Google Friends Newsletter February 2008 Hello to all of our Google friends. We hope you enjoy this month s update on our products and services. POWER TIP Static Maps API This addition to the maps developer platform helps you easily create, customize and display a Google Map as a static GIF image on websites.
Google Friends Newsletter February 2008 Hello to all of our Google friends. We hope you enjoy this month s update on our products and services. POWER TIP Static Maps API This addition to the maps developer platform helps you easily create, customize and display a Google Map as a static GIF image on websites.
Posted by Pamela Fox, Google Maps API Team Why re invent the wheel when you can copy and paste our wheel instead? In the Google Maps API group and in my Inbox, developers often ask me questions such as How do I draw a circle on the map? or How do…
Posted by Chiu Ki Chan, Software EngineerA few months ago, we launched My library. We are always looking to improve this feature and make it more useful for book lovers, so we recently made a few tweaks to make your library feel more personal and to ma…
Posted by Rishi Chandra, Google Apps Product ManagerToday, information is created in all types of formats, such as documents, presentations, and even videos, and one thing we hear a lot from our customers is how hard it is for a company to organize all…
On the IE blog, Eric Lawrence presented the User Agent string for the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 which will be available later this year. The RSS Platform will also introduce an updated User Agent string for use with the IE8 beta. For details on the RSS Platform User Agent string in IE7 please take a look at my past blog post. The change is a simple increment of the version number to 2.0 as in Windows RSS Platform 2.0 MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0 And as before, note that there are two cases to keep in mind: The user is not subscribed to the feed. The user navigates to a feed and IE presents a preview of the content. The user is subscribed to the feed. The RSS Platform retrieves the feed content on a schedule or on demand . In the first case, the request is made by IE and hence the IE User Agent string is used. In the second case, the RSS Platform User Agent string is used. Walter vonKoch Program Manager
Blogger and Blog Spot will be unavailable Wednesday 2 27 at 6:00PM PST for about 10 minutes for maintenance.Update: The maintenance is complete.
We 8217;ve been a little quiet of late, mostly because we 8217;re busy working on our next release. We still have a bit of QA to do, but we 8217;d like to share some details. Search As you can see, we 8217;re actively integrating blog search into beta.bloglines.com. We 8217;ve incorporated some Ask 3D s popular features into Bloglines blog search. For example, related searches in the right hand column in the screenshot below. In case you 8217;re wondering, we 8217;ve retained the filtering allowing you to search based on feed subscriber popularity. You also might notice an advertisement on that mockup. Keep an eye out for CPC oriented ads in future releases. Flickr View We continue to expand our views for photo feeds with a new preview mode for Flickr photo feeds. Add Feeds Many of you noticed that Beta s add page was pretty basic. Essentially, it was a stub for future development. We 8217;ve finished off the next iteration on the page, so you can easily track packages, monitor weather, or see recommended packs. Blogliners, we re here working for you. Enjoy! Eric Engleman and the Bloglines Team