Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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[G] Welcome, Google Apps users!

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 04:44 AM PST

Google Analytics Blog: Welcome, Google Apps users!

Google Analytics is now available to Google Apps users with their Apps accounts, along with dozens of other services as part of a recently launched improvement.

Google Apps is Google's suite of cloud-based messaging and collaboration apps, including Gmail, calendar, documents, spreadsheets, and more, specifically optimized for use in organizations. These services, which run entirely in the cloud, are used by over 30 million users in small and large businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, and non-profit organizations around the world. You can learn more about how Google Apps can lower IT costs and improve productivity and collaboration at your organization at google.com/apps.

For those users who have a Google Apps account, if your administrator has already transitioned your organization to the new infrastructure, you can start using Google Analytics by signing in at google.com/analytics with your existing Apps account.

For more details, read the complete post on the Google Enterprise blog and follow all the updates on other newly available services for Google Apps users.

Posted by Jeff Gillis, Google Analytics Team and Jeremiah Dillon, Google Apps Team
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/12/welcome-google-apps-users.html

[G] How to upgrade your browser (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 02:40 AM PST

Google Chrome Blog: How to upgrade your browser (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

The other day I told my parents about a recent Chrome experiment, but the site wouldn't load for them: turns out they were still using a browser released over nine years ago and weren't sure how to update it. I ended up installing Chrome for them, as it stays up-to-date automatically (read: it's less work for me!).

For those of you who also have family members suffering from outdated browser issues, I've created a video tutorial that you can share with them so that they can walk through a few quick steps to ensure that they have the latest browser:



This video is one in a series of basic how-to videos that a handful of us at Google have put together at TeachParentsTech.org, a place where "kids" of any age can send tutorials to their moms, dads, uncles, and whomever they like. Send someone a tech support care package of your own!

Posted by Sean Liu, Associate Product Manager on the Google Apps team
URL: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-upgrade-your-browser-and-50.html

[G] Google Code-in Check-in

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 04:55 PM PST

Google Open Source Blog: Google Code-in Check-in

We wanted to do a quick check-in on Google Code-in to let you know how the contest is going. We are just over four weeks into the contest – more than halfway. We're quite excited about the participation thus far and hope more of you are planning to get involved in the coming days.

As of today we have more than 290 participants who have completed at least one task. There have been 813 tasks completed by all our student participants so far for a combined point total of 1,605. Points are calculated according to difficulty of the task: "Hard" tasks are worth 4 points, "Medium" tasks are worth 2 points, and "Easy" tasks are worth 1 point.

We're also quite impressed with the international representation we've gotten from the contest – over 75% of our participants are from outside the United States. Our top 10 participating countries in order are: United States, Romania, Bulgaria, Russian Federation, Poland, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, and Belarus.

We would love to have more students participate! There are currently over 400 tasks that are unclaimed and need someone to work on them.

Remember, the contest ends on January 10, 2011. Don't delay, claim a task today!

By Carol Smith, Open Source Team
URL: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-code-in-check-in.html

[G] Announcing the “I Want my Google TV!” contest

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 04:39 PM PST

YouTube Blog: Announcing the "I Want my Google TV!" contest

If you're like most people, you probably love watching YouTube videos on your computer. But what if there were a full-screen, HD version of YouTube available a channel flip away on your TV? Now there is, made possible by Google TV.

Google TV brings television, apps, and the entire World Wide Web directly to your living room...so you can watch even more YouTube, only now on the biggest screen in your home. And because it's the season of giving, the crew here at YouTube and Google are excited to announce a contest to give away 100 free 46" Sony Internet TVs powered by Google TV.



To enter to win, create and upload a video telling us and all your friends on YouTube why you're pumped up about Google TV. Winning submissions will be selected based on originality, creativity, entertainment factor, technical execution, and how well you explain why you are excited about Google TV and watching YouTube on Google TV. View the contest rules and full list of judging criteria here.

Don't forget to upload your video by December 22, and tag it with "ytgtv" so we can showcase your creations. Winners will be announced by January 20, 2011.

Good luck!

Camille Hearst, Product Marketing Manager, recently watched "Sony Google TV: Hands-On".


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/qvT0iY8ne4M/announcing-i-want-my-google-tv-contest.html

[G] How to choose a new phone number (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 03:37 PM PST

Google Voice Blog: How to choose a new phone number (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

With two grown children, my mom decided that one perk of empty nesting (in addition to a lack of teenage angst and a lot less laundry) was canceling our complicated family cell phone plan. When she signed up for a new plan, she also mistakenly signed up for a new phone number. This new number, for whatever reason, was one she could never remember ("too many 7's" she insisted).

With Google Voice, my mom can choose a new number by selecting an area code and then searching for numbers or words that she likes (and can remember!) to make up the remaining 7 digits.

To help my mom (and family members) everywhere, a few of us at Google created a website, TeachParentsTech.org, where "kids" of any age can send how-to videos to moms, dads, uncles - whomever! Here's a video I made that walks you through how to select a new phone number with Google Voice:



To browse through all of the videos or to send a tech support care package to your family, visit TeachParentsTech.org. Have a safe and happy holidays!


Posted by Lauren Fraley, Google Voice Consumer Operations
URL: http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-choose-new-phone-number-and-50.html

[G] Gmail web app for iPhone and Android in 44 more languages

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 01:50 PM PST

Official Gmail Blog: Gmail web app for iPhone and Android in 44 more languages

Posted by David Yonge-Mallo, Software Engineer

Last year, we launched a new mobile Gmail experience for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Since then, those of us who use Gmail in English could go to gmail.com from our mobile browsers and get most of the same features we're used to in the desktop version of Gmail — including search, stars, labels, and threaded conversations.



Starting today, this updated version of Gmail for mobile is now available in 44 new languages. Check out the mobile blog for the complete list of languages and more info.
URL: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/gmail-web-app-for-iphone-and-android-in.html

[G] 你好, नमस्ते and bonjour to better mobile web Gmail

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 01:26 PM PST

Official Google Mobile Blog: 你好, नमस्ते and bonjour to better mobile web Gmail

There are many ways to get your Gmail on your phone. The mobile webapp version of Gmail (which you can get to by going to gmail.com in your browser) is the best way to get the most Gmail features on your iPhone or Android-powered device. Features such as search, stars, labels and threaded conversations all work in the mobile webapp just as they do in the desktop Gmail experience. Today, we're bringing the latest version of our HTML5 webapp to 44 new languages.



Before today, this new version was only available for U.S. English, but we're now expanding to Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and American), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (for both Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (for both Spain and South America), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu and Vietnamese.

If your phone's default language is one of those listed, go to gmail.com in your phone's browser and the new interface will appear in your language automatically. We've been rolling these changes out, so some of you may have already seen them. You'll get a bunch of new goodies including offline support, smart links (titles will appear in links for Google Maps, YouTube and Google Docs), the ability to add and remove labels, layout improvements and more—in addition to the existing features like starring, better threaded conversations and search.

This new version works for iPhones running iOS 2.2.1 and above, and all versions of Android. Go to gmail.com in the browser of your iPhone or Android-powered device to try it out, and if you have any feedback, let us know in our forum.

Posted by Scott Eblen, Product Manager
URL: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/and-bonjour-to-better-mobile-web-gmail.html

[G] ‘Tis the season for placement targeting: Don’t forget to optimize

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 01:14 PM PST

Inside AdSense: 'Tis the season for placement targeting: Don't forget to optimize

We'd like to share a final holiday reminder about our placement targeting series and summarize the tips we've shared over the past few weeks.

1. Make sections of your site available to be targeted directly by AdWords advertisers with ad placements. These easy-to-implement changes will make your website and channels more marketable to advertisers, which in turn will increase your overall earning potential.

2. Market your website with DoubleClick Ad Planner so advertisers can easily locate sites like yours that match their target audiences.

3. Optimize your ad units by enabling both text and image ads, using top-performing ad unit sizes, and placing ads 'above the fold' so that they're immediately visible to your users.

We hope you enjoyed our placement targeting series. Check out the Help Center or watch the video below to learn more.



Happy Holidays!

Posted by Charise Wong - Inside AdSense team
URL: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/12/tis-season-for-placement-targeting-dont.html

[G] How to check your email from your phone (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 11:15 AM PST

Official Google Mobile Blog: How to check your email from your phone (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

My dad loves planning big family gatherings around the holidays. He always emails our extended family a few weeks early, and we'll all plan out logistics in an email thread - food responsibilities, addresses, times-- everything. Logistics can get pretty crazy when it comes to the actual day of the event, and we're rarely at a computer on that day. I always find that my dad starts to lose track of the million things in his email that he needs to remember.

If only my dad knew that he could check Gmail on his Android phone using either the built-in mail app or the web app. Then he could always keep track of his messages while on the go, especially during the busy holiday season.

To help my dad, and parents everywhere, a few of us at Google decided to create a website, TeachParentsTech.org, where "kids" of any age can send how-to videos to their moms, dads, uncles - everybody! Here's a video I made that walks you through how to check email from your mobile phone.



To see more videos or to send someone a tech support care package of your own, visit TeachParentsTech.org.


Post contentPosted by Edward Chiang, Associate Product Manager
URL: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-check-your-email-from-your-phone.html

[G] Introducing the Google Latitude app for iPhone

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 11:15 AM PST

Official Google Mobile Blog: Introducing the Google Latitude app for iPhone

"Where are you?"

Starting today, you'll never again have to answer (or ask) that question when you're on the go with your iPhone. With the new Google Latitude app for iPhone, you can see where your friends are and now, continuously share where you are – even in the background once you've closed the app.


Since launching last year, Latitude's focus has always been on one goal: make it simple to stay in touch with friends and family by sharing where you are with each other. Simple setup. Simple sharing without fumbling for your phone. Now, you can use Latitude on your iPhone just like the more than 9 million people actively using it from Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile smartphones. Use the app to:
  • See where your friends are
  • Share your location continuously with whomever you choose
  • Contact friends by phone, text message, or email
  • Control your location and privacy



Watch the Latitude app for iPhone in action

You still get simple control over your privacy. Remember, Latitude is 100% opt-in. You must install the app and add friends (or accept requests) to start sharing your location. You can turn off background updating if you'd like and control the same privacy settings: share only city-level location, hide your location, or sign out of Latitude at any time. Learn more in the privacy tips video.

Though we released Latitude as a web application before the iPhone supported third party background applications, today's Latitude app was built from the ground up using iOS 4's new multitasking capability to support background updating. You'll need iOS 4 and above on an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 to use the app.

Download Google Latitude now from the App Store in over 15 languages and 45 countries. It will be appearing in the App Store over the next day, but you can also find it directly now. Learn more in the Help Center or ask questions in the Help Forum.

Update (12/13/2010, 10:20am PST): The Google Latitude app will run on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, and iPod touch (3rd/4th generation). However, background location updating is only supported on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPad 3G. We're continuing to work on expanding support to more devices.

Posted by Chris Lambert, Software Engineer, Google Latitude Team
URL: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-google-latitude-app-for.html

[G] How to easily share photos online (and 52 other things you might want to teach your parents)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 10:04 AM PST

Google Photos Blog: How to easily share photos online (and 52 other things you might want to teach your parents)

Posted by Adrian Soghoian, Product Marketing


My mom recently made a commitment to start photographing things – all sorts of things, to be exact. Everything from my cat's latest napping spot, my recent college graduation, to my father's 70th birthday has been captured by my mom's (recently purchased) digital camera. My four older siblings and I have certainly been grateful to know that we have a designated family photographer taking pictures back home, except with all of us spread out around the country, it's been difficult to keep track of and share these priceless photos.

I doubt that my family is the only one that has unshared photos lying around. With the holidays coming up, I think there's no better time to show my mom how easy it can be to share photos online, through services such as Picasa Web Albums.

That's where TeachParentsTech.org comes in.  A handful of us at Google decided to create a site where "kids" can select basic how-to videos to send to their moms, dads, uncles-- whomever.  Here's a video I did that shows how to share photos with Picasa Web Albums:

For more videos or to send videos to your loved ones, visit TeachParentsTech.org. Happy holidays!
URL: http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-easily-share-photos-online-and.html

[G] How to create a vacation responder (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 09:50 AM PST

Official Gmail Blog: How to create a vacation responder (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

Posted by Evan Steinberg, Gmail (Parental) Support Team

My parents have a history of bringing work with them when we go on family vacations. At first it was just a few paper documents to review at the beach...years later, a laptop...now a smartphone. They couldn't let go for fear that a colleague might need to get a hold of them.

My folks aren't the only ones frightened by the prospect of missing an important message when they're away from their inbox -- there must be millions of people with the same concern. Not everyone knows that Gmail can help you relax when you're on vacation by automatically notifying colleagues, friends, and family that you're away (handy for the holidays).

To enlighten parents and families around the world about how basic technology can improve their lives, a handful of us at Google decided to create a website -- TeachParentsTech.org -- where "kids" of any age can send basic how-to videos to their moms, dads, uncles -- whomever. Here's a video I made that walks you through how to set up an email auto-responder message:



To see more videos or to send someone a tech support "care package" of your own, visit TeachParentsTech.org.
URL: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-create-vacation-responder-and-50.html

[G] How to share a big file (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 09:40 AM PST

Official Google Docs Blog: How to share a big file (and 50 other things you might want to teach your parents)

Recently my dad, Eugene, asked me to help him backup all his pictures and files to avoid potentially losing important memories. The conversation that followed was interesting as I attempted to explain how great cloud storage was, but suffice it to say that my dad wasn't convinced that sharing large files online was really that easy or seamless using just his Google account.

I'm sure my dad isn't the only one nervous about losing important documents. To help our parents better understand technology, a handful of us at Google decided to create a website-- TeachParentsTech.org. The idea is to have a place where "kids" can send basic how-to videos to their moms, dads, uncles-- whomever. Here's a video I made that walks through how to backup and share a large file:



To see more videos or to send someone a tech support care package of your own, visit TeachParentsTech.org.

Posted by: Yan Tseytlin, Technical Specialist
URL: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-share-big-file-and-50-other.html
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