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Posted by Kevin Gibbs, Tech Lead,
Google App Engine

We just launched a preview release of href="http://appengine.google.com/" >Google App Engine, a way
for developers to run their web applications on Google's
infrastructure. In the same way that Blogger made it easy to create
a blog, Google App Engine is designed from the ground up to make it
easy to create and run web applications.

With Google App Engine, developers can write web applications based
on the same building blocks that Google uses, like href="http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html" >GFS and href="http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html" >Bigtable.
Google App Engine packages those building blocks and provides
access to scalable infrastructure that we hope will make it easier
for developers to scale their applications automatically as they
grow. This means they can spend less time dealing with system
administration and maintenance, and more time building and
improving their applications. (There's href="http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2008/04/introducing-google-app-engine-our-new.html" >
more detail on the new App Engine Blog.)

Google App Engine is free to use during the preview release, but
the amount of computing resources any app can use is limited. In
the future, developers will be able to purchase additional
computing resources as needed, but Google App Engine will always be
free to get started.

Today's launch is a preview release. We've got a lot left
to do, and there are a lot of features we still want to add to the
system. What we'd really like is to get your feedback on it, so
we know which features are most important to you. We'll use
your suggestions to keep improving the system.

This preview of Google App Engine is available for the first 10,000
developers who sign up; we will increase that number in near
future. So, developers, please href="http://appengine.google.com/" >sign up, href="http://code.google.com/appengine" >download the SDK, and
start your engines.

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Posted by Kevin Tom, iGoogle Product
Manager

Since we launched themes on iGoogle last March, we've enjoyed
seeing how people have connected with them. For instance, we've
gotten fan mail for the "fox in the teahouse" theme, and
seen some great blog posts generated when folks discover the Easter
egg for each theme.

Users and developers alike have been clamoring to know when they
can develop themes for the iGoogle homepage, and we're happy to
say that today is the day! Whether you like outer space, cartoons,
dogs, or anything else, you can now create your own theme and help
personalize iGoogle for millions of people.

The Themes API lets you customize many portions of the iGoogle
page. Your theme can also update the page's design based on
variables, such as the time of day or location. This makes it easy
to create a narrative that unfolds throughout the day, a landscape
that changes as the sun rises and sets, or an abstract image that
becomes more complex.

Anyone who can build a website can create an iGoogle Theme. We
worked with designers Yves Behar, Mark Frauenfelder, Troy Lee, and
John Maeda to create some href="http://code.google.com/apis/themes/#Examples"
id="yz53" >custom iGoogle designs to show some great examples of
the types of themes you can create.

href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/01/igoogle-themes-api.html" >
Read more on the Google Code Blog and href="http://code.google.com/apis/themes" >start creating your
theme.

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Posted by Kevin McConvey, Cafe
Director

To commemorate the first anniversary of our New York office in its
current space, we decided to think big — a giant scale-model cake
of the entire block-long building. Our facilities manager, Laura
Gimpel, and I came up with a plan to construct this tasty treat and
serve it at last Thursday's anniversary celebration.

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Our first step was to use href="http://earth.google.com/" id="mio5" >Google Earth and

href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=76 Ninth Avenue NYC&sll=37.09024,-95.712891&sspn=39.456673,75.322266&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=40.745989,-74.004614&spn=0.009234,0.018389&z=16&om=0&cbll=40.741949,-74.004659&cbp=1,360,0.5,0,-8.92705486895993"
id="fuy3" >Street View to get aerial views and photos of the
building. Spanning an entire city block, the massive structure was
originally constructed in 1932 to house the

href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Authority_of_New_York_and_New_Jersey"
id="m3fo" >Port Authority of New York; today, it's
Manhattan's second-largest building in square footage. Next,
our pastry chef, Danita Holt, drew up the blueprints. After a few
weeks of developing the plans, it was time to start pouring the
foundation. The href="http://picasaweb.google.com/pfang69/TheBuildingOfTheAnniversaryCake" >
actual production took four days, with seven of us (two sous
chefs, two pastry chefs, our executive chef, a line cook, and me)
working on it. In total, we used 630 eggs, 105 pounds of sugar and
20 pounds of butter. The finished product was five feet long, three
feet high and two feet wide. Now that's a lot of cake!

Perhaps even more challenging, we had to make sure there was no
waste — every last bite had to be eaten. The day after the
celebration (when we did make a sizable dent), we served cake
'donuts' for breakfast. We got even more creative for lunch
and offered an anniversary cake trifle and an amazing Oreo-infused
anniversary cake pudding. Throughout the day, we put platters of
leftover cake in the micro-kitchens, game room and library. The
last of our creation was consumed on the balcony on Friday night
around 7 p.m. by a group of hungry engineers.

This was one of the most memorable projects I've worked on so
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Posted by Kevin Willer, Head of Central
Region Development

Recently, a group of Chicago Googlers who are passionate about
sports came together to find ways to support Chicago's bid for
the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. We got in touch with folks from
World Sport Chicago, who had recently agreed to organize the href="http://www.worldboxingchicago.org/" id="r-.v"
>AIBA World Boxing
Championships, and asked them how Google technology could help
support this local event with global reach. Together, we came up
with an idea to educate fans about the boxers and their home
countries through an href="http://aibaworldboxing.googlepages.com/aiba_world_boxing_championship.kml"
id="tu_h" >information
overlay on Google Earth,
embedding select information about each boxer and their sponsoring
country in pop-up windows across the globe.

Then we took this idea further by matching up our software with href="http://www.accenture.com/Global/Services/Accenture_Technology_Labs/Services/SeeingTheBigPicture.htm?c=ad_07grusglbpsgs_0607&n=Accenture_Interactive_sL05Accenture_Interactive_accenture_interactive_network"
id="ubcg"
>Accenture's
Interactive Wall Technology to make the information even more
lively. The Accenture Interactive Wall literally put the power of
Google Earth at one's fingertips, so that people could
manipulate the globe using their hands. Thousands of fans visited
this display during the championships and we're pleased we
could play a part in developing this learning tool for them.

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Posted by Kevin Systrom, Product
Marketing Manager

I've been traveling a bunch in the past few days, and the one
thing I've noticed is the variety of newspapers you're
offered on every flight in Europe. In London, where I am now, my
hotel has between 10 and 15 newspapers in the lobby from around the
world in different languages. So I started thinking about how news
plays an increasingly important role across the world.

Of course, blogs have also become an international phenomenon.
They're not constrained by language or nationality — in fact,
blogs have become an important way to bring rise to independent
reporters and writers. And there are more and more people who wish
to read blogs in other languages. Up until now, our blog and news
site service, Google Reader, was only available in English. As of
today, it supports these languages: French, Italian, German,
Spanish, Dutch, English (UK), Chinese (Traditional and Simplified),
Japanese, and Korean.

With this announcement (you might enjoy href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/09/breaking-up-isnt-hard-to-do.html" >
this take from the Reader blog), I'm also happy to tell you
that we're removing the "Labs" label from Google
Reader. It's a small textual change, but we believe it
solidifies our commitment to make reading blogs and news sites
easier than ever. So try href="http://www.google.com/reader" >Google Reader and get all
your blogs and news sites in one place.

Update:
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Posted by Kevin Smith, Partner Program
Manager

If you can get href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=weather belfair WA&btnG=Google Search" >
weather forecasts for Belfair, WA from Google.com, why
shouldn’t you be able to access mainframe data from your own href="http://www.google.com/appliance" >Google Search Appliance?
Our 2,000 enterprise customers know that you can. (In fact our
enterprise business has grown more than 100 percent in the first
half of this year over the first half of last year.) The href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/gep/" >Google Enterprise
Professional program will help Google customers extend their
use of enterprise products to previously hard-to-search areas of
their infrastructure, such as legacy data locked in mainframes,
information on a highly secure government network, or real-time
customer data in an enterprise application.

As it turns out, there are plenty of businesses with expertise in
this stuff — systems integrators and independent software vendors
that know more about specialized enterprise environments than we
ever could. So today we're announcing this program to help
customers get more value out of their Google enterprise search
deployments.

We provide training, a development version of the Google Search
Appliance, and the necessary support so Google Enterprise
Professionals can become experts on our enterprise technology. And
they give us expertise in their categories built on years of
experience.

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Posted by Kevin Gough, Enterprise
Team

The Google Mini search appliance continues to proliferate for
different customer segments. The href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/index.html" >newest and
least expensive Mini is geared towards people who need to
search up to 50,000 documents on their websites or corporate
networks. Does that include you? href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-mini-for-mini-price.html" >
Read more here.

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Posted by Kevin Tom, Google Desktop
team

We are happy to be releasing the http://desktop.google.com/”>Google Desktop 5 application
in 29 languages, including our first release in Hindi. It's now
easier than ever for people around the world to find content on
their computer as well as on the web. We've redesigned the look
and feel of the sidebar and many of our most popular gadgets. There
are also previews for search results and warnings for suspicious
websites, whether you're clicking on links from documents, IMs,
websites, and more.

No matter which country you're in, we hope that these changes
make it easier to quickly and safely find the right information. To
learn more about what's new with Desktop 5, read http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-sidebar-and-gadgets.html”>
this post on the Google Desktop Blog. And check out the
recently-released version for http://desktop.google.com/mac”>Mac, too.

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