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[G] Now available with Google Apps: Google Reader

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 11:54 AM PST

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Now available with Google Apps: Google Reader



Editor's note: Yesterday we launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what's new and how your organization can benefit.



Welcome to Google Reader
We all have favorite websites. The ones that we keep returning to day after day – or even several times a day – to check for new content. Whether you follow company press coverage on a set of news websites, track industry-related developments through trade journals, or follow what people are saying about your organization in the blogosphere, you can now do all of this in one place using Google Reader.

Now available with Google Apps accounts, Google Reader is a web-based content aggregator that allows you to pull updates from your favorite websites together in one place. By subscribing to a site's RSS or Atom feed in Reader, you're automatically notified when that website posts new content. Instead of checking many sites repeatedly for updates, Google Reader brings your favorite web content to you!



Google Reader also makes it easy to share relevant articles with colleagues at your organization using Google Apps. Reader is integrated with your existing contacts list so address auto-complete works seamlessly. For example, if you see an article in your Reader feed about new tax incentives for your industry, you can easily share this with a coworker responsible for financial planning or with an entire distribution list you have created, right from the Google Reader.


For those of you always on the move, Google Reader also makes it easy and convenient to follow the stream of updates from your favorite websites on your mobile device, automatically synced through your Google Apps account.


Learn more and get started
Google Reader can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn't using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.

For more information about Google Reader you can take a look at our Help Center pages or follow the latest news and get tips and tricks from the Google Reader Blog.


Share your story
Have you already started using Google Reader at your organization, or plan to now that it's available? Please share your story and your organization could be featured in the next Gone Google ad campaign!


Posted by Brian Shih, Product Manager, Google Reader

Note: Google Reader may not be available in all areas.
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/11/now-available-with-google-apps-google.html

[G] Australia's Flight Centre and Ray White have gone Google

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 11:54 AM PST

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Australia's Flight Centre and Ray White have gone Google

[cross-posted from the Official Google Australia Blog]

Our Apps business is one of the fastest growing at Google today, with Australia being one of the fastest growing markets in the Asia Pacific region. Today we are announcing that two leading Australian businesses are the latest to go Google.

Flight Centre is Australasia's largest travel agency group with more than 2,000 shops and businesses in 11 countries. Migrating to Gmail will cut their email system costs by approximately 30% annually, while giving their employees an unprecedented 25GB inbox - meaning staff will never need to be burdened by deleting emails. The new Google Apps suite has given them access to more than just email – they have a collaborative suite of tools that supports their entire global operation. Watch Flight Centre's story below.



Ray White manages over $30 billion worth of real estate sales across Australia, New Zealand and Asia, writing $6 billion in home loans each year. In addition to providing 1,000 businesses, 8,000 agents and each of its customers a standardised communication and collaboration platform via Google Apps, Ray White also developed apmasphere - a dedicated rental property management system delivering greater efficiency and transparency for property management in Australia. Ray White developed this application on the Google App Engine platform, which provided a fast, efficient and robust development environment, with unique collaboration features. We're convinced that Ray White's pioneering work will form a template for other developments around the world. Watch Ray White's Story below.



More than 3 million businesses worldwide have "gone Google" - including Australian businesses you can read about here.

Posted by Emma Robinson, Google Enterprise AU/NZ team
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/11/australias-flight-centre-and-ray-white.html

[G] Google Apps shared contacts, now with double the capacity

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 11:54 AM PST

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Apps shared contacts, now with double the capacity

Starting today, Google Apps for Business, Education and Government customers have space for twice as many contacts as before in their organization's shared contacts. IT administrators told us that they needed more capacity, so we upped the limit from 25,000 to 50,000 entries. Shared contacts are part of the organization's global address list (GAL), and these contacts auto-complete across Google Apps to help employees work faster and more accurately. Once you start typing to address an email message, invite colleagues to a calendar event, or share a Google Docs file, you can just click a recipient's name to complete the entry.



We've also made optimizations to the Shared Contacts API so administrators can upload contacts much more quickly. Enjoy!

Posted by Mike Helmick and Petr Konecny, Software Engineers
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-apps-shared-contacts-now-with.html

[G] Ten times more applications for Google Apps customers

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 11:54 AM PST

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Ten times more applications for Google Apps customers

Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google Small Business Blog

As customers begin to recognize large productivity gains with Gmail, Google Docs and the rest of Google Apps, they frequently ask when they'll be able to use services like Google Voice, Reader, Blogger and AdWords with their Google Apps accounts. We've steadily added new functionality to Google Apps and recently added support for third-party apps, but we're thrilled to swing the floodgates of new functionality wide open now. Starting today, customers worldwide can access a full spectrum of services from Google—including more than 60 productivity-boosting applications that extend far beyond any traditional software suite.

Coupled with the ability for administrators to provide different sets of applications to different groups of users, the possibilities for empowering workers in new ways are remarkable. For example, you could equip your marketing team with Picasa Web Albums so they can collect and share photos from customer appreciation events, and let that team publish your company's blog with Blogger. Services like iGoogle and Alerts, on the other hand, may be broadly useful, and could be enabled for your whole organization.



Existing customers can transition at their own pace over the next couple months to the new infrastructure supporting these applications from the administrative control panel. New customers will automatically have the new infrastructure. The additional services are not covered by the Google Apps SLA or telephone support, but we'll be watching for feedback how we can make these new applications even more useful.

In tandem with this big improvement, we're also simplifying the names of the versions of Google Apps. Here's how we now refer to our line-up:
  • Google Apps is our free service geared towards families, entrepreneurs and other groups up to 50 users.
  • Google Apps for Business offers 25GB of email storage per user, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, data migration capabilities, advanced management tools, telephone support, added security features and more, all for $50 per user per year.
  • Google Apps for Government is FISMA certified and designed with local, state and federal agencies in mind.
  • Google Apps for Education offers many benefits of Google Apps for Business, but at no cost to schools, universities and qualifying non-profits.
The team has worked hard to unlock all of this new functionality for our customers, and we think many of these new applications will become indispensable within your organization. To help get you started, each day the Google Enterprise Blog will profile how your organization could put a different application to use. The first post tomorrow will focus on Google Reader, so drop by again soon to follow the series. Posted by Derek Parham, Lead Software Engineer, Google Apps
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/11/ten-times-more-applications-for-google.html

[G] A curious guide to browsers and the web

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 10:32 AM PST

Google Chrome Blog: A curious guide to browsers and the web

On the Chrome team, we're always looking for new ways to communicate complex concepts about technology. More than two years ago, we launched Chrome with a comic book by Scott McCloud. Since then, a few of our colleagues at Google created a simple explanatory website called WhatBrowser.org when they realized that many of our friends and family weren't sure what web browsers are.

Today, we're very excited to release a special project called "20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web." In the spirit of Chrome's tradition with books and HTML5 experiences, we teamed up with illustrator Christoph Niemann to publish an online guidebook to browsers and the web, written by the Chrome team. If you have questions like "What are plug-ins?," "What is HTML5?," or even "Why is it ok for a truck to crush my laptop?," "20 Things" is a handy guide for anyone who's curious about the basics of browsers and the web.



So grab a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy this illustrated guidebook in Chrome or any up-to-date HTML5-compliant browser. Once you've loaded it in the browser, you can even disconnect your laptop and read comfortably in your favorite armchair since this guidebook works offline, thanks to HTML5. You can also jump directly back to the page at which you'd previously left off, search for topics that you'd like to read up on, or even view it in "lights off" mode (remember reading under the covers with a flashlight?). If you're on Chrome's beta channel, you can give the Chrome PDF viewer a test drive in the "Print book" section of the guidebook.

To read this online guide, go to www.20thingsilearned.com, (or you can use this shortened URL: goo.gl/20things.) And to learn more about how we made it, you can read about the technical details on the Google Code Blog.







Posted by Min Li Chan, Product Marketing Manager
URL: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/11/curious-guide-to-browsers-and-web.html

[G] TYPO3’s Huge Summer Success

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 08:54 AM PST

Google Open Source Blog: TYPO3's Huge Summer Success

After having participated in Google Summer of Code for the second time, TYPO3 is now looking back at a truly successful summer where five students worked on projects for TYPO3 4.x, FLOW3, and TYPO3 5.0. Now that the summer has come to an end, we would like to give you an overview of the achievements our students made this summer.

Enhanced Usability for the List Module
Nuwan's proposal for the project included ideas to introduce collapsing and expanding tables in the list module by using AJAX, introducing modal dialogs for detailed information instead of the currently used pop-up windows, in-place editing, drag & drop sorting, and a quick search feature. At the end of the summer Nuwan completed all the tasks except the quick search, but added dynamic selection of columns to display on top of the planned feature set. Being completely new to TYPO3 Nuwan first struggled with current documentation, missing tutorials, and getting into TYPO3 development in general. Thanks to the help by his mentors, Thomas and Tobias, he got moving in the right direction. The feature is available as an extension and Nuwan is looking forward to finishing the missing features and providing more extensions for the core.

Generic i18n and l10n strategy for FLOW3 and TYPO3 v5
Karol reports that Google Summer of Code was a great experience, as it made him learn many new things and improved his programming skills. Looking back to his initial proposal he completed most of the tasks. Some details changed during implementation while others became harder than expected and again other tasks turned out to be easier. For more details you can take a look at Karol's weekly reports. As it looks now, Karol will also stay around with the FLOW3 project, taking further care of his project. All of Karol's code has been integrated into FLOW3.

Enhanced Media Content Element with oEmbed
Aishwarya was not able to reach all of the goals for the enhanced media content element, but the finished ones are quite nice. It now supports oEmbed, which allows you to use a video's page URL like YouTube URLs to embed the video on a page, whereas before you needed to know the exact URL of the video file itself. For such videos the media content element will now also fetch preview thumbnails where possible. The feature is integrated in TYPO3 core and will ship with version 4.5 in January 2011.

Modular Community System
Pascal managed to create a community extension based on extbase and fluid. As he had experience with the new MVC framework for extension development he found it quite easy. Most of the basic features for a community system are implemented. However, to eventually make everything work we need to wait for two issues in extbase to be fixed. The extension is available at http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-community.

Private Resource Handling for FLOW3 / TYPO3 5.0
Andreas and his mentor Robert discussed implementing a solution for content security in general, as resources in FLOW3 are represented by persisted "Resource" objects. They came to the conclusion to first implement a solution for generic security policies for persistable objects. Andreas found a solution to automatically rewrite queries by using FLOW3's AOP mechanism so that now there is no need to explicitly write security constraints for queries to the persistence layer anymore. The publishing process is also intercepted using AOP and their publishing path is being extended by a security component to eventually protect private resources from unauthorized access. The publishing feature was finished for the FLOW3 release at T3CON10 in Frankfurt.
Looking back at what has been achieved by the students and having won new contributors for the TYPO3 project we see this year's Google Summer of Code as a huge success for TYPO3 and its community. Students come for the code, then stay for the fun and the great community. All the students passed the final evaluation, so congrats to all of them! We'd also like to express thanks to the mentors who helped the students to find their way into TYPO3 and offering a guiding hand.

By Ingo Renner, TYPO3 Google Summer of Code Mentor

Cross posted from the TYPO3 blog
URL: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/11/typo3s-huge-summer-success.html

[G] Google Sky Map- now with time travel

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 08:46 AM PST

Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Sky Map- now with time travel

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.
H.G. WELLS, The Time Machine - Google Books book link



Have you ever wondered how the sky was back in 1900? How the sky looked when the Apollo 11 moon landing happened? Or what the sky will look like next Thursday night for your planned star-gazing trip?



Today, the new version of Google Sky Map lets you time travel to see the sky at a specific date, past or future. After smooth travel to the desired year, you can fast forward or rewind in various speeds and watch how the sky changes.





While viewing another time period, you can still search for your favorite objects.




Google Sky Map is available for Android-powered devices running Android 1.6 and above. Download this new version by going to Android Market on your phone, or by scanning the QR code below. We'd love to hear from you, both the good and the bad, so leave us comments here or in the Help Forum.




Posted by Hector Ouilhet, Lunatic Designer
URL: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-sky-map-now-with-time-travel.html
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