Waving with groups
«Some users have noticed that we have the beginnings of support for groups in Google Wave, so we figured we’d give everyone a quick explanation of how it currently works. Keep in mind that this is in the very early …
Month: December 2009
Chattanooga aims to get on the virtual map
«Last month, a small group of volunteers launched a community-wide effort, called Chattanooga 3D to put Chattanooga, Tennessee on the 3D Map. Their goal is to “Bring Chattanooga to life in Google Earth for everyone to enjoy. Architecture, attractions, businesses, …
Upcoming Webinar
«By James A. Whittaker If anyone is interested, I am giving a webinar through uTest. It’s open to the uTest community and the public. You can register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/ register/793439307 . I’ll be giving a talk about how we do …
Search in Google Docs gets more personalized with new relevance, stemming, and synonyms
«Finding your business information within Google Docs should be as easy as finding information on google.com. To meet that goal, over the next few days, we will be enabling new search features in Google Docs that provides better relevancy as …
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Google Docs Liberation Update
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Picasa 3.6: Now with collaborative albums
«In August, 2009, we released collaborative albums for Picasa Web Albums, making it possible for multiple people to add pictures to the same album. Since the easiest way to upload to Picasa Web Albums is using the Picasa software, we’re …
Google Goggles
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We’re a Favorite Place on Google
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Mattson Technology switches to Google Apps and saves 70%
«Editor’s note: Our guest blogger today is Matt Hough, Director of Global IT for Mattson Technology, a company that designs, manufactures, and markets semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (NAND, RAM and LOGIC). Matt will …
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Know Your Social Mojo – Holiday Edition!
«Twitter was hot in 2009. Everyone and everything appears to be tweeting – four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree, just to name a few. Earlier this summer, we created a …
Sort by relevance, export all and more
«Over the next few days, we will be enabling several new features in your Docs list. Sort by relevance The first is the addition of relevance ranking in your Docs list search results. Until now, anytime you searched for a …
Real Time Search
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Free wireless broadband for low-income families in the District
«We were at Kramer Middle School in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., this morning for an exciting announcement . Google has teamed up with One Economy , Qualcomm , and Cricket Wireless to deliver free wireless broadband cards and …
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Google’s Chrome For Mac Beta Arrives
Ita s finally here! Google has released the official beta version of their Chrome browser for the Mac, and you can download it immediately . See original post by MacLife
Where on Earth? Place Pages for Google Earth
«When I’m exploring my neighborhood or planning a trip, I often find places I want to know more about. That’s why I love using Place Pages for Google Maps to see lots of great information about a place on a …
Update your skills – take the Google Advertising Fundamentals exam
«As part of our ongoing efforts to improve training materials and the Google Advertising Professionals program we have updated the certification exam and learning center . We’ve created a new Google Advertising Fundamentals exam designed to be more rigorous and …
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Request performance in Java
«If you’ve been following the App Engine Java runtime group , you may have noticed some discussions about performance of the Java runtime. Many of you have complained about hard-to-predict DeadlineExceededExceptions, or unexpectedly slow requests that use a high amount …
Google Chrome Extensions launched in beta!
«Today, we launched Google Chrome’s extensions system in the beta channel for Windows and Linux (Mac is in progress). We’ve also opened up our brand new gallery , which contains more than 300 extensions! We aspired to create an extensions …
Change owner in a Google spreadsheet
«A month ago, we standardized the look and feel of the Google Docs editors. Consistency across all the editors remains an important goal, which is why we are happy to report that you can now change the owner of a …
Random Acts of Kindness, Yahoo! Style
“You In?†program encourages acts of good during the holiday season Bob Hope once said, “If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.†Truer words were seldom spoken. At Yahoo!, we strive …