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- [G] Posted by Murali Viswanathan, Product Manager (cross-posted
- [G] Google Special Award Winners @ Intel ISEF 2010
- [G] Keeping up-to-date on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- [G] Keeping up-to-date on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- [G] Manage and Track your extensions with the new Ad Extensions tab
- [G] Google Apps highlights – 5/21/2010
- [G] Google Checkout for 501(c)6 organizations
- [G] Search more securely with encrypted Google web search
- [G] Extending SSL to Google search
- [G] Working with AdMob to move mobile advertising forward
- [G] Train station searches, simplified
- [G] Working with AdMob to move mobile advertising forward
- [G] Celebrating PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday
| [G] Posted by Murali Viswanathan, Product Manager (cross-posted Posted: 21 May 2010 09:54 PM PDT Google Public Policy Blog: Posted by Murali Viswanathan, Product ManagerPosted by Murali Viswanathan, Product Manager |
| [G] Google Special Award Winners @ Intel ISEF 2010 Posted: 21 May 2010 06:51 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Google Special Award Winners @ Intel ISEF 2010Last Thursday evening, we announced the winners of our Google Special Awards at the Intel ISEF 2010 Special Awards Ceremony. With applications from 17 project fields ranging from behavioral and social sciences to microbiology, judging these great projects was extremely difficult. Submissions like a bio-inspired photonic fuel cell and a new way to treat waste water using fungus showcased the ingenuity and imagination of the world's next generation of scientists. In fact, we were so blown away by the caliber of the project submissions that hours before the award ceremony, we decided to give some additional awards. In addition to the three $10,000 category prizes, we awarded six runner-up prizes of $1,000 each. And since so many of our applications were in the Secret Change Agent category (an award for the project that has the most potential to positively impact society and make the world a better place), we selected two winners, who each received $10,000!Please join us in congratulating the 10 finalists and finalist teams who were awarded the Google Special Awards. Their accomplishments represent the bright future of science and technology and we're thrilled to be along for the ride. Google Special Award Winners & Runner-ups Category #1: CS Connect: applying computer science to further scientific inquiry in your field Runner-ups ($1,000 each)Category #2: The Future of Energy: contributing to a cleaner, brighter tomorrow Runner-ups ($1,000 each)Category #3: Secret Change Agent: making our world a better place through innovative change Runner-ups ($1,000 each)For a full listing of the Intel ISEF Grand Award and Special Award winners, visit the Intel ISEF 2010 homepage here. Posted by Dolores Bernardo, Talent & Outreach Programs Manager  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-special-award-winners-intel-isef.html       |
| [G] Keeping up-to-date on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Posted: 21 May 2010 06:51 PM PDT Google LatLong: Keeping up-to-date on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill[Cross-posted with the Official Google Blog]It is estimated that at least 6 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon explosion a month ago. Cleanup efforts are underway, but the oil has spread extensively around the Gulf and along the southern U.S. coastline. Oil has begun washing up on the beaches of Louisiana and the delicate wetlands along the Mississippi River, and can spread to Florida and throughout the Gulf as weather conditions change. This sequence of images, coming from NASA's MODIS satellites, illustrates the movement and growth of the oil slick over the past few weeks:  April 25, 2010  April 29, 2010  May 9, 2010  May 17, 2010 The last image, taken earlier this week (on May 17), shows the coastal areas currently at risk from the spreading oil, and can help those working on the wide range of relief efforts.  You can view this and other MODIS imagery in Google Earth by downloading this KML. You can also view additional imagery and find other resources and news at our oil spill crisis response page. Posted by Pete Giencke, GIS Data Engineer  URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/05/keeping-up-to-date-on-gulf-of-mexico.html   |
| [G] Keeping up-to-date on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Posted: 21 May 2010 06:51 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Keeping up-to-date on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill(Cross-posted on the Lat Long blog) April 25, 2010 April 29, 2010 May 9, 2010 May 17, 2010 The last image, taken earlier this week (on May 17), shows the coastal areas currently at risk from the spreading oil, and can help those working on the wide range of relief efforts. You can view this and other MODIS imagery in Google Earth by downloading this KML. You can also view additional imagery and find other resources and news at our oil spill crisis response page. Posted by Pete Giencke, GIS Data Engineer  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/keeping-up-to-date-on-gulf-of-mexico.html   |
| [G] Manage and Track your extensions with the new Ad Extensions tab Posted: 21 May 2010 06:51 PM PDT Inside AdWords: Manage and Track your extensions with the new Ad Extensions tabOver the last year we've launched a number of ad extensions in AdWords to help you make your ads more useful and relevant to people searching for information on Google. Ad extensions expand your standard text ad with one or more lines of additional information like an address and phone number (location extensions and phone extensions), more page links (ad sitelinks), and product images (product extensions).In order to help you manage and track the ad extensions in your campaigns, today we're introducing a new Ad Extensions tab within your AdWords account. From the Ad Extensions tab, you can see statistics for any of your campaign ad extensions. You can choose to see "All" or "All but deleted" extensions, and you can also choose the type of ad extensions to view, such as location or product extensions. For example, if you select "Locations," the tab will display all location extensions for that campaign (on the campaign details page) or all campaigns (in the "All Online Campaigns" overview). The Ad Extensions tab automatically appears in your account when you've enabled ad extensions in at least one campaign. You can also enable or disable the tab for your account view by clicking the arrow button next to your existing tabs above your performance table. To learn more about the new Ad Extensions tab, visit the AdWords Help Center. Posted by Dan Friedman, Inside AdWords crew  URL: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/05/manage-and-track-your-extensions-with.html   |
| [G] Google Apps highlights – 5/21/2010 Posted: 21 May 2010 03:47 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Google Apps highlights – 5/21/2010This 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.It's been an active and exciting week on the Google Apps team, including the release of several new features at Google I/O, our annual developers conference. Google Calendar gets a new look The Google Calendar team has been doing some spring cleaning. On Wednesday, we revealed Google Calendar's new cleaner design. We streamlined text that appears in the interface, made the controls more compact and created more space on screen to display information from your calendar.  New themes for forms in Google Docs We also spruced up forms in Google Docs with the addition of 24 new themes for online surveys that you create. As you're editing your form, just click the "Theme" button to browse the gallery and change the look and feel of your form.  Drag images into Gmail messages On Tuesday, we simplified a common action: inserting images in a Gmail message. If you use Google Chrome, now you can drag images files from your computer's desktop or folders onto the body of a message you're composing, and Gmail will add the image to your message. You can easily resize the image right in the Gmail compose window before hitting "Send."  Google Voice open to students We've heard from many students how Google Voice makes it easier to deal with the process of getting a new dorm phone number and moving back and forth between school and home each year. Voicemail transcriptions that students can glance at while in class are also useful. To help more students take advantage of these tools, last Friday we opened up Google Voice for students with .edu email addresses. Try it out! Google Wave (Labs) open to all Google Wave is a new team collaboration application that brings discussion and debate right into the context of content people are working on together. For the last year, Google Wave has been available to a limited set of testers and early users, but on Wednesday we moved Wave to Google Labs and now anyone can sign up. If you use Google Apps at your business, school or organization, your IT manager can enable Wave from the Google Apps control panel now, too. More Google applications coming for Google Apps customers Speaking of new applications for businesses, schools and organizations, we also just announced that starting this summer, Google Apps customers will be able to sign into Blogger, Picasa Web Albums, Google Reader, AdWords and many more Google services with their Google Apps accounts. If you're the Google Apps administrator for your organization, read more about how this change will work and sign up to start testing. We welcome your feedback.  Contextual gadgets in Gmail Gmail can already display previews of documents, videos and photo albums so you don't have to switch back and forth between windows, and now Google Apps customers can add other contextual gadgets from the Google Apps Marketplace. There are already gadgets for project management, social networking, rich contact profiles and much more, and we hope developers will build their own contextual gadgets with the new Gmail API. Apps Script Google Apps Script lets customers automate business processes ranging from expense approvals to time-sheet tracking to ticket management and order fulfillment. On Tuesday we launched Google Apps Script improvements, including Java database connectivity, custom user interfaces for scripts, the ability to invoke scripts from any web page and integrations with more Google services, like Google Maps. To help you get started with scripts, we also released a new set of script templates with pre-built functionality. Google Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes® Many companies still using old legacy technologies are looking to make a seamless switch to the cloud, and now Lotus Notes customers can move to Google Apps in phases, at their own pace. Last week we launched the Google Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes®, which allows businesses to switch to Google Apps department by department. Google Apps users in your organization can look up free/busy info for coworkers still on Lotus Notes and vice versa. Who's gone Google? Thousands more businesses and schools have "gone Google" since our last update, including Arista Networks (where Andy Bechtolsheim serves as Chairman) and Smart Furniture. Both of these companies had a common motivation for moving to Google Apps: being able to focus their precious resources on core business challenges by letting technology experts at Google handle the day-to-day operations of running an email system. Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-apps-highlights-5212010.html   |
| [G] Google Checkout for 501(c)6 organizations Posted: 21 May 2010 03:47 PM PDT Official Google Checkout Blog: Google Checkout for 501(c)6 organizationsWe're excited to announce that IRS-approved 501(c)(6) organizations may now process transactions through Google Checkout. Previously, Google Checkout only processed online donations for 501(c)(3) religious, educational and charitable organizations in the United States.Today, Google Checkout is extending transaction processing to IRS-approved 501(c)(6) organizations who focus on advancement and improvement of professional and business associations. If you are one of these organizations, we encourage you to sign up for Google Checkout to process transactions for memberships, dues and other services Posted by S. Raja Satishchandra and Swathi Balerao, Google Checkout Operations  URL: http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-checkout-for-501c6-organizations.html   |
| [G] Search more securely with encrypted Google web search Posted: 21 May 2010 03:46 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Search more securely with encrypted Google web searchAs people spend more time on the Internet, they want greater control over who has access to their online communications. Many Internet services use what are known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections to encrypt information that travels between your computer and their service. Usually recognized by a web address starting with "https" or a browser lock icon, this technology is regularly used by online banking sites and e-commerce websites. Other sites may also implement SSL in a more limited fashion, for example, to help protect your passwords when you enter your login information.Years ago Google added SSL encryption to products ranging from Gmail to Google Docs and others, and we continue to enable encryption on more services. Like banking and e-commerce sites, Google's encryption extends beyond login passwords to the entire service. This session-wide encryption is a significant privacy advantage over systems that only encrypt login pages and credit card information. Early this year, we took an important step forward by making SSL the default setting for all Gmail users. And today we're gradually rolling out a new choice to search more securely at https://www.google.com. When you search on https://www.google.com, an encrypted connection is created between your browser and Google. This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network. The service includes a modified logo to help indicate that you're searching using SSL and that you may encounter a somewhat different Google search experience, but as always, remember to check the start of the address bar for "https" and your browser lock indicators:  Today's release comes with a "beta" label for a few reasons. First, it currently covers only the core Google web search product. To help avoid misunderstanding, when you search using SSL, you won't see links to offerings like Image Search and Maps that, for the most part, don't support SSL at this time. Also, since SSL connections require additional time to set up the encryption between your browser and the remote web server, your experience with search over SSL might be slightly slower than your regular Google search experience. What won't change is that you will still get the same great search results.A few notes to remember: Google will still maintain search data to improve your search quality and to provide better service. Searching over SSL doesn't reduce the data sent to Google — it only hides that data from third parties who seek it. And clicking on any of the web results, including Google universal search results for unsupported services like Google Images, could take you out of SSL mode. Our hope is that more websites and services will add support for SSL to help create a better and more consistent experience for you. We think users will appreciate this new option for searching. It's a helpful addition to users' online privacy and security, and we'll continue to add encryption support for more search offerings. To learn more about using the feature, refer to our help article on search over SSL. Posted by Evan Roseman, Software Engineer  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely-with-encrypted.html   |
| [G] Extending SSL to Google search Posted: 21 May 2010 12:48 PM PDT Google Online Security Blog: Extending SSL to Google searchPosted by Murali Viswanathan, Product ManagerGoogle understands the potential risks of browsing the web on an unsecured network, particularly when information is sent over the wire unencrypted — as it is for most major websites today. That's why we offered SSL support for Gmail back when we launched the product in 2004. Most other webmail providers don't provide this feature even today. We've since added SSL support for Calendar, Docs, Sites, and several other products. Additionally, early this year we made SSL the default setting for all Gmail users. As we work to provide more support for SSL across our products, today we're introducing the ability to search with Google over SSL. We still have some testing to do, but you can try out the new encrypted version of Google search at https://www.google.com and read more about it on the Official Google Blog.  URL: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/05/extending-ssl-to-google-search.html   |
| [G] Working with AdMob to move mobile advertising forward Posted: 21 May 2010 12:48 PM PDT Google Public Policy Blog: Working with AdMob to move mobile advertising forwardPosted by Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management(cross-posted from The Official Google Blog) Today, the Federal Trade Commission cleared our acquisition of AdMob, a mobile advertising start up. We're excited to work with Omar Hamoui and his talented team at AdMob to develop new mobile advertising solutions for marketers, mobile app developers and mobile publishers. The decision is great news for the mobile advertising ecosystem as a whole. This was reflected in the widespread industry support for our acquisition. Throughout the FTC's review process, it's been clear that the mobile advertising is growing rapidly. As mobile phone usage increases, growth in mobile advertising is only going to accelerate. This benefits mobile developers and publishers who will get better advertising solutions, marketers who will find new ways to reach consumers, and users who will get better ads and more free content. We're very excited about the possibilities in this field. As an immediate matter, we're now moving to close this acquisition in coming weeks. We'll then start work right away on bringing AdMob's and Google's teams and products together. This industry is moving fast, and we're excited to be part of the race!  URL: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/05/working-with-admob-to-move-mobile.html   |
| [G] Train station searches, simplified Posted: 21 May 2010 12:48 PM PDT Google LatLong: Train station searches, simplified Let's say you are about to take a train to visit another city. What do you need to know before setting out? An important piece of information to know is whether the station near your place has a line to take you there and when it will depart. Now you can get this information by just searching for the transit station in Google Maps. When you search for a station, you can see a list of transit lines that service the station. The lines are colored and grouped by transit type to make it easier to find the line you are looking for. For railway trains, you can see the departure time directly. And for other type of transit, namely subways, buses and commuter trains, you could click on the line name to get the next departure time of each direction without leaving the current page. So maybe if biking to work this month doesn't work out for you, you can have an easier time getting the transit info you need to get around town. Posted by Xinxing Gu, Associate Product Manager  URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/05/train-station-searches-simplified.html   |
| [G] Working with AdMob to move mobile advertising forward Posted: 21 May 2010 09:50 AM PDT Official Google Blog: Working with AdMob to move mobile advertising forwardToday, the Federal Trade Commission cleared our acquisition of AdMob, a mobile advertising start up. We're excited to work with Omar Hamoui and his talented team at AdMob to develop new mobile advertising solutions for marketers, mobile app developers and mobile publishers.The decision is great news for the mobile advertising ecosystem as a whole. This was reflected in the widespread industry support for our acquisition. Throughout the FTC's review process, it's been clear that the mobile advertising is growing rapidly. As mobile phone usage increases, growth in mobile advertising is only going to accelerate. This benefits mobile developers and publishers who will get better advertising solutions, marketers who will find new ways to reach consumers, and users who will get better ads and more free content. We're very excited about the possibilities in this field. As an immediate matter, we're now moving to close this acquisition in coming weeks. We'll then start work right away on bringing AdMob's and Google's teams and products together. This industry is moving fast, and we're excited to be part of the race! Posted by Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/working-with-admob-to-move-mobile.html   |
| [G] Celebrating PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday Posted: 21 May 2010 09:50 AM PDT Official Google Blog: Celebrating PAC-MAN's 30th birthdayWhen I was growing up, my dad had the best job I could possibly imagine: he was an arcade game and pinball technician. For me, that meant summer trips through Poland's coastal cities with their seasonal arcade parlors; peeking inside cabinets to learn programming and engineering secrets; and—of course—free games!One of my favorites was PAC-MAN, whose popularity transcended the geopolitical barriers of that time. During the heyday of space shooters, Tōru Iwatani's creation stood out as one of the first video games aimed at a broader audience, with a cute story of pizza-shaped character gobbling dots in a maze, colorful (literally!) characters, friendly design, very little violence and everlasting fun. Today, on PAC-MAN's 30th birthday, you can rediscover some of your 8-bit memories—or meet PAC-MAN for the first time—through our first-ever playable Google doodle. To play the game, go to google.com during the next 48 hours (because it's too cool to keep for just one day) and either press the "Insert Coin" button or just wait for a few seconds. Google doodler Ryan Germick and I made sure to include PAC-MAN's original game logic, graphics and sounds, bring back ghosts' individual personalities, and even recreate original bugs from this 1980's masterpiece. We also added a little easter egg: if you throw in another coin, Ms. PAC-MAN joins the party and you can play together with someone else (PAC-MAN is controlled with arrow keys or by clicking on the maze, Ms. PAC-MAN using the WASD keys).  PAC-MAN™ & ©1980 NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. PAC-MAN seems like a natural fit for the Google homepage. They're both deceptively straightforward, carefully hiding their complexity under the hood. There's a light-hearted, human touch to both of them. And we can only hope you find using Google at least a quarter as enjoyable as eating dots and chasing ghosts. You know, without actually needing any quarters. Posted by Marcin Wichary, senior UX designer and developer  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/celebrating-pac-mans-30th-birthday.html   |
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