Looking for Google Talk stories

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Lewis Lin, Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />Wanted: Stories about how you use Google Talk. <a href="http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/tell-us-how-you-talk.html">Details here</a>.

Looking for Google Talk stories

Posted by Lewis Lin, Product Marketing Manager Wanted: Stories about how you use Google Talk. Details here .

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Corporate solar is coming

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Robyn Beavers, Corporate Environmental Programs Manager</span><br /><br />Epic games of beach volleyball, urban indoor workspaces infused with natural light, enthusiasm for the outdoors – at Google, we've always taken advantage of the sun. And now we're ready to use the sun yet another way: to create clean electricity.<br /><br />Soon we plan to begin installation of 1.6 megawatts of solar photovoltaic panels at our Mountain View campus. This project will be the largest solar installation on any corporate campus in the U.S., and we think it's one of the largest on any corporate site in the world. The panels will cover the roofs of the four main buildings of the Googleplex, and also those of two additional buildings across the street.<font> There will also be a portion of this installation on new solar panel support structures in a few parking lots. The amount of electricity that will be generated is equivalent to powering about 1,000 average California homes. We’ll use that electricity to power several of our Mountain View office facilities, offsetting approximately 30% of our peak electricity consumption at those buildings.<br /><br />To tackle this ambitious project, we're partnering with <a href="http://www.eispv.com/">EI Solutions</a>. The installation of clean and renewable power represents a first step in reducing our environmental impact as a company. We believe that improving our environmental practices is not only our responsibility as a corporate citizen, but good business planning -- a <a href="ftp://www.nerc.com/pub/sys/all_updl/docs/pressrel/LTRARelease-10-2006.pdf">new report</a> from the North American Electric Reliability Council suggests that demand continues to outstrip power supply by a considerable margin. And of course by saving electricity (not to mention producing clean renewable energy), we also <a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/UniqueKeyLookup/SHSU5BNMF3/$File/businesscansave.pdf"> save money</a>. In fact, we believe this project demonstrates that a large investment in renewable energy can be profitable. <br /><br />If the business community continues to increase investments and focus on energy efficient and renewable power generation technologies, we have a good feeling that our future will be bright. If you're interested, visit the <a href="http://www.solarelectricpower.org/">Solar Electric Power Association</a>.

Corporate solar is coming

Posted by Robyn Beavers, Corporate Environmental Programs Manager Epic games of beach volleyball, urban indoor workspaces infused with natur...

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Maps in the Palm in your hand

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Jerry Morrison, Tech Lead</span><br /><br />Since we first launched <a href="http://www.google.com/gmm">Google Maps for mobile devices</a>, we've adapted it to more phones and languages and added features like traffic info. And as of today, the new Palm Treo version answers our top request from users. It's been months in the making, but I think you'll find it worth the wait. We think this is the fastest, slickest version yet, with draggable maps and translucent pop-up balloons that don't hide the map.<br /><br />If you don't read English, you'll have to wait some more.<br /><br />There are two ways for Treo users to download Google Maps: visit <span style="font-weight:bold;">google.com/gmm</span> on your Treo's web browser, or you if you prefer, download and HotSync® <a href="http://www.google.com/gmm/treo">here</a>.<br /><br />And by the way, the "Do not operate while driving" caution is deadly serious. Please be mindful of pedestrians, bikes, cars, and trees -- not messages and keyboards.

Maps in the Palm in your hand

Posted by Jerry Morrison, Tech Lead Since we first launched Google Maps for mobile devices , we've adapted it to more phones and languag...

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Music for your eyes

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Jason Liebman, Google Video team</span> <br /><br />As you might guess, we think free is always better, so we've just announced major partnerships with two of the world's largest music companies -- Sony BMG and Warner Music Group -- to bring thousands of music videos to <a href="http://video.google.com">Google Video</a> via free, ad-supported on-demand streams. And as per our recent announcement with MTV, in the coming months our AdSense partners can put all these great videos on their sites as well. <br /><br />So now if you're at work, get charged up for that important meeting with a <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8416816164418008035&q=owner%3Awarner_music">Red Hot Chili Peppers</a> video. Or if you're at home getting ready for a night on the town, you can bring sexy back with <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4983064168771953999">Justin Timberlake</a> –- or pretty much anyone else who floats your music-video boat.

Music for your eyes

Posted by Jason Liebman, Google Video team As you might guess, we think free is always better, so we've just announced major partnershi...

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Teacher's helper

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Cristin Frodella, Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />Create picture collages of famous Americans with <a href="http://picasa.google.com">Picasa</a>. Find out what Virginia newspapers had to say about the Civil War in 1862 with <a href="http://news.google.com/archivesearch">Google News Archive Search</a>. Check out the pyramids in Egypt with <a href="http://earth.google.com">Google Earth</a>, and then build your own with <a href="http://www.sketchup.com/">SketchUp</a>.<br /><br />We’ve been hearing about some pretty cool assignments from classrooms across the U.S. where teachers at all grade levels are using Google products to bring history lessons to life, illuminate new sources of information, and encourage sharing and collaboration. What we’ve also heard loud and clear is that teachers want more information about using Google products, and more connections to other educators who are using the web creatively. This is why we’ve launched a set of resources for K-12 educators today at the new <a href="http://www.google.com/educators">Google for Educators</a> site. Here you'll find teachers’ guides for 12 Google products, including basic information about each, examples of how educators are using them, plus lesson ideas. We’re also offering some additional multimedia content, including lesson plans and videos from Discovery Education that use <a href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth_discovery.html">Google Earth</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_sketchup_discovery.html">SketchUp</a>, and a series of podcasts at <a href="http://www.infinitethinking.org/">Infinite Thinking Machine </a> on innovative ways to use the web in the classroom.<br /><br />So please, teachers, students, and parents -- check it out and <a href="mailto:educators-feedback@google.com">let us know what you think</a>. And remember, we've made it impossible to forget your homework when it’s saved safely on <a href="http://docs.google.com">Google Docs & Spreadsheets</a>.

Teacher's helper

Posted by Cristin Frodella, Product Marketing Manager Create picture collages of famous Americans with Picasa . Find out what Virginia newsp...

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Better together: Docs & Spreadsheets

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Jen Mazzon, Senior Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />Did you ever notice that some things are just better together? For example, vanilla ice cream: on its own, it's good, but throw some strawberries or chocolate jimmies on it and all of a sudden you've got something truly tasty. I've noticed this combo superiority effect quite a lot lately because, well, I'm pregnant with twins (there's a bit more on our <a href="http://google-d-s.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-beginnings.html">official D&S blog</a>.)<br /><br />This idea of superior combos is also how I think of the new Google beta service that we've just launched. We took Writely, the Web word processor, and integrated it with Google Spreadsheets. The result is <a href="http://docs.google.com/">Google Docs & Spreadsheets</a> -- one place where you can create, store, share and publish your documents and spreadsheets online. (Bookmark this: <span style="font-weight: bold;">docs.google.com</span>.) Keeping your documents and spreadsheets online is a treat because you can access them from anywhere via a Web browser. You can also get feedback and contributions from others you invite without having to email around copies of files, because the current version is always online.<br /><br />Get a taste of the Google Docs & Spreadsheets combo with our <a href="http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html">mini tour</a>. Really, though, the best way to get a flavor is to <a href="http://docs.google.com/">sample it</a> for yourself. Anyone can use it -- after you log in just click on the links for<span style="font-style: italic;"> New Document</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">New Spreadsheet</span>, or <span style="font-style: italic;">Upload</span>(lets you upload your desktop files) to get going. Help yourself and let us know (via this <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/GoogleDocsSpreadsheets">new D&S Google Group</a>) what you think.

Better together: Docs & Spreadsheets

Posted by Jen Mazzon, Senior Product Marketing Manager Did you ever notice that some things are just better together? For example, vanilla i...

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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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