Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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[G] Use your Google+ profile with your Blogger blogs

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 11:22 PM PDT

Blogger Buzz: Use your Google+ profile with your Blogger blogs

In fewer than 4 months since its launch, more than 40 million people have joined Google+, making it a living, breathing space for social connections and sharing to thrive.

Today we're excited to announce the first way you will be able to leverage Google+ -- by making it possible to replace your Blogger profile with your Google+ profile.

In addition to giving your readers a more robust and familiar sense of who you are, your social connections will see your posts in their Google search results with an annotation that you've shared the post.


Plus, bloggers who switch will automatically get access to the Google+ integrations we'll be rolling out in the future.

If you blog under a pseudonym and you don't want to connect your common name with your blog, this integration may not work for you. That's why we've made it completely optional to switch.

This option is available for all users today in our testing ground, Blogger in Draft, and will be accessible from www.blogger.com in the coming weeks.

If you have a Google+ account and would like to replace your Blogger profile with your Google+ profile, log in to draft.blogger.com and click "Get started" on the promotion message, pictured below, or click here to get started right away.


If you don't have a Google+ account, you can create one here first, and then head back to draft.blogger.com and look for the promotion message.

To learn more, check out our FAQs or visit our Help Forum. Happy blogging!

Posted by Vardhman Jain, Software Engineer
URL: http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/10/use-your-google-profile-with-your.html

[G] Technology and human rights

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 11:22 PM PDT

Google Public Policy Blog: Technology and human rights

Posted by Christine Chen, Senior Manager, Policy and Communications

Every day we see Internet users around the world finding new ways to use technology to help bring about political, economic and social change. It's exciting to see people exercise their rights to freely express themselves and access information across borders and media -- rights first enshrined in Article 19 of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights long before the Internet existed.

Far less clear, however, are the long-term implications of rapid technological development for human rights: What's the balance between people using social media to empower themselves and governments using it to oppress their own citizens? How do governments create national policies when the Internet breaks borders? And what role do companies have in enabling or protecting the free exchange of ideas?

These questions and more will be addressed at the first ever Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, taking place in San Francisco on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 25 and 26. Activists, academics, and analysts will meet with engineers, entrepreneurs, and executives for discussion about how and when technology can advance human rights.

We're pleased to be the original sponsor of Rightscon, as it's being called. Several Googlers from the public policy team, as well as speakers from YouTube, will be participating on panels and in roundtable discussions on topics from free expression and government regulation to transparency and intermediary liability. You can see the full agenda here.

We want you to be part of the conversation, too. So in partnership with Access, the non-profit which is hosting the event, we will be live streaming the plenary speeches and panels from 9am to 5pm PT on each day of the conference on CitizenTube, YouTube's News and Politics channel. We hope you'll tune in and participate.
URL: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2011/10/technology-and-human-rights.html

[G] Add local knowledge to the map with Google Map Maker for Canada

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 11:22 PM PDT

Google LatLong: Add local knowledge to the map with Google Map Maker for Canada

Today we're opening the map of Canada in Google Map Maker for users to add their expert local knowledge directly to Google Maps. Users know their neighborhood or hometown best, and with Google Map Maker they can ensure the places they care about are richly represented on the map.


Users can help make the map complete in many ways such as marking hiking paths and trails, fixing the name of a local business, or adding the buildings of a college campus so they appear in Google Maps. We've seen incredibly detailed contributions from users worldwide, for example, take a look at the map of a shopping mall in California before and after Map Maker was launched. We're eager to see the same level of detail for locations throughout Canada.


Milpitas, CA (before, avant)


Milpitas, CA (after, après)

To confirm Map Maker user contributions are accurate, each edit will be reviewed. After approval, the edits will appear in Google Maps within minutes. To see examples of what people all around the world are adding in Map Maker, you can watch mapping in real-time.

Citizen cartographers using Google Map Makerin more than 180 other regions of the world help keep maps of their areas accurate and up to date. We are delighted to welcome Canada to the Map Maker family. To learn more, visit our handy guide to mapping Map Makerpedia or check out a video tutorial. Get started mapping at www.google.ca/mapmaker.

Note: Translated to French below.

Posted by James Kelly, Product Manager, Google Map Maker


Ajoutez de la couleur locale à la carte avec l'édition canadienne de Google Map Maker

Aujourd'hui, nous ouvrons la carte du Canada dans Google Map Maker afin que les utilisateurs puissent ajouter directement leurs propres connaissances locales aux cartes Google. Les utilisateurs connaissent leur quartier ou leur ville mieux que quiconque, et grâce à Google Map Maker, ils peuvent s'assurer que leurs endroits préférés figurent sur la carte.

Les utilisateurs peuvent contribuer à enrichir la carte de nombreuses façons, notamment en indiquant les pistes cyclables et les sentiers, en identifiant les commerces locaux, ou en ajoutant les édifices d'un campus universitaire afin qu'ils apparaissent dans Google Maps. Nous avons vu des contributions incroyablement détaillés de la part d'utilisateurs du monde entier. Par exemple, jetez un coup d'oeil à la carte d'un centre commercial en Californie, avant et après le lancement de Map Maker. Nous avons hâte de voir le même souci du détail pour des emplacements situés à travers le Canada.

Afin de confirmer l'exactitude des contributions des utilisateurs de Map Maker, chaque ajout sera révisé. Après approbation, les changements apparaîtront sur Google Maps en quelques minutes. Pour avoir un aperçu de ce que les gens à travers le monde ajoutent à Map Maker, vous pouvez visionner la cartographie en temps réel.

Les citoyens cartographes utilisant Google Map Maker dans plus de 180 autres régions du monde contribuent à rendre les cartes de leur région les plus précises et à jour possible. Nous sommes ravis d'accueillir le Canada dans la famille de Map Maker. Pour vous familiariser avec cet outil, consultez notre guide pratique de cartographie Map Makerpedia ou visionnez notre vidéo pédagogique. Ne perdez pas une minute. Rendez-vous à www.google.ca/mapmaker.

Publié par James Kelly, chef de produit, Google Map Maker

URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/10/add-local-knowledge-to-map-with-google.html

[G] Technology and human rights

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 11:22 PM PDT

YouTube Blog: Technology and human rights

Cross-posted from the Google Public Policy Blog.





Every day we see Internet users around the world finding new ways to use technology to help bring about political, economic and social change. It's exciting to see people exercise their rights to freely express themselves and access information across borders and media -- rights first enshrined in Article 19 of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights long before the Internet existed.



Far less clear, however, are the long-term implications of rapid technological development for human rights: What's the balance between people using social media to empower themselves and governments using it to oppress their own citizens? How do governments create national policies when the Internet breaks borders? And what role do companies have in enabling or protecting the free exchange of ideas?



These questions and more will be addressed at the first ever Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, taking place in San Francisco on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 25 and 26. Activists, academics, and analysts will meet with engineers, entrepreneurs, and executives for discussion about how and when technology can advance human rights.



We're pleased to be the original sponsor of Rightscon, as it's being called. Several Googlers from the public policy team, as well as speakers from YouTube, will be participating on panels and in roundtable discussions on topics from free expression and government regulation to transparency and intermediary liability. You can see the full agenda here.



We want you to be part of the conversation, too. So in partnership with Access, the non-profit which is hosting the event, we will be live streaming the plenary speeches and panels from 9am to 5pm PT on each day of the conference on CitizenTube, YouTube's News and Politics channel. We hope you'll tune in and participate.



Christine Chen, Senior Manager of Policy and Communications, recently watched "Search and Rescue in Turkey"


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/25OZ-iHoS04/technology-and-human-rights.html

[G] A Spectrum of Results - All Good

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 07:36 AM PDT

Google Open Source Blog: A Spectrum of Results - All Good

We are pleased to announce the final results of this year's OpenICC participation in the Google Summer of Code program. OpenICC mentored two students directly and one student through collaboration with the openSUSE organization. All three of our students successfully met their project goals and completed their colour management projects.

Yiannis Belias worked on the API stabilization for Oyranos Colour Management System II project. The new classes, code generator improvements, and tools he worked on will be integrated into the Oyranos master branch in upcoming months. This project helps in stabilizing the CMS core, which covers a great foundation of functionality.

Joseph Simon worked on the XCPD project. The goal of his project was to implement a prototype printing dialog based on The Linux Foundation's Common Printing Dialog (CPD) project code to allow a standards based color managed PDF based printing workflow. The PDF spool file created by the modified CPD follows the PDF/X specification for embedding user side colour managed content and color related remote printer configuration information for a complete solution to printing color managed content in a standard Linux/Unix environment.

Sebastian Oliva implemented an ICC device profile database, called taxi that is intended to share vendor and user created ICC profiles across platforms in an automated fashion. The online database is designed to cover metadata about the device driver calibration status alongside the characterization information in the corresponding ICC profiles. The project idea and student slot was provided by the openSUSE distribution project and mentored by an OpenICC member.

Many thanks to all the students for their great work, all the people who helped in shaping the basic ideas and devising the projects for the program, Google for providing the stipends for the students, and open SUSE for inviting the students to the European openSUSE Conference.

By Kai-Uwe Behrmann, OpenICC Org Administrator for Google Summer of Code


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleOpenSourceBlog/~3/g-Gl3IOxqBM/spectrum-of-results-all-good.html
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