29 hours of code

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Andrew Bowers, Developer Programs</span><br /><br /><a href="http://code.google.com/">Google Code</a>, that is. <a href="http://code.google.com/events/developerday">Google Developer Day</a> has officially kicked off in Sydney, Australia, beginning our 29-hour marathon of developer activities around the world. Approximately 5,000 developers will join us today in ten countries to talk about Google's developer products, ask questions, and share their thoughts with Google engineers. For those who can't make it, we're webcasting the <a href="http://code.google.com/events/developerday/webcast-schedule.html">sessions from London and California</a> live, and posting recorded sessions from all locations on the website.<br /><br />A deep dive into technical sessions, free food, swag -- what more could a developer ask for? Well, a few new products would be a good start, and that's what we're providing.<br /><br />First up is <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gears">Google Gears</a>, an open source browser extension for enabling offline web applications. Now developers will be able to create web applications that don't need a constant Internet connection to work. Users, meanwhile, can interact with Gears-enabled websites anywhere, whether they're on the couch or on an airplane. With this early release, we hope the community will provide feedback and move towards an industry standard for offline web applications. Read more on the new <a href="http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/">Gears blog</a>.<br /><br />An experimental product debuting today is the <a href="http://editor.googlemashups.com/" title="Google Mashup Editor">Google Mashup Editor</a>, an online editor that enables developers to create, test, and deploy mashups and simple web applications from within a browser. Now developers can turn out those weekend projects more quickly. We've also launched a new <a href="http://googlemashupeditor.blogspot.com/" title="Google Mashup Editor blog">blog</a> where you can learn more about the Google Mashup Editor and get the latest news.<br /><br />Finally, we released <a href="http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/mapplets/index.html" title="Google Mapplets">Google Mapplets</a> yesterday at the <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2007/" title="Where 2.0 conference">Where 2.0 conference</a>. Mapplets are mini-applications that any developer can build on top of Google Maps so that users can easily discover the creative genius and usefulness of the mashup development community. You'll find more about Mapplets <a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/05/mashup-of-mashups.html" title="here">here</a>. And we're also quite excited about the interest that has been shown in Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Since its launch last May, there have been over 1 million downloads. You can read more <a href="http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2007/05/gwt-reaches-1-million-downloads.html">on the GWT blog</a>.<br /><br />Between Developer Day, the product launches, and GWT's activity, we hope to keep developers around the world busy for a while. But if you run out of things to build, you can always find more ideas on <a href="http://code.google.com/">Google Code</a>.

29 hours of code

Posted by Andrew Bowers, Developer ProgramsGoogle Code, that is. Google Developer Day has officially kicked off in Sydney, Australia, beginning our 29-hour marathon of developer activities around the …

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A picture's worth a thousand clicks

<font class="byline-author">Posted by John Hanke, Director for Maps, Earth and Local</font><br /><br />I am pleased to tell you that we've agreed to purchase <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/">Panoramio</a>, a website based in Spain that links millions of photos with the exact geographical location where they were taken. (<a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/annc_panoramio.html">Our FAQ</a> has all the details.)<br /><br />Panoramio is a community photos website that enables digital photographers to geo-locate, store and organize their photographs -- and to view those photographs in Google Earth. Other users can search and browse Panoramio photos and suggest edits to the metadata associated with the photos. Panoramio also offers an API that enables web developers to embed Panoramio functionality into their websites.<br /><br />Those of you already using Google Earth have no doubt noticed Panoramio's striking images documenting settings from all over the world, like <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/901470">moonscapes in Croatia</a>, <a title="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1578881" href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1578881">dramatic sunsets in Australia</a>, and innovative <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/91375">architecture in the United Arab Emirates</a>.<br /><br />We've been working with Panoramio for some time -- its photos have been a default layer in Google Earth since the beginning of the year. This layer will remain in place as our teams work together toward further integrating this amazing content, generated by many, into our mapping technologies.

A picture's worth a thousand clicks

Posted by John Hanke, Director for Maps, Earth and LocalI am pleased to tell you that we've agreed to purchase Panoramio, a website based in Spain that links millions of photos with the exact geograph…

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Working in the Windy City

<font class="byline-author">Posted by Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering, Google Chicago</font><br /><br />Despite the fact that we have <a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/address.html">dozens of offices</a> worldwide, whenever I tell people that I work for Google in Chicago, most of them respond "Google has an office in Chicago?" Then I proceed to tell them that yes, we have a sizeable sales office in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=20+West+Kinzie+Street+Chicago,+IL+60610+%28Google+Chicago%29">downtown Chicago</a> (which is now in its sixth year!), and yes, we have a few engineers camped out in one corner (near the cafe and the foosball table, of course).<br /><br />Well, now we're decking out the office with <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/59e0/">binary clocks</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/5a65/">caffeinated soap</a> because Google is <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=57998">hiring engineers</a> here.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG_xGUSsAaRxK0MDhHe7mxFXC7MoaoMDwNvBBvRX6JKa9fmNO18hhNfSV_fdej4ZRlSthGkYGyo2lx_sZ2dFh3lt6aKe_vCmg4y8nDYv64r8RToxtqWkHayND0Se9U3Scc0Qe5PTdKOoPQ/s1600-h/ChicagoGooglersBig.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068352102851397394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG_xGUSsAaRxK0MDhHe7mxFXC7MoaoMDwNvBBvRX6JKa9fmNO18hhNfSV_fdej4ZRlSthGkYGyo2lx_sZ2dFh3lt6aKe_vCmg4y8nDYv64r8RToxtqWkHayND0Se9U3Scc0Qe5PTdKOoPQ/s320/ChicagoGooglersBig.JPG" style="cursor: pointer;"></a><br /><br />Our Chicago engineers are currently working on Open Source and developer tools, and we're ramping up other interesting data-centric projects now. So if you're an innovative engineer who likes to launch early and often, build world-class software, and be a part of a small upstart team, then <a href="http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=57998">we want you</a><a>. </a>

Working in the Windy City

Posted by Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering, Google ChicagoDespite the fact that we have dozens of offices worldwide, whenever I tell people that I work for Google in Chicago, most of them respond "Googl…

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Putting users in charge

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel</span><br /><br />I just wrote <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/560c6a06-0a63-11dc-93ae-000b5df10621.html">an opinion piece</a> for the <span style="font-style: italic;">Financial Times</span> on the future of search in relation to personalization. It's about what we believe to be the value of personalized search, especially when you yourself can control the level of personalization. Hope you enjoy reading it.

Putting users in charge

Posted by Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy CounselI just wrote an opinion piece for the Financial Times on the future of search in relation to personalization. It's about what we believe to be the valu…

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Bigger attachments in Gmail

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Anna-Christina Douglas, Associate Product Marketing Manager</span><br /><br />It can be frustrating to find out that the <a href="http://picasa.google.com/">photos</a> you're trying to share, or the presentations you're trying to send at the last minute, are too large for your email's attachment limit. <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/05/gmail-doubles-maximum-attachment-size.html">Some of you </a>have pointed out that we recently increased the allowable attachment size in <a href="http://mail.google.com">Gmail</a> from 10MB to 20MB. We think the <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8770&topic=1517">higher limit</a> will help make the storage in your Gmail account a little more useful. So the next time you've got to send a PDF that's a bit on the larger side, relax. You've got some more room to spare.

Bigger attachments in Gmail

Posted by Anna-Christina Douglas, Associate Product Marketing ManagerIt can be frustrating to find out that the photos you're trying to share, or the presentations you're trying to send at the last mi…

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Teachers rock our world

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Cristin Frodella, Manager, K-12 Education Programs</span><br /><br />Yesterday we hosted our third <a title="Google Teacher Academy" href="http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html">Google Teacher Academy</a>, this time in sunny Santa Monica. More than 50 innovative K-12 educators from across Southern California joined us to share and learn new methods of incorporating online tools and collaborative techniques into their classroom experiences. Elementary, middle, and high school teachers spent time hearing from experts and one another about subjects like lesson-plan development, group projects, and on-demand publishing using Google and non-Google tools. Carol Anne McGuire, who teaches blind and visually impaired students in Orange Unified School District, delivered the keynote along with some of her students. She brought to life "<a href="http://www.rockourworld.org/">Rock Our World</a>," an international project in which kids across continents work together online to make movies, tell stories, and compose music.<br /><br />After previous Google Teacher Academies in our Mountain View and New York City offices, we consider ourselves fortunate to have a cadre of 150+ Google Certified Teachers nationwide. These "graduates" continue to inspire their students: for instance, Jerome Burg created <a href="http://www.googlelittrips.org/" target="_blank">GoogleLitTrips</a>, a way to journey along some of literature's most classic roadtrips via Google Earth, and Cheryl Davis engages her students in the presidential election and local history through podcasts such as "<a href="http://gctgone.googlepages.com/home2" target="_blank">Candidate Watch</a>" and "<a title="Postcards from the Past" href="http://gctgone.googlepages.com/home2222">Postcards from the Past</a>."<br /><br />We started this <a title="education program" href="http://www.google.com/educators">education program</a> last October to support teachers, empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. To say we're inspired by what we've seen is an understatement.

Teachers rock our world

Posted by Cristin Frodella, Manager, K-12 Education ProgramsYesterday we hosted our third Google Teacher Academy, this time in sunny Santa Monica. More than 50 innovative K-12 educators from across So…

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Calendar for mobile devices

<span class="byline-author">Posted by Devesh Parekh, Software Engineer, Google Calendar team</span><br /><br />We realize that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cell phones with them everywhere. Since one of our main goals on the Calendar team is to make planning your events and maintaining your schedule as easy as possible, starting today, you can access your Google Calendar account from your cell phone!<br /><br />Just visit <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/m">calendar.google.com</a> from your phone, and you'll see your agenda of upcoming events, complete with details like date, time, location, description, and guest list.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnmKCILa58adb_UbkOB-BiJK0Xc-u2LsYaeXU9bzhvSGPHC3nkNWv8TB-X4sgEX8KojIcd9fofAVRBkixmQtwVM26XYjJbNZaSH6YLEs8wbda3W1igTpom1WKpEXWpZaq0MYqy9vRIvNfY/s1600-h/Mobile+Cal+image.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067567820348311282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnmKCILa58adb_UbkOB-BiJK0Xc-u2LsYaeXU9bzhvSGPHC3nkNWv8TB-X4sgEX8KojIcd9fofAVRBkixmQtwVM26XYjJbNZaSH6YLEs8wbda3W1igTpom1WKpEXWpZaq0MYqy9vRIvNfY/s320/Mobile+Cal+image.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" /></a>

Calendar for mobile devices

Posted by Devesh Parekh, Software Engineer, Google Calendar teamWe realize that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cell phones with them everywhere.…

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