Score one for the Sun Devils

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Kevin Gough, Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />As Arizona State University (ASU) gears up to go against USC this weekend, they've already scored a touchdown on campus this week. Today ASU announced that it's making <a href="http://www.google.com/a/edu">Google Apps for Education</a> available to all of its 65,000 students. Our free hosted email, IM and calendar offering should be a boon for students who need to collaborate on the latest Econ assignment (or plan their tailgate before the game). ASU went for a two-point conversion by using our APIs to integrate Google Apps with their single sign-on system (students only have to log on once to access all their school-related applications and student records system), so that admins can give students an @asu.edu email account when they register for classes. In all, it took ASU less than two weeks from decision to full-scale deployment -- a truly inspired play.

Score one for the Sun Devils

Posted by Kevin Gough, Product Marketing Manager As Arizona State University (ASU) gears up to go against USC this weekend, they've alre...

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Greetings, Earthlings!

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Dave Cohen, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />On October 14th and 15th, the sleepy desert town of Moab, Utah wakes up to a buzz of excitement. It's not an alien landing and it's not killer bees. It's <a href="http://www.grannygear.com/Races/Moab/index.shtml">24 Hours of Moab</a>, a day-long mountain bike race starting at noon this coming Saturday and ending at noon on Sunday. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/1600/Moab_course.2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/320/Moab_course.2.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br />And Google will be there! We're team Google Earthlings, five Googlers who love mountain biking. We're not pro riders. In fact, none of us have ever competed in a 24-hour race before, so we don't expect to win ... but we do expect to have a good time and make some noise about Google Earth and Blogger to more than 5,000 riders and spectators!<br /><br />Sound sweet? Head on over to our <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/">team blog</a> and check out our <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/09/riding-gap.html" target="_blank">ride reports</a>, <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/09/eating-dirt.html">rants</a>, and <a href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/09/irrationally-exuberant.html">musings</a>, as well as some demos of the <a title="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/10/adding-content-in-google-earth.html" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://googleearthlings.blogspot.com/2006/10/adding-content-in-google-earth.html" target="_blank">really cool stuff</a> you can do with <a title="http://earth.google.com/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://earth.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Earth</a>.<br /><br />Gonna be at the race? Swing by our Expo Tent where we'll have laptops running Google Earth so riders can upload their own GPS data and see their home trails in 3D. And, if we can manage to capture an internet signal way out in the middle of the desert, we'll have a couple laptops with Blogger as well, encouraging riders to post their pics, lap times, and ride reports to a team blog. Of course, it wouldn't be a Google event without fun schwag -- we'll be giving away water bottles, blinky pins (we'll be the brightest riders on the course!), T-shirts, and some SketchUp socks. After the race, we'll update the blog with pics and stories, so stay tuned, and see you at the race! <br /><br />P.S. This is not a fake post. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/1600/MOAB_john-hop%200.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7609/900/320/MOAB_john-hop%200.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a>

Greetings, Earthlings!

Posted by Dave Cohen, Software Engineer On October 14th and 15th, the sleepy desert town of Moab, Utah wakes up to a buzz of excitement. It...

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Inside Macs at Google

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Rose Yao, Mac Product Manager</span><br /><br />As a relatively new Mac user, I've found that I can't get enough of Mac stuff. I eagerly await Apple's next announcements, and scour the web for hints of what that could be. There are a lot of people who love Macs at Google, and we're really excited to contribute to the Mac OS X platform. I know how frustrating it is to not get a regular dose of Mac news or find the Mac application you want. So check out the <a title="http://googlemac.blogspot.com/ Google Mac Blog " onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://googlemac.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">new Google Mac Blog </a>to get all the news, tips, and insider stories about Macs at Google. Another site you might want to visit is <a title="http://www.google.com/mac.html www.google.com/mac" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.google.com/mac.html" target="_blank">www.google.com/mac</a>. Created by Ryan Brown, an engineer on the Mac team, this site showcases all of the Google applications for the Mac.

Inside Macs at Google

Posted by Rose Yao, Mac Product Manager As a relatively new Mac user, I've found that I can't get enough of Mac stuff. I eagerly a...

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About that fake post

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team</span><br /><br />A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog last night, claiming that we've discontinued our AdWords click-to-call test. The bug was fixed quickly and the post removed. As for the click-to-call test, it is progressing on schedule, and we're pleased with the results thus far.

About that fake post

Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog last night, cl...

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Our security stance

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Heather Adkins, Security Team</span><br /><br />Most readers of this blog are familiar with our <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/">mission</a> to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Maintaining the trust of our users and ensuring a positive experience using our products and services is paramount to our ability to accomplish our mission. As a result, Google takes security very seriously and designs all of its services and applications to protect your privacy and data security.<br /><br />Behind the scenes of these efforts is the Google Security Team. We keep the bad guys out of our systems and have brought you features like <a href="http://www.google.com/support/firefox/bin/answer.py?answer=35282&query=anti-phishing&topic=&type=">the anti-phishing extension</a> in Google Toolbar and <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/putting-stop-to-spyware.html">warnings about Internet malware</a>. As part of our commitment to security, we're putting up some additional help content to let users and security researchers know how to quickly contact us on these issues.<br /><br />We've learned that when security is done right, it's done as a community, and this includes everybody: the people who use Google services (thank you all!), the software developers who make our applications, and the external security enthusiasts who keep us on our toes. These combined efforts go a long way toward making the Internet safer and more secure.<br /><br />Please visit our <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/security.html">new security page</a> and feel free to contact us anytime at security@google.com.

Our security stance

Posted by Heather Adkins, Security Team Most readers of this blog are familiar with our mission to organize the world's information and...

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More developer love with Google Code Search

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Bret Taylor, Senior Product Manager</span><br /><br />Today we launched <a href="http://www.google.com/codesearch">Google Code Search</a>, which gives programmers a single place to search publicly accessible source code. I am really excited about this launch, as it caps off a long sequence of Google product launches for developers in the past year, including <a href="http://www.google.com/apis/maps/">Google Maps API v2</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html">Google Calendar API</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/">Google Web Toolkit</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/">Google AJAX Search API</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/">Google Checkout API</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/hosting/">project hosting on Google Code</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/base/">Google Base API</a>, and <a href="http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/">Google Gadgets for Your Page</a>. Google's developer team is focused on building tools that help developers extend and improve Google's products and improve their own applications, and we are really excited to see all the amazing things that have been created already (<a href="http://www.google.com/ig/add?moduleurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blakeschwendiman.com%2Fgh%2Ftraffic.xml">traffic map for your Google homepage</a>, anyone?).<br /><br />The success of the Google Maps API taught us that an API doesn't need to be complex to be powerful, and that principle has formed the basis of our API design. If you haven't seen how far cut-and-paste can get you, check out the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/samples.html">list of sample applications</a> we've published for the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/">AJAX Search API</a>. Or check out the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html#Example">Google Calendar API examples</a>; to get a feed of your calendar entries, you just need to fetch a single URL from Google's servers.<br /><br />We have also launched a number of general-purpose developer and open-source tools like <a href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/">Google Web Toolkit</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/hosting/">project hosting on Google Code</a>. Our view is what's good for the web is good for Google -- we want users to have the best online experience possible, and we hope these tools will help developers create compelling applications for their users.<br /><br />So if you haven't been to <a href="http://code.google.com/">Google Code</a> lately, check it out. We are continuously adding useful tools to our suite of developer products, and it's a great way to leverage the power of Google's infrastructure in your own projects.

More developer love with Google Code Search

Posted by Bret Taylor, Senior Product Manager Today we launched Google Code Search , which gives programmers a single place to search public...

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Got blog? Will ping.

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Nikhil Chandhok, Product Manager</span><br /><br />Today we're launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our <a href="http://www.google.com/blogsearch">Blog Search</a> index can now ping us directly. We'll continue to monitor other pinging services and will contribute change notifications to the community. Read more at our <a href="http://www.google.com/help/blogsearch/about_pinging.html">FAQ</a>.

Got blog? Will ping.

Posted by Nikhil Chandhok, Product Manager Today we're launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual b...

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