some awesome ap...>>   (more...)

<<T.V. Raman and Charles Chen , who have helped out with accessibility in Reader in the past, have not rested on their laurels and have another feature to announce: I've long maintained that CSS is one of the most well-kept (and consequently under-exploited) accessibility secrets of the We...>>   (more...)

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<<We've just added support to Google Finance for Hong Kong Stock Exchange listings. In addition to news and descriptive data (which we already offer for these listings), you'll now see intra-day data and pretty charts. You can search for companies by name using the search box. You can also...>>   (more...)

<<Protecting employees from Internet threats is tough enough when they're at work, much less when they're on the road. Off-network users are particularly vulnerable to web threats because they must remember to connect via VPN for protection when they're away from the office. Today we're making In...>>   (more...)