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Blogger: Now in more languages

Posted by Eric Case, Product Manager Today <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a> is available in eight new languages! Check it out in <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=nl">Nederlands</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=da">Dansk</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=fi">suomi</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=no">Norsk</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=sv">Svenska</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=ru">Русский</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=tr">Türkçe</a> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/start?hl=th">ภาษาไทย</a>, which brings us to <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/language.g">19 total</a>. Blogging is clearly a <a href="http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/">global phenomenon</a>, and we're incredibly excited to help bring it to ever more people around the world. With Blogger, you can: <ul><li>easily set up a weblog with just a few clicks </li><li>share <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41378">writing</a> and <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41641">photos</a> for free </li><li>customize your blog's <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=43708">layout</a> with different <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=43709">fonts and colors</a></li><li>only show your blog to <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42673">friends and family</a></li></ul>We have more languages in the works too -- stay tuned!

Blogger: Now in more languages

Posted by Eric Case, Product Manager Today Blogger is available in eight new languages! Check it out in Nederlands , Dansk , suomi , Norsk ...

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Hikes on the fly

Posted by Larry Fox, Business Development, Trimble Outdoors Many of you reading this may already know that <a title="Trimble Outdoors" href="http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com/">Trimble Outdoors</a> has partnered with Google to provide Google Earth viewers with GPS-based interactive hiking information. We’re very excited about being able to share all the great GPS content we’ve developed over the years and through partnerships with magazines including Backpacker, Bicycling and Mountain Bike. It’s an outstanding resource for outdoors enthusiasts, or really, anyone who wants to do a little research before setting out on a hike. You can access lots of multimedia info on fitness and outdoor adventures, including routes, points of interest, pictures, video segments and even audio clips. Essentially, anytime, anywhere you can launch <a title="Google Earth" href="http://earth.google.com/">Google Earth</a>, you can view hundreds of hikes that have already been logged and completed, and view personalized web content. Then, through the convergence of Trimble Outdoors’ technology and Google Earth, you can click one button, and the exact trail route is exported to your GPS-enabled phone. This partnership between Google Earth and Trimble Outdoors is designed to support the community of outdoor enthusiasts with exciting new ways to explore the earth and share adventure stories online. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipEE1qQu7ClYChASazek-oRw7fgNqiZmbqEeHb8hErYv9t4KOyNv94uaov9EuRsYqZw-DkNAq3ysh3Lv-IaqjOm79Cic0ghp3BpZ9qK4l0b95aIJZvX2vq2XH4EpxnpqB71K0k45CPYQp5/s1600-h/trimble-outdoors-layer-image1.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052664535404160194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipEE1qQu7ClYChASazek-oRw7fgNqiZmbqEeHb8hErYv9t4KOyNv94uaov9EuRsYqZw-DkNAq3ysh3Lv-IaqjOm79Cic0ghp3BpZ9qK4l0b95aIJZvX2vq2XH4EpxnpqB71K0k45CPYQp5/s320/trimble-outdoors-layer-image1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCE-6YTBLU1ktAed7bruDT78ltXqPYFPh1H1KKWcH03AoimRgJMqoSlVA-40zCXCNz5-aIF08gHjAQ5lshqiX2hRznsLMroRUZ0ddwnu3fqVyiPW3hYcUljDhyphenhyphent8igVxtY4sWPHsdRcvsw/s1600-h/trimble-outdoors-layer-image2.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052663234029069490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCE-6YTBLU1ktAed7bruDT78ltXqPYFPh1H1KKWcH03AoimRgJMqoSlVA-40zCXCNz5-aIF08gHjAQ5lshqiX2hRznsLMroRUZ0ddwnu3fqVyiPW3hYcUljDhyphenhyphent8igVxtY4sWPHsdRcvsw/s320/trimble-outdoors-layer-image2.JPG" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a>

Hikes on the fly

Posted by Larry Fox, Business Development, Trimble Outdoors Many of you reading this may already know that Trimble Outdoors has partnered w...

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Now you can blog in Hindi

Posted by Anupama Dutta and Nitin Arora, Software Engineers Ever wondered how cool it would be if you could type "Haal kaisa hai janaab ka" in your usual chatting style and the words actually got converted automagically to "हाल कैसा है जनाब का"? We have now made that possible with the <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=58226">new Blogger transliteration feature</a>. Now you can easily publish your thoughts, experiences and even your favourite Bollywood songs in Hindi. Enabling the transliteration option allows you to type out Hindi words using phonetically equivalent English script, and see the words getting transformed into the corresponding Devanagari script. The plus is that you now don't need to learn complicated mappings from English alphabet combinations to Hindi letters. That means you really don't need to worry about WeiRD UpPerCasEing to get the right Hindi spellings. Just type as you would naturally do, in your own style, and let Google read your mind :) Well, not really, but close. We realised that everybody has their own unique way of spelling Hindi words in English -- so we have a personalization mechanism in place that enables us to remember your writing style. Correct once, and get the word right every time after that! We use machine learning technology in the background to give you the most satisfactory transliteration. This way, you can focus on the writing and comfortably express yourself in a language close to your heart. Go creative, <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/hindi">try it out</a>, and <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-publishing/browse_frm/thread/d7581332977ba69f/#">discuss it here</a>. We're sure you will enjoy it as much as we enjoyed creating it!

Now you can blog in Hindi

Posted by Anupama Dutta and Nitin Arora, Software Engineers Ever wondered how cool it would be if you could type "Haal kaisa hai janaab...

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May 31 is Google Developer Day

Posted by Andrew Bowers, Google Developer Programs As some of you may remember, last June at the Googleplex we held a <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7524776252092369816">Geo Developer Day</a> alongside the Where 2.0 conference. We invited a bunch of developers from Where 2.0 to come to campus and meet the Google Maps and Earth teams. Everyone at Google had <a href="http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/06/summary-of-google-geo-developer-day.html">a great time</a> interacting with the more than 200 developers who came, and we knew we wanted to do something like it again. When we started thinking about plans for this year, two things came to mind. First, we’ve released a number of new developer products over the past 12 months which we’re excited to talk more about, including the Google Web Toolkit, the Google data APIs, the AJAX Search API, and Google Gadgets. Second, as much as we love the Googleplex, we realize that not everyone can travel to Mountain View to hang out with us. Put those two considerations together and what you have is this year’s Google Developer Day. Many developer products, 10 countries, one day: May 31st. The day itself will vary in format from location to location, but the goal is the same: bring Google’s developer community closer together, share our knowledge, and of course have fun in the process. We’ll be posting more details on the sessions as we finalize them, but in the meantime, here are just a few of the Googlers we have lined up across the globe: <ul><li> Guido Van Rossum, Google software engineer and creator of the Python programming language (Beijing); </li><li>Chris DiBona, Google open source programs manager (London); </li><li>Mark Stahl, Google data APIs tech lead (Madrid); </li><li>Bruce Johnson and Joel Webber, co-creators of the Google Web Toolkit™ (Mountain View); </li><li>Bret Taylor, group product manager for Google developer products (Mountain View); </li><li>Lars Rasmussen, Google Maps™ senior engineer (Sydney); and </li><li>Greg Stein, Google engineering manager and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation (Tokyo). </li></ul> We’re excited to be inviting everyone. To find out more, and to let us know if you can make it, please visit the <a href="http://www.google.com/events/developerday/">Google Developer Day site</a>.

May 31 is Google Developer Day

Posted by Andrew Bowers, Google Developer Programs As some of you may remember, last June at the Googleplex we held a Geo Developer Day alo...

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Peter Fleischer joins IAPP board

Posted by Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel In addition to his day job as Global Privacy Counsel, our own Peter Fleischer has just been <a href="https://www.privacyassociation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1106&Itemid=116">elected to the board of the IAPP</a> -- the world’s largest association of privacy professionals, with more than 3,000 members across 23 countries. We're pleased for this recognition, as Peter's work in privacy over the last decade mirrors a real evolution in the profession. Today, privacy is universally viewed as a key corporate goal, and privacy officers are responsible for creating a culture of respect for privacy inside their companies. We're excited that Peter will have the chance to continue his contributions to the discussion of privacy issues through his role with <a href="http://www.privacyassociation.org/">the IAPP</a>. The organization provides a forum for privacy professionals to share best practices, track trends, advance privacy management issues, and provide education and guidance on opportunities in the field of privacy. Our congratulations to Peter and others joining the board for their work in this important area.

Peter Fleischer joins IAPP board

Posted by Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel In addition to his day job as Global Privacy Counsel, our own Peter Fleischer has just been el...

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Tell us about your university email

Posted by Jeff Keltner, Google Enterprise Specialist As I remember my college days, I spent a lot of time (though not all) worried about required courses and fixed deadlines – things that while necessary, still made me wish I'd had more of a choice about the university policies that affected me. Even the little things – like my email. Now we're taking the first step to <a href="http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070409005406&newsLang=en">reach out</a> to university students nationwide to find out what they like or don't like about their email. We're conducting a survey to see whether <a href="http://www.google.com/a/edu/">Google Apps Education Edition</a> might offer students more of a choice about their online communication tools. Since we first launched Google Apps at universities, students took notice. We've even heard that at some schools like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZOi8hAOMnQ">Northwestern</a>, students lobbied their <a href="http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/02/google.html">administrators</a> for Google Apps, which includes 2GB email storage, instant messaging, and centralized calendaring as part of their school's official communications package. So if you're a student who's not using Google Apps, take our <a href="http://www.google.com/studentsurvey">survey</a> and tell us what you like or not about your current university email system. And if your school has recently switched to Google Apps, write us and let us know what we can do better. Your feedback will help us ensure that we'll continue to keep up with you, the next generation of world-changers.

Tell us about your university email

Posted by Jeff Keltner, Google Enterprise Specialist As I remember my college days, I spent a lot of time (though not all) worried about req...

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New team members for Google.org

Posted by Larry Brilliant, Executive Director,Google.org It has been almost exactly one year since I began my work at <a href="http://google.org/">Google.org</a>. We've been in a bit of a quiet period during that time, meeting with foundation leaders, activists, NGOs, and scientists -- and Googlers -- from all over the world. My major task has been to build a world-class team, comprised of experienced Google managers paired with content experts from the fields of climate change, global public health and economic development to spearhead strategic initiatives for our philanthropic efforts. There were four of us one year ago; today we are 25 people, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce a few of the newer members of our team. Dan Reicher, former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, joins Aimee Christensen, Kirsten Olsen and Googler Ki Mun to work on our clean energy and climate change initiatives, policy and advocacy. Mark Smolinski and Corrie Conrad join Googlers Katie Wurtz, Matt Waddell and Emily Delmont on our global public health team. Mark is an MD MPH and CDC-trained epidemiologist who worked at the Institute of Medicine and was formerly a Vice President at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, where he worked on a regional disease surveillance system. Corrie joins as a researcher focusing on preventable diseases afflicting the poor, coming from the Clinton Foundation, where she was working on its HIV/AIDS program in Rwanda. Blaise Judja-Sato, Sonal Shah and Juliette Gimon join Googlers Rachel Payne, Meryl Stone, and Kim Thompson to guide our global economic development efforts. Born in Cameroon, Blaise was most recently President of the Nelson Mandela Foundation USA and the founder of VillageReach, a nonprofit that brings sustainable health care and essential services to more than 3.5 million people in Mozambique. Sonal is the co-founder of Indicorps, a non-profit offering one-year fellowships for people of Indian origin to work on development projects in India, and was previously a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co. developing the firm's corporate citizenship and environmental strategies. Juliette is the chair of the Global Fund for Children and a trustee of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She also serves on the board of the Synergos Institute and the advisory committees of Youth Philanthropy Worldwide and the Global Philanthropy Forum. And I'm particularly pleased that Sheryl Sandberg, VP of Online Sales and Operations and Google.org board member, has agreed to spend a significant amount of her time leading this effort. Working across our content domains are Linda Segre, Gregory Miller, Jacquelline Fuller, Gillian Peoples, and Chris Busselle along with Googlers Brad Presner, Alan Louie and Tara Canobbio. Linda has responsibility for managing Google.org's project initiatives and operations within Google and is the person to talk to for any operational question about what we call "dotorg". Greg has responsibility for Google.org's investing and grant practices, legal affairs and strategic partnerships as well as the affairs of the Google Foundation. Before moving to California, Jacquelline served as Deputy Director of the Global Health program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she managed Public Affairs and served as speechwriter for U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan. Jacquelline, who also reports to Elliot Schrage, our VP of Global Communications and Public Affairs, in order to keep our PR efforts coordinated, will lead Google.org's advocacy and communications agenda, including efforts to influence public policy and media. Also with us on sabbatical is Dr. Larry Simon. He comes to us on leave from Brandeis University's Heller School, where he is Professor and Director of the Sustainable International Development Graduate Programs and Associate Dean for Academic Programs. A specialist on poverty and vulnerability, Larry led Oxfam America's work in Central America and the Caribbean. We are still looking for a few "good people," and welcome you to visit <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?dep_id=10093&loc_id=1116">our updated list of open positions</a>. So where are we going now? Google.org is looking to better understand the inextricable linkages among climate change, global public health and economic development, and the impact of global warming on the poor. We want to fund projects that are making a difference and that are effective on a large scale. We live in very complicated times. Global health, poverty, and climate are inextricably interrelated, and it is the poor of the world who bear the heaviest burden. Google.org is focused on learning initiatives that simultaneously fund good organizations working in these areas and provide insights into "big ideas" that could be scalable from these pilot projects. During this year we anticipate making more significant grants and investments in support of our major initiatives. We hope to innovate both in what we do, and how we do it. We will report back to you via our site and on this blog regarding on these grants, investments and initiatives. Please look for additional updates as our work progresses. Update: Awaiting approval from one of our consultants on his participation.

New team members for Google.org

Posted by Larry Brilliant, Executive Director,Google.org It has been almost exactly one year since I began my work at Google.org . We'...

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