googleOSPO's Channel@YouTube

Google Open Source YouTube Channel, you can find videos related Google Code Open Source project.

“I Want my Google TV!” contest

Google TV brings television, apps, and the entire World Wide Web directly to your living room...so you can watch even more YouTube, only now on the biggest screen in your home. And because it’s the season of giving, the crew here at YouTube and Google are excited to announce a contest to give away 100 free 46” Sony Internet TVs powered by Google TV.

To enter to win, create and upload a video telling us and all your friends on YouTube why you’re pumped up about Google TV. Winning submissions will be selected based on originality, creativity, entertainment factor, technical execution, and how well you explain why you are excited about Google TV and watching YouTube on Google TV. View the contest rules and full list of judging criteria here.

Mobile web Gmail in 44 languages

The latest version of HTML5 mobile webapp of Gmail (gmail.com in your iPhones running iOS 2.2.1 and above, or all versions of Android) now support 44 new languages. Now expanding to Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and American), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (for both Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (for both Spain and South America), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Today Google Search logo in Hong Kong: Commemorate the 70th anniversary of the birth of Bruce Lee

Mobile Editing in Google Docs

Try Google Docs for mobile to edit your documents from wherever you are. http://mobile.google.com/docs

Google Goggles Experiment Video

Google Goggles experiment featuring Buick, Delta Airlines, Diageo, Disney & T-Mobile.

free Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi on every domestic flight in this holiday season

This holiday season, Google Chrome has teamed up with AirTran Airways, Delta, and Virgin America to offer free Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi on every domestic flight from November 20, 2010 through January 2, 2011. These participating airlines have outfitted their entire domestic fleet with Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi, and we expect more connected passengers this holiday season than ever before!

Just bring a Wi-Fi enabled laptop or mobile device and stay connected to family and friends while you travel.

http://www.freeholidaywifi.com/

Introducing Google Instant for mobile, beta

Google Instant makes search faster by displaying not just predictions but actual search results as you type. Updated,

Google are making a beta version available to most iPhone and Android devices in the U.S. To try it out, go to google.com in your phone’s browser and tap the Google Instant “Turn on” link beneath the search box (if you don’t see the “Turn on” link, try waiting a moment and then refresh the page).

It’s currently available for Android 2.2 (“Froyo”) devices and iPhones and iPods running iOS 4 in the U.S. in English.

Introducing Google Instant for mobile, beta

Google Instant for mobile is now available for Android (2.2+) devices and iPhone (iOS4) in the US. Just go to Google.com on your phone and tap "Turn on" the Instant Beta to enable it and give it a try. Read more at http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/.

Announcing the Panoramio Photo Contest

The Panoramio community enables you to share your photos and explore them on Google Earth, Google Maps and other places. If you’ve never geo-tagged a photo, watch this video to learn how easy it is to add photos to the Panoramio layer in Google Earth.

Now you can add some excitement to your photo project and enter your photos to the monthly Panoramio Geotagged Photo Contest! Starting this month, we’ll be giving away the new Casio Hybrid-GPS camera EX-H20G to the winner of each category (Scenery, Heritage, Travel and Unusual Location). The Panoramio community reviews all of the submissions and votes for what they consider to be the best each month.

Google Election Center

Google Election Center helps you provide up-to-date election information to voters and create custom search tools for your website. You can submit the following kinds of information:

• Polling place locations
• Registration instructions
• Ballot information
• State and local election office contact information

The Election Center Data Manager will guide you through the process of uploading and validating your information. After receiving your information, Google will display election information to your voters through our Maps application.

http://electioncenter.googlelabs.com/
or Visit http://m.googleelectioncenter.com/ using mobile.

Google Code Blog: We’re giving away 10,000 Google TV devices. To you...

Google Code Blog: We’re giving away 10,000 Google TV devices. To you...: "One of the things that makes Google TV different is that it has an Internet browser built-in so users have full access to the entire web on ..."

New site: Google Demo Slam

Google announced a new site http://www.demoslam.com/ (or http://mobile.demoslam.com/ on your mobile).

Where a little creativity takes tech demos from mundane to mind-blowing.

So come watch, choose your favorites and most importantly, show the world what you can do. Your charisma, creativity and awesomeness will help millions discover some great, free tech stuff.

Today Google: Happy 70th Birthday, John Lennon!

An easier way to use Google Latitude on your computer

Google introduce an easier way to use Google Latitude from your computer at google.com/latitude. You can now see where your friends are, start using Latitude apps, and share your location all from one place when you’re at your computer.

Source: An easier way to use Google Latitude on your computer - Official Google Mobile Blog

Google Goggles now available on iPhone in Google Mobile App

Searching with Google on your mobile phone can be an eye-opening experience. Now your phone’s camera can even help to find out more about the world around you.

Back in December Google introduced Google Goggles on Android: it lets you search by taking pictures. Google announced that Goggles is now a feature of Google Mobile App for iPhone. Google Mobile App already lets you speak your queries, and it can also use your phone’s location to give you more relevant search results.

Source: Open your eyes: Google Goggles now available on iPhone in Google Mobile App - Official Google Mobile Blog


A demonstration of Google Goggles, a feature of Google Mobile App for iPhone. Search the web by taking pictures of landmarks, books, wine, artwork, or products.

Google launched a new website: Quick Tour - Google TV

Google TV is a new way to think about TV: it’s a platform that combines your current TV programming and the open web into a single, seamless entertainment experience.

You can get a sneak peek of some of these apps in the video below:


Google also launched a new website, Quick Tour - Google TV (http://www.google.com/tv/), that provides more information about these apps and all of the other great features of Google TV.

Chromabrush

Open source version of the Chromabrush application, which is hosted at http://www.chromabrush.com.

Chromabrush is a sample painting application written using the latest HTML5 technologies. It is intended to be a demonstration of how HTML5 can be used to create a rich web app, but is not intended as a production tool. Therefore some features are limited or not optimized fully for a production setting.

Because this is a technical demonstration of what is possible to create when using cutting-edge features, less effort has been put into making the application work on all available browsers. Currently, only the dev channel of Google Chrome is supported.

chromabrush Project Home>>>

Google URL Shortener Gets a Website

Google are giving goo.gl its own website (http://goo.gl/).

• Stability: Google have had near 100% uptime since our initial launch, and we’ve worked behind the scenes to make goo.gl even stabler and more robust.
• Security: Google have added automatic spam detection based on the same type of filtering technology we use in Gmail.
• Speed: Google have more than doubled our speed in just over nine months.

To access the new website and start taking advantage of these improvements, simply type “goo.gl” in your web browser and hit enter. There you’ll find a simple interface where you can quickly shorten a URL.

If you sign-in to your Google Account, you’ll see a list of URLs you’ve shortened in the past. Click the “details” link next to any of shortened URL and you’ll find public, real-time analytics data, complete with traffic over time, top referrers, and visitor profiles. This can be a great way to better understand who’s interested in your links, how they’re finding them and when they’re reading.

My Shorten URL:

Long URL: goobuddy.blogspot.com/

Short URL: goo.gl/o4qi

Android Market update: More Countries, More sellers, More buyers

Effective now, developers from 20 more countries can now sell paid apps on Android Market. Additionally, over the next 2 weeks, users in 18 additional countries will be able to purchase paid apps from Android Market.

Support for paid application sales is now expanded to developers in 29 countries, with today’s additions of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan.

In addition, Android Market users from 32 countries will be able to buy apps, with the addition of Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, and Taiwan. No action is necessary if you have targeted your paid apps to be available to “All Locations” and would like to launch in these additional countries. If you have not selected “All Locations” and would like to target these additional countries, or if you have selected “All Locations” and do not want to launch your apps in these additional buyer countries, please visit the Android Market publisher site regularly over the next two weeks to make the necessary adjustments as the new buyer countries launch.

Introducing the Google Phone Gallery

To make the selection process a little easier for people who are in the market for a new one. Google are rolling out the Google Phone Gallery -- a showcase of Android-powered devices that deliver the best Google experience today. Check it out at http://www.google.com/phone.



All the phones in the gallery include Android Market, Google Search, and other Google Mobile services such as Gmail, Maps, and YouTube. There are tools that make it easy to compare phones side by side: you can filter phones by country, manufacturer, and carrier; view and compare technical specifications and features; and find where each phone is available for sale.

Source: Introducing the Google Phone Gallery - Official Google Mobile Blog

How to upload your app to the Chrome Web Store

This is a video that shows you how to upload your app to the Chrome Web Store. To learn more on the Chrome Web Store please visit code.google.com/chrome/apps or code.google.com/chrome/webstore

Introducing Voice Actions for Android

Voice Actions for Android let you control your phone using your voice. Call contacts and businesses, send messages, browse the web, and complete common tasks.

Official Android 2.2 User's Guide from Google

It's a official Android 2.2 User's Guide from Google here.

San Francisco pride 2010: Google!

The biggest group in the whole parade

Lenovo LePhone Introduction

Lenovo's Android-based LePhone (樂Phone, literally Happy Phone), debut at CES 2010, to be the real iPhone killer!

Google Chrome Developer Tools

The Google Chrome Developer Tools provide an integrated environment for debugging, optimizing, and understanding a web application, or website, running in Google Chrome. The developer tools are developed partly through the open source project, WebKit, where the tools are called Web Inspector.

Google Chrome Developer Tools: Getting started

Learn how to get started with Google Chrome's developer tools. For more information go to http://www.chromium.org/devtools

GWT 2.0.4 is now available, to solve Safari crash

Recently Apple released Safari 5, which included a bug where non-integral right-shifts were not being evaluated properly. There were several reports, both internally and externally, of GWT-based applications unexpectedly crashing when running in Safari 5 (including Google Wave).

Google have a fix for this issue, plus several other house keeping items that have been rolled into a 2.0.4 release, which can be downloaded from GWT’s main download site.

If you’re experiencing the Safari crash, you’ll need to recompile and deploy your GWT app. The changes in 2.0.4 are completely compatible with your existing 2.0 app, and should have no negative impact.

Google Web Toolkit(GWT) Project Home

Google cn@2010-07-01

http://www.google.cn/

New Android 2.2 Software Update for Nexus One phones

Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive the Android 2.2 (codenamed Froyo) over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features including support for making your handset a portable hotspot and support for Adobe Flash within the browser. For a complete list of everything we’ve included in Android 2.2, please see the Android 2.2 Platform Highlights.

In order to access the update, you will receive a message on your phone's notification bar. Just download the update, wait for it to install, and you should be all set. This update will be rolled out gradually to phones - and most users will receive the notification by the end of the week . We hope you enjoy these new features.

source: Nexus One | News and Updates Monday, June 28, 2010

Official Google Blog: An update on China

Official Google Blog: An update on China

Ever since we launched Google.cn, our search engine for mainland Chinese users, we have done our best to increase access to information while abiding by Chinese law. This has not always been an easy balance to strike, especially since our January announcement that we were no longer willing to censor results on Google.cn.

We currently automatically redirect everyone using Google.cn to Google.com.hk, our Hong Kong search engine. This redirect, which offers unfiltered search in simplified Chinese, has been working well for our users and for Google. However, it’s clear from conversations we have had with Chinese government officials that they find the redirect unacceptable—and that if we continue redirecting users our Internet Content Provider license will not be renewed (it’s up for renewal on June 30). Without an ICP license, we can’t operate a commercial website like Google.cn—so Google would effectively go dark in China.

That’s a prospect dreaded by many of our Chinese users, who have been vocal about their desire to keep Google.cn alive. We have therefore been looking at possible alternatives, and instead of automatically redirecting all our users, we have started taking a small percentage of them to a landing page on Google.cn that links to Google.com.hk—where users can conduct web search or continue to use Google.cn services like music and text translate, which we can provide locally without filtering. This approach ensures we stay true to our commitment not to censor our results on Google.cn and gives users access to all of our services from one page.

Over the next few days we’ll end the redirect entirely, taking all our Chinese users to our new landing page—and today we re-submitted our ICP license renewal application based on this approach.

As a company we aspire to make information available to users everywhere, including China. It’s why we have worked so hard to keep Google.cn alive, as well as to continue our research and development work in China. This new approach is consistent with our commitment not to self censor and, we believe, with local law. We are therefore hopeful that our license will be renewed on this basis so we can continue to offer our Chinese users services via Google.cn.

Posted by David Drummond, SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer

'sunrise' or 'sunset'

Google Want to plan a jog as the sun comes up, get back from a hike before dark, or make it to your favorite lookout spot by sunset? Just type 'sunrise' or 'sunset' and the location you're interested in into the search box. A fun one to try is [sunset atqasuk alaska]: http://bit.ly/awzJXA

YouTube HTML5 Video Player

YouTube HTML5 Video Player is an opt-in experiment for HTML5 support on YouTube. If you are using a supported browser, you can choose to use the HTML5 player instead of the Flash player for most videos.

Supported Browsers

We support browsers that support both the video tag in HTML5 and either the h.264 video codec or the WebM format (with VP8 codec). These include:

• Firefox (WebM enabled version available here)
• Google Chrome (h.264 supported now, WebM enabled version available via Early Release Channel)
• Opera (WebM enabled version available here)
• Apple Safari (h.264, version 4+)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer with Google Chrome Frame installed (Get Google Chrome Frame)

Today Google Logo: World Cup

Explore the stadiums in South Africa with Street View in Google Maps

See the South African football stadiums in 3D and go right inside with Street View.

Today Google Search: Dennis Gabor's 110th Birthday

Google Patent

With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.

- All patents available through Google Patent Search come from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Patents issued in the United States are public domain government information, and images of the entire database of U.S. patents are readily available online via the USPTO website.

- Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of issued patents and millions of patent application made available by the USPTO'from patents issued in the 1790s through those most recently issued in the past few months. We don't currently include international patents, but we look forward to expanding our coverage in the future.

- To date, the USPTO has made available approximately 7 million patents and over a million patent applications.

Google Chrome for Linux goes stable

Google Chrome for Linux, It's NOT Beta now!

If you are running the Google Chrome for Linux beta version on ubuntu, you have to un-install it before install the Stable version.

To un-install Google Chrome for Linux Beta on ubuntu:

Click System from the top menu -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager

Type Chrome in the search box

Mark google-chrome-beta for Removal

Then click Apply

To install Google Chrome for Linux Stable version on ubuntu:

in Synaptic Package Manager

Mark google-chrome-stable for installation

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta for Android (2.2) FroYo now available

The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta for Android 2.2 is now available for download on Android Market for the Google Nexus One and other devices that support Android 2.2. Flash Player 10.1 beta for Android enables your device to access the full web - which includes all your favorite videos, games, interactive media and web applications.

Source: Flash Player 10.1 for Android

Permanent Google PAC-MAN

It's very successful the 30th anniversary PAC-MAN doodle. Due to popular demand, Google make the game permanently available at www.google.com/pacman.

Keeping up-to-date on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

It is estimated that at least 6 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon explosion a month ago. Cleanup efforts are underway, but the oil has spread extensively around the Gulf and along the southern U.S. coastline. Oil has begun washing up on the beaches of Louisiana and the delicate wetlands along the Mississippi River, and can spread to Florida and throughout the Gulf as weather conditions change. This sequence of images, coming from NASA’s MODIS satellites, illustrates the movement and growth of the oil slick over the past few weeks:


You can view this and other MODIS imagery in Google Earth by downloading this KML. You can also view additional imagery and find other resources and news at our oil spill crisis response page.

Source: Official Google Blog: Keeping up-to-date on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.

Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet. Watch an overview video below, sign up for updates, and learn more about how to develop for Google TV.

Google Storage for Developers

Google are introducing Google Storage for Developers to a limited number of developers at this time. During the preview, each developer will receive up to 100GB of data storage and 300GB monthly bandwidth at no charge. To learn more and sign up for the waiting list, please visit the website.

Google Storage for Developers is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure. The service combines the performance and scalability of Google's cloud with advanced security and sharing capabilities. Highlights include:

Fast, scalable, highly available object store

• All data replicated to multiple U.S. data centers
• Read-your-writes data consistency
• Objects of hundreds of gigabytes in size per request with range-get support
• Domain-scoped bucket namespace

Easy, flexible authentication and sharing

• Key- or email-based authentication
• Authenticated downloads from a web browser
• Individual- and group-level access controls

Source: Google Code Blog: Google Storage for Developers: A Preview

Today Google Logo: 170th Birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Doodle produced with San Francisco Ballet

Google UK Logo on 6 May 2010

Google Virtual Keyboard element

With the AJAX Language API for Virtual Keyboard, you can enable the onscreen keyboard on any textfield or textarea in your webpage. This will help your website users to type in any language using their familiar keyboard layouts.

What is a virtual keyboard? A virtual keyboard is used to translate the input from one keyboard layout to another.

• It allows users to type their own languages on foreign keyboards, when they're traveling abroad, or living in a country where their language is not official, and the like.
• For disabled users that cannot use a physical keyboard, onscreen keyboard provides an alternative way to type by mouse clicking.
• Another major use for an on-screen keyboard is for bi- or multi-lingual users, who continually need to switch between different character sets and/or alphabets.

Adding a virtual keyboard to your site just got easier with the Google Virtual Keyboard element. After choosing a keyboard layout, copy and paste the HTML into your page and voila, a virtual keyboard will be able to enter characters into any text input or text area on your page.

Today Google logo: 20th Anniversary of Hubble Telescope Launch by NASA

App Engine SDK 1.3.3 Released

Google released version 1.3.3 of the App Engine SDK for both Java and Python. This is a minor release that includes changes and a few issue fixes for the datastore, administration console, and when deploying applications. For more information on all the changes, please read the 1.3.3 release notes for Java and Python.

Source: Google App Engine Blog: App Engine SDK 1.3.3 Released

Today Google logo: Earth Day

Today Google logo in Hong Kong@2010-04-21

Google Public DNS

What is Google Public DNS?

Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.

To try it out:

• Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers or
• Read our configuration instructions.

Today Google logo: 205th Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen

App Engine SDK 1.3.2 Released

Google announced the release of version 1.3.2 of the App Engine SDK for both the Java and Python runtimes. 1.3.2 includes a number of changes and bug fixes.

Source>>>

A new approach to China, Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk

Announced 3/22/2010:

Google stopped censoring their search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where Google are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via Google's servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk.

Source: Official Google Blog: A new approach to China: an update

Google Apps Marketplace: Google Apps for Business

The Google Apps Marketplace offers web-based applications that work seamlessly with Google Apps.

What is the Google Apps Marketplace?
The Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy to find, buy and deploy web applications that integrate with Google Apps.

Google Apps Marketplace Overview

In this video, we show you how to add an app from the Google Apps Marketplace to your domain.

Android Scripting Environment (ase_r17.apk) released!

The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to be used.

The newest version ase_r17.apk is released.

Link: Project Home of android-scripting.

Today Google logo: Antonio Vivaldi's Birthday

Today Google logo in Google.cn and google.com.hk: 元宵节快乐

Today Google logo in Google.cn and google.com.hk: 虎年春节快乐

Google App Engine SDK 1.3.1 released!

Google announced the release of version 1.3.1 of the App Engine SDK for both Python and Java. While this release contains plenty of new features and fixes, concentrated on using the very first SDK release of 2010 to improve the heart of many App Engine applications: the Datastore.

http://code.google.com/appengine/

GWT 2.0.2 is now available

GWT 2.0.2 has been released and is available for download here: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/download.html

Today Google logo: Vancouver 2010

Google Buzz, a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more...

Google launched Google Buzz, a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more, and start conversations about the things you find interesting.


Start conversations about the things you find interesting. Share updates, photos, videos, and more. http://buzz.google.com

Nexus One - Customization

Learn how to personalize the Nexus One homescreen with custom live wallpapers, widgets, shortcuts and folders.

Today Google logo in Google.cn: 中国四大发明

syntaxhighlighter: Free syntax highlighter written in Java Script

SyntaxHighlighter is here to help a developer/coder to post code snippets online with ease and have it look pretty. It's 100% Java Script based and it doesn't care what you have on your server.

Nexus One - Customization

Learn how to personalize the Nexus One homescreen with custom live wallpapers, widgets, shortcuts and folders.

Google's Release Nexus Phone

Google's Release Nexus Phone - CNET REVIEW!!! - Actual Release Seminar 01.05.2010

Give Google Chrome for the Holidays

Today Google Logo: Birthday of Sir Isaac Newton

Today Google Logo: Happy New Year 2010!