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seo Fridaygram: Loon balloons, black holes, browser games 2013
Seo Master present to you: 
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
This week we announced Project Loon, a cool and kind of crazy project that launches Internet-connected balloons and shares their connection with people below on Earth. These are not your typical birthday balloons: they’re 15 meters wide, and they rise to an altitude of 20 km, where winds carry them around the world. Software computes where the balloons should go to provide the best network coverage, and the balloons are then steered and moved as necessary.
Sailing along in the stratosphere is an essential aspect of Project Loon. The stratosphere is far above general air traffic and weather, so Loon balloons don’t have to worry about that. On the other hand, the environment is not friendly, with thin atmosphere and -50°C temperatures. But because the balloons are designed for these conditions, they can survive happily.
Moving further away from Earth, all the way to deep space, astronomers have found 26 new black holes right here in the neighborhood, in the Andromeda galaxy next door. Scientists using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory detected the black holes by observing telltale bursts of X-rays as the black holes ingested the outer atmosphere of ordinary stars. And this is just the start: there are likely thousands more black holes in Andromeda. So if Internet balloons ever make to Andromeda, we now know some places to avoid.
Finally, if you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend, you can spend time with a trio of nifty Chrome Experiment games released over the past couple of weeks: Roll It is a classic boardwalk game with the modern twist of using your mobile device as a controller, Racer builds a race track and soundtrack from several mobile devices put together, and Cube Slam lets you play an old-school arcade game over the Internet with friends (and if you have no friends, you can play against a virtual bear). Have fun!
From distant galaxies to ursine videogame opponents, Fridaygram rolls wide and deep. We cover fun stuff that isn’t always directly related to writing code, just in case you need an end-of-week break. If you’re having too much fun with our trio of games and you want to learn something instead, you can read about how we built each of them: Roll It, Racer, Cube Slam.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
This week we announced Project Loon, a cool and kind of crazy project that launches Internet-connected balloons and shares their connection with people below on Earth. These are not your typical birthday balloons: they’re 15 meters wide, and they rise to an altitude of 20 km, where winds carry them around the world. Software computes where the balloons should go to provide the best network coverage, and the balloons are then steered and moved as necessary.
Sailing along in the stratosphere is an essential aspect of Project Loon. The stratosphere is far above general air traffic and weather, so Loon balloons don’t have to worry about that. On the other hand, the environment is not friendly, with thin atmosphere and -50°C temperatures. But because the balloons are designed for these conditions, they can survive happily.
Moving further away from Earth, all the way to deep space, astronomers have found 26 new black holes right here in the neighborhood, in the Andromeda galaxy next door. Scientists using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory detected the black holes by observing telltale bursts of X-rays as the black holes ingested the outer atmosphere of ordinary stars. And this is just the start: there are likely thousands more black holes in Andromeda. So if Internet balloons ever make to Andromeda, we now know some places to avoid.
Finally, if you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend, you can spend time with a trio of nifty Chrome Experiment games released over the past couple of weeks: Roll It is a classic boardwalk game with the modern twist of using your mobile device as a controller, Racer builds a race track and soundtrack from several mobile devices put together, and Cube Slam lets you play an old-school arcade game over the Internet with friends (and if you have no friends, you can play against a virtual bear). Have fun!
From distant galaxies to ursine videogame opponents, Fridaygram rolls wide and deep. We cover fun stuff that isn’t always directly related to writing code, just in case you need an end-of-week break. If you’re having too much fun with our trio of games and you want to learn something instead, you can read about how we built each of them: Roll It, Racer, Cube Slam.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram 2013
Seo Master present to you: 
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor
When you search with Google, you use words to create your query. That basic fact changed earlier this week when we launched Search by Image. This new feature is well-described by its name: you just hand Google an image, and it searches for similar images on the web. You can try it out by going to Google Image Search and dragging one of the sample images into the search box. This is handy for figuring out the names of things, such as buildings, paintings, and logos, or for finding images that are similar to one you already have.
Search by image is a great example of magical technology that helps people learn or do their jobs. Here’s one that improves your health: spray-on skin. For people with burns and other skin damage, ReCell is a technology that allows doctors to take a sample of healthy skin cells, culture them to grow more, and then literally spray the cells onto the injury. This process speeds healing and reduces the risk of complications. Although it sounds like science fiction, it’s already being used in much of the world.
Finally, you probably saw our playable guitar doodle in honor of Les Paul’s birthday. And you might have seen that the guitar used a lot of cool web technology, including HTML5 Canvas, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Google Font API, goo.gl, and Google App Engine. But you might not have known that people recorded themselves playing everything from Lady Gaga to Led Zeppelin. Enjoy!
Fridaygram posts are lighter than our usual fare. They're designed for your Friday afternoon and weekend enjoyment. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be interesting to us nerds.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor
When you search with Google, you use words to create your query. That basic fact changed earlier this week when we launched Search by Image. This new feature is well-described by its name: you just hand Google an image, and it searches for similar images on the web. You can try it out by going to Google Image Search and dragging one of the sample images into the search box. This is handy for figuring out the names of things, such as buildings, paintings, and logos, or for finding images that are similar to one you already have.
Search by image is a great example of magical technology that helps people learn or do their jobs. Here’s one that improves your health: spray-on skin. For people with burns and other skin damage, ReCell is a technology that allows doctors to take a sample of healthy skin cells, culture them to grow more, and then literally spray the cells onto the injury. This process speeds healing and reduces the risk of complications. Although it sounds like science fiction, it’s already being used in much of the world.
Finally, you probably saw our playable guitar doodle in honor of Les Paul’s birthday. And you might have seen that the guitar used a lot of cool web technology, including HTML5 Canvas, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Google Font API, goo.gl, and Google App Engine. But you might not have known that people recorded themselves playing everything from Lady Gaga to Led Zeppelin. Enjoy!
Fridaygram posts are lighter than our usual fare. They're designed for your Friday afternoon and weekend enjoyment. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be interesting to us nerds.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: Humanitarian hacking, Shenzhou 9, robot seeks Martians 2013
Seo Master present to you: 
By Ashleigh Rentz, Google Developers Blog Editor Emerita
Even when Scott takes a well-deserved break, we bring you Fridaygram: a few items of Google and non-Google geekery to enjoy during the weekend. Ashleigh was our previous blog editor and now works behind the scenes on the Google Developers website. I write about space now; space is cool.2013, By: Seo Master
By Ashleigh Rentz, Google Developers Blog Editor Emerita The Googleplex is really buzzing this week with people furiously preparing for Google I/O! As with any conference, there are physical limits on how many people can participate, so we’re striving to make the Google I/O Extended events around the world more interactive than just simple viewing parties. Yesterday, we got to share the details of the Develop For Good hackathon contest sponsored by Google.org in conjunction with Google I/O Extended.
But this certainly isn’t the first time Google.org has engaged with developers to help make our planet a better place. In fact, many Googlers recently participated in Random Hacks of Kindness Global, a twice-annual event where developers in 21+ cities around the world spark new ideas for making the world a better place through innovation and technology. Among the many projects, one team in San Francisco worked on an algorithm for scanning textbooks and processing mathematical formulae in an accessible way for users with vision impairment. Take some time this weekend to read the recaps and get inspired!
The Chinese space program may also make this an inspiring weekend when they attempt the country’s first manned docking mission, designated Shenzhou 9, and take off for the Tiangong 1 space laboratory on Saturday. The attempt becomes even more inspiring since the three-person crew will include the first female Chinese astronaut. We wish them godspeed.
Meanwhile, scientists at NASA in the United States are awaiting the arrival of a new Mars rover which will search for signs of life in a new way. The rover, named Curiosity, is scheduled to land on the red planet in August, well ahead of any humans who might one day be en route. Who can imagine what it might find there?
Even when Scott takes a well-deserved break, we bring you Fridaygram: a few items of Google and non-Google geekery to enjoy during the weekend. Ashleigh was our previous blog editor and now works behind the scenes on the Google Developers website. I write about space now; space is cool.2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: IPv6 day, transit of Venus, game gifs 2013
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By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
340 trillion trillion trillion is our new favorite number. This past Tuesday was World IPv6 Launch, a huge step forward in making sure the Internet doesn’t run out of IP addresses in the near future. Until now, the universe has been using 32-bit addresses for devices on the Internet. The new version, IPv6, uses 128 bits, which increases the number of available addresses from a mere 4.3 billion to more than 340 undecillion, or more precisely, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456. So, that’s a lot.
From astronomical numbers to a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the sun. This event was a big deal for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a spacecraft that studies the sun. The SDO and its humans produced this breathtaking video made up of images from the transit. This is way better than what you saw with your welder’s goggles.
Finally, with all this advanced technology, it’s nice to go retro now and then. You can do that by enjoying these animated GIFs of video games, for when you just can’t find your 8-bit game system. (Hat tip: Boing Boing).
Each week we publish Fridaygram, featuring stuff from Google and beyond that you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren't necessarily related to developer topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. This week we say goodbye to Ray Bradbury as he departs Earth.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
340 trillion trillion trillion is our new favorite number. This past Tuesday was World IPv6 Launch, a huge step forward in making sure the Internet doesn’t run out of IP addresses in the near future. Until now, the universe has been using 32-bit addresses for devices on the Internet. The new version, IPv6, uses 128 bits, which increases the number of available addresses from a mere 4.3 billion to more than 340 undecillion, or more precisely, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456. So, that’s a lot.
From astronomical numbers to a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the sun. This event was a big deal for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a spacecraft that studies the sun. The SDO and its humans produced this breathtaking video made up of images from the transit. This is way better than what you saw with your welder’s goggles.
Finally, with all this advanced technology, it’s nice to go retro now and then. You can do that by enjoying these animated GIFs of video games, for when you just can’t find your 8-bit game system. (Hat tip: Boing Boing).
Each week we publish Fridaygram, featuring stuff from Google and beyond that you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren't necessarily related to developer topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. This week we say goodbye to Ray Bradbury as he departs Earth.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: world wonders, fruit freshness, stunning sky 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
If you write code, you’re stuck at your desk or laptop for long hours at a time. There’s no substitute for getting out into the world, but when you just can’t travel, you can use our new World Wonders Project to virtually visit amazing sites around the world. World Wonders has used really cool tricycles equipped with Street View cameras to film Stonehenge, the Trulli of Alberbello, the Ogasawara Islands, Shark Bay, Český Krumlov, and many more places. And when you visit, you don’t even get jet lag.
When you do leave your home or office, you might go to the market occasionally for fresh fruit and vegetables. Your fresh food experience might improve thanks to new sensors made at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. These sensors can figure out when fruits and veggies are getting too ripe. The sensors work by detecting ethylene, a gas that helps plants ripen.
Finally, when you’re not at the market or virtually visiting world heritage sites, take a look at this photo of lightning over a rainbow during a storm in China. You can relax and check it out while you’re munching on your fresh fruit and veggies.
Each week we publish Fridaygram, featuring stuff from Google and beyond that you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren't necessarily related to developer topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. This week we’re giving a special shout out to HyperCard on its (approximate) 25th anniversary. HyperCard, you were awesome.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
If you write code, you’re stuck at your desk or laptop for long hours at a time. There’s no substitute for getting out into the world, but when you just can’t travel, you can use our new World Wonders Project to virtually visit amazing sites around the world. World Wonders has used really cool tricycles equipped with Street View cameras to film Stonehenge, the Trulli of Alberbello, the Ogasawara Islands, Shark Bay, Český Krumlov, and many more places. And when you visit, you don’t even get jet lag.
When you do leave your home or office, you might go to the market occasionally for fresh fruit and vegetables. Your fresh food experience might improve thanks to new sensors made at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. These sensors can figure out when fruits and veggies are getting too ripe. The sensors work by detecting ethylene, a gas that helps plants ripen.
Finally, when you’re not at the market or virtually visiting world heritage sites, take a look at this photo of lightning over a rainbow during a storm in China. You can relax and check it out while you’re munching on your fresh fruit and veggies.
Each week we publish Fridaygram, featuring stuff from Google and beyond that you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren't necessarily related to developer topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. This week we’re giving a special shout out to HyperCard on its (approximate) 25th anniversary. HyperCard, you were awesome.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: supporting nonprofits, yawning dogs, Easter egg in space 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Maya Amoils, Google.org, and Scott Knaster, Developer Relations
Throughout this month, we’ve asked developers around the world to sign up for Be Mindful in May, a one-month meditation campaign that challenges participants to learn about meditation while simultaneously dedicating their efforts to a global cause: providing clean water to people in developing nations. So far the campaign has raised over $75,000 AUD for this important issue, and the Google Developers team has raised $1700 AUD.
The money raised through Be Mindful in May will go to charity:water, an organization that’s helping to bring clean, safe drinking water to the nearly 1 billion people who struggle every day without it.
To help support nonprofits like charity:water, last month we released the One Today mobile app as a limited pilot in the US. One Today introduces users to new projects each day across a wide range of issues, and enables users to donate $1 to the cause. One Today users can amplify their impact by matching their friends’ donations. If you’re in the US, you can join the One Today pilot by requesting an invite.
From making a difference in the world to wacky science, studies suggest that dogs yawn in response to humans. And not only that: further research shows that sometimes, dogs yawn in empathy with humans yawning, while other times, dogs yawn because they’re feeling stress, as when they’re listening to their owners. Much more research involving yawning dogs and people will be necessary to fully sort this out.
Finally, if you’re previewing the new Google Maps, you might be interested in this cool Easter egg. And if you’re not on the new Google Maps, you can request an invite. It’s really nice, and might even keep you from yawning.
Fridaygrams provide a chance for us to focus on fun and interesting stuff that’s not necessarily related to writing code. Sometimes we even get to feature inspiring content, like this week’s information about helping nonprofits.
Maya Amoils is a member of the Google.org marketing team where she works on a number of the team's charitable giving initiatives. Maya holds a BA in Science Technology & Society from Stanford University. Outside of work, you can find her biking around the Bay Area or making playlists on Spotify.
Scott Knaster is the editor of Google Developers Blog. He likes family time, technology, and watching the San Francisco Giants win baseball games.
2013, By: Seo Master
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Throughout this month, we’ve asked developers around the world to sign up for Be Mindful in May, a one-month meditation campaign that challenges participants to learn about meditation while simultaneously dedicating their efforts to a global cause: providing clean water to people in developing nations. So far the campaign has raised over $75,000 AUD for this important issue, and the Google Developers team has raised $1700 AUD.
The money raised through Be Mindful in May will go to charity:water, an organization that’s helping to bring clean, safe drinking water to the nearly 1 billion people who struggle every day without it.
To help support nonprofits like charity:water, last month we released the One Today mobile app as a limited pilot in the US. One Today introduces users to new projects each day across a wide range of issues, and enables users to donate $1 to the cause. One Today users can amplify their impact by matching their friends’ donations. If you’re in the US, you can join the One Today pilot by requesting an invite.
From making a difference in the world to wacky science, studies suggest that dogs yawn in response to humans. And not only that: further research shows that sometimes, dogs yawn in empathy with humans yawning, while other times, dogs yawn because they’re feeling stress, as when they’re listening to their owners. Much more research involving yawning dogs and people will be necessary to fully sort this out.
Finally, if you’re previewing the new Google Maps, you might be interested in this cool Easter egg. And if you’re not on the new Google Maps, you can request an invite. It’s really nice, and might even keep you from yawning.
Fridaygrams provide a chance for us to focus on fun and interesting stuff that’s not necessarily related to writing code. Sometimes we even get to feature inspiring content, like this week’s information about helping nonprofits.
Maya Amoils is a member of the Google.org marketing team where she works on a number of the team's charitable giving initiatives. Maya holds a BA in Science Technology & Society from Stanford University. Outside of work, you can find her biking around the Bay Area or making playlists on Spotify.
Scott Knaster is the editor of Google Developers Blog. He likes family time, technology, and watching the San Francisco Giants win baseball games.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: Moog doodle, new species, eclipse pictures 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
Earlier this week we posted a doodle honoring Bob Moog, inventor of the Moog Synthesizer. This instrument started a revolution in electronic music, as musicians in many different genres used the Moog Synthesizer and its descendants to create and enhance their music. This doodle was the first one to use the Web Audio API to create sounds, along with a bunch of other web and Google technologies. But mostly, this doodle was wonderful because it was a lot of fun to play with.
Some things are not so fun to play with, but are cool to look at, like many of the creatures on this year’s list of the top 10 new species as selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration. The list includes a super-fast wasp, a very big millipede, a sneezing monkey, and a really amazing jelly.
Bonaire Banded Box Jelly (Tamoya ohboya). Yeah, it stings. Photo credit: Ned DeLoach
Finally, for some big-time science fun this weekend, use your favorite search engine to find photos of last week’s annular eclipse. Or, if you don’t want to do your own search, you can start with these.
The Official Google Blog post about the Moog doodle includes this wonderful bit of writing: "Bob Moog is something of a patron saint of the nerdy arts..." We respect that here on the Fridaygram, because nerds r us, and that's why we publish posts with items that aren’t always related to developer topics.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
Earlier this week we posted a doodle honoring Bob Moog, inventor of the Moog Synthesizer. This instrument started a revolution in electronic music, as musicians in many different genres used the Moog Synthesizer and its descendants to create and enhance their music. This doodle was the first one to use the Web Audio API to create sounds, along with a bunch of other web and Google technologies. But mostly, this doodle was wonderful because it was a lot of fun to play with.
Some things are not so fun to play with, but are cool to look at, like many of the creatures on this year’s list of the top 10 new species as selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration. The list includes a super-fast wasp, a very big millipede, a sneezing monkey, and a really amazing jelly.
Bonaire Banded Box Jelly (Tamoya ohboya). Yeah, it stings. Photo credit: Ned DeLoach
Finally, for some big-time science fun this weekend, use your favorite search engine to find photos of last week’s annular eclipse. Or, if you don’t want to do your own search, you can start with these.
The Official Google Blog post about the Moog doodle includes this wonderful bit of writing: "Bob Moog is something of a patron saint of the nerdy arts..." We respect that here on the Fridaygram, because nerds r us, and that's why we publish posts with items that aren’t always related to developer topics.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: Galapagos images, smart dog, timely entanglement 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
On Fridaygram we love to celebrate amazing new Street View images. This week we announced new panoramic views of the Galapagos Islands, collected with with the Street View Trekker in partnership with the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and the Galapagos National Parks Directorate (GNPD). These images will go live on Google Maps later this year, but you can see a preview below and on the Official Google Blog.
The Maps team’s 10-day adventure included lots of interaction with local wildlife, but didn’t take place entirely on land. The team worked with the Catlin Seaview Survey to collect underwater ocean images too. And in addition to being beautiful and fun, these pictures have a practical use: they act as a visual record that can be compared to changes observed in the future.
Speaking of wildlife, do you have a smart dog? And does your smart dog know 1000+ words, plus have a basic comprehension of grammar? Meet Chaser, a 9-year-old border collie who has been taught to recognize the names of 1000 objects, as well as the meaning of some verbs and prepositions. In tests, Chaser correctly (most of the time) responded to commands such as “take ball to Frisbee”, or even “to Frisbee take ball”. If only our friends and family were that helpful.
Finally, there’s some typically mind-blowing news from the world of quantum physics. We already know that quantum particles can share a connection called entanglement, which allows one particle to reflect the state of another no matter how far apart they are. Now an experimental discovery shows that particles can be entangled even if they don’t exist at the same time. We agree with experimenter Jeremy O'Brien of the University of Bristol, who said “It’s really cool”.
Fridaygram is about randomly cool and nerdy stories that we hope will amuse you and possibly inspire your weekend. Around here we’re still feeling the Google I/O afterglow, so we’re going to recommend you spend some time this weekend watching some of the many session videos from I/O. If that’s not your thing, maybe you’d like this brief but inspiring video that kicked off the conference.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
On Fridaygram we love to celebrate amazing new Street View images. This week we announced new panoramic views of the Galapagos Islands, collected with with the Street View Trekker in partnership with the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and the Galapagos National Parks Directorate (GNPD). These images will go live on Google Maps later this year, but you can see a preview below and on the Official Google Blog.
The Maps team’s 10-day adventure included lots of interaction with local wildlife, but didn’t take place entirely on land. The team worked with the Catlin Seaview Survey to collect underwater ocean images too. And in addition to being beautiful and fun, these pictures have a practical use: they act as a visual record that can be compared to changes observed in the future.
Speaking of wildlife, do you have a smart dog? And does your smart dog know 1000+ words, plus have a basic comprehension of grammar? Meet Chaser, a 9-year-old border collie who has been taught to recognize the names of 1000 objects, as well as the meaning of some verbs and prepositions. In tests, Chaser correctly (most of the time) responded to commands such as “take ball to Frisbee”, or even “to Frisbee take ball”. If only our friends and family were that helpful.
Finally, there’s some typically mind-blowing news from the world of quantum physics. We already know that quantum particles can share a connection called entanglement, which allows one particle to reflect the state of another no matter how far apart they are. Now an experimental discovery shows that particles can be entangled even if they don’t exist at the same time. We agree with experimenter Jeremy O'Brien of the University of Bristol, who said “It’s really cool”.
Fridaygram is about randomly cool and nerdy stories that we hope will amuse you and possibly inspire your weekend. Around here we’re still feeling the Google I/O afterglow, so we’re going to recommend you spend some time this weekend watching some of the many session videos from I/O. If that’s not your thing, maybe you’d like this brief but inspiring video that kicked off the conference.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor
Did you participate in Google I/O last week? Nearly 1 million people did, by attending in person in San Francisco, gathering at dozens of I/O Extended events around the world, or watching the live streamed keynotes and sessions on YouTube.
Google I/O pushed an enormous amount of information out into the world. Here on this blog, we did our part by publishing many posts about new Google announcements, along with a bunch of guest posts written by developers. Because there were so many posts last week, I figured you might have missed some, so I want to highlight a couple of them here.
In this post, Cameron Henneke writes about his experience developing GQueues Mobile, a task manager app. Cameron discusses the trade-offs developers have to think about when coding for mobile platforms. Should you develop in HTML or go native? What are the advantages to each? How will that choice affect development? What do your users really want? Cameron’s post contains a thorough and candid discussion of his decision-making process.
Another post describes a versatile new technology called near field communication (NFC) and how doubleTwist uses it to share information from one Android device to another. NFC provides a super-low overhead way for two devices to exchange a small amount of data, and doubleTwist’s post not only demonstrates a practical use of NFC in an app, but also provides a lot of sample code to show how they did it.
Finally, I was pretty busy during Google I/O and I didn’t get to see all the sessions I wanted. Luckily, it’s not too late for anybody to experience more of I/O by watching session videos on YouTube. For my weekend nerd fun, I plan to grab some popcorn and go here. When it’s time to take a break, I can even rock out with Jane's Addiction on the After Hours video. Party!
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor
Did you participate in Google I/O last week? Nearly 1 million people did, by attending in person in San Francisco, gathering at dozens of I/O Extended events around the world, or watching the live streamed keynotes and sessions on YouTube.
Google I/O pushed an enormous amount of information out into the world. Here on this blog, we did our part by publishing many posts about new Google announcements, along with a bunch of guest posts written by developers. Because there were so many posts last week, I figured you might have missed some, so I want to highlight a couple of them here.
In this post, Cameron Henneke writes about his experience developing GQueues Mobile, a task manager app. Cameron discusses the trade-offs developers have to think about when coding for mobile platforms. Should you develop in HTML or go native? What are the advantages to each? How will that choice affect development? What do your users really want? Cameron’s post contains a thorough and candid discussion of his decision-making process.
Another post describes a versatile new technology called near field communication (NFC) and how doubleTwist uses it to share information from one Android device to another. NFC provides a super-low overhead way for two devices to exchange a small amount of data, and doubleTwist’s post not only demonstrates a practical use of NFC in an app, but also provides a lot of sample code to show how they did it.
Finally, I was pretty busy during Google I/O and I didn’t get to see all the sessions I wanted. Luckily, it’s not too late for anybody to experience more of I/O by watching session videos on YouTube. For my weekend nerd fun, I plan to grab some popcorn and go here. When it’s time to take a break, I can even rock out with Jane's Addiction on the After Hours video. Party!
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: email journey, humans and robots, special space launch 2013
Seo Master present to you: By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
This week we launched Story of Send, a new site that shows you what happens to your email after you click (or tap) Send. The site is meant for everyone, so you can share it with your [insert favorite non-nerdy reference person here].
Even though Story of Send is designed for all viewers, there are great features inside for us nerds. These appear not just in the text and animation, but also in the form of photos and videos. In particular, take a look at the video At the data center, which you’ll find on the Safe and Secure page, for a rare look inside a Google data center.
We’re used to great technology in our computers and mobile devices. More rarely, we get to see amazing tech that truly transforms lives. Thanks to research in robotics and neuroscience, two paralyzed people have controlled a robotic arm with their thoughts via a tiny injected sensor. One participant used the robot arm to grab a bottle and bring it to her so she could drink from it. This woman has been paralyzed for 15 years. After the successful experiment, one of the researchers was quoted as saying "She had a smile on her face that I and the research team will never forget".
Finally, space fans might want to make time this weekend to watch the May 19 launch of the private SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on its way to the International Space Station. Depending on where you are on the planet, the launch is scheduled for morning, afternoon, or evening on Saturday. Those of us here on the west coast of North America and in Hawaii can just plan to drink a lot of coffee and stay up late tonight.
Each week we publish Fridaygram, featuring stuff from Google and beyond that you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren't necessarily related to developer topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. This week we’re wondering if Zefram Cochrane would be interested in the SpaceX launch.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog EditorThis week we launched Story of Send, a new site that shows you what happens to your email after you click (or tap) Send. The site is meant for everyone, so you can share it with your [insert favorite non-nerdy reference person here].
Even though Story of Send is designed for all viewers, there are great features inside for us nerds. These appear not just in the text and animation, but also in the form of photos and videos. In particular, take a look at the video At the data center, which you’ll find on the Safe and Secure page, for a rare look inside a Google data center.
We’re used to great technology in our computers and mobile devices. More rarely, we get to see amazing tech that truly transforms lives. Thanks to research in robotics and neuroscience, two paralyzed people have controlled a robotic arm with their thoughts via a tiny injected sensor. One participant used the robot arm to grab a bottle and bring it to her so she could drink from it. This woman has been paralyzed for 15 years. After the successful experiment, one of the researchers was quoted as saying "She had a smile on her face that I and the research team will never forget".
Finally, space fans might want to make time this weekend to watch the May 19 launch of the private SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on its way to the International Space Station. Depending on where you are on the planet, the launch is scheduled for morning, afternoon, or evening on Saturday. Those of us here on the west coast of North America and in Hawaii can just plan to drink a lot of coffee and stay up late tonight.
Each week we publish Fridaygram, featuring stuff from Google and beyond that you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren't necessarily related to developer topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. This week we’re wondering if Zefram Cochrane would be interested in the SpaceX launch.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: App Engine search, rock-tossing chimp, man vs. beast 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
Google App Engine has a well-deserved reputation for regularly adding cool new features and other improvements. This week the team launched full-text search, which has been a hotly desired feature since the earliest days of App Engine. The new App Engine Search API enables you to search documents using lots of options, including searching specific fields and creating results snippets. At Google, it’s always fun to build new frontiers in search.
The App Engine Search API is a powerful tool indeed, but it probably couldn't defend you against an aggressive chimp that likes to gather and throw stones. The chimp in question, Santino, has apparently been gathering stones for years and then throwing them at intruders. Scientists have debated whether Santino is actually planning for upcoming tantrums when collecting stones. After years of close observation, researchers still disagree on whether Santino is a premeditated stone-thrower. But there is plenty of fascinating evidence, such as Santino stashing his stones beneath piles of hay where nobody will see them. Cat out of the bag, Santino?
Finally, we direct you to this remixed video of a different, stone-free interspecies confrontation. It's weird and funny, and it has special effects – what more could you want? It's a perfect way to spend a minute and ten seconds of your Friday or weekend.
Each week we publish Fridaygram, a post with cool Google and non-Google stuff you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren't necessarily related to developer topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. As for moving from App Engine Search to Santino the plotting chimp, we’re just trying to maintain our practice of tortured transitions.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
Google App Engine has a well-deserved reputation for regularly adding cool new features and other improvements. This week the team launched full-text search, which has been a hotly desired feature since the earliest days of App Engine. The new App Engine Search API enables you to search documents using lots of options, including searching specific fields and creating results snippets. At Google, it’s always fun to build new frontiers in search.
The App Engine Search API is a powerful tool indeed, but it probably couldn't defend you against an aggressive chimp that likes to gather and throw stones. The chimp in question, Santino, has apparently been gathering stones for years and then throwing them at intruders. Scientists have debated whether Santino is actually planning for upcoming tantrums when collecting stones. After years of close observation, researchers still disagree on whether Santino is a premeditated stone-thrower. But there is plenty of fascinating evidence, such as Santino stashing his stones beneath piles of hay where nobody will see them. Cat out of the bag, Santino?
Finally, we direct you to this remixed video of a different, stone-free interspecies confrontation. It's weird and funny, and it has special effects – what more could you want? It's a perfect way to spend a minute and ten seconds of your Friday or weekend.
Each week we publish Fridaygram, a post with cool Google and non-Google stuff you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren't necessarily related to developer topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. As for moving from App Engine Search to Santino the plotting chimp, we’re just trying to maintain our practice of tortured transitions.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: Doodle competition, nasty prehistoric fleas, cupcake map 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
Everybody likes Google Doodles, those creative modifications of the Google logo that appear every so often on google.com and other Google search homepages. To let budding artists try their hand at doodling, we’ve hosted various Doodle 4 Google competitions around the world. This year’s Doodle 4 Google was open to U. S. students enrolled in schools serving grades K-12.
This week we announced the 50 state finalists, divided by grade group, and they’re very creative. Take a look, but more than that, you can vote for your favorites, one per grade group. Voting is open until May 10th. And after you’ve looked at this year’s student entries, you can spend time reliving old favorites on our Doodles archive site.
Now travel back in time to an age even before there were Google Doodles, when huge dinosaurs roamed the Earth. According to fossils found by Chinese scientists, these enormous beasts were bothered by Pseudopulex jurassicus and Pseudopulex magnus, giant insects 10 times the size of modern fleas that crawled on dinosaurs and packed a painful bite. So it turns out that being a dinosaur wasn’t all fun and games.
Finally, don’t you love it when two great things get mashed up together? Here’s an awesome example: a map of the world, made out of cupcakes. Enjoy!
Each week we publish Fridaygram, a post with cool Google and non-Google stuff you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren’t necessarily related to developer topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. Hat tip to Andres Ferrate and Mike Pegg for the link to the cupcake map. By the way, happy Star Wars Day, and May the 4th be with you.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
Everybody likes Google Doodles, those creative modifications of the Google logo that appear every so often on google.com and other Google search homepages. To let budding artists try their hand at doodling, we’ve hosted various Doodle 4 Google competitions around the world. This year’s Doodle 4 Google was open to U. S. students enrolled in schools serving grades K-12.
This week we announced the 50 state finalists, divided by grade group, and they’re very creative. Take a look, but more than that, you can vote for your favorites, one per grade group. Voting is open until May 10th. And after you’ve looked at this year’s student entries, you can spend time reliving old favorites on our Doodles archive site.
Now travel back in time to an age even before there were Google Doodles, when huge dinosaurs roamed the Earth. According to fossils found by Chinese scientists, these enormous beasts were bothered by Pseudopulex jurassicus and Pseudopulex magnus, giant insects 10 times the size of modern fleas that crawled on dinosaurs and packed a painful bite. So it turns out that being a dinosaur wasn’t all fun and games.
Finally, don’t you love it when two great things get mashed up together? Here’s an awesome example: a map of the world, made out of cupcakes. Enjoy!
Each week we publish Fridaygram, a post with cool Google and non-Google stuff you might have missed during the week. Fridaygram items aren’t necessarily related to developer topics; they’re just interesting to us nerds. Hat tip to Andres Ferrate and Mike Pegg for the link to the cupcake map. By the way, happy Star Wars Day, and May the 4th be with you.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor
The final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour is now scheduled for early next week. This will be the next-to-last mission planned for the US Space Shuttle program. As a young nerd, I loved to watch the progress of the space program. Almost as amazing as the missions themselves was the fact that I could see it all live on television, even from hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Endeavour is going to do much better than that. You can go to www.youtube.com/pbsnewshour and submit video questions for the crew of Endeavour. The crew will select some of the questions and answer them live on YouTube. For more details, see the Official Google Blog.
Much closer to home, and completely unrelated, Google Chrome got a pretty slick new feature in the stable release this week. You can now use voice input with Google Translate in Chrome. In many languages, you can even click Listen to hear the translation. This feature uses the HTML speech input API. Now I can practice those languages I never quite mastered on my last vacation.
For more on what you can develop with HTML5 and other open web technologies, see the Chrome Experiments site.
Finally, if you want to know why this Space Shuttle mission includes squids, read this page.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor
The final launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour is now scheduled for early next week. This will be the next-to-last mission planned for the US Space Shuttle program. As a young nerd, I loved to watch the progress of the space program. Almost as amazing as the missions themselves was the fact that I could see it all live on television, even from hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Endeavour is going to do much better than that. You can go to www.youtube.com/pbsnewshour and submit video questions for the crew of Endeavour. The crew will select some of the questions and answer them live on YouTube. For more details, see the Official Google Blog.
Much closer to home, and completely unrelated, Google Chrome got a pretty slick new feature in the stable release this week. You can now use voice input with Google Translate in Chrome. In many languages, you can even click Listen to hear the translation. This feature uses the HTML speech input API. Now I can practice those languages I never quite mastered on my last vacation.
For more on what you can develop with HTML5 and other open web technologies, see the Chrome Experiments site.
Finally, if you want to know why this Space Shuttle mission includes squids, read this page.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: translation birthday, photos in trees, giants on streets 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
One of my favorite "living in the future" moments happens when I visit a webpage that’s not written in English. As you probably know, when this happens, Chrome figures out which language the page is using, and offers to translate it for me. That’s really cool. This week we celebrated the 6th anniversary of Google Translate’s statistical machine translation technology, which powers the Chrome translation scenario and many others.
Google Translate now works across 64 different languages, with more added from time to time. From modest beginnings, Google Translate now performs most of the translation work on Earth, translating one million books’ worth of text every day.
When words are not enough, we turn to pictures. What makes the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph unusual is that it displays images high among the trees in an outdoor mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. Also known as "three days of peace, love and photography", this festival promotes environmental awareness and conservation, and also just looks really awesome.
Finally, what’s more lifelike than words and pictures? How about giant marionettes walking through the streets of Liverpool to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic? There are plenty of YouTube videos of the giants’ visit for you to enjoy.
Fridaygram posts are made for fun, not technical value. They have been designed for your Friday and weekend enjoyment. Items that are interesting to us nerds are published in these posts. By the way, today has been declared Passive Voice Day 2012, so make sure that fun is had!
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
One of my favorite "living in the future" moments happens when I visit a webpage that’s not written in English. As you probably know, when this happens, Chrome figures out which language the page is using, and offers to translate it for me. That’s really cool. This week we celebrated the 6th anniversary of Google Translate’s statistical machine translation technology, which powers the Chrome translation scenario and many others.
Google Translate now works across 64 different languages, with more added from time to time. From modest beginnings, Google Translate now performs most of the translation work on Earth, translating one million books’ worth of text every day.
When words are not enough, we turn to pictures. What makes the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph unusual is that it displays images high among the trees in an outdoor mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. Also known as "three days of peace, love and photography", this festival promotes environmental awareness and conservation, and also just looks really awesome.
Finally, what’s more lifelike than words and pictures? How about giant marionettes walking through the streets of Liverpool to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic? There are plenty of YouTube videos of the giants’ visit for you to enjoy.
Fridaygram posts are made for fun, not technical value. They have been designed for your Friday and weekend enjoyment. Items that are interesting to us nerds are published in these posts. By the way, today has been declared Passive Voice Day 2012, so make sure that fun is had!
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: Transparency Report, billions of bugs, calming doodle 2013
Seo Master present to you: By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
The Google Transparency Report is designed to point out government censorship, requests to Google for data, and other details about our information services. The newest report, just out this week, shows that government requests for content removal have reached a new high level, with more than 2200 requests received in the second half of last year.
Government removal requests are probably the best known part of the Transparency Report, but there’s plenty of other fascinating and useful data. For example, you can see information about removal requests for specific URLs from copyright owners, or read about the legal process that takes place when a government organization or court requests information about a user. You can learn a lot by spending some time with the Transparency Report.
If you’re on the U. S. East Coast this spring and summer, you won’t need a report to tell you that massive numbers of cicadas are emerging from their underground homes to breed, fill the skies, annoy countless humans, last a few weeks, then die (and annoy even more humans who have to clean them up). This year’s bunch are Magicicada septendecim, or periodical cicadas with a 17-year life cycle. So we can look forward to a similar event in 2030.
Finally, if you haven’t already played with the Earth Day Doodle from last Monday, consider taking a few minutes this weekend to enjoy it. You might find yourself mesmerized by the tranquil scene (cicadas not included).
Fridaygram is mostly about fun and informative stuff that’s not related to development, but we seriously want to congratulate Googlers Peter Norvig and Arun Majumdar on their election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Arun runs Google’s energy strategy as vice president of energy, and Peter is our director of research, although he’s also known for his whimsical take on presentations and technology.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog EditorThe Google Transparency Report is designed to point out government censorship, requests to Google for data, and other details about our information services. The newest report, just out this week, shows that government requests for content removal have reached a new high level, with more than 2200 requests received in the second half of last year.
If you’re on the U. S. East Coast this spring and summer, you won’t need a report to tell you that massive numbers of cicadas are emerging from their underground homes to breed, fill the skies, annoy countless humans, last a few weeks, then die (and annoy even more humans who have to clean them up). This year’s bunch are Magicicada septendecim, or periodical cicadas with a 17-year life cycle. So we can look forward to a similar event in 2030.
Finally, if you haven’t already played with the Earth Day Doodle from last Monday, consider taking a few minutes this weekend to enjoy it. You might find yourself mesmerized by the tranquil scene (cicadas not included).
Fridaygram is mostly about fun and informative stuff that’s not related to development, but we seriously want to congratulate Googlers Peter Norvig and Arun Majumdar on their election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Arun runs Google’s energy strategy as vice president of energy, and Peter is our director of research, although he’s also known for his whimsical take on presentations and technology.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor
Clarke's Third Law states that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". That's exactly how I felt the first time I saw various bits of advanced software: for example, watching a word processor automatically wrap words at the end of a line without having to press Return, seeing the Mac's graphical user interface and learning that I could program it into my apps using ordinary-looking function calls, and watching a search engine take a couple of words and almost instantly find exactly the right web page from among millions.
The Prediction API described in yesterday's post on this blog is a modern piece of software that feels like magic. Using machine learning, the Prediction API examines existing data, determines patterns, and makes educated guesses at answers to questions. For example, if you train a program with phrases in various languages, you can then feed it new phrases and have it determine the language of the new phrases. That's certainly something humans can learn to do; having computers do it sounds remarkable to me, but it's real.
You can use the Prediction API to tell whether user comments are positive or negative, decide which emails are most and least relevant, and identify suspicious activity. If you'd like to add features like these to your apps, please check out yesterday's post.
Turning to a completely different topic, if you're interested at all in making your HTML5 and CSS3 faster, spend half an hour or so watching this talk by Paul Irish from the Google Developer Relations Team. There's a lot in there, including a nifty section about hardware accelerated CSS.
Finally, for nerdy nature fun, please check out this video that shows what happens when a wasp and an ant fight over the same food.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Code Blog Editor
Clarke's Third Law states that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". That's exactly how I felt the first time I saw various bits of advanced software: for example, watching a word processor automatically wrap words at the end of a line without having to press Return, seeing the Mac's graphical user interface and learning that I could program it into my apps using ordinary-looking function calls, and watching a search engine take a couple of words and almost instantly find exactly the right web page from among millions.
The Prediction API described in yesterday's post on this blog is a modern piece of software that feels like magic. Using machine learning, the Prediction API examines existing data, determines patterns, and makes educated guesses at answers to questions. For example, if you train a program with phrases in various languages, you can then feed it new phrases and have it determine the language of the new phrases. That's certainly something humans can learn to do; having computers do it sounds remarkable to me, but it's real.
You can use the Prediction API to tell whether user comments are positive or negative, decide which emails are most and least relevant, and identify suspicious activity. If you'd like to add features like these to your apps, please check out yesterday's post.
Turning to a completely different topic, if you're interested at all in making your HTML5 and CSS3 faster, spend half an hour or so watching this talk by Paul Irish from the Google Developer Relations Team. There's a lot in there, including a nifty section about hardware accelerated CSS.
Finally, for nerdy nature fun, please check out this video that shows what happens when a wasp and an ant fight over the same food.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: student photographers, space video, shuttle sights 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
As regular Fridaygram readers know, at Google we love to get students involved in coding and other pursuits. For example, last fall we announced the Google Photography Prize, which was open to student photographers around the world. More than 20,000 students from 146 countries submitted entries in the few months the competition was open.
A panel of judges whittled these entries to 100, and then to 10 finalists. You can read more about the competition and see a slideshow of the amazing work of these photographers.
Photo by Sasha Tamarin
Let’s move from still photos to video – and out into space, with a look at what video creator Alex Rivest calls "the best view in the solar system". This video shows what astronauts see from the International Space Station, from various points of view. When you watch this video, you can really see what Alex means. And it kind of makes you want to go check it out for yourself.
As long as we’re already out in space, we can’t resist a final mention of one of our favorite Fridaygram topics, the U. S. Space Shuttle. Earlier this week, shuttle Discovery was flown to its new home at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, producing some incredible sights before arriving. Happy retirement, Discovery.
On the land or in the sky, Fridaygram posts are just for fun. They're designed for your Friday and weekend enjoyment. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be interesting to us nerds.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
As regular Fridaygram readers know, at Google we love to get students involved in coding and other pursuits. For example, last fall we announced the Google Photography Prize, which was open to student photographers around the world. More than 20,000 students from 146 countries submitted entries in the few months the competition was open.
A panel of judges whittled these entries to 100, and then to 10 finalists. You can read more about the competition and see a slideshow of the amazing work of these photographers.
Photo by Sasha Tamarin
Let’s move from still photos to video – and out into space, with a look at what video creator Alex Rivest calls "the best view in the solar system". This video shows what astronauts see from the International Space Station, from various points of view. When you watch this video, you can really see what Alex means. And it kind of makes you want to go check it out for yourself.
As long as we’re already out in space, we can’t resist a final mention of one of our favorite Fridaygram topics, the U. S. Space Shuttle. Earlier this week, shuttle Discovery was flown to its new home at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, producing some incredible sights before arriving. Happy retirement, Discovery.
On the land or in the sky, Fridaygram posts are just for fun. They're designed for your Friday and weekend enjoyment. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be interesting to us nerds.
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram 2013
Seo Master present to you:
This post is by Scott Knaster of Google Developer Relations. Scott works on technical docs at Google and is editor of this very blog. Scott is a fan of baseball and hockey, but finds it challenging when their seasons overlap.
It’s been a very light posting week here on the Google Code Blog. While our author community was focused on other work this week, I picked out a few items you might have missed.
If you use the goo.gl URL shortener, you might be interested in new features that were added this week, including automatically selecting newly created short URLs so you can copy them more easily. If you create a lot of goo.gl URLs, and you use Chrome, check out this handy Chrome extension that makes short URL creation extremely easy. Or, write your own code using our Google URL Shortener API.
Here’s one especially for my fellow writers. Google Docs now does pagination, which enables some related improvements too. This is useful when writing user’s guides, school papers, or other documents that might have to be printed. Just last week I was working on a doc and wishing for this feature, and now here it is, proving the old adage “Wishing makes it so”.
On a more serious note, it’s now been more than a month since a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. Here’s an update on crisis response and relief efforts, and a way you can help simply by posting messages of support for the people of Japan.
Finally, I want to share the coolest hack I saw all week: a wedding invitation that includes a paper record and player. Beautiful!
2013, By: Seo Master
This post is by Scott Knaster of Google Developer Relations. Scott works on technical docs at Google and is editor of this very blog. Scott is a fan of baseball and hockey, but finds it challenging when their seasons overlap.
It’s been a very light posting week here on the Google Code Blog. While our author community was focused on other work this week, I picked out a few items you might have missed.
If you use the goo.gl URL shortener, you might be interested in new features that were added this week, including automatically selecting newly created short URLs so you can copy them more easily. If you create a lot of goo.gl URLs, and you use Chrome, check out this handy Chrome extension that makes short URL creation extremely easy. Or, write your own code using our Google URL Shortener API.
Here’s one especially for my fellow writers. Google Docs now does pagination, which enables some related improvements too. This is useful when writing user’s guides, school papers, or other documents that might have to be printed. Just last week I was working on a doc and wishing for this feature, and now here it is, proving the old adage “Wishing makes it so”.
On a more serious note, it’s now been more than a month since a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. Here’s an update on crisis response and relief efforts, and a way you can help simply by posting messages of support for the people of Japan.
Finally, I want to share the coolest hack I saw all week: a wedding invitation that includes a paper record and player. Beautiful!
2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: Chrome tools, Goldberg machines, Lehrer songs 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
If you use Google Chrome and you like to live on the edge, you might want to try Google Chrome Canary. There's a new version of Chrome Canary pretty much every day, and it gets the latest features. Of course, because it's built every day, sometimes it’s not very stable and it falls right off the leading edge it's balanced on. That’s why, for safety, you can install and run the stable version of Chrome alongside the Canary version.
Recent Canary builds have added cool new features to the developer tools section of Chrome. Specifically, you can now test mobile environments by simulating different screen sizes and by emulating touch events using the mouse. These features are on the Settings page of developer tools.
If you haven’t visited Chrome's developer tools before, you might be pleasantly surprised at all the nifty things available there. To get to developer tools, click the Wrench in Chrome, then choose Tools > Developer Tools. Have a look around – if you need a guide, see the documentation.
Some developers make hardware too, and a bunch of them competed in this year’s Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University. The winning team broke a record – their own record – by building a machine that takes 300 steps to inflate and pop a balloon. When you consider that 14 people spent 5000 hours on this project, you realize the power of creativity mixed with craziness.
Finally, take a moment to celebrate Tom Lehrer's birthday week by listening to some of his classic tunes. As a math professor / musician / parodist, nobody expresses the spirit of Fridaygrams better than Tom Lehrer.
Fridaygram posts are just for fun. They're designed for your Friday and weekend enjoyment. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be interesting to us nerds. Disclaimer: we do not advocating poisoning pigeons, whether in the park or elsewhere.2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
If you use Google Chrome and you like to live on the edge, you might want to try Google Chrome Canary. There's a new version of Chrome Canary pretty much every day, and it gets the latest features. Of course, because it's built every day, sometimes it’s not very stable and it falls right off the leading edge it's balanced on. That’s why, for safety, you can install and run the stable version of Chrome alongside the Canary version.
Recent Canary builds have added cool new features to the developer tools section of Chrome. Specifically, you can now test mobile environments by simulating different screen sizes and by emulating touch events using the mouse. These features are on the Settings page of developer tools.
If you haven’t visited Chrome's developer tools before, you might be pleasantly surprised at all the nifty things available there. To get to developer tools, click the Wrench in Chrome, then choose Tools > Developer Tools. Have a look around – if you need a guide, see the documentation.
Some developers make hardware too, and a bunch of them competed in this year’s Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University. The winning team broke a record – their own record – by building a machine that takes 300 steps to inflate and pop a balloon. When you consider that 14 people spent 5000 hours on this project, you realize the power of creativity mixed with craziness.
Finally, take a moment to celebrate Tom Lehrer's birthday week by listening to some of his classic tunes. As a math professor / musician / parodist, nobody expresses the spirit of Fridaygrams better than Tom Lehrer.
Fridaygram posts are just for fun. They're designed for your Friday and weekend enjoyment. Each Fridaygram item must pass only one test: it has to be interesting to us nerds. Disclaimer: we do not advocating poisoning pigeons, whether in the park or elsewhere.2013, By: Seo Master
seo Fridaygram: fiber marches on, your brain on music, Earth from orbit 2013
Seo Master present to you:
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
Just about two years ago, we said that Kansas City would be the first place to get very high speed Internet access from the Google Fiber project. This week we announced that Austin, Texas will be the next location for Google Fiber. Like Kansas City, customers in Austin will be able to get gigabit Internet and Google Fiber TV service. Many schools, hospitals, and other public buildings in Austin will get gigabit Internet at no charge.
If you live in Austin or Kansas City, and you want to find out more, take a look at the Google Fiber website. Or maybe you’ll want to plan to move to one of those cities.
Speaking of moving, the next time you’re moved by music, you might be interested to know what’s going on in your brain. Recent research shows that when people like a new song, the nucleus accumbens becomes active, while other parts of the brain work on pattern-matching and emotional connections. The more complex the activity among these various brain regions, the more the brain's owner likes a song, according to the research. Scientists are hoping to use this work to learn more about how we process all kinds of sounds, not just cool new tunes.
Finally, take some time this weekend to watch this amazing NASA video of Earth from orbit. It’s part of NASA’s Earth month, which includes a bunch of other images of our favorite planet that are also fun to look at. It’s sure to light up your brain.
With all its interplanetary travel, it’s nice of NASA to have a month just for us earthlings. And here on the blog, we’re happy to have Fridaygrams, which allow us to depart temporarily from developer world and just feature some random, nerdy, science-y stuff instead.
2013, By: Seo Master
By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor
Just about two years ago, we said that Kansas City would be the first place to get very high speed Internet access from the Google Fiber project. This week we announced that Austin, Texas will be the next location for Google Fiber. Like Kansas City, customers in Austin will be able to get gigabit Internet and Google Fiber TV service. Many schools, hospitals, and other public buildings in Austin will get gigabit Internet at no charge.
If you live in Austin or Kansas City, and you want to find out more, take a look at the Google Fiber website. Or maybe you’ll want to plan to move to one of those cities.
Speaking of moving, the next time you’re moved by music, you might be interested to know what’s going on in your brain. Recent research shows that when people like a new song, the nucleus accumbens becomes active, while other parts of the brain work on pattern-matching and emotional connections. The more complex the activity among these various brain regions, the more the brain's owner likes a song, according to the research. Scientists are hoping to use this work to learn more about how we process all kinds of sounds, not just cool new tunes.
Finally, take some time this weekend to watch this amazing NASA video of Earth from orbit. It’s part of NASA’s Earth month, which includes a bunch of other images of our favorite planet that are also fun to look at. It’s sure to light up your brain.
With all its interplanetary travel, it’s nice of NASA to have a month just for us earthlings. And here on the blog, we’re happy to have Fridaygrams, which allow us to depart temporarily from developer world and just feature some random, nerdy, science-y stuff instead.
2013, By: Seo Master