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- [G] 2010 Tribeca Film Festival on YouTube
- [G] How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
- [G] Google @ Intel ISEF 2010
- [G] This week in search 5/7/10
- [G] Google Apps highlights – 5/7/2010
- [G] Our letter to data protection commissioners on privacy
- [G] Schools are (almost) out for the summer...and in for Apps
- [G] Schools are (almost) out for summer...and in for Apps
- [G] A little bit of polish
- [G] Comment via email and view entire photo albums in Google Buzz
- [G] Google Apps Marketplace highlights – 5/7/2010
| [G] 2010 Tribeca Film Festival on YouTube Posted: 08 May 2010 12:07 AM PDT YouTube Blog: 2010 Tribeca Film Festival on YouTubeThe 9th annual Tribeca Film Festival came to a close earlier this week in lower Manhattan and we were proud to be a part of it. As a sponsor of the World Documentary Category, we supported the premieres of films from countries around the world that dealt with important issues ranging from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the black market for falcons. We also spent time talking to filmmakers about opportunities to distribute their films on YouTube, which you can learn more about on our Filmmakers Wanted channel. Fortunately, our partnership with Tribeca goes far beyond our sponsorship of the festival and we're delighted to let you know that six films from this year's festival are now available for rent on the Tribeca Film channel, as are numerous films from previous years. Here's a snapshot of these newest Tribeca releases: In the year 2024, all of Europe is united by a vast web of underground railways, populated by an army of downtrodden worker bees. When one such cog starts hearing voices and encounters a femme fatale shampoo model who seems to hold some answers, he finds himself unearthing a vast Orwellian conspiracy in this visually arresting animated noir. With the voices of Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, and Alexander Skarsgård. Mahmud Nasir (comedian Omid Djalili) may not be the most observant Muslim but deep down he is a true believer. His life is capsized when he not only learns he was adopted, but also, even more scandalous, that his birth mother was Jewish and his given name was Solly Shimshillewitz. As Mahmud tumbles into a full-scale identity crisis, a true comedy of religious errors unfolds. With Richard Schiff and Matt Lucas. Mat Whitecross (codirector of The Road to Guantanamo) paints a stylized, ripsnorting portrait of mercurial British punk rock pioneer Ian Dury (portrayed by BAFTA nominee Andy Serkis). From a troubled childhood and a battle with debilitating polio to the effects of fame on relationships and fatherhood, here are the highs and lows of a life lived sneeringly, unapologetically out loud. With Olivia Williams, Ray Winstone, and Naomie Harris. Like most high schoolers, Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel, Tropic Thunder) is having an identity crisis. What differentiates Leon, however, is that he believes he is the reincarnation of Soviet thinker Leon Trotksy and predestined to follow the same path as his namesake. Tackling issues from students' rights to semi-formal dances, this "revolutionary" comedy will have you united in laughter. Loath to take over the family hair-oil business, young Vishnu jumps at the chance to drive his uncle's beat-up Chevy truck across India to its new owner. The young runaway, wandering old entertainer and beautiful woman he picks up along the way make for a magical journey that will change Vishnu's life. With the sumptuous landscape of India as his canvas, director Dev Benegal paints a delightfully original road movie. Sara Pollack, Entertainment Marketing Manager, recently watched "The Sandpit."     URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/LiNLKxfISBQ/2010-tribeca-film-festival-on-youtube.html      |
| [G] How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill? Posted: 07 May 2010 09:06 PM PDT Google LatLong: How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion continues to leak into the Gulf Coast. Official estimates state a rate of 200,000 gallons a day, while some private estimates think it could be over a million gallons each day. The spill covers an area of over 2,500 square miles, and shows no signs of slowing down. 2,500 square miles is a large number, but how big is that, really? It's very difficult for us to imagine something that large, and it's doubly hard to grasp the true size when it sits over the vast ocean surface. To help understand the scale of this ecological disaster, I built a page using the Google Earth Browser Plug-in that will let you see the oil spill in comparison to something everyone has a good grasp on: the size of your own home town. Also, you can compare the oil spill to some very large cities around the world -- is it bigger than San Francisco, New York, London? You'll be surprised at what 2,500 square miles really means. And it's still growing. .png) See it here: http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill. If you're interested in learning more from Google or our data providers, you may want to check out these following sites:
Posted by Paul Rademacher, Google Maps Engineering Manager  URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-big-is-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill.html   |
| Posted: 07 May 2010 07:06 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Google @ Intel ISEF 2010On Monday, several thousand high school students will descend on San Jose for this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). A project of the Society for Science & the Public, Intel ISEF brings together more than 1,500 high school students from over 50 countries to showcase and discuss their research and compete for millions of dollars in prizes. We're particularly excited about this event because this year Google is the Premier Sponsor and Silicon Valley Host of the event.We're getting ready to launch an action-packed week of events and activities that celebrate the accomplishments of the Intel ISEF finalists and the role that technology plays in the future of science. Our schedule includes:
Posted by Josh Weaver, ISEF alum and Tech Lead for Street View  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-intel-isef-2010.html   |
| [G] This week in search 5/7/10 Posted: 07 May 2010 07:06 PM PDT Official Google Blog: This week in search 5/7/10This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed.This week was a big one for search. We announced a number of new enhancements: A new look for Google By now, you've probably noticed Google has a fresh look and feel. This week, we announced a new contextually relevant left-hand panel on the search results page that brings together all of the most relevant search tools and refinements for your particular query. It makes navigation quick and easy — you can seamlessly jump to and from different types of results, from Books to Images to News, or dig deeper by narrowing down results by time or topic. The new "Something different" feature at the bottom of the left-hand panel helps you find other topics that are related to your query, broadening the possibilities for your search. In addition to this new navigation, we also slightly changed our logo, which is now brighter, simpler and overall more modern. Ultimately, this latest evolution of Google makes it much easier to pinpoint more precisely what you're looking for. We hope you're as excited as we are about these new changes! Sites with images feature Having more information upfront can be helpful in choosing the best webpages to visit, particularly when you're searching sites rich with images. So this week, we introduced a new way to view search results for sites with lots of images. Each result will now include a strip of images from the website, so you can get a better preview of what each page has to offer. To enable this new feature, simply do your image-focused query on Google, click on "more search tools" in the left-hand navigation, and then click on "sites with images." You'll notice the search results page completely transforms. Example searches: [orchids] and [salt ponds]  Translate with Google Goggles We launched Google Goggles in December as a new way to search by sight, with your mobile phone's camera. From identifying landmarks, books, artwork — even wine bottle labels — Goggles is an interesting tool for expressing your queries beyond just text. This week, we released a new version of Goggles with translation capabilities built in. To use it, point your phone's camera at a foreign word or phrase and use the "region of interest button" to draw a box around specific words. After Goggles detects the text, select the source and destination languages and press the "translate" button. To use this, you'll need Google Goggles v1.1 on an Android device that's running version 1.6 and higher. We hope that you enjoy the features we launched this week, and that they make your search experience even better. Posted by Johanna Wright, Director of Product Management, Search  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/this-week-in-search-5710.html   |
| [G] Google Apps highlights – 5/7/2010 Posted: 07 May 2010 07:06 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Google Apps highlights – 5/7/2010This is part of a regular series of Google Apps updates that we post every couple of weeks. Look for the label "Google Apps highlights" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.We've been busy over the last few weeks with improvements to make Google Apps more useful, whether you use Google Apps at work, at school or at home. Improvements to comments in Buzz We've been making continuous improvements to Buzz, including a few changes to comments over recent weeks. We added new options so you can have comments delivered directly to your inbox for conversations that you're interested in. You can also comment back by replying to the message in your inbox. Also new, when a conversation you started has run its course, "Close comments" will prevent people from adding new comments.  Copy sheets from one spreadsheet to another We're continuing to improve on the new documents and spreadsheets editors that we introduced a few weeks ago. On Wednesday we launched the ability to copy sheets across spreadsheets when you don't want to duplicate an entire spreadsheet. Just click the "Copy to..." option in the sheet options menu.  More Google applications coming for Google Apps customers Yesterday we shared the news that many more Google applications are coming later this year to businesses, schools and organizations using Google Apps. Coworkers will be able to publish their organization's blog on Blogger, share project images with Picasa Web Albums, track industry news in Google Reader, advertise online with AdWords and much more, all without switching back and forth between multiple accounts. Read the details on the Google Enterprise Blog.  Administrative reset of end-user sign-in cookies Google Apps customers also now have the ability to reset sign-in cookies for an end-user from the administrative control panel to help prevent unauthorized access to Google Apps. This security feature can come in handy when a user loses a laptop or mobile phone. That user's active Google Apps browser sessions are immediately signed out, and will require new authentication with the user's username and password.  Who's gone Google? Tens of thousands of businesses, schools and organizations have started using Google Apps since our last update, including Morehouse College, Kenyon College, Shenandoah University and the University of Rhode Island. LiquidConcrete, an industrial materials firm in Seattle, also shared a great story about going Google. Not only do they use Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar, they also rely on Smartsheet — available from the Apps Marketplace — for project management. Now they're able to track their inventory, manage the order-to-ship process and much more in the cloud, for a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions. I hope you're making the most of these new features, whether you're using Google Apps with friends, family, coworkers or classmates. For more details and updates from the Apps team, head on over to the Google Apps Blog. Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-apps-highlights-572010.html   |
| [G] Our letter to data protection commissioners on privacy Posted: 07 May 2010 07:06 PM PDT Google Public Policy Blog: Our letter to data protection commissioners on privacyPosted by Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy CounselToday, we responded to a letter that a group of data protection commissioners recently sent us about privacy at Google, relating to the launch of Buzz in particular. In our letter, we outlined the work we do every day to protect user privacy. In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to share our letter as it explains our ongoing efforts and outlines tools like the Google Dashboard that provide you with increased transparency and choice. As we mention in the letter, we are in regular contact with all of the commissioners' offices and look forward to continue working with them. For more information on our privacy initiatives, you can visit our Privacy Center.  URL: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/05/our-letter-to-data-protection.html   |
| [G] Schools are (almost) out for the summer...and in for Apps Posted: 07 May 2010 02:36 PM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Schools are (almost) out for the summer...and in for AppsEditor's Note: Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog. With school almost out for summer, things are hitting a frenzied end-of-year pace in classrooms; and life is similarly fast-paced for the Google's Apps for Education team as we work with the schools adopting Google Apps in increasing numbers. Today we've reached another milestone — 8 million students, faculty and staff around the world have gone Google. To put this in perspective, the U.S. has about 16 million college students total. This new milestone has been keeping us especially busy since it comes less than 60 days after we announced 7 million active users. It's pretty cool to see adoption growing even as the school year wraps up, because it means more freshmen get to come to campus and dive into using Google Apps for email and collaboration next fall. Some of the new schools in this bunch are Morehouse, University of Rhode Island, University of Nevada Las Vegas, the Metropolitan State College of Denver and North Carolina State University. These colleges and universities join thousands of others that have gone Google, some of which you can see on this map. According to the Campus Computing survey, more than 80 percent of schools in the U.S. have moved to cloud computing or are considering it, and of those almost 60 percent choose Google Apps, so these new schools have plenty of company. With this kind of growth, we expect a lot of quick change. Some schools choose Apps for students (UC Davis), and some migrate their faculty and staff, either with or after student deployments (like Boise State University). Some schools deploy for alumni (like Notre Dame) and some pilot Apps rollouts with their graduate schools (like Howard University). We always support pilots as they help schools check out how their productivity, or even server costs, can change with group collaboration and web-based tools and often lead to broader deployments down the line. Universities (like Googlers!) are experts at trying a lot of things and sticking with what works for them. As Apps for Edu heads toward its fourth birthday we expect we'll see schools continue to develop personalized plans for piloting, deployment and of course, use. One cool example is from Temple University, which designated April Google Apps month and built a Google site to help students and faculty learn more about the tools and get their feedback. Often schools will find that something that works for them, and continue to build from there. For example, after Vanderbilt University successfully deployed Google Apps for their students, they decided they wanted to improve search on their site, too — so they also rolled out Google Site Search. To hear more from Vanderbilt about how and why they did this, tune in to our webinar on Wednesday, May 12 (you can register here). Google Apps and search tools helped Vandy save $750,000 annually, and the student population is all about collaborating in the cloud: the student government takes meeting notes on Docs and also shares a campus-wide activity calendar. That's Commodore efficiency at its best. Even though our summer break won't necessarily consist of exotic travel, summer school, or pool-side relaxation, we'll keep busy working with schools as they deploy Google Apps. So, if you've done something neat at your school to "go Google", we'd love to hear about it. Posted by Miriam Schneider, Apps Edu Team  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/schools-are-almost-out-for-summerand-in.html   |
| [G] Schools are (almost) out for summer...and in for Apps Posted: 07 May 2010 02:36 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Schools are (almost) out for summer...and in for Apps(Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog) It's pretty cool to see adoption growing even as the school year wraps up, because it means more freshmen get to come to campus and dive into using Google Apps for email and collaboration next fall. Some of the new schools in this bunch are Morehouse, University of Rhode Island, University of Nevada Las Vegas, the Metropolitan State College of Denver and North Carolina State University. These colleges and universities join thousands of others that have gone Google, some of which you can see on this map. According to the Campus Computing survey, more than 80 percent of schools in the U.S. have moved to cloud computing or are considering it, and of those almost 60 percent choose Google Apps, so these new schools have plenty of company. With this kind of growth, we expect a lot of quick change. Some schools choose Apps for students (UC Davis), and some migrate their faculty and staff, either with or after student deployments (like Boise State University). Some schools deploy for alumni (like Notre Dame) and some pilot Apps rollouts with their graduate schools (like Howard University). We always support pilots as they help schools check out how their productivity, or even server costs, can change with group collaboration and web-based tools and often lead to broader deployments down the line. Universities (like Googlers!) are experts at trying a lot of things and sticking with what works for them. As Apps for Edu heads toward its fourth birthday we expect we'll see schools continue to develop personalized plans for piloting, deployment and of course, use. One cool example is from Temple University, which designated April Google Apps month and built a Google site to help students and faculty learn more about the tools and get their feedback. Often schools will find that something that works for them, and continue to build from there. For example, after Vanderbilt University successfully deployed Google Apps for their students, they decided they wanted to improve search on their site, too — so they also rolled out Google Site Search. To hear more from Vanderbilt about how and why they did this, tune in to our webinar on Wednesday, May 12 (you can register here). Google Apps and search tools helped Vandy save $750,000 annually, and the student population is all about collaborating in the cloud: the student government takes meeting notes on Docs and also shares a campus-wide activity calendar. That's Commodore efficiency at its best. Even though our summer break won't necessarily consist of exotic travel, summer school, or pool-side relaxation, we'll keep busy working with schools as they deploy Google Apps. So, if you've done something neat at your school to "go Google", we'd love to hear about it. Posted by Miriam Schneider, Apps Edu Team  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/schools-are-almost-out-for-summerand-in.html   |
| Posted: 07 May 2010 02:36 PM PDT Official Google Reader Blog: A little bit of polishJak wielokrotnie robiliśmy w przeszłości, ekipa Google Reader poświęciła czas pomiędzy wypuszczaniem wiekszych projektów na pracę nad małymi usprawnieniami i naprawę istniejących błędów. Oh wait, not that kind of Polish, this kind of polish. As we've often done in the past, the Reader team has taken the time between major releases to work on small features and bug fixes. Here's a round-up of the changes we've made over the past month: We've added support for the HTML5
A few improvements to Reader Play: When you hit space (or shift-space), you're now automatically moved between posts, and for posts with multiple images, cycled through each image. We've also added made Play more configurable by letting you change the URL used:
You can combine all these to make automatically playing slideshows of your favorite photoblogs. Finally, we've done a few other small things, like the Home view loading faster, and the Send to functionality being less susceptible to being stymied by popup blockers when used with services such as Twitter. The way we prioritized these tweaks and fixes was based on forum and Twitter feedback, so please keep it coming.  URL: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/05/little-bit-of-polish.html   |
| [G] Comment via email and view entire photo albums in Google Buzz Posted: 07 May 2010 11:23 AM PDT Official Gmail Blog: Comment via email and view entire photo albums in Google BuzzPosted by Henry Wong, Software EngineerOne of the things people like best about Google Buzz is the ability to have conversations in the comments. But until now, if you were reading a post in an email client (like the native mail app on your phone or Outlook), you couldn't easily join in on the conversation -- you could only email the original poster. Today, we rolled out a new Google Buzz feature for you to try out: comment via email. Now, you can comment on the post simply by replying to the email message.  Plus, last week we made it possible to view entire photo albums in Buzz (rather than the handful of photos from a given Flickr or Picasa album you could see before). So if you share an album with tons of photos, people can now click through all of the photos in the Buzz photo viewer. We're chipping away at the feature requests we've been receiving, so keep them coming. And if you want to keep up with everything Google Buzz related, follow our team at buzz.google.com/googlebuzz.  URL: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/comment-via-email-and-view-entire-photo.html   |
| [G] Google Apps Marketplace highlights – 5/7/2010 Posted: 07 May 2010 07:50 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Apps Marketplace highlights – 5/7/2010Editor's note: This is the second in a series of posts on new apps in the Google Apps Marketplace that have caught our eye here at Google. We'll do this every couple weeks or so. Look for the label "marketplace highlights" and subscribe to the series.Businesses that use Google Apps not only get access to Google's applications, they also get easy access to some of the best business apps on the web through the Google Apps Marketplace. These Marketplace apps are easy to try and buy, and integrate with Google Apps "out of the box", making it even easier for businesses to run more of their systems in the cloud. You can learn more about the Marketplace and watch a short video on how it works here. Checkfront - Online Booking  Checkfront is a powerful booking platform that allows businesses to manage their inventories online, centralize reservations, and process payments.
LucidChart - Collaborative Diagramming  LucidChart provides collaborative online diagramming without the need for Flash, Silverlight, or any otherbrowser plugin. Draw flow charts, org charts, wireframes, site maps, and more.
GQueues - Task Management A full-featured task manager for Google Apps with tagging,  assignments, recurring tasks, reminders, calendar integration,subtasks, mobile access and real-time collaboration.BatchBook - Social CRM  BatchBook is a lightweight but powerful CRM that allows you to easily organize contacts, monitor social networks and track leads and deals.
VerticalResponse - Email Marketing  Create, send and track email campaigns, direct mail postcards and online surveys -- no technical expertise required! Take a 30-day test drive and send 200 emails for free.
Posted by Chris Kelly, Google Apps Marketplace team  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-apps-marketplace-highlights.html   |
Reader is the kind of application that people keep open in a tab all day. While it's flattering that our users are so dedicated, we want to make sure that they don't miss out on any new features and bug fixes that we release. We've therefore added a small banner that appears whenever we release a new version. If you're in the middle of something, you can ignore it (and it'll go away for a while), but if not, newest and shinier things are just a click away. Incidentally, today we built the 500th version of Reader; over the 5 years that we've worked on Reader, that works out to almost two builds a week.| You are subscribed to email updates from Googland To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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