Archive | August, 2009

What is Google AdPlanner?

Google Ad Planner is a free media planning tool that can help you identify websites your audience is likely to visit so you can make better-informed advertising decisions. With Google Ad Planner, you can: * Define audiences by demographics and interests. * Search for websites relevant to your audience. * Access aggregated statistics on the [...]

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Something big coming up for chrome – Oh yeah… its extensions again

Something big coming up for chrome – Oh yeah… its extensions again

Themes have been available on Chrome for a while, but they used to require you to download files and know which folder to drop them in. It was also hard to revert to the original one. This latest build allows for push-button skinning and an easy way to revert. You can find two of the [...]

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Going Google: Major promotional campaign for Apps targets Microsoft Office

Going Google: Major promotional campaign for Apps targets Microsoft Office

Google is back on the offensive, with a major promotional campaign to get the word out about organizations switching to Google apps for their daily computing needs. The campaign, called “Going Google” has a very clear target: Microsoft Office. A series of advertisements will begin touting how and why some 3,000 organizations are signing up [...]

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Google image search now has more search options

Google image search now has more search options

Google is currently testing the “Search Options” for Google image search. The New image search integrates the advanced search options in the sidebar in Google image search. In search of pictures found, inter alia, the color, you can specify the size and choose what type of results should be. For example: You can choose pictures [...]

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Google Apps now joins the OpenId foundation too

Google Apps now joins the OpenId foundation too

+ Facebook, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Myspace and Gmail have all joined to OpenId foundation. Now all these services support signing in to the site with OpenId. After all these years as you all might have imagined, Google Apps now supports OpenID. OpenID makes it possible that one of many services can log in without a thousand [...]

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Google Doodle: Swiss National day

Google Doodle: Swiss National day

The Swiss National Day (German: Schweizer Bundesfeier; French: Fête nationale Suisse; Italian: Festa nazionale svizzera; Romansh: Fiasta naziunala Svizra) is 1 August. It is inspired by the mention of “early August” (primo incipiente mense Augusto) in the Federal Charter of 1291. It was first celebrated in Berne in 1891, marking the 600th anniversary of the [...]

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Google Friends Newsletter – July 2009

Google Friends Newsletter – July 2009

Here is the July – 2009 Edition of Google friends newsletters on IGoogle Watch. Subscribe to the IGoogle Watch RSS feed to get instant updates. We hope you enjoy this month’s updates on Google’s products, services and hope all friends are having a great summer so far.. POWER TIP Calendar Labs Earlier this month, we [...]

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