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[G] Starcraft finals live streamed on YouTube

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:14 PM PST

YouTube Blog: Starcraft finals live streamed on YouTube

The battles from the Koprulu Sector between Terrans, the Zerg and the Protoss are coming to the Major League Gaming channel on YouTube. Starting now we'll be broadcasting live to the world Major League Gaming Pro Circuit video game national championships for Starcraft. Thousands of the world's best video game players are descending on the Rhode Island Convention Center starting today through November 20 to compete for more than $600,000 in prizes.







Together, the last four events in MLG tour resulted in more than 11.1 million hours of video consumed, with the last event bringing 180,000 concurrent viewers. When it comes to watching live Starcraft action from the MLG we think the YouTube community can beat that; but, as they say, the game is in your hands: www.youtube.com/mlg.



Have fun and keep gaming.



Cliff Samaniego, Strategic Partner Development Manager, recently watched "First in Line for Modern Warfare 3 in NYC."


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/MilH0xIepKw/starcraft-finals-live-streamed-on.html

[G] Site Speed, now even easier to access

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:14 PM PST

Google Analytics Blog: Site Speed, now even easier to access

Speed matters. Faster loading pages mean more visitors land on your site instead of waiting in frustration or leaving. The Google Analytics Site Speed report will help you learn which of your pages are underperforming, so you can address this potential barrier to your conversions.



The Site Speed report was launched a few months ago, but it required site owners to add an additional Google Analytics tracking code to see data in this report. Based on increasing user requests we are now making this feature available to all Google Analytics users and removing the requirement to modify your Google Analytics tracking code. As of today all Google Analytics accounts will automatically have the Site Speed report available with no extra work required from you.





Want to check out Site Speed in your account? It's easy. Go to the content section and click the Site Speed report. There are three tabs within the Site Speed report for you to review: Explorer, Performance, & Map Overlay. Each provides a slightly different view of your site speed performance. The Explorer tab provides an overview of load time by page. The Performance tab buckets your site speed performance by page load time. The Map Overlay tab provides a view of your site speed experienced by users in different geographical regions (cities, countries, continents). Below are snapshots of the Performance & Map Overlay tabs.











If you have already been using the Site Speed report through the additional tracking script, you can keep using the report as before. Since the tracking code " _trackPageLoadTime" is no longer required to enable Site Speed report, going forward Google Analytics will simply ignore it.



Interested in understanding the details of the Site Speed report sampling rate, tracking of virtual pageviews, and impact of redirects?

  • Sample rate - Google Analytics samples your page load times to generate this report. For the more technical minded users you can adjust this sampling rate by adding to your Google Analytics code the function - setSiteSpeedSampleRate. 

  • Support for virtual pages - If a virtual path was used in the _trackPageview call, that path will now also be associated with any site speed data collected from that page.

  • Redirection time - Redirects are now counted as part of the "page load time" metric, so it represents the total time a user perceives of your site loading. Current users of the Site Speed report may notice a small increase in page load times as a result of this update.

Still have questions? Check out the Google code site and Help Center articles on Site Speed. We hope you'll gain insights from this newly updated report and be able to use it to optimize your pages.  Please share with us your thoughts on this report and any suggestions for future updates. 


- Nir Tzemah, Google Analytics Team


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/tRaA/~3/1JDuhczbBA4/site-speed-now-even-easier-to-access.html

[G] Build great font tools and services with sfntly

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:14 PM PST

Google Open Source Blog: Build great font tools and services with sfntly

Earlier this month we released the sfntly font programming library as open source. Created by the Google Internationalization Engineering team, the sfntly Java and C++ library makes it easy for programmers to build high performance font manipulation applications and services. sfntly is really, really fast: Raph Levien, Google Web Fonts Engineer, says, "Using sfntly we can subset a large font in a millisecond. It's faster than gzip'ing the result."

Now, both Java and C++ programmers can use sfntly to quickly and easily develop code to read, edit, and subset OpenType and TrueType fonts. The Google Web Fonts team uses the Java version to dynamically subset fonts, and the Chrome/Chromium browser uses the C++ version to subset fonts for PDF printing.

sfntly (\s-'font-lē\) was built from the ground up to provide high performance, an easy to use API, and both high-level and low-level access to font data. Font objects are both thread safe and high performance while still providing access for editing. After about a year of internal development sfntly is stable enough to move it into open source and share with others.

Currently, sfntly has editing support for most core TrueType and OpenType tables, with support for more tables being added. Using sfntly's basic sfnt table read and write capability, programmers can do basic manipulation of any of the many font formats that use the sfnt container, including TrueType, OpenType, AAT/GX, and Graphite. Tables that aren't specifically supported can still be handled and round-tripped by the library without risk of corruption.

sfntly is already capable of allowing many really exciting things to be done with fonts, but there is much more planned: expanding support for the rest of the OpenType spec and other sfnt-container font formats, other serialization forms, better higher level abstractions, and more.

I encourage you to you join us on our journey as a user or a contributor.

By Stuart Gill, sfntly Architect

- Cross posted from the official Google Code blog


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleOpenSourceBlog/~3/TahxzTlbKqo/build-great-font-tools-and-services.html

[G] Follow robotic wave gliders on a record setting Pacific crossing in Google Earth

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:14 PM PST

Google LatLong: Follow robotic wave gliders on a record setting Pacific crossing in Google Earth


Join a journey of discovery virtually in Google Earth, as Liquid Robotics launches four wave-powered robotic gliders to cross the Pacific ocean in their Pacific Crossing (PacX) Challenge Expedition. The wave gliders are attempting to set a new world record for the longest distance ever attempted by an unmanned vehicle and will be collecting data about the Pacific ocean for use by scientists and students back on dry land. These R2D2s of the sea will cross 25,000 miles over 300 days and collect over 2 million data points, helping build the record of oceanic knowledge.

Wave glider robots await launch from San Francisco in this first expedition blog post in Google Earth.

To follow the wave gliders in Google Earth, download the expedition KML file or open the PacX Gallery page and click on the ship icon. You will be able to read updates from scientists sharing the latest robotic observations, from wave height in storms to weather measurements like barometric pressure, wind speed and air temperature. The ship icon will represent the location of the wave gliders, starting in the San Francisco bay.

Good luck to the wave gliders and congratulations to the scientists who will be monitoring their progress!

Posted by Jenifer Foulkes, Product Manager, Ocean in Google Earth
URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/11/follow-robotic-wave-gliders-on-record.html

[G] Connect with your community on Google+

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:14 PM PST

Official Google Blog: Connect with your community on Google+

Did you know that every single major league baseball team has a Google+ page? Or that hundreds of professors across the country are using Google+ to hold virtual office hours? Or that every U.S. presidential primary candidate has agreed to participate in live hangouts with voters on television this election cycle?

As Google+ continues to grow, we're seeing more and more communities develop on the platform. But we want to help more organizations, politicians, artists, celebrities, athletes, media companies and nonprofits use Google+ to share and interact with each other—and with Google+ users. That's why we're launching a series of community guides to help your organization thrive on Google+.


On the site, you can find out how to get your organization started on Google+, and learn how other groups like yours—universities, political organizations, nonprofits, sports, media companies and celebrities—are using the platform. You'll find case studies and ideas for how organizations or individuals in each of these communities have used Google+ effectively. For example, you'll see how NBC's Breaking News Google+ page is using the platform to deliver breaking news; or how the Dallas Cowboys are using hangouts to connect with fans; or how celebrities like Conan O'Brien are announcing their Google+ pages to the world.

There are thousands of vibrant communities on Google+. We hope these new community guides will help you and your organization connect, follow and share with the communities you care about the most.

Finally, we'd love to hear how you're using Google+ to engage with your communities. Make sure to share your greatest successes with us on the Google+ page.

Posted by Steve Grove, Head of Community Partnerships, Google+
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/connect-with-your-community-on-google.html

[G] Banana slugs move at the speed of Google

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:14 PM PST

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Banana slugs move at the speed of Google

Posted by Obadiah Greenberg, Business Development Manager, Google Apps for Education

As a creative writing student at UC Santa Cruz in the early 90s, when I needed to write a story I'd trek across campus over wooden bridges suspended among the age-old redwood trees, down windy paths (avoiding banana slugs), and up to the computer lab. I'd insert a 3.5-inch floppy into the Macintosh SE, make my edits, then listen to the words rip across the dot matrix printer. I'd then carry the pages to the writing workshop where teachers and fellow students would scribble their edits and comments, generally with a red pen. Then it was back to the lab for another re-write.

Despite the fact that nearly every student has a computer these days – saving countless trips to the central computer lab – the way student teams worked together didn't really become much more efficient, collaborative and fun until UCSC first moved to Google Apps for students in March 2010. And now, starting this week, faculty and staff are also adopting Google Apps so it will be even easier to draft and share work, provide input and incorporate feedback in realtime. Having a common platform for communication and collaboration for all members of the UCSC community means everyone's literally on the same page.

Many other schools have also recently migrated to Google Apps for their staff and faculty community including Wake Forest University, Barnard College, George Washington University, ESSEC Business School, San Jose State University and many more.

If you're interested in a deeper look at how staff and faculty at schools like these are using Apps to do things such as build ePortfolios in Sites and track committee minutes in Docs, register here to join our upcoming webinar on Wednesday December 7th at 10am PST. And in the meantime check out our whitepaper to read more about common questions and concerns we've heard from schools migrating their faculty and staff communities.
URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/11/banana-slugs-move-at-speed-of-google.html

[G] Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 07:13 PM PST

Google Open Source Blog: Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest

Correction: Students will not be able to start registering for accounts until the contest opens on November 21st at 12:00 am (midnight) PST. The blog below has been corrected. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.


Every time you send a text, check a webpage or post a status update, you are using open source software. The Internet is made of open source. But have you ever created any yourself? If you're a pre-university student between 13 and 17 years old, now you can—and win prizes along the way. Our Google Code-in contest starts this coming Monday, November 21. During the contest, which lasts for 57 days, participants can work on cool online tasks for 18 different open source organizations. Possible challenges include document translations, marketing outreach, software coding, user experience research and a variety of other tasks related to open source software development.

Participants earn points for each task they successfully complete and can earn prizes like t-shirts, cash and certificates of completion. The ten participants with the highest points earned by the end of the competition receive a grand prize trip to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. next spring for themselves and a parent or legal guardian. They'll spend the day getting a tour of campus, meeting Google engineers and enjoying other fun surprises.

Last year's Google Code-in had 361 students from 48 countries completing 2,167 tasks over the course of the the eight week contest. We hope to have even more students participate this year. Help us spread the word by telling your friends, classmates, children, colleagues, teachers—everyone!


If you'd like to sign up, please review our Frequently Asked Questions and the contest rules on our program site. You can also join our discussion list for any other questions. For details on important dates for the contest, see the timeline. You can register for your account on the program site when the contest opens on Monday, November 21st at 12:00am (midnight) PST.

We hope you'll spend your winter (or summer, for our friends in the southern hemisphere) learning about the ins and outs of open source development through hands-on experience. On your marks...

By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs

- Cross posted from the Official Google Blog


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleOpenSourceBlog/~3/1I44zHCS6Dk/explore-open-source-with-google-code-in.html

[G] Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:36 AM PST

Google Open Source Blog: Explore open source with the Google Code-in contest


Every time you send a text, check a webpage or post a status update, you are using open source software. The Internet is made of open source. But have you ever created any yourself? If you're a pre-university student between 13 and 17 years old, now you can—and win prizes along the way. Our Google Code-in contest starts this coming Monday, November 21, and you can sign up now. During the contest, which lasts for 57 days, participants can work on cool online tasks for 18 different open source organizations. Possible challenges include document translations, marketing outreach, software coding, user experience research and a variety of other tasks related to open source software development.

Participants earn points for each task they successfully complete and can earn prizes like t-shirts, cash and certificates of completion. The ten participants with the highest points earned by the end of the competition receive a grand prize trip to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. next spring for themselves and a parent or legal guardian. They'll spend the day getting a tour of campus, meeting Google engineers and enjoying other fun surprises.

Last year's Google Code-in had 361 students from 48 countries completing 2,167 tasks over the course of the the eight week contest. We hope to have even more students participate this year. Help us spread the word by telling your friends, classmates, children, colleagues, teachers—everyone!


If you'd like to sign up, please review our Frequently Asked Questions and the contest rules on our program site. You can also join our discussion list for any other questions. For details on important dates for the contest, see the timeline. You can go ahead and register for your account now on the program site so you will be able to start claiming tasks right away when the contest opens on Monday, November 21st at 12:00am (midnight) PST.

We hope you'll spend your winter (or summer, for our friends in the southern hemisphere) learning about the ins and outs of open source development through hands-on experience. On your marks...

By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs

- Cross posted from the Official Google Blog


URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleOpenSourceBlog/~3/1I44zHCS6Dk/explore-open-source-with-google-code-in.html
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