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- [G] Finding and Building Product-Specific Links
- [G] Google Checkout + Sites: Two new ways to add Google Checkout "Buy Now" buttons to your Sites
- [G] Announcing Wingdings as a new font
- [G] Model Your Town finalists announced: Cast your vote!
- [G] Model Your Town Competition: Cast your vote!
- [G] Join us this coming Tuesday to discuss innovation and home energy use
- [G] Grunt, Woof and Moo to you too
- [G] Back to Hits
- [G] Google physicists discover extra dimension in Street View
- [G] The bigger the better
- [G] Google Reader gives back
- [G] Unmuting the web with Google Chrome
- [G] Today’s vowel outage
| [G] Finding and Building Product-Specific Links Posted: 01 Apr 2010 07:21 PM PDT Google Affiliate Network: Finding and Building Product-Specific LinksGoogle Affiliate Network publishers can now easily browse across relationships to find products and build links to specific products. The product search feature allows publishers to access aspects of the advertiser's product feed within the Google Affiliate Network interface. Publishers can view product price, image, category and description in addition to tracking and creative urls and then generate a product-specific link.  To search for a product, sign in and go to the "Products" tab. Next enter the name of a product you want to promote on your website and click 'go.' Your product search results will appear ranked by relevancy to the keyword entered.
On behalf of the Google Affiliate Network team. posted by Sheila Parker, Product Manager
 URL: http://googleaffiliatenetwork-blog.blogspot.com/2010/04/finding-and-building-product-specific.html      |
| [G] Google Checkout + Sites: Two new ways to add Google Checkout "Buy Now" buttons to your Sites Posted: 01 Apr 2010 01:52 PM PDT Official Google Checkout Blog: Google Checkout + Sites: Two new ways to add Google Checkout "Buy Now" buttons to your SitesEd Note: This is the second in a series of posts from the Checkout team about features that will make running your business on Google Checkout even easier.We're happy to share two new ways to easily add Google Checkout as a payment option for items on your Google Sites pages. To add the button right from your Sites page, look for the Google Checkout "Buy Now" Button Gadget in the Google Sites list of featured gadgets. Then setup your gadget with the item details and display settings in just a few clicks.  To learn more about how to add the gadget to your Sites pages through Google Sites, please visit the step-by-step instructional article. Posted by Nicolas Garnier, Developer Programs Engineer  URL: http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-checkout-sites-two-new-ways-to.html   |
| [G] Announcing Wingdings as a new font Posted: 01 Apr 2010 01:52 PM PDT Inside AdSense: Announcing Wingdings as a new fontLast year, we announced that publishers could begin changing the font faces of their ad units. We've been listening to your feedback, and we're happy to let you know that we've just added Wingdings as a font face option.During our extensive alpha testing, we found that this font performed especially well on sites catering to two specific audiences: cryptologists and carrier pigeons. Even if your site's visitors aren't usually comprised of these two groups, this font face can reduce ad blindness and we encourage you to test it on your sites. As a reminder, you can choose to update the font face of specific ad units, or apply your settings account-wide.   To get started with Wingdings, follow these instructions. We're continuing to look for ways to improve your monetization potential, and we'll be sure to let you know of any updates right here on our blog. We're looking forward to the positive effects this launch will have for publishers, users, and advertisers. Posted by the Inside AdSense Team  URL: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/04/announcing-wingdings-as-new-font.html   |
| [G] Model Your Town finalists announced: Cast your vote! Posted: 01 Apr 2010 01:52 PM PDT Google LatLong: Model Your Town finalists announced: Cast your vote![Cross-posted from the SketchUp blog]OK folks -- it's time to vote for your favorite 3D town. The submission phase of the Google Model Your Town Competition is over and the five finalists have been selected. Without further ado, they are (in alphabetical order): Barranco, Lima, Peru Modeler: Jorge De Albertis Barranco's collection of models Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany Modeler: Leonhard Pröttel Braunschweig's collection of models Donostia - San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain Modelers: Pedro Domecq Aguirre, Eneka Mujica, Gabriel Garcia, Jan Wesbuer, Fermin Saraseta Donostia - San Sebastián's collection of models Dursley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Modeler: John Wilkes Dursley's collection of models West Palm Beach, Florida, United States Modeler: Chris Sardinas West Palm Beach's collection of models This overview video flies to each of the finalist towns: On the voting page, you'll find a separate one-minute video tour for each town, as well as a link to a KML file that you can use to see the models in Google Earth. Take a look at everything, decide which you think is best, then weigh in -- you have until May 1st, 2010 to cast your vote. Congratulations to the finalists and to all of the teams who submitted entries. Choosing the top five certainly wasn't an easy task. As you can see from this collection of the teams who entered, the competition was tough. Good luck! Posted by Allyson McDuffie and Aidan Chopra, Google SketchUp Team  URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/04/model-your-town-finalists-announced.html   |
| [G] Model Your Town Competition: Cast your vote! Posted: 01 Apr 2010 01:52 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Model Your Town Competition: Cast your vote!The first-ever Google Model Your Town Competition has entered the public voting phase. It's now up to you to help decide which of the five finalist towns should be the overall winner. Cast your vote before May 1.
These five teams used Google SketchUp and Google Building Maker to create beautifully detailed 3D models of their communities — and now they're viewable in Google Earth by everyone in the world. To see all of the towns who entered the competition, check out the Google 3D Warehouse collection. The winning town will receive an event hosted by Google in their honor, US $10,000 for their local schools and more. Don't forget to vote by May 1, and we'll announce the winning town by May 15. And if you're interested in learning how you can model your town, check out our Your World in 3D website for examples and other tools to help you get started. Posted by Allyson McDuffie, SketchUp for Education Program Manager  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/model-your-town-competition-cast-your.html   |
| [G] Join us this coming Tuesday to discuss innovation and home energy use Posted: 01 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT Google Public Policy Blog: Join us this coming Tuesday to discuss innovation and home energy usePosted by Jamie Yood, Google Clean Energy TeamHow many times have you been headed out of town for a long weekend when you got that sick feeling that you didn't turn off the lights? Wouldn't it be great if you could turn down your AC from the beltway? Or learn how much it costs to run that extra load in the washer when you get home? Turns out this isn't Jetsons' talk. It's right around the corner.  Join the President's most senior White House energy official, Carol Browner, as well as corporate leaders and advocates this coming Tuesday to discuss how smart grid technology can get us there. The event co-hosted by Google DC and The Climate Group, will explore technologies and policies aimed at giving consumers the ability to better monitor and manage their energy use. The potential for energy and cost savings are enormous - starting with data that says we can count on savings of 5-15% per household with little effort. What we're interested in, is putting our minds together to discuss how to help consumers get energy and cost savings, speed this future to market and how to encourage innovation. Power in Numbers: Unleashing Innovation in Home Energy Use Tuesday, April 6 1:00pm - 5:00pm - Event & Reception Google Washington Office 1101 New York Ave. NW, Second Floor Join us! RSVP here.  URL: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/04/join-us-this-coming-tuesday-to-discuss.html   |
| [G] Grunt, Woof and Moo to you too Posted: 01 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT Official Google Mobile Blog: Grunt, Woof and Moo to you too(Cross-posted with the Google translate blog) This application allows you to record animal sounds and have the sounds analyzed and translated by Google Translate into any of the 52 supported languages. With animal translation you can finally understand why Spot keeps peeing in your closet or why Pickles keeps leaving dead mice in the tub. No longer must humanity struggle to comprehend when Lassie warns, "Hurry, Timmy's fallen down the well!" The technology isn't perfect yet, so you may discover some translations that don't make perfect sense. The algorithms are always improving however, thanks to the large corpus of cute cat videos that have been uploaded to YouTube. We think that this is an exciting step in understanding and communicating with the world around us. Stay tuned for the addition of "old car" and "stomach" to the translation capabilities of the application this summer. Posted by Woof Woofington, Product Barketing Manager via Google Translate for Animals  URL: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/04/grunt-woof-and-moo-to-you-too.html   |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT Google Analytics Blog: Back to HitsOver the years we've worked hard to make complex data easy to access and easy to understand. We've released features like Advanced Segmentation, which lets you segment your traffic on the fly, Custom Reporting-- the ability to create and share your own reports--, and Analytics Intelligence, an algorithmic intelligence engine that automatically spots important changes in traffic. All of this work was done with the belief that you needed this data in order to make sense of your website traffic. We're big believers that data trumps opinion, so we set out to prove our belief. We'll be the first to admit that we were wrong. After extensive analysis by our quantitative teams, we've uncovered that hits (or How Interneters Track Success) is the only metric that actually matters in web analytics. Forget that business about absolute unique visitors, goal completion rate, or even bounce rate. If you want to achieve success, you need to focus on hits. With this finding, we've gone back to the drawing board with the Google Analytics interface. Since this will be a major change, we want to share with you a preview of the new Google Analytics UI:  (click to view full-size) To help you make this transition, Avinash Kaushik is releasing a new book: Web Analytics 3.0 - The Greatest Hits. The new book (more of a thick brochure, really) is chock full of nearly 1,000 words on how to use hits to track your success. It's your chance to learn how to hit from a true analytics ninja. Plus it's much shorter than most of his blog posts. We're looking forward to exploring the next stage of web analytics with you. Now if you'll excuse us, we've got a hit counter to watch. Posted by Trevor Claiborne, Google Analytics Team & Hits Master  URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/04/back-to-hits.html   |
| [G] Google physicists discover extra dimension in Street View Posted: 01 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT Google LatLong: Google physicists discover extra dimension in Street ViewToday our esteemed team of physicists from Google are proud to announce that they have discovered an extra dimension in our universe. And like other groundbreaking discoveries of black holes, superheros, and space ships, this one was also made by using Street View on Google Maps.  The team hard at work performing theoretical physics in their lab, located in an undisclosed location This extra dimension can only be seen by using the cutting-edge red-cyan glasses shown below. Thanks to modern technology and remarkable advances in manufacturing, such state-of-the-art equipment is now available online for under a dollar.  If you wear these glasses, you can go to Google Maps, and enter your favorite spot in Street View. Pegman will serve as your guide to the secret dimension - start by clicking this icon shown on the left of the screen:  and the new dimension will pop out right in front of your (technologically-augmented) eyes:  This is completely new research on an unchartered topic, so we would like to offer one word of caution: please beware of birds. Posted by Stéphane Lafon and Abhijit Ogale, Senior Pixel Movers, Street View  URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-physicists-discover-extra.html   |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT Google Photos Blog: The bigger the betterPosted by C. Amera, LifeSize EngineerIn a world where everything seems to be getting smaller and smaller, we still believe that bigger is sometimes better. On the photos team, we know this is definitely true. That's why we're happy to announce LifeSizeTM on Picasa Web Albums, an easy way to create and print larger-than-life versions of your photos, all from the comfort of your own home. LifeSize uses intelligent shape detection software to find the subject in your photo and automatically determines its approximate real-life height based on background scenery, surrounding objects, and the ratio of the subject's foot-to-navel length and the navel-to-head length. Check it out and make your own really, really big photo at picasa.google.com/lifesize.   URL: http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2010/04/posted-by-c.html   |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT Official Google Reader Blog: Google Reader gives backAt the recent SXSW conference, we handed out free Google Reader T-shirts to people based on how many Reader items they'd ever read... in their whole life. We knew that free shirts would be a hit, but we learned something much more important: a lot of people have read a lot of items. (At an average of thirty seconds per item, the most prolific readers had spent more than 180 full days of their lives perusing stuff on Reader — what Blogger gives, Reader takes away) After the conference, several of us felt like shirts didn't seem like enough of a reward for all the valuable hours people have spent trolling through so many feeds. One thing led to another, we did a few calculations, drank a few too many cups of coffee, and today we're happy to announce Google Reader's first rewards program: ReaderAdvantage™. The ReaderAdvantage™ program is simple. You get one point for each item you read. The more you read, the more you get. Then you can trade in your points for cool stuff. And because we believe in a little friendly competition, there are four levels of ReaderAdvantage™ status:
We considered inventing a secret ReaderAdvantage™ handshake, but instead we created embroidered badges to ensure that members can easily identify their compatriots.
If you use Google Reader, there's no reason not to join. Visit the ReaderAdvantage™ site to read all the details and enroll today. As always, please send us your thoughts and feedback in our forum or on Twitter.  URL: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-reader-gives-back.html   |
| [G] Unmuting the web with Google Chrome Posted: 01 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT Google Chrome Blog: Unmuting the web with Google ChromeWe've long felt that not enough people know what a browser is. Too many people just use the browser that comes with their computer. The time has come for browsers to speak up and be heard. Even though we've experimented with visual improvements in the way of 3D stereoscopy, we think it's time for browsers to push the boundaries of what's possible by using sound to create a magical, immersive experience.Taking an earful of inspiration from the HTML5 audio tag, we've spent the past few months deep in psychoacoustic models, the Whittaker-Nyquist-Kotelnikov-Shannon sampling theorem, Franssen effects, Shepard-Risset Tones, and 11.1 surround sound research to build a cutting-edge audio-driven user interface for our users, available through a new Chrome extension. With this extension, Chrome will provide audio feedback as you browse to web pages and interact with the browser. To experience the web with auditory feedback, download Google Chrome (if you haven't already), install the extension, turn up the volume, and enjoy the biggest increase in your browsing productivity since the blink tag. Mundane operations like opening and closing tabs, searching, navigating, even debugging the browser and much more will never be the same. Now that we've nailed sight and sound, we'll look at bringing olfactory magic to the browsing experience. We hope to deliver that by next year at this time. Posted by Kay, Rakowski, and Chan from the Psychoacoustics Research Division of the Google Chrome Team  URL: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/04/unmuting-web-with-google-chrome.html   |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2010 07:51 AM PDT Official Gmail Blog: Today's vowel outagePosted by Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering DirectorIf you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you who rely on Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we're incredibly sorry. We take morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to let you all know what happened and what we're doing about it. At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started failing to render the letter 'a' for a subset of users. As error rates escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap solution that limited the damage to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u.' As a result, we're experiencing Gmail's first temporary vowel outage. (We're still investigating whether the letter 'y' is impacted and will post an update here shortly.) Over the last hour we've received numerous reports of this issue via our help forums, from colleagues at Google, and via email you've sent us. Some of you have already found creative workarounds for communicating without vowels, like Aaron, who sent us this:  Having 80.8% of the alphabet available is significantly below the 99.9% full letter uptime reliability we strive for. Since identifying the root case of this issue, we've started bringing vowels back to Gmail, so you should see them back in your account within the next few hours if you don't already. In the meantime, while you may still see this issue in Gmail's web interface, both IMAP and POP access are functioning normally. We'll post an update as soon as things are fully resolved and, again, we're v3ry s0rry.  URL: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html   |
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