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- [G] The truth about Google Apps and FISMA
- [G] New version of Google Apps Directory Sync
- [G] Live Webinar: How local governments use Google Apps to improve productivity and reduce cost
- [G] Pagination comes to Google Docs
- [G] Bring the Google Apps Marketplace to your business this App Tuesday
- [G] Our Gone Google Story: Boxx Group builds foundations for success with Google Apps
- [G] The New Google Analytics Help Center
- [G] In-Page Analytics and Internet Explorer 7
- [G] Beefing up goo.gl with new features
- [G] Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero is next in World View lineup; takes your questions
- [G] “Don't forget Bob” and “Got the wrong Bob?” graduate from Labs
- [G] 1 billion core-hours of computational capacity for researchers
- [G] Overlapping Experiment Infrastructure: More, Better, Faster Experimentation
- [G] 5 years of Google Calendar and a new (useful) favicon
- [G] Meet April’s On The Rise nominees
| [G] The truth about Google Apps and FISMA Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:48 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: The truth about Google Apps and FISMAIn a breathless blog post, Microsoft recently suggested we intentionally misled the U.S. government over our compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Microsoft claims we filed a separate FISMA application for Google Apps for Government, then leaps to the conclusion that Google Apps for Government is not FISMA certified. These allegations are false.We take the federal government's security requirements seriously and have delivered on our promise to meet them. What's more, we've been open and transparent with the government, and it's irresponsible for Microsoft to suggest otherwise. Let's look at the facts. We received FISMA authorization for Google Apps from the General Services Administration (GSA) in July 2010. Google Apps for Government is the same technology platform as Google Apps Premier Edition, not a separate system. It includes two added security enhancements exclusively for government customers: data location and segregation of government data. In consulting with GSA last year, it was determined that the name change and enhancements could be incorporated into our existing FISMA certification. In other words, Google Apps for Government would not require a separate application. This was reflected in yesterday's Congressional testimony from the GSA: "...we're actually going through a re-certification based on those changes that Google has announced with the 'Apps for Government' product offering." FISMA anticipates that systems will change over time and provides for regular reauthorization—or re-certification—of systems. We regularly inform GSA of changes to our system and update our security documentation accordingly. The system remains authorized while the changes are evaluated by the GSA. We submitted updates earlier this year that included, among other changes, a description of the Google Apps for Government enhancements. We've been very transparent about our FISMA authorization. Our documentation has always been readily available for any government agency to review, and dozens of officials from a range of departments and agencies have availed themselves of the opportunity to learn more about how we keep our customers' data secure. We'll continue to update our documentation to reflect new capabilities in Google Apps. This continuous innovation is an important reason government customers select our service. We're confident that Microsoft will also re-authorize their applications on a regular basis, once they receive FISMA authorization. We look forward to continuing to work with governments around the world to bring them the many benefits of cloud computing. Posted by Eran Feigenbaum, Director of Security, Google Enterprise  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/truth-about-google-apps-and-fisma.html       |
| [G] New version of Google Apps Directory Sync Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:48 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: New version of Google Apps Directory SyncMoving to the cloud often means bringing over a great deal of data from various legacy systems. At Google, we try to make this process as easy and seamless as possible for our users with tools such as Google Apps migration for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. These tools allow you to move old emails, calendar and contact data into Google Apps.Directory information is another important asset to consider. About two years ago, we launched the Google Apps Directory Sync tool, which allows customers to sync their Active Directory or other LDAP servers with Google Apps to those existing repositories of user account information. Rather than manually re-creating and maintaining this info in Google Apps, you can set up Google Apps Directory Sync to continuously sync your users, user profiles, shared contacts, mailing lists, LDAP groups and more to Google Apps. Last week we started rolling out Google Apps Directory Sync 2.0, an update that features new enhancements including:
Posted by Aditya Kulkarni, Product Manager  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-version-of-google-apps-directory.html   |
| [G] Live Webinar: How local governments use Google Apps to improve productivity and reduce cost Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:48 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Live Webinar: How local governments use Google Apps to improve productivity and reduce costAcross the country, governments of all sizes are turning to Google Apps for Government. Like any other organization, governments need their employees to communicate and collaborate effectively and efficiently -- especially when employees are working from home or from remote locations.American City and County Association has joined Google to present a live webinar "How Local Governments Use Google Apps to Improve Productivity and Reduce Cost." The webinar will feature special guests from two local governments that recently switched to Google Apps for Government: Pierce County, Wisconsin and the City of Mesquite, Nevada. Join us to learn:
Register now to attend the live webinar on 4/14 @ 11:00 am PST. Posted by Wendy Wu, Google Enterprise Team  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/live-webinar-how-local-governments-use.html   |
| [G] Pagination comes to Google Docs Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:48 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Pagination comes to Google Docs(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and Google Docs Blog)Exactly one year ago, we launched a new version of the Google document editor, created from the ground up to take advantage of the latest capabilities in modern web browsers like Chrome. In particular, we baked in a way of supporting text features that aren't natively included with browsers—for example, we added a ruler for controlling the margins, text that wraps around images to create eye-catching docs and discussions for a more collaborative editing experience. Today, we're doing another first for web browsers by adding a classic word processing feature—pagination, the ability to see visual pages on your screen. We're also using pagination and some of Chrome's capabilities to improve how printing works in Google Docs. Pagination is rolling out now and should be available to everyone by the end of the day.  Pagination adds visual page breaks while you're editing your documents, so now you can see how many pages of that report you've actually finished. Because we're able to show you individual pages, we can improve the way other features work too: headers now show up at the top of each page instead of just at the top of your doc, manual page breaks actually move text onto a new page and footnotes appear at the bottom of the pages themselves.  If you prefer editing documents with a continuous layout, you can hide page breaks by selecting the "Compact" document view from the "View" menu.  Pagination also changes what's possible with printing in modern browsers. We've worked closely with the Chrome team to implement a recent web standard so we can support a feature called native printing. Before, if you wanted to print your document we'd need to first convert it into a PDF, which you would then need to open and print yourself. With native printing, you can print directly from your browser and the printed document will always exactly match what you see on your screen. For now, native printing is only available in Google Chrome, but we're hoping other browsers will implement the same web standard so everyone can have the best possible printing experience with Docs. Pagination and native printing are great examples of how modern browsers are making it possible to take the best parts of the desktop experience and bring them online. Please share your feedback on the Google Docs forum. Posted by Luiz Pereira, Software Engineer  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/pagination-comes-to-google-docs.html   |
| [G] Bring the Google Apps Marketplace to your business this App Tuesday Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:48 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Bring the Google Apps Marketplace to your business this App TuesdayLast month, the Google Apps Marketplace turned 1 and we looked back on our first year providing integrated web applications for Google Apps users. To kick off our second year, we welcome you to this month's App Tuesday to explore the many new apps we have we have to offer.To help make application discovery easier, last week, we also introduced a Marketplace feature that allows any Google Apps user to request that their administrator install an application for their organization. This new feature means that every Google Apps user can now help their organization discover and deploy the right web apps.  As always, all Marketplace apps offer single sign-on convenience and hassle-free access through the universal navigation bar. Many go even further by integrating with your Google Docs, Google Contacts, Google Calendars and more to improve your productivity. This month we welcome more apps from long-time vendors, Zoho and SADA, as well as fresh apps from many new ones:
Posted by Harrison Shih, Google Apps Marketplace Team  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/bring-google-apps-marketplace-to-your.html   |
| [G] Our Gone Google Story: Boxx Group builds foundations for success with Google Apps Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:48 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Our Gone Google Story: Boxx Group builds foundations for success with Google AppsEditor's Note: Recently we announced the winners of our global Gone Google ad contest. Today's featured winner is Kristof Boden, ICT Manager at Boxx Group in Antwerp, Belgium. Boxx Group is a young, dynamic company with great ambition. Boxx started in 2001 as a small residential construction company, now-10 years later-the activities have expanded to residential as well as utility construction, renovation and civil contracting. In 2009, Boxx Group started investing in construction grounds and the development of housing projects. Since March 2011 Boxx Real Estate has served as a reliable and professional partner in real estate conciliation for individuals and companies.Due to a company acquisition in 2009, we decided to try and find a way to provide full collaboration capabilities to employees in all locations, in the most cost-efficient and scalable way. Both companies had been working on local Microsoft® Exchange 2003 servers up until then and were in need of an upgrade of their communication platform anyway. We briefly considered the idea of joining Windows domains across a site-to-site VPN tunnel but we quickly gave up on the idea.  We switched our full staff of 25 employees to Google Apps for Business in May 2010. Our first roll-out to 10 users was successful so we were able to decommission one of our Exchange servers. A few weeks later we migrated 13 more employees in less than 3 days and the remaining Exchange server was decommissioned. Employees are now able to access their emails and calendars from anywhere: on their PC's at home or on their Android phones. They enjoy the flexibility of having access to data on-the-go and the ability to communicate with colleagues and customers anytime, anywhere (and at a reasonable cost!) Posted by Kristof Boden, ICT Manager, Boxx Group  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-gone-google-story-boxx-group-builds.html   |
| [G] The New Google Analytics Help Center Posted: 13 Apr 2011 09:53 PM PDT Google Analytics Blog: The New Google Analytics Help CenterThis is part of our series of posts highlighting the new Google Analytics. The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to a number of Analytics users. We'll be giving access to all users soon. Sign up for early access. And follow Google Analytics on Twitter for the latest updates. We recently announced the new version of Google Analytics. If you're one of the early users, you may have noticed that there is also a new help center dedicated to this latest version. You can get to the new help center via the Help links that appear throughout the user interface. But, regardless of whether you're already using the new version, you'll find the new help center at http://www.google.com/support/analyticshelp/. In addition to addressing features for the new version (see What's New), we've redesigned the Help Center completely. For this launch, we have:
You can compare our new help center to the older version at http://www.google.com/support/analytics. Please post a comment to let us know what you think. We'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions. Also, look for a survey in a few weeks. We'll be actively gathering your input on this Help Center in preparation for the next round of improvements. Posted by Patricia Boswell, on behalf of the Analytics Education Team  URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-google-analytics-help-center.html   |
| [G] In-Page Analytics and Internet Explorer 7 Posted: 13 Apr 2011 09:53 PM PDT Google Analytics Blog: In-Page Analytics and Internet Explorer 7Yesterday, Microsoft released security updates for Internet Explorer 7 that reduces the functionality of the In-Page Analytics report, which is currently in beta in Google Analytics. We're working to restore full functionality for Internet Explorer 7 users, and will update this post when we have a fix. While no other components of Google Analytics are affected, you will need to use another browser to access the In-Page Analytics report. Internet Explorer 8 or 9, Safari, Firefox, or Google Chrome all continue to work as expected.  URL: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-page-analytics-and-internet-explorer.html   |
| [G] Beefing up goo.gl with new features Posted: 13 Apr 2011 05:46 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Beefing up goo.gl with new features(Cross-posted on the Social Web Blog)Since we launched our URL shortener goo.gl last September, we've been lucky enough to build a thriving and growing community of passionate users who aren't shy about letting us know when something could be better. We appreciate the feedback, and today we've completed a series of feature rollouts aimed at addressing your most common requests. Copy to clipboard Now you can easily copy new short URLs to your clipboard, a frequently requested feature on our forums. When a new short URL is created, the text on the page will automatically be highlighted, and you can simply press Control+C (or Command+C on a Mac) to copy it.  Remove from dashboard You can also now remove items from your dashboard, so that you can see a quick summary of only your most important links and hide the ones you no longer need. Please note that when you hide a short URL, you're only removing it from your own dashboard. The URL will still exist and work. You can't add short URLs back into your dashboard once you've hidden them, so be sure you won't need to find that short URL from your dashboard later. Remember that you can always view analytics for any of your short URLs by appending a "+" to the end of them (e.g., http://goo.gl/rQ6HT+). This feature will be rolling out over the next several days, and may not work immediately on mobile devices.  Spam reporting Many of you told us that you'd like a way to tell us about goo.gl URLs that lead to spam sites. We recently set up goo.gl/spam-report for just that purpose. So far it's helped us a lot in identifying and blocking short URLs that lead to spam, so keep those reports coming. Ongoing speed and stability improvements Even as we add features, we continue to focus on making goo.gl one of the fastest and most reliable URL shorteners on the web. We'll continue working hard to ensure that we add minimal latency to the user experience and extend our track record of rock-solid reliability—we've had no service outages since we launched last September. We hope you find these new features useful, and we look forward to your continued feedback. Posted by Devin Mullins, Software Engineer  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/beefing-up-googl-with-new-features.html   |
| [G] Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero is next in World View lineup; takes your questions Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:47 PM PDT YouTube Blog: Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero is next in World View lineup; takes your questionsJosé Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, currently serving his second term as the Prime Minister of Spain, has made some bold choices during his time in office, like removing Spanish troops from the war in Iraq and legalizing same-sex marriage.Now, he's taking your questions, about these issues and others, as the first Spanish-speaking participant in the YouTube World View interview series. On April 27, Zapatero will sit down to answer the top-voted questions submitted by citizens from around the world in an interview streaming on YouTube. The questions are already coming in. For example, Curiso in Madrid, asks, "After the disaster of Fukushima, do you support the closure of nuclear plants in Spain? What are the energy alternatives?" while Juan is curious whether the state will "come to the rescue of thousands of families who have no means to pay their mortgages?" What are your questions for the Spanish prime minister? Submit them in text or video to www.youtube.com/worldview before April 22 and they could be asked. Manuel Román , Spain Product Marketing Manager, recently watched "Pregunta".     URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/SCJWBfiP5p4/spanish-prime-minister-zapatero-is-next.html   |
| [G] “Don't forget Bob” and “Got the wrong Bob?” graduate from Labs Posted: 13 Apr 2011 03:31 PM PDT Official Gmail Blog: "Don't forget Bob" and "Got the wrong Bob?" graduate from LabsPosted by Assaf Ben-David, Software Engineering Intern, Israel"Don't forget Bob" and "Got the wrong Bob?" are two Gmail Labs features that help prevent you from making two common mistakes: forgetting to include someone on an email, and sending a message to the wrong person with a similar name to the person you meant to email — like emailing Bob (your boss) instead of Bob (your friend). We've received quite a bit of positive feedback from people who avoided some embarrassing situations thanks to these features. And today, we're excited to graduate them from Gmail Labs and start turning them on for everyone (they should start working in all Gmail accounts over the next day or so). Once that happens, as you type in your recipients, Gmail will automatically make suggestions based on the groups of people you email most often. When you see a suggestion to add a person you've forgotten, all you have to do is click on their name to add them.  Similarly, if you click on a suggestion to replace a mistakenly added recipient, the proverbial "wrong Bob" will be replaced by the right one.  We hope these suggestions help you avoid some sticky situations — before you hit send. As you compose messages and see these features in actions, let us know what you think by tweeting @gmail with your ideas and impressions or leaving a message in the Gmail Help forum.  URL: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/dont-forget-bob-and-got-wrong-bob.html   |
| [G] 1 billion core-hours of computational capacity for researchers Posted: 13 Apr 2011 09:35 AM PDT Official Google Research Blog: 1 billion core-hours of computational capacity for researchersPosted by Dan Belov, Principal Engineer and David Konerding, Software EngineerWe're pleased to announce a new academic research grant program: Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty. Through this program, we'll award up to 10 qualified researchers with at least 100 million core-hours each, for a total of 1 billion core-hours. The program is focused on large-scale, CPU-bound batch computations in research areas such as biomedicine, energy, finance, entertainment, and agriculture, amongst others. For example, projects developing large-scale genomic search and alignment, massively scaled Monte Carlo simulations, and sky survey image analysis could be an ideal fit. Exacycle for Visiting Faculty expands upon our current efforts through University Relations to stimulate advances in science and engineering research, and awardees will participate through the Visiting Faculty Program. We invite full-time faculty members from universities worldwide to apply. All grantees, including those outside of the U.S., will work on-site at specific Google offices in the U.S. or abroad. The exact Google office location will be determined at the time of project selection. We are excited to accept proposals starting today. The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. PST May 31, 2011. Applicants are encouraged to send in their proposals early as awards will be granted starting in June. More information and details on how to apply for a Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty grant can be found on the Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty website.  URL: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2011/04/1-billion-core-hours-of-computational.html   |
| [G] Overlapping Experiment Infrastructure: More, Better, Faster Experimentation Posted: 13 Apr 2011 09:35 AM PDT Official Google Research Blog: Overlapping Experiment Infrastructure: More, Better, Faster ExperimentationPosted by Deirdre O'Brien and Diane Tang, Adwords TeamAt Google, experimentation is practically a mantra; we evaluate almost every change that potentially affects what our users experience. Such changes include not only obvious user-visible changes such as modifications to a user interface, but also more subtle changes such as different machine learning algorithms that might affect ranking or content selection. Our insatiable appetite for experimentation has led us to tackle the problems of how to run more experiments, how to run experiments that produce better decisions, and how to run them faster. Google's infrastructure supports this vast experimentation by using orthogonal diversion criteria for experiments in different "layers" so that each event (e.g. a web search) can be assigned to multiple experiments. The treatment and population sample are easily specified in data files allowing for fast and accurate experiment set up. We have also developed analytical tools to do experiment sizing and a metrics dashboard which provides summarized data within hours of experiment set up. Decision making is improved by the consistency and accuracy in metrics assured by these tools. We believe that Google's experimental system and processes described in this paper can be generalized and applied by any entity interested in using experimentation to improve search engines and other web applications.  URL: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2011/04/overlapping-experiment-infrastructure.html   |
| [G] 5 years of Google Calendar and a new (useful) favicon Posted: 13 Apr 2011 09:00 AM PDT Official Gmail Blog: 5 years of Google Calendar and a new (useful) faviconPosted by David Tattersall, Product ManagerOn April 13th, 2006 we released Google Calendar to the world. What started as an experimental project by several Googlers has grown to become a service that millions of people rely on every day. From photography studios to schools to airlines to supermarkets, we discover new ways people are using Calendar all the time.  A birthday wouldn't be a birthday without a little present, so today we're happy to announce our latest tiny addition: the up-to-date favicon. When you look at the Google Calendar icon at the top of your browser window, it will no longer always display "31" but will instead change to reflect the current day of the month. Today's date is now always a short glance away. If you don't see the new up-to-date favicon already, you should within the next couple of days. To keep up-to-date on all things Google Calendar, check out our Twitter account (and feel free to tell us how you're using Calendar too).  The Google Calendar team celebrating our 5th birthday at Google Zurich  URL: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/5-years-of-google-calendar-and-new.html   |
| [G] Meet April’s On The Rise nominees Posted: 13 Apr 2011 08:33 AM PDT YouTube Blog: Meet April's On The Rise nomineesEvery month, we identify four channels that are experiencing big gains in subscribers but haven't yet reached the 100,000 mark. Then we ask you to vote for your favorite. We'll reward the winner with exposure on the YouTube homepage and the videos channel as well as posts on Facebook and Twitter. It's all about giving a kick start to the next generation of Partners who will go on to do big things on YouTube. Past winners like emilynoel83, justjesse197 and joshsundquist have seen their subscriber numbers jump, thanks to your support.This month, our nominees are all artists of one kind or another. They may express it in pen and paper, slow motion film or beehives -- but each, in his or her own way has something unique to say. Check them out, and then cast your vote in the upper right-hand corner of this blog by April 23; we'll announce the winner on April 30. PacificPastime If you're looking for portraiture, look no farther. The 22-year-old California-based artist known as PacificPastime can conjure up just about any celebrity with just a few colored pencils and a piece of paper. Her sped-up videos make it look a bit like magic. outofabluesky The man behind outofabluesky, McCartney Taylor, has a thing for meteorites and engineering. But when it comes to bees, he's really in his element -- offering short videos on everything you need to know about a hobby that's become wildly popular in recent years. Bring on the honey! HollywoodBubbleInc Hollywood Bubble Inc. is a Hollywood-based production company led by Ruben Garay and Jimmy Sereno. The guys produce a short film each week as well as tutorials on how to replicate big-budget action scenes yourself -- on no budget at all. They invite the community to post their efforts as video responses and reward them with feature spots. theslowmoguys They claim they're lazy, but The Slow Mo Guys seem to be anything but. They gather equipment and set up situations to film, then slow that film down to show you how the intricacies of how matter actually behaves: tiny revelations in slow motion. If you're inspired by what you see here, check out other up-and-coming Partners by visiting our On the Rise channel, which features nominees, trending partners and winners. Look for more featured rising partners on the Browse page. Sarah Bardeen, Music Community Manager, recently watched "Fredrik - Flora (full album stream)."    URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/7U8bl9DuviI/meet-aprils-on-rise-nominees.html   |
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