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- [G] YouTube Promoted Videos serves its 500,000,000th video view
- [G] Find your polling place and follow the US Election on the go
- [G] Analytics In The Palm Of Your Hand
- [G] Remember these tips for safer shopping
- [G] This week in search 10/29/10
- [G] Ghosts, goblins and haunting Halloween search trends
- [G] Google Apps highlights – 10/29/2010
- [G] Slamming the boring, old tech demo
- [G] Should quality matter in web video?
- [G] Integrating R with C++: Rcpp, RInside, and RProtobuf
- [G] New in Google Maps for Android: Updated reviews, search filters, and Latitude real-time updating
| [G] YouTube Promoted Videos serves its 500,000,000th video view Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:53 AM PDT Inside AdWords: YouTube Promoted Videos serves its 500,000,000th video viewYouTube served its 500,000,000th Promoted Video view this week. Using Promoted Videos (available in your AdWords account), businesses can promote a video against search results on YouTube. But Promoted Videos offers a discovery component as well, allowing advertiser's messages to be promoted against related content (BBQ grills shown against recipes for hamburgers) that someone may be viewing as they browse videos on YouTube. For more information on new product enhancements, please see the full story on the YouTube blog.Posted by Dan Friedman, Inside AdWords crew  URL: http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/10/youtube-promoted-videos-serves-its.html       |
| [G] Find your polling place and follow the US Election on the go Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:52 AM PDT Official Google Mobile Blog: Find your polling place and follow the US Election on the goThe United States midterm election is on Tuesday, November 2, and we encourage all eligible US citizens to get out and vote. We've made it easy to find your polling place and follow election news by visiting our Election Center mobile site at m.google.com/elections on your Android-powered phone or iPhone.  Enter the address where you're registered to vote, and we'll show you a Google Map of your polling place. The Election Center site also has information about candidates running for office in your area. Posted by Ryan Pollock, Product Marketing Manager  URL: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/10/find-your-polling-place-and-follow-us.html   |
| [G] Analytics In The Palm Of Your Hand Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:08 AM PDT Google Analytics Blog: Analytics In The Palm Of Your Hand This app, developed by Blast Advanced Media (one of our Certified Partners), uses the Google Analytics API to quickly and securely access all of your reports, apply your Advanced Segments, and even create Custom Reports right within the app. You can view common preset date ranges, set a custom date range, or compare to a previous date range for additional context. All the functionality you could need within a clean, user-friendly interface. Here's a sample of custom reports functionality:  BAM Analytics Pro can be purchased here on the iTunes app store for $1.99. Our Google Analytics Certified Partners are some of the most inventive users and developers of our free API. Many of their business-driven tools and applications make it to our Analytics App Gallery, where you can find a variety of solutions that compliment and enhance our product.   URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/10/analytics-in-palm-of-your-hand.html   |
| [G] Remember these tips for safer shopping Posted: 30 Oct 2010 01:31 AM PDT Official Google Checkout Blog: Remember these tips for safer shoppingNational Cyber Security Awareness Month may be coming to an end, but online security is something to think about year-round. With the exciting holiday shopping season coming up, we wanted to share some tips for keeping your buying and selling experience online safe and secure.
Posted by Eve Hu, Google Checkout Risk Operations  URL: http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2010/10/remember-these-tips-for-safer-shopping.html   |
| [G] This week in search 10/29/10 Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:21 PM PDT Official Google Blog: This week in search 10/29/10This 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 we've overhauled local search and made other tweaks to help you find the places, products and people you're looking for. As you plan for the World Series and Halloween, we want to help you find the perfect sports bar, costume store and chocolate bar. Here are latest updates from this week: Google Place Search This week we introduced Place Search, a new kind of search result that organizes the world's information around places. Whether you're looking for a park, a great restaurant or a local plumber, you'll find what you're looking for more quickly and easily. We've clustered search results around specific locations so you can make comparisons and right the best sites. You should already be seeing place results automatically for many local searches. If you don't see Place Search results at first, you can always click Places in the left-hand panel of the results page.  New product search refinements People often come to Google to do product research, so in the past couple weeks we've expanded Google Product Search to France and Japan. Our goal is to help you find the product information and sites you're looking for as quickly as possible, so in May we made it easier to find relevant brands for popular product searches. Now we're providing additional refinements for popular stores and product types. For example, search for [chocolate] and now you'll find links for related searches for brands (Godiva, Lindt, etc.) and types (dark, hot, etc.). These refinements are unpaid and ranked algorithmically to show the most relevant searches you may be interested in.  Other example searches: [running shoes], [blenders], [binoculars] Real-time results in Social Search This week we've added real-time to Social Search, so you'll find the freshest tweets and other updates from your friends right on Google. Here in the Bay Area, everyone has been excited about watching the Giants in this year's World Series. With our improvements to Social Search, now when you search for information about the game on Google you can see right on the results page if your friends are watching. Just look for the heading "Results from people in your social circle" to check it out.  Social Search is currently available in the U.S. For more information about Social Search, check out our blog post and help center article. This week in searches—Halloween edition Still don't have a costume? You're not alone—searches for "costume ideas" continue to spike on Google. Check out this week's special Halloween edition of the Google Beat to find out what costumes, candy and scary movies people are searching for this year. Happy Halloween! Posted by Mike Cassidy, Director of Product Management  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/this-week-in-search-102910.html   |
| [G] Ghosts, goblins and haunting Halloween search trends Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:21 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Ghosts, goblins and haunting Halloween search trendsEvery October, it seems like every third question you hear is "What are you going to dress up as for Halloween?" We see this question reflected annually in Google searches, as millions of people turn to the Internet to help them prepare for this creepy-crawliest of holidays. Searches for "costume" have steadily risen since early August, while people look for [ideas] and then [stores] to help them carry out their vision. We're taking our annual peek at what Halloween fun has people going to Google for inspiration.Lady Gaga may have topped the charts of costume searches last year, but there's a new girl in town in 2010: Snooki, one of MTV's "Jersey Shore" stars. [snooki] topped the list of fastest rising costume searches:  Jersey Shore fans seem interested in how to get Snooki's hair just right—[snooki wig] and [snooki costume wig] are popular related searches. People from Pennsylvania were most likely to search for [snooki costume] in October, followed—fittingly—by folks from New Jersey. Not to be left out, however, Snooki's costars Pauly D and The Situation are also showing up as popular Halloween ideas in the past few months. [neytiri] tops the list of related searches for [avatar costume], as people try to figure out the complexities of becoming a blue resident of another planet. Gaga folks are trying to mimic an equally tough outfit: the singer's famous meat dress. Searches for "meat costume" have grown more than 5,000% since July. We've also seen rising searches for [glee cheerios costume], [justin bieber costume], [katy perry costume], [kenny powers costume] and more. Just in the last week, we've seen many other Halloween-related searches on Google. On today's Hot Trends list, for example, we've seen rising interest in things like [monster mash song] and [halloween sounds]. Here's more from the Google Beat's All Hallows Eve special: Turning from the U.S. to other countries, we see similar costume searches, minus our favorite reality TV stars: in Canada, Australia, Ireland and the U.K., Avatar and Lady Gaga come out on top. "Alice in Wonderland" characters are popular everywhere, but only in Australia are people looking to turn themselves into the [queen of hearts]. And the U.K. distinguishes itself with searches for good old-fashioned Halloween standbys [skeleton] and [zombie]. Brits are also looking to transform themselves into [mario] and [buzz lightyear]. One of my favorite things about Halloween at Google is all the Googlers' children who visit campus with their parents for a special kiddie celebration. Their costumes are always creative and more importantly, adorable. That seems to be universal across the U.S.—look at the fastest rising searches related to [baby costume] in 2010:  We also saw searches for [baby lobster costume], [baby yoda costume], [baby ladybug]. [baby bat] and [baby lion]. (And [baby spice], but that's neither here nor there.) Costumes for kids aren't too far off from adult costumes, with Avatar and Gaga atop the heap, however, you might see a lot of [werewolf kids] trick-or-treating this weekend, and the occasional [strawberry shortcake]. Last but not least, we can't leave our canine friends out of the fun. This year, it seems people are taking inspiration from the movies to turn their pups into [slinky dog]s—the term has gone up 350%. People also seem to like to make their dogs another beast for the day, whether a [pig dog] or a [shark dog], or into a food item in a [taco dog costume] or the classic [hot dog costume]. Finally, you might see some dogs matching babies in your neighborhood, as we've seen growing interest in [lobster dog costume] and [yoda dog costume], although the latter is not rising as fast as [ewok dog costume]. We're celebrating "Googleween" today, and as always, Googlers and their kids are dressing to the nines in costumes of all kinds: One thing's for sure—with all these ideas, there's no excuse not to dress up! So whether you're going as Gaga or Yoda this weekend—or something we couldn't even dream of—we hope you have a happy Halloween. Update 4:06PM: Added slideshow. Posted by Emily Wood, Google Blog Editor  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/ghosts-goblins-and-haunting-halloween.html   |
| [G] Google Apps highlights – 10/29/2010 Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:21 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Google Apps highlights – 10/29/2010This 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.In the last few weeks, we made Gmail better for iPhone and iPad users and improved Google Docs with easier image uploads to documents and enhanced charts in spreadsheets. The business and education crowd will enjoy the addition of automated workflow capabilities in Google Sites, the ability to remotely manage security on Android devices and a new batch of third-party applications that integrate with Google Apps. Improvements to Gmail in mobile Safari If you're reading this post on an iPhone or an iPad, head over to gmail.com to see how we made the Gmail experience in mobile Safari work more like a native application. First, scrolling is a whole lot more responsive to your touch gestures. A quick flick will scroll the page much faster than before. We've also improved the toolbar so it stays put at the top of the screen, even when you scroll down a long page. This keeps the most common actions in Gmail right at your fingertips—literally.  Chart improvements and drag-and-drop images in Google Docs Last Tuesday we added the ability to drag and drop images to Google documents from your desktop or from folders on your computer. You can still add images through the image upload wizard, but this new method can save time, especially when you have several images to add. This week we also rolled out improvements to charts and visualizations in Google spreadsheets. You can now add annotated timelines, organizational charts, gauges, motion charts that visualize data changing over time, and other chart types more easily. The new chart editor helps you customize the design of your charts, and now you can publish dynamic charts on other web pages that automatically update when data in the source spreadsheet changes. Automated workflow in Google Sites with Google Apps Script Last week we introduced the ability for you to add automated workflow to Google Sites, powered by Google Apps Script. Scripts automate tasks such as sending emails, scheduling calendar events, creating and updating site pages using data from other systems, and more. For example, you can put a button on a course registration page that adds the course to the user's calendar, sends them a confirmation email and includes their name in the course roster within the site.  Android device management Just yesterday, we added the ability for businesses and schools using Google Apps to remotely manage security on users' Android devices (Android 2.2 and beyond), whether those devices are user-owned or provided by the organization. This update rounds out our device management capabilities; now administrators can perform functions like remotely wiping Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile and many Nokia phones from the Google Apps control panel without needing any special hardware or software. Administrators running BlackBerry® Enterprise Server can manage their users' BlackBerry® devices from the control panel as well.  App Tuesday: seven new additions to the Apps Marketplace The number of third-party software applications available in the Google Apps Marketplace that seamlessly integrate with Google Apps continues on its rapid growth trajectory. This month, we added seven new applications that complement the growing set of applications offered directly by Google. We were especially pleased to see strong international representation among this new crop. Who's gone Google? Google Apps is really taking off, and we're excited to team up in the cloud with Virgin America. But they're not the only large organization to "go Google" recently. Multnomah County in Oregon is moving 4,500 county employees to Google Apps, and the state of Wyoming is doing an even larger deployment with 10,000 state employees. Across the board, these organizations chose to switch because of substantial cost savings and tremendous productivity improvements made possible with Google Apps. In the last few weeks alone, tens of thousands of small and mid-size businesses have switched to Google Apps, too. Several of these new customers have shared their stories with us, and we invite you to read more here: Jason's Deli, MainStreet Advisors, Melrose Resources, American Support and Premier Guitar. We also reached a big milestone in the education world recently: more than 10 million students, faculty and staff are actively using Google Apps at schools and universities worldwide. While we're focused on bringing the next 10 million education users onto Google Apps, we still took some time to celebrate how far we've already come—with the help of the USC marching band! I hope these updates help you and 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/2010/10/google-apps-highlights-10292010.html   |
| [G] Slamming the boring, old tech demo Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:42 PM PDT YouTube Blog: Slamming the boring, old tech demoTech demos. They've been around as long as... well, technology. They're helpful. They're useful. They're also a little boring. That's why tech demos often go overlooked by so many people. Unfortunately, it's generally the people who could benefit most from them that never even see them.So we figured, what tech demos need is a fresh start. A few creative minds willing to take a shot at making them worth watching and sharing. And maybe, just maybe, make tech demos so cool, that they'll inspire others to make their own. That's why we created Demo Slam. It's a platform that allows you to put a new twist on sharing tech goodness. Demo Slam rests on the belief that the world's creativity is all it takes to turn boring, old tech demos into entertaining, exciting awesomeness. For example, watch Zach Miller do a 20-foot search: The YouTube community has shown the world time and time again, just how incredibly far a little imagination can go. We'd love to see that same YouTube magic become a part of Demo Slam. If you triumph, you'll be featured in the Demo Slam Hall of Champs. That also means you'll get exposure elsewhere online, courtesy of Google. Best of all, it's a way to help a lot of people discover something cool. There's just too much great tech out there for everyone to go on not knowing it exists. And now, with the help of people like you, the whole world will have a place where they can find out about it. So be different, be crazy, be unique, and submit a demo. All it takes is one to teach millions something new. Let the slamming begin! Robert Wong, Creative Director, Creative Lab, recently watched "Demo Slam: 20ft Search."     URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/CuzVrkMpulA/slamming-boring-old-tech-demo.html   |
| [G] Should quality matter in web video? Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:08 PM PDT YouTube Blog: Should quality matter in web video?Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program, is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital age. You can catch up on previous posts here.Since I started working in web video, the most common misconception I face is, web video equals low quality video. This week we asked "What do you think the differences are between making videos for the web versus other venues like film festivals or TV?" on YouTube's Facebook fan page. Though there were a lot of positive voices talking about the immediacy, democracy and audience engagement of web video, some of the comments unsurprisingly echoed this idea. Quality, quality and um.... quality! Quality, length, content, plot. The web accepts anything. Sure, one of the most exciting things about the web is that anyone can upload. Of course, that means that not all the videos we see are going to reflect even our most basic standards for quality video -- a steady camera, clean images, good lighting, clear sound. On the other hand, right alongside the cat videos (which I admit, I do get a kick out of), works of video art can happily coexist. We've spent the first "section" of our "Modern 101 for Emerging Digital Filmmakers" providing an overview of web video -- talking to filmmakers about why they make web video, sharing websites every filmmaker should know, and offering tips on taking your first digital steps as a filmmaker. We're about to move into our production section where we'll interview filmmakers on the equipment they use, go behind the scenes to hear how they make their videos, and demystify uploading, codecs and metadata. Before we enter this nuts and bolts section of the series, I wanted to tackle this last misconception regarding quality. Quality concerns are some of the most common reasons I hear filmmakers saying they aren't interested in uploading their work, and there are a couple counterpoints I'd like to offer:
Click around. Don't just watch the videos that appear in your Facebook feed. Sure, I got that video with those poor fainting kittens emailed to me yesterday too, but I also spent 15 minutes watching this beautiful, quiet short, "Mei Ling," which I discovered on the Futureshorts channel. I asked Luke Neumann, a filmmaker who constantly impresses us with his stellar Howcast videos, why he puts so much effort into his web videos and he said, "Because you never know who could stumble across them." When you watch his videos, I think you can see he's driven by much more than that -- for this spot alone he rented a crane and "moved" a building in After Effects: Still, access to potential fans, funders and future employees is at least one simple, solid argument for filmmakers who are skeptical about quality work having a place on the web. Next Friday, we'll learn Neumann's tricks for making great video like this on a budget while he walks us through how he shot "Zombie Attack." Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program, recently watched "Mei Ling."    URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/WaWXrVEBxUs/should-quality-matter-in-web-video.html   |
| [G] Integrating R with C++: Rcpp, RInside, and RProtobuf Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:15 AM PDT Google Open Source Blog: Integrating R with C++: Rcpp, RInside, and RProtobufLast week the R "intergrouplet" at Google invited Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain Francois to come and give a Tech Talk about their joint work on Rcpp, RInside, and RProtoBuf. Dirk and Romain agreed and also let us share the video of their talk:We were also happy to have John Chambers, creator of the S programming language and member of the R Core team, join us for the talk and discussions afterward. At Google we use a lot of C++ and an increasing amount of R for data analysis, so the Rcpp package is very interesting to us as a modern type-safe way to write R packages that interface with other Google technologies written in C++. Likewise, the RProtoBuf package makes it easy for analysts and engineers to use R with Protocol Buffers read from Bigtable or other data stores. By Murray Stokely, Quantitative Engineering Team  URL: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/10/integrating-r-with-c-rcpp-rinside-and.html   |
| [G] New in Google Maps for Android: Updated reviews, search filters, and Latitude real-time updating Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:55 AM PDT Official Google Mobile Blog: New in Google Maps for Android: Updated reviews, search filters, and Latitude real-time updatingLately, we've been working on giving you even better ways to find nearby places with Google Maps for Android, such as the Places icon and rich Place pages. Today, we are launching Google Maps 4.6 with a new design for Place page reviews, more options to filter search results, and a Google Latitude real-time updating option.Place page reviews Now, you'll see that Place pages on Android Maps share the same new design for displaying reviews as used by Place pages on your computer. You can see:
Of course, you'll first need to narrow down which Place page reviews to check out. In addition to distance and ratings, you can also filter results for some searches by:
  Find the right place with the updated reviews section (left) or search results filters (right). In Latitude, you can also choose an experimental "Real-time updating" option from an individual Latitude friend's profile page to help meet up with them by temporarily seeing faster location updates (friends must have Maps 4.6 and Android 2.2+). Get Google Maps 4.6 for Android 1.6 and above everywhere Maps is already available. Just search for Google Maps in Android Market (or tap here from your phone). Visit our Help Center to learn more or tell us your feedback and questions in our Help Forum. Posted by Michael Siliski, Product Manager, Google Mobile Team  URL: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-in-google-maps-for-android-updated.html   |
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