Archive | March, 2009
Google starts designing one bridge at a time contest with Google SketchUp

Google starts designing one bridge at a time contest with Google SketchUp

Google Announces Bridge Modeling Sketchup Competition — This will only serve to make the 3D views in Google Earth even better. Google is pleased to announce the launch of the Google SketchUp 2009 International Student Bridge Modeling Competition. Now you have a chance to show off your modeling skills and make that dream a reality [...]

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muziic: a new website which makes the best use of api to play songs – innovative ideas

muziic: a new website which makes the best use of api to play songs – innovative ideas

Muziic is a new media player. Unlike iTunes, Foobar2000 or Windows Media Player, the player has no local library. All titles, songs and videos; the player plays originate from Google servers for YouTube. In a search it gives you the title and Muziic lists all the results from YouTube. You can then add the videos [...]

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google drops jaiku project and opensources it under the apache license 2.0

google drops jaiku project and opensources it under the apache license 2.0

Yesterday, Google flipped the switch and moved Jaiku to App Engine. And today, Google is open sourcing the Jaiku code base under the Apache License 2.0. . The code is available as JaikuEngine on Google Code Project Hosting as of now. Anyone can set up and run their own JaikuEngine instance on Google App Engine. [...]

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Google celebrates Giovanni Schiaparelli’s Birthday and the new release of google maps

Google celebrates Giovanni Schiaparelli’s Birthday and the new release of google maps

Today is the 174th birthday of the famous Italian astronomer and cartographer Giovanni Schiaparelli. In 1877, Schiaparelli began producing some of history’s most iconic planetary maps, and he single-handedly invented the naming scheme we use to identify features on Mars today. His maps are famous for their detail and beauty, as well as for showing [...]

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google earth 5.0 has mars data and historical map materials

google earth 5.0 has mars data and historical map materials

Google Earth 5.0 published, updates contain Google Mars and historical map materials.. The new function is available in Google Earth 5.0…. So far Googles Mars with Google Earth 5.0 stood for the download ready. In the meantime in Google Earth offers “Mars", with which the user can experience more over the development of the science [...]

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Google blogger now supports mobile and email blog postings with some new updates

Google blogger now supports mobile and email blog postings with some new updates

If you have a blog on Google’s Blogger (Blogspot.com), you can configure mobile posting by going to your Blogger Dashboard on draft.blogger.com. Here are the tips to start mobile blogging: Click the gray phone icon next to your blog name to enable SMS or MMS for your mobile device. Register your device by sending  claim code to Blogger via SMS or MMS. Messages [...]

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Google friend connect api now available for developers

Google friend connect api now available for developers

Google Friend Connect lets a site owner instantly awaken and strengthen the community that visits their web site by adding a “social bar” gadget. Now, they’ve released “Friend Connect API” to developers. This release is documented in code.google.com. To take advantage of the the API on your site, go to www.google.com/friendconnect and visit the “for developers” section to [...]

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