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- [G] Interviews from GUADEC, Part 3
- [G] Deep Dive Articles For The Data Export API
- [G] Location extensions with multiple addresses available on mobile devices
- [G] Google Apps highlights – 9/3/2010
- [G] Trimming our privacy policies
- [G] Texas inquires on our approach to competition
- [G] Going Google Across the 50 States: Maryland start-up hopes to level the playing field in education
- [G] Trimming our privacy policies
- [G] Stay keen and start to Screen
- [G] Trimming our privacy policies
- [G] Trimming our privacy policies
[G] Interviews from GUADEC, Part 3 Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:36 PM PDT Google Open Source Blog: Interviews from GUADEC, Part 3For the past two weeks, we've been sharing Jeremy Allison's video interviews from his trip to GUADEC. Today we have a third video where he talks to Lennart Poettering, creator of PulseAudio. Jeremy and Lennart talk about PulseAudio features, how Lennart got started improving audio on the linux desktop, and how to be successful in free software. Enjoy! Thanks to Fabian Scherschel of Sixgun Productions for operating the camera. URL: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/09/interviews-from-guadec-part-3.html |
[G] Deep Dive Articles For The Data Export API Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:25 PM PDT Google Analytics Blog: Deep Dive Articles For The Data Export APIOn the Google Analytics API Team, we're fascinated with what people create using the Data Export API. You guys come up with some really amazing stuff! Lately, we've also been paying a lot of attention to how people use it. We looked at whether the API has stumbling points (and where they are), what common features every developer wants in their GA applications, and what tricky areas need deeper explanations than we can give by replying to posts in our discussion group.As a result of identifying these areas, we've written a few in-depth articles. Each article is meant as a "Deep Dive" into a specific topic, and is paired with open-source, sample reference code. In no particular order, the articles are as follows: Visualizing Google Analytics Data with Google Chart Tools This article describes how you can use JavaScript to pull data from the Export API to dynamically create and embed chart images in a web page. To do this, it shows you how to use the Data Export API and Google Chart Tools to create visualizations of your Google Analytics Data. Outputting Data from the Data Export API to CSV Format If you use Google Analytics, chances are that your data eventually makes its way into a spreadsheet. This article shows you how to automate all the manual work by printing data from the Data Export API in CSV, the most ubiquitous file format for table data. Filling in Missing Values In Date Requests If you want to request data displayed over a time series, you will find that there might be missing dates in your series requests. When requesting multiple dimensions, the Data Export API only returns entries for dates that have collected data. This can lead to missing dates in a time series, but this article describes how to fill in these missing dates. We think this article format makes for a perfect jumping off point. Download the code, follow along in the article, and when you're done absorbing the material, treat the code as a starting point and hack away to see what you can come up with! And if you've got some more ideas for areas you'd like us to expound upon, let us know! Posted by Alexander Lucas, Google Analytics API Team URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/09/deep-dive-articles-for-data-export-api.html |
[G] Location extensions with multiple addresses available on mobile devices Posted: 03 Sep 2010 08:36 PM PDT Inside AdWords: Location extensions with multiple addresses available on mobile devicesCross-posted from the Google Mobile Ads BlogDo you have several business locations in one city? For example, are you a national retailer of consumer electronics who wants to increase foot traffic to your Los Angeles area stores? Every day, consumers are using their high-end mobile devices to find directions to local businesses, making mobile an ideal way to reach this audience. We're excited to streamline this experience by announcing a new enhancement to the location extensions ad format: location extensions with multiple addresses. This new feature will ensure that your customers connect with the right location of your business at the right time. Now available on Google Maps for Mobile (GMM) versions 4.4 and above on Android devices, location extensions with multiple addresses allow consumers to find the most relevant location of your business on a Google mobile map. Featuring your business location alongside your mobile ad is a powerful method to drive foot traffic and in-store sales. For instance, if a potential customer is looking for a wireless communications store like Sprint, an ad within GMM can display all Sprint locations near them. This not only delivers a relevant search experience, but also enables customers to visit the closest and most convenient Sprint store location. Here's how location extensions with multiple addresses work:
To take advantage of this enhancement, you must be a primary business owner and have enabled location extensions within your Google Places account. Additionally, your campaigns must target the iPhone and other high-end mobile devices with full mobile browsers. You will only be charged when users click on the website URL or the phone icon displayed on the details page of a particular business location. Location extensions with multiple addresses launched for desktop earlier this summer and we've worked hard to bring it to mobile. For now, this feature is only available on Android devices, but we hope to expand to other platforms in the near future. Location extensions ad formats can show in the United States as well as a number of other countries. To learn more about location extensions with multiple addresses, please visit our Help Center. Posted by Surojit Chatterjee, Google Mobile Ads Product Manager URL: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/09/location-extensions-with-multiple.html |
[G] Google Apps highlights – 9/3/2010 Posted: 03 Sep 2010 05:36 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Google Apps highlights – 9/3/2010This 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.Recently we introduced powerful, time-saving features in Gmail: Priority Inbox and the ability to call phones right from Gmail. Google spreadsheets added new features, and many more businesses and schools moved to the cloud with Google Apps. Cut through the clutter with Gmail Priority Inbox Since its beginning, Gmail has been helping people cope with large amounts of email, whether it's with more than seven gigabytes of storage, really fast search, great spam filtering or automatically organized conversations. This Monday we launched Priority Inbox, which helps you get through your inbox even faster by automatically putting important messages front and center. The more that you use Gmail, the better Priority Inbox will become at categorizing the email you receive. Our research suggests that the typical information worker can save a whole week of work time each year with this feature! Call phones from Gmail People in the U.S. can now call any phone right within Gmail. If you have a Google Voice account (it's free! and open to everyone in the U.S.), you can also receive calls to your Google Voice number right within Gmail. Calls to the U.S. and Canada are free at least until the end of the year, and international rates start at just $0.02 per minute. Google Apps customers won't see this feature quite yet, but Google Voice and call phones in Gmail are coming soon with the new infrastructure for Google Apps accounts. Improved scheduler in Google Calendar Last Thursday we made it easier to set up new events in Google Calendar. The interface for repeating events is now more intuitive, and we've improved how we help you find a good time for your event, even if you're coordinating a large group of people with busy schedules. In-cell drop-down with validation and more in Google spreadsheets We added two helpful features in spreadsheets last week as well. In-cell drop-down with validation allows you to configure cells to display a drop-down menu of accepted values. For example, you can require a cell's value to be selected from a list of specific cities. We also introduced the ability to easily see which cells have formulas, which can come in handy when you're working on a complicated mode. You can turn this feature on from the formula bar by selecting the "Show All Formulas" button, selecting "Show All Formulas" in the View menu or hitting Ctrl `. Who's gone Google? The pace of organizations saying goodbye to legacy on-premises technology and moving into the cloud continues to accelerate. Read more about why The Richmond Group, Box.net, Bowerly Lane Bicycles and EPS Communications selected Google Apps for their messaging and collaboration needs. I hope these updates help you or your organization get even more from Google Apps. For details and the latest news in this area, check out the Google Apps Blog. Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-apps-highlights-932010.html |
[G] Trimming our privacy policies Posted: 03 Sep 2010 05:36 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Trimming our privacy policiesLong, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they're legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand.So we're simplifying and updating Google's privacy policies. To be clear, we aren't changing any of our privacy practices; we want to make our policies more transparent and understandable. As a first step, we're making two types of improvements:
Our updated privacy policies still might not be your top choice for beach reading (I am, after all, still a lawyer), but hopefully you'll find the improvements to be a step in the right direction. Posted by Mike Yang, Associate General Counsel URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/trimming-our-privacy-policies.html |
[G] Texas inquires on our approach to competition Posted: 03 Sep 2010 05:17 PM PDT Google Public Policy Blog: Texas inquires on our approach to competitionPosted by by Don Harrison, Deputy General CounselWe've always worked hard to ensure that our success is earned the right way -- by building great products, not locking in our users or advertisers. That said, we recognize that as Google grows, we're going to face more questions about how our business works. As Search Engine Land first reported, we've recently been approached by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office, which is conducting an antitrust review of Google. We look forward to answering their questions because we're confident that Google operates in the best interests of our users. Occasionally, we're asked about the "fairness" of our search engine -- why do some websites get higher rankings than others? The important thing to remember is that we built Google to provide the most useful, relevant search results and ads for users. In other words, our focus is on users, not websites. Given that not every website can be at the top of the results, or even appear on the first page of our results, it's unsurprising that some less relevant, lower quality websites will be unhappy with their ranking. The Texas Attorney General's office asked for information about a number of companies whose cases have been well publicized. Here is some background on them:
We work hard to explain our approach to search and how our ranking works, and we also listen carefully to people's concerns. We're looking forward to working cooperatively with the Texas Attorney General's office, and we strongly believe our business practices reflect our commitment to build great products for the benefit of users everywhere. URL: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/09/texas-inquires-on-our-approach-to.html |
Posted: 03 Sep 2010 04:05 PM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Going Google Across the 50 States: Maryland start-up hopes to level the playing field in educationEditor's note: Over the past couple months, thousands of businesses have added their Gone Google story to our community map and even more have used the Go Google cloud calculator to test drive life in the cloud. To highlight some of these companies' Gone Google stories, we decided to talk to Google Apps customers across the United States. Check back each week to see which state we visit next. To learn more about other organizations that have gone Google and share your story, visit our community map.This week we head to Maryland where StraighterLine is trying to level the playing field in education. StraighterLine's mission is to disrupt the high cost of online education courses by directly partnering with colleges and vetting courses through national clearing houses. Joseph Thibault, Course Manager at StraighterLine, shares their story. When we jumped into the world of online education head-first, our small staff was spread across the US. As a result, we decided to use Google Apps because of its ability to facilitate this virtual office. The ability to share docs, communicate synchronously, and work collaboratively on docs provided us with a quick and easy way to improve courses, our brand and website. Google Apps has sped up the rate at which we collect information and communicate internally and with students. By using forms in Google Docs we can easily collect survey data from new students to help us focus our marketing efforts. We also use forms to collect course evaluations so that we can improve our courses and services quickly. Creating a form in Docs only takes a few minutes and the summary and charting features allow us to do a quick analysis with just a few clicks. Gmail has also been a huge benefit to StraighterLine. Students can easily get in touch with us through Gmail and chat, allowing them to get help and continue learning in seconds rather than hours. At StraighterLine we're happy to say we've gone Google! Posted by Ashley Chandler, Google Apps team URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/going-google-across-50-states-maryland.html |
[G] Trimming our privacy policies Posted: 03 Sep 2010 03:28 PM PDT Official Google Docs Blog: Trimming our privacy policiesCross posted on the Gmail Blog and the Official Google BlogLong, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they're legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. So we're simplifying and updating Google's privacy policies. To be clear, we aren't changing any of our privacy practices; we want to make our policies more transparent and understandable. As a first step, we're making two types of improvements:
Our updated privacy policies still might not be your top choice for beach reading (I am, after all, still a lawyer), but hopefully you'll find the improvements to be a step in the right direction. Posted by Mike Yang, Associate General Counsel URL: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/trimming-our-privacy-policies.html |
[G] Stay keen and start to Screen Posted: 03 Sep 2010 12:23 PM PDT Google Finance Blog: Stay keen and start to ScreenPosted by Brian Shih, Product ManagerThe Google Finance Stock Screener is one of the most powerful tools for financial research on the site. Save yourself some research time by letting the Stock Screener tell you exactly what you want! The Google Finance team has been listening to your feedback on Product Ideas, and we see a strong interest in this feature so we want to share our best practices for getting the most out of this tool. The Stock Screener allows you to sort using a wide range of criteria - including a number of options you may not be familiar with yet. So even if you already use it, keep reading to learn new tips and tricks. Getting Started The Stock Screener can be accessed in two ways:
First, you can specify by the Exchange and/or Sector that you want, before narrowing down the financial metrics. Don't be afraid to 'Add criteria' Why stop at Market cap or P/E Ratio? The Google Finance Stock Screener is a comprehensive tool that lets you add valuation ratios, operating metrics, margins and many more. Simply click and choose from a variety of metrics including operating and stock metrics, price, margins, and growth. You can set a minimum and maximum for each metric or use the sliders to set your range. The Company Distribution shows you the relative frequency of stocks for the criterion but please note that this graph is a visual aid, not an analytic tool. What about dividends? Perhaps you're looking for a company that will only return a dividend next quarter. Select Div next quarter and the Screener will let you select a forecast value of the next quarterly dividend, per share, to be paid. If you're not sure what some of the criteria are, just click on them and a definition will appear in the Add Criteria wizard, as well as a help icon next to each line. And remember the search is live -- no buttons to press. As you make changes to your Screener criteria, the companies will update automatically! Try these tips out and let us know what you think or submit your Stock Screener suggestions on our Product Ideas page. Stay tuned for more as we keep adding new features to Google Finance. To catch the latest from the Google Finance team you can follow us on Twitter. URL: http://googlefinanceblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/posted-by-brian-shih-product-manager.html |
[G] Trimming our privacy policies Posted: 03 Sep 2010 10:07 AM PDT Google Public Policy Blog: Trimming our privacy policiesPosted by Mike Yang, Associate General Counsel(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog) Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they're legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. So we're simplifying and updating Google's privacy policies. To be clear, we aren't changing any of our privacy practices; we want to make our policies more transparent and understandable. As a first step, we're making two types of improvements:
Our updated privacy policies still might not be your top choice for beach reading (I am, after all, still a lawyer), but hopefully you'll find the improvements to be a step in the right direction. URL: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/09/trimming-our-privacy-policies.html |
[G] Trimming our privacy policies Posted: 03 Sep 2010 09:26 AM PDT Official Gmail Blog: Trimming our privacy policiesPosted by Mike Yang, Associate General Counsel(Cross-posted from the Google Blog) Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they're legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. So we're simplifying and updating Google's privacy policies. To be clear, we aren't changing any of our privacy practices; we want to make our policies more transparent and understandable. As a first step, we're making two types of improvements:
Our updated privacy policies still might not be your top choice for beach reading (I am, after all, still a lawyer), but hopefully you'll find the improvements to be a step in the right direction. URL: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/trimming-our-privacy-policies.html |
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