Spent the afternoon in the google office in Singapore today to attend the SG-GTUG meeting. The speakers covered monetizing and analytics, which essentially are:
Surprisingly, only AdWords and AdSense were purely about business (what is there to be said about technology?).
Vinoaj Vijeyakumaar (http://vinoaj.com), a Customer Solution Engineer at Google Singapore, was delivering the speech about Analytics and gave a nice overview of the technology being used there and also some insight into the not so obvious features. Overall a nice event with much to learn.
Installed already on Nexus One.
Android 2.2 Goes Live On The Nexus One
Quick note: Google will make it's applications favor HTML5 over the proprietary Gears. News here: Gears API Blog: Hello HTML5
Google releases an API for Website Optimizer. The API was announced by Google on Oct. 20th.
Other news were http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_releases_api_for_website_optimizer_ab_multi.php.
The Website Optimizer can be found at http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer, more about the GWO API itself is on the Google Code site: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gwo/.
Quick link: Google brings SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) to Internet Explorer through Javascript. Presentation of the javascript lib on Youtube.
15 Google Chrome Plugins
http://www.tech-exclusive.com/2009/01/30/15-useful-google-chrome-plugins/
Links of the week:
The week of July 20th in bullets:
I remember just more than one try like this:
Google Brings 3D To Web With Open Source Plugin
With an open source approach, Google has a nice take on 3D on the web, though.
The Google App Engine now finally supports not only Python, but also Java: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/04/seriously-this-time-new-lang...
Beyond the availability of Java on the AppEngine, Google also added new features