Archive for the ‘Products’ Category

May
16

Google Introduces Friend Connect

Early this week, Google introduced a new service named Google Friend Connect. "Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic ...

May
15

Google Analytics Outage

After logging into Google Analytics today, I saw this notice. This is not the first outage we have seen for Google ...

Apr
29

Presentations and Spreadsheets Go Offline

Last week, the Google Docs team announced that Google Docs Presentations and Google Docs Spreadsheets will be available offline. Great feature? ...

Apr
21

Google - Strong Horizontal, Weak Vertical

Last week, Sramana made a good point about how Google has not been reaching the vertical markets where they should ...

Apr
20

Listen to Mp3s Within Gmail

One of my friends send me an mp3 to listen to and I noticed there was a "play" button next ...

Apr
14

AdWords Team Launches AdWords Editor Forum

The Google AdWords team has launched its own forum for the AdWords Editor tool. This is going to be a great ...

Apr
08

Google Campfire One

Google's Campfire One developer event last night was used to launch the new Google App Engine. Here is a video of ...

Apr
07

Google to Compete with Amazon S3 Web Service

Just a few moments ago, at 12:00am PST, Google launched its Google App Engine platform which will be a direct ...

Mar
31

Google Data Flirts with iPhone

Reported on Friday by Greg Robbins of the Google Mac Team, the Google Data APIs are coming to the iPhone. ...

Mar
26

New Google Docs Menus

Google has released a minor visual update for its product, Google Docs. The new menu is designed to look ...

Mar
15

Gmail Chats with AIM

Recently, the Gmail team has released a new feature that will allow you to chat with AIM buddies, removing the ...

Mar
03

Gmail: Muting or Ignoring Conversations

Gmail quietly released a new feature. "Muting or ignoring coversations." Issue: You have an on-going conversation with half a dozen ...

Feb
28

Google Sites Goes Live

Google acquired JotSpot well over a year ago, back in October 2006. Let's recap real quickly why JotSpot decided ...

Feb
27

User-Generated Content in Google Maps

I'm about a year off with this one, but no better time than the now. Google is offering user-generated content within ...

Feb
26

Widget Chat by Google Talk

Communication has been an important tool for centuries. Communication today has evolved into something that is immediate; now. ...

Feb
25

Gmail - Go Go Gadget Invisibility!

Gmail quietly added a feature to Gmail chat over the uneventful weekend. In case you want to see who's ...

Feb
22

GrandCentral Announces First Google Product Migration

Blogger is announcing the first integration of recently acquired GrandCentral. With this integration, Blogger will let bloggers place a "call me" ...

Feb
20

Javascript Hackers Invited to Hackathon at Google

Yesterday, Google announced the 2008 Hackathon to be held at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA. As far as I can ...

Feb
18

World’s Ugliest Cell Phone by Alienware Using Google’s Android

There is not any solid source on this, but I found it pretty funny. Reported on dialaphone.co.uk, they have ...

Feb
18

How to Migrate Old Email to Google Apps

Late last week, the Google Data API team released an open source email migration tool which will allow users to ...

Feb
13

Google Images thinks Microsoft is Yahoo! Already

I was doing some image research for an article recently and had to take a second look at the results. ...

Feb
11

No to gPhone, Yes to Google Mobile Operating System (Android)

Steve Horowitz, Director of Engineering for Google, confirms there is no gPhone. But, he then confirms that there is ...

Jan
31

Google Hosts Online Advertising Meetup

Earlier this week on Monday, I attended an advertising meetup that was being hosted at Google NYC. A lot ...

Jan
15

Gmail’s Love for the iPhone

Gmail has launched a couple new features. They decided to move to a more fluid design and feel to gmail. ...

Sep
11

Google Video Being Unstable Again

Recently I've noticed that I've been getting the "Google Video Error" screen a lot more often. I was going to write ...

Sep
11

Flickr Support in Blogger Beta

Blogger is in beta of having Flickr support now. It appears that Google is integrating their Google Accounts into ...

Sep
07

New Google Video Gadget

There is a new Google Video gadget which will allow you to add video to your Google homepage. The ...

Sep
07

Analytics Tip Tracking

Alex points out a nice method to use for Google Analytics and tracking your 404 pages. Besides telling you from which ...

Sep
05

Desktop Gadget Winners Announced

diGGGadget by Marius and Yannick Stucki – Stay on top of the latest stories from digg.com. Click on a few ...

Sep
02

Google Apps For Your Domain

I was poking around and thought I'd give this a shot. After filling out some information, I went ahead ...

Aug
25

Blogger Gets a Party Too!

A few days late, I missed this one. Blogger had a birthday on August 23rd. So this is ...

Aug
24

Happy Happy Birthday

A year ago today it was Google Talk's birthday. It's come around again that it's the birthday time.

Aug
22

Rock Out With Your Code Out

Google Code Jam 2006 is here! Dr. Oge View the agenda here.

Aug
22

Talk to GMail About It

GMail now has the voicemail functionality which will allow you to leave voicemails for other GMail members. How do ...

Aug
21

Google University is Back In Session

Google Checkout has some cool stuff lined up for this fall semester for everyone. Head over to Google Checkout ...

Aug
21

Now Up, Froogle, With a Disappearing Act

Rob points out at DigitalPoint that the Froogle link from the Google homepage has disappeared. I'm quite surprised that ...

Aug
19

GMail to Google — Time to be Notified

Google has replaced their Mac version of GMail notifier with a product called Google Notifier which now integrates both Google ...

Aug
18

Checkout Upgrades

Google Checkout has become a hot topic of discussion lately because Google entered the competitive field of money processing online. ...

Aug
17

New Gadgets by Google Desktop

Calling all developers and Star Trek fans: Google will demo Desktop, among other products, at the 40th annual Star Trek ...

Aug
16

Google Analytics Open to the Public Now

The Google Analytics blog writes that.... I'm happy to tell you that we've just removed the wait to receive a Google ...

Aug
15

Google Enters The Coupon Biz

Google Inc. is enabling users to find and print coupons from merchants listed in the online search leader's index of ...

Aug
15

The New “Cool” Is Back — Blogger Beta

There's a new beta version of Blogger that Google is releasing that has a ton of new features that users ...

Aug
11

Importance of Web Analytics

According to Brett, "The most important thing about web analytics is something our product doesn't do. And none of the ...

Aug
10

Checkout the Free T-Shirts!

People always ask, what makes Google tick? There are two key elements: our ongoing commitment to building great technology that ...

Aug
09

University of California Joins The Google Book Project

The University of Michigan is excited that the University of California is joining with us, the New York Public Library, ...

Aug
09

Multiple Google Accounts

A few weeks ago I logged into my AdSense account and it asked me to change my login, so I ...

Aug
08

Print Your Map Today!

Google Maps is an awesome resource. I can't emphasize enough how much I love Google Maps. There was ...

Aug
07

Start Where? Start Here.

Google Video now has the functionality to provide users the ability to embed a starting point with a video. FlashVars="initialTime=number" Using that ...

Aug
05

Talk About Blogging — seriously

Google has been working with Sony Ericsson and their new mobile phone line that is coming out. The new ...

Aug
05

Google Maps Can Save Now

The Official Google Blog has recently reported that we are now able to set a "Default" location. After setting your default ...

Aug
01

Down Boy Down! Well, GMail that is…

Looks like GMail has been having some problems lately. On top of not being accessible for part of today, ...

Jul
27

Google Analytics Allows Up to 10 Profiles Now

Google Analytics, a product webmasters around the world have come to love and enjoy, would only allow up to 5 ...

Jul
26

Google Maps: The Idea Box

DISCLAIMER: This article is purely hopes and speculation, none of this has actually happened. Google Maps is a great product. ...

Jul
26

GMail Goes Dotless

GMail goes dotless, well, in email addresses that is. From: Jonathan Dingman Mailed-By: gmail.com To: my......email@gmail.com (Yes, this is you. Learn more) You ...

Jul
25

Google Mobile: Your Local Traffic Report

Combining directions, maps, and satellite imagery, Google Maps is a free download that lets you find local hangouts and businesses ...

Jul
21

GMail — Your Local Virus Smasher

Submitted by Caleb: I was playing around with the eicar anti virus test string and I attempted to send an email ...

Jul
20

Maps: Zoom Zoom Zoom

Google Maps recently added some new zooming features which will hopefully make it easier to navigate around within the maps. ...

Jul
19

GMail: Apply New Filter to All Results

As I was browsing around on GMail today, I noticed something that looked a little new to me. Almost ...

Jul
19

India is Widely Blocking Blogger

Source: panos.org.uk Reports from various sites are showing that India is blocking the Blogger website, just as China did in the ...

Jul
16

Google Maps Gets in the Tab-loids

The Maps department have been hard at work adding some new tabs to Google Maps. The new tabs that ...

Jul
10

New GMail Feature: Time to Delete That Spam!

GMail has has released a couple new features, but we're highlighting the new 'Delete All Spam' feature. I have ...

Jul
06

eBay Bans Google Checkout

As expected, eBay is not playing nice with the latest release of Google Checkout because it's in direct competition with ...

Jun
30

New Feature Roll-out for Google Video

Some of the new key features for Google video: Rating System -- allowing suers to 'Rate' a specific video. This ...

Jun
29

Time to Check Out the New Checkout

Google Checkout was released today. This new service by Google is the start of which will be a larger ...