New Open Source Programs blog

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager, Open Source Team</span><br /><br />Since its inception in 2005, our <a href="http://code.google.com/opensource/" id="kf5j" title="Open Source Programs Office">Open Source Programs Office</a> has been responsible for maintaining license compliance within Google. And over the past three years, our mission has grown encompass even more activities that we hope are useful to our colleagues in the open source community: <a href="http://code.google.com/hosting/" id="tk:f" title="project hosting">project hosting</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label%3aGoogle" id="xw4u" title="releasing Google created code into open source">releasing Google created code</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/opensource/wine.html" id="lbyt" title="funding open source development">funding open source development</a>. We've also continued to get students involved in open source, recently debuting the <a href="http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/" id="o:2i" title="Google Highly Open Participation Contest">Google Highly Open Participation Contest</a> for secondary schoolers as a complement to our university program, <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/" id="nfjf" title="Google Summer of Code">Google Summer of Code</a>.<br /><br />When you have this much good news to share, you just have to create your own blog --so we did. Come check out the new <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/" id="qu4." title="Google Open Source Blog">Google Open Source Blog</a> for regular updates on all of the above and, if you like what you see, <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/atom.xml" id="zr8m" title="subscribe">subscribe</a>.

New Open Source Programs blog

Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager, Open Source Team Since its inception in 2005, our Open Source Programs Office has been responsi...

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Google search on Nokia phones

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Strategic Partner Development Manager, mobile team</span><br /><br />At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, we announced a partnership with Nokia that will bring Google search to millions of Nokia phones. There's <a href="http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/02/mobile-world-congress-2008-google-and.html">more detail</a> on the Google Mobile Blog.

Google search on Nokia phones

Posted by Christian Hernandez Gallardo, Strategic Partner Development Manager, mobile team At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, ...

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Share the love with iGoogle

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Paul Wilcox, iGoogle Support Team</span><br /><br />From time to time, people share stories with us that are too good to keep to ourselves. Here's one that an <a href="http://www.google.com/ig">iGoogle</a><a href="http://www.google.com/ig"> </a>user named Heather recently shared about how Gadget Maker helps her connect with her boyfriend Christopher.<br /><blockquote>"My boyfriend lives in Memphis and I live in Manhattan. We've each created a custom gadget for each other that we update every morning. Generally it's a compliment, or song lyrics, or something related to an inside joke. It takes us 2 minutes to update every morning and helps us to stay connected in a small way every day. We also both have a countdown gadget on our homepage, which counts down the days until our next visit with each other. Thank you for helping 'keep the magic alive' with my boyfriend, even if he's not here in person!"</blockquote>As Valentine's Day approaches, we wish Heather and Christopher the best. May their countdown go extra-fast this week. Heather shared one of her gadgets with us:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFcQw5WE7Swff2u1hXme7USibadRAFrwElQ_5hgqa500H_rk33X2g1wJWx7psIRXemnNK6lX7Kr_LWjAUuQ7C83dUOnoJe2jpUg60IZ9y6RIkT6naJx9awlw1Yz3MeunhI4WubMT2E6RkO/s1600-h/V-gadget.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165891956085863810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFcQw5WE7Swff2u1hXme7USibadRAFrwElQ_5hgqa500H_rk33X2g1wJWx7psIRXemnNK6lX7Kr_LWjAUuQ7C83dUOnoJe2jpUg60IZ9y6RIkT6naJx9awlw1Yz3MeunhI4WubMT2E6RkO/s320/V-gadget.gif" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /></div><br />If you're part of our gadget developer community, perhaps hearing about interesting and unique ways people are using gadgets will help spark some creative ideas. But whether you are HTML-savvy or not, and you want to show your sweetie how much you care, it's very easy to be able to create gadgets. Just visit the <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/about/" id="t6i." title="Google Gadget Center">Google Gadget Center</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/gmchoices?source=gdha" id="ency" title="Gadget Maker">Gadget Maker</a> and give it a try.

Share the love with iGoogle

Posted by Paul Wilcox, iGoogle Support Team From time to time, people share stories with us that are too good to keep to ourselves. Here...

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Survey says: love at first ping

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Jen Grant, Group Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />In the spirit of Hallmark and chocolate roses, we recently took a special interest in Valentine's worthy tidbits about how Gmail has helped spur romance -- as it did for Jordan Burleson, who told us:<br /><blockquote>"Gmail is the new Cupid. Gmail's green chat light meant 'go' for love in my life. My girlfriend and I used ... it for projects and homework at first, but then for flirting, pinning down a location for a first date, emoticon hearts and more."</blockquote>In other cases, email has helped maintain long distance relationships, like that of long-time Gmail user Meagan Coleman:<br /><blockquote>"My husband and I met in 2004. He's from Macedonia and I'm from the USA...Since we met, Gmail has been archiving our long-distance relationship from the beginning! It's very sweet to be able to read those messages that we wrote to each other 3 years ago."</blockquote>Curious about how common emailing love letters really is -- and to learn more about how people use email to communicate with friends, family, and co-workers -- we recently worked with Nielsen Online to conduct a national survey examining how people think about and use webmail.* The survey affirmed that email is an increasingly important part of our most intimate and personal interactions, and that younger people are leading the charge: they are more likely to use email for everything from sending love letters to ending relationships.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Love is in the inbox</span><br /><ul><li> 1 in 3 survey respondents noted having emailed a love letter </li><li> Young people indicated they were less averse to showing their affections over email than older adults: only 14% of 18-24 year olds considered email love letters bad behavior, compared to 43% of respondents over the age of 55<br /></li><li> Men were more likely than women to have asked someone out via email (26% versus 16%) </li><li> While 31% of 18-24 year olds thought asking someone out on a date via email was poor form, 42% of respondents aged 55+ felt the same way</li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;">Breaking up is hard to do; some get help from email</span><br /><ul><li> 1 in 3 male respondents considered "break-up emails" neutral to good email etiquette, whereas only 1 in 7 female respondents agreed </li><li> 8% of men and 6% of women said they had broken up with someone over email </li></ul>Whether you're <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/gmail-hearts-you.html" id="sg::" title="send your loved ones some hearts">sending hearts</a> this year or breaking them, we hope you have a happy Valentine's Day.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">* The online survey, commissioned by Google, was conducted by Nielsen Online from September 24th to October 15th, 2007, with a sample of 1,713 webmail users over the age of 18. "Webmail user" was defined as someone who uses AOL Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo! Mail.</span>

Survey says: love at first ping

Posted by Jen Grant, Group Product Marketing Manager In the spirit of Hallmark and chocolate roses, we recently took a special interest in V...

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Seattle Conference on Scalability 2008

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Andrew Schwerin, Software Engineer</span><br /><br />We just <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-years-scalability-conference.html">announced</a> on our Research Blog that we're holding the second scalability conference in Seattle on Saturday, June 14. We had a hunch we weren't the only ones who liked to sit around and brainstorm solutions for hard problems, and it turns out we were right. We met so many great people at the 2007 gathering that we've decided to do it again.<br /><br />If you work with scalable systems and would like to give a presentation at this year's conference, we'd love to hear from you. Visit our <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-years-scalability-conference.html">Research blog</a> for more details on how to submit a proposal.

Seattle Conference on Scalability 2008

Posted by Andrew Schwerin, Software Engineer We just announced on our Research Blog that we're holding the second scalability confere...

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Show us your supermodel(ing) talents

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Allyson McDuffie, Education Program Development, Google SketchUp</span><br /><br />The Google 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition is now live! Here's another opportunity for you to show off your 3D modeling skills, and this time students around the world can compete. You can team up with other students, or take the project on yourself. Just model your school's campus buildings in <a href="http://sketchup.google.com/" id="p6yv" title="Google SketchUp">Google SketchUp</a>, geo-reference them in <a href="http://earth.google.com/" id="wwpe" title="Google Earth">Google Earth</a> and submit them by uploading to the <a href="http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse">Google 3D Warehouse</a>. You may enter this competition if you're a student at a higher education institution almost anywhere in the world.<br /><br />Entries are due by June 1st, 2008. Check out what <a href="http://mw1.google.com/mw-buglight/3dbl/en/campuscontest.kmz" id="ebh2" title="last year's winners">last year's winners</a> modeled to get inspired, then visit the <a href="http://contest.sketchup.com/" id="fcaf" target="_blank" title="competition website">competition site</a> to register. Good luck and happy modeling.

Show us your supermodel(ing) talents

Posted by Allyson McDuffie, Education Program Development, Google SketchUp The Google 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition is no...

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orkut going more social

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Amar Gandhi, orkut Group Product Manager</span><br /><br />Starting this month, we're enabling developers to make their social applications available to orkut users. We'll start ramping up to more than 50 million people over the next few weeks.<br /><br />To prepare for this growth, we're now accepting social applications. For a while now, developers have been able to write, test, and play with applications on orkut. Later this month, however, we're going to start rolling them out to orkut users. OpenSocial developers can <a href="http://orkut-app-submission.googlemashups.com/" id="hlvz" title="here">submit</a> their completed applications (deadline: Feb. 15).<br /><br />To help developers ready their applications, we're offering engineering support and training. We've scheduled <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=MWVtMjFiOWhibTRxMWpuczE4OHBvdjM3MWtfMjAwODAyMDdUMTkwMDAwWiBkZXZlbG9wZXItY2FsZW5kYXJAZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ&ctz=America/Los_Angeles" id="mwu5" title="Orkut Hackathons">orkut hackathons</a> on Feb. 14-15 from 10 am-6 pm at the Googleplex in Mountain View and via videoconference in New York. For more information or to RSVP, please email <a href="mailto:hackathon.rsvp@gmail.com" id="b7en" title="hackathon.rsvp@gmail.com">hackathon.rsvp@gmail.com</a>. If you can't attend, we hope to see you in the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api/" id="tvy0" title="OpenSocial forums">OpenSocial forums</a> or on chat (irc://irc.freenode.net/opensocial).

orkut going more social

Posted by Amar Gandhi, orkut Group Product Manager Starting this month, we're enabling developers to make their social applications avai...

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