<<It is amazing how much information can be displayed on even the smallest map, yet we sometimes forget that geographic content is not always available visually. If you\'re out and about, you can call GOOG-411 and get local information about businesses. Now we\'ve made it even easier to orient yourse...>>(more...)
<<Social networking features are all the rage these days. (AdSense has even joined the trend with Twitter !) Now your site can be part of the social web by using the features offered through Google Friend Connect to awaken and strengthen your community of visitors. With Friend Connect, your visito...>>(more...)
<<The Free Network project is the community that creates and maintains Freenet , free software that allows you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship by means of a decentralized, anonymous network. Since version 0.7 , the software has had built-in suppor...>>(more...)
<<As the world becomes more and more connected, a cyberattack on any nation\'s critical infrastructure -- its telecommunications system, electrical grid, and banking network -- could pose as serious a threat to its security as an attack carried out by a bomber or conventional forces. With that ...>>(more...)
<<Today we welcome Yoelle Maarek to Yahoo! as Senior Director of Yahoo! Research . She will be leading the Yahoo! Lab in Haifa , Israel along with Ronny Lempel. Their teams help further Yahoo!’s commitment to discovering new technologies that deliver compelling experiences on the Web. \n You m...>>(more...)
<<Despite a late night letting loose at the After Hours party, developers managed to wake up in time for the early morning Day 2 keynote (after having been promised yet another exciting surprise). This morning, we unveiled an early look at Google Wave , a new collaboration and communication product. ...>>(more...)
<<Google Chrome 3.0.182.3 has been released to the Dev channel. \n \n \n The people have spoken. The small font issue affecting most non-English languages has been fixed (issue 12309 ). \n \n \n Mark Larson \n Google Chrome Program Manager >>(more...)
<<With more AdWords advertisers using the new interface each week, we\'d like to take a moment to recap the topics we\'ve covered on New Interface Thursdays these past two months. We started the series with a list of learning resources including the new AdWords interface w...>>(more...)
<<Today we gave developers attending the Google I/O event in San Francisco an early preview of Google Wave, ahead of public launch (and it received a standing ovation). Google Wave was developed by the Sydney-based Google team that created Google Maps, used by millions of people worldwide. Led by Lar...>>(more...)
<<Google I/O is well underway, and we\'re excited that we\'ve been able to highlight some Chrome Experiments at the event. During the keynote on Wednesday, we opened with the following video. Matt Waddell from our Developer team composed the music playing in the background. We\'re posting a subti...>>(more...)
<<As discussed in our Google Code Blog post on HTML5 for Gmail Mobile , Google\'s new version of Gmail for iPhone and Android-powered devices uses the Web Storage Portability Layer (WSPL) to let the same database code run on browsers that provide either Gears or HTML5 structured storage facilities. T...>>(more...)
<<[Cross-posted from the Official Google SketchUp Blog ] If you\'re a 3D enthusiast, then you\'ll probably enjoy the latest addition to the Google Earth Gallery: 3D Buildings . This new category provides a number of self-running tours on various themes. The tours showcase some fascinating 3D buildi...>>(more...)
<<Have you been looking for a way to easily add your favorite Google products to your own site? Now you can with Google Web Elements . There are several different elements, including ones for Calendar, News, and Maps. But the one that may be of most interest to the readers of the Social Web Blog i...>>(more...)
<<If you\'re a 3D enthusiast, then you\'ll probably enjoy the latest addition to the Google Earth Gallery: 3D Buildings . This new category provides a number of self-running tours on various themes. The tours showcase some fascinating 3D buildings (along with bridges and statues and other structures) a...>>(more...)
<<We\'ve noticed some misconceptions about Google Analytics floating around, and we thought we\'d take a shot at correcting the most common ones. Without further ado, here they are, the top ten myths about Google Analytics debunked. MYTH 1: \"You get what you pay for.\" Google Analytics is free, whi...>>(more...)