Friday, January 28, 2011

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[G] Celebrating Data Privacy Day

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 12:24 AM PST

Official Google Blog: Celebrating Data Privacy Day

It's become a welcome tradition: Today is the fourth annual Data Privacy Day. Dozens of countries have been celebrating with events throughout the week to inform and educate us all about our personal data rights and protections.

This is the first year I've marked this day as director of privacy across both engineering and product management at Google. I've chosen to spend the day in Washington, D.C., where there's a been a lot of robust and productive discussion lately. People from Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Commerce, and industry and consumer groups have been contributing to these important conversations about how to best protect people's data, and we're happy to be participating too. I'm doing my part by bringing my geek sensibilities into a public discussion that we're hosting today. In fact, that's what we're calling it: "The Technology of Privacy: When Geeks Meet Wonks." I'll be joined on the panel by technologists from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Federal Trade Commission and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. If you can't attend in person, don't worry—we'll be uploading a video of the event later in the day on our Public Policy blog and you'll also be able to see it on the Google Privacy Channel on YouTube.

On this Data Privacy Day, a major focus for Google is on creating ways for people to manage and protect their data. We've built tools like the Google Dashboard, the Ads Preferences Manager and encrypted search, and we're always working on further ideas for providing transparency, control and security to empower our users. For example, earlier this week we launched an extension for Chrome users called Keep My Opt-Outs, which enables you to opt out permanently from ad tracking cookies. And pretty soon we'll be extending the availability of 2-step verification, an advanced account security solution that is now helping protect more than 1,000 new accounts a day from common problems like phishing and password compromise. Right now it's available to Google Apps Accounts; we'll be offering it to all users in the next few weeks.

Data Privacy Day 2011 reminds us that as industry and society are busy moving forward, we face new challenges that together we can tackle through conversation and innovation. We're eager to be part of the solution.

Posted by Alma Whitten, Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/celebrating-data-privacy-day.html

[G] Your Interview with President Obama

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:09 PM PST

YouTube Blog: Your Interview with President Obama

Earlier today, for the second year in a row, President Obama sat down with YouTube for his first interview after the State of the Union speech. The President took the opportunity to respond to the protests in Egypt for the first time, to address your concerns on jobs, the debt, and health care, and to answer a series of more personal questions that you submitted in video and text over the past few days on YouTube. The interview took place in the Diplomatic Room in the West Wing, which is the same room where FDR used to deliver his fireside chats.



All told, you submitted almost 140,000 questions to our Google Moderator platform over the past few days, and you cast more than 1.3 million votes on which questions you wanted to have asked. With so many compelling questions, it was a challenge to determine the final list to bring to the White House. Our goal was to cover a wide range of issues that were relevant following the State of the Union speech; to remove duplicate questions; and include video questions wherever possible. With those criteria in mind, we looked at the top 5% of the questions you voted to the top in order to determine which questions to pose to the President. None of the questions were chosen by the White House, or seen by the President before the interview. Here is a playlist of all the video questions that were asked:



We'll be conducting a similar interview with U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner in a few weeks - stay tuned for more details. And we're also expanding this YouTube Interview program globally as part of YouTube World View, a series of interviews in 2011 that will give you even more access and insight into leaders and elected officials from around the world.

Steve Grove, Head of News & Politics, recently watched "Behind the scenes: Before and after the YouTube Interview with President Obama."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/SIhiMYPve8c/your-interview-with-president-obama.html

[G] Your YouTube questions for the President

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:31 AM PST

YouTube Blog: Your YouTube questions for the President

In around an hour's time, U.S. President Barack Obama will sit down for his first post-State of the Union interview – and you might be the interviewer.



Last week we announced that the President would address a selection of your questions in a special YouTube interview. The deadline for question submissions was midnight ET on Wednesday, January 26, and at that time more than 190,000 people had cast more than 1.3 million votes on nearly 140,000 questions.



Tune in to youtube.com/askobama at 2:30 p.m. ET to see and hear the President's responses to a selection of your top-voted questions, streamed live from the White House.



Here's a selection of just some of the thousand questions that were submitted, on topics ranging from health care, to university education, to jobs, to sports.













Olivia Ma, News and Politics Manager, recently watched "Ask President Obama."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/DmxXdZRlo4Q/your-youtube-questions-for-president.html

[G] 127 New Dimensions And Metrics Available In The API

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:23 AM PST

Google Analytics Blog: 127 New Dimensions And Metrics Available In The API

One of our aims of the Google Analytics Data Export API is to provide access to all the data you find in our reporting UI. To that end, we are releasing 127 new dimensions and metrics via the API today!

Some of the powerful new data points are:
  • Unique visitors - ga:visitors metric has been updated to support the true number of unique visitors for any date range (instead of the daily unique visitors). It also supports significantly more valid combinations.
  • Organic Searches - The number of organic searches within a session.
  • 10 new Adwords dimensions - Including Matched Query (what people searched for, not the bid term) and Placement Domain (which site you content ads were running on).
  • Search Result Views - The number of times a search result page was viewed.
  • 3 Time dimensions - To simplify plotting graphs.
We also included 111 calculated metrics to make it easy to query most common calculations in the reports, such as bounce rate, cost per conversion, and margin. Now, getting calculated metrics is both more convenient and in parity with the calculated metrics in the UI.

You can see a complete list of the new dimensions and metrics in our public changelog.

With all these dimensions and metrics, it can be time consuming to find the values you are looking for. To simplify this, we're also launching a new interactive dimension and metric search tool. You can use this interactive tool to search for a dimension or metric using its search-as you-type feature. Even more exciting is the ability to easily determine valid dimension-metric combinations just by selecting the dimensions/metrics that you want to request. Here's a screenshot:


We hope that you will find this new tool and additional data useful. As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback, in our developer group.

Posted by Jeetendra Soneja and Ivanna Kartarahardja, Google Analytics API team
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/01/127-new-dimensions-and-metrics.html

[G] New ActionScript 3 Library For The API

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:23 AM PST

Google Analytics Blog: New ActionScript 3 Library For The API

We love simplifying access to Google Analytics data though our API. So today we're happy to introduce a new ActionScript 3 Client Library built by our friends in Russia, DENIVIP Media, for our Data Export API.

This library provides a simple way to access your Analytics Data from both AIR Applications and Flash Player (though a proxy). The library was initially built to power DENIVIP Media's new TiViCon application, which you can read more about on DENIVIP's blog. "Given the potential value of this library to many other developers, we decided to make it freely available along with its source code," says Denis Bulichenko, Director of Business Development at DENIVIP.

So now you have a simple way to access all your data in ActionScript 3.

You can get the open source ActionScript 3 library, a really nice quick start guide, and a sample application all from their website.

Posted by Nick Mihailovski, Google Analytics API Team
URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-actionscript-3-library-for-api.html

[G] Join Life in a Day tonight for its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:08 AM PST

YouTube Blog: Join Life in a Day tonight for its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival

On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in "Life in a Day," an historic cinematic experiment to document a single day on earth. From Australia to Zambia, more than 80,000 videos, totaling 4,500 hours of footage, were submitted to the project. After months of hard work, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and a team of editors have created a 90-minute documentary film that gives a surprising, honest and entertaining self-portrait of our world.







While "Life in a Day" will be officially released later this year, tonight you have a very special opportunity to tune in to the world premiere direct from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The premiere will be followed by a live Q&A with Kevin Macdonald and key contributors to the film. You can submit questions for the Q&A here.



Tonight's stream begins at 5pm PT/8pm ET on the Life in a Day channel. If you're outside of the United States, you can catch a rebroadcast on Friday, January 28, at 7pm in your local time zone, captioned and subtitled in 25 additional languages, with an additional option for audio description (AD) in English.



We hope you enjoy the film!



Tim Partridge, Product Marketing Manager, recently watched "Life in a Day: A new type of filmmaking".


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/-fqWJrPJyeI/join-life-in-day-tonight-for-its-world_27.html
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