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Posted by Meredith Whittaker, Program
Manager

Google Docs is all about being able to share and collaborate, and
now we're taking the idea of sharing a step further with a new
>Google
Docs Community Channel. This is a place to watch videos from
regular folks all about Google Docs, connect with others, and pick
up smart tips about all the ways to use the application.

Whether you want an introduction video, step-by-step help
instructions, or simply to see what others in the Google Docs
community have been doing, stop by, href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pAiMagd8vdxHOaNtcbNikIA"
>share your videos and enjoy this new showcase
for your ideas, your voice and your boundless creativity.

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Posted by Dan Peterson, Product
Manager

Google has a long history of involvement with universities, and
we're excited to share some recent news on that front with you.
At the main Google campus this week we're hosting the href="http://www.google.com/events/facultysummit2007/agenda.html" >Google
Faculty Summit, which involves href="http://www.stanford.edu/" >universities href="http://www.uiuc.edu/" >all href="http://www.mit.edu/" >over participating in discussions
about what we're up to in research-land as well as computer
science education - something very near and dear to us.

Meanwhile, because we know that between teaching, doing research
and advising students, computer science educators are quite
strapped for time, we've recently launched a site called href="http://code.google.com/edu/" >Google Code for Educators.
While you may have previously heard about our href="http://www.google.com/educators/index.html" >offerings for
K-12 teachers, this new program is focused on CS topics at the
university level, and lets us share the knowledge we've built
up around things like distributed systems and AJAX programming.
It's designed for university faculty to learn about new
computer science topics and include them in their courses, as well
as to help curious students learn on their own.

Right now, Google Code for Educators offers materials for AJAX web
programming, distributed systems and parallel programming, and web
security. The site includes slides, programming labs, problem sets,
background tutorials and videos. We're eager to provide more
content areas and also more iterations for existing topic areas. To
allow for liberal reuse and remixing, most sample course content on
Code EDU is available under a href="http://creativecommons.org/" >Creative Commons license.
Please let us know href="http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Code-for-Educators" >your
thoughts on this new site.

Beyond CS education, another important faculty topic is research.
Google Research offers
resources to CS researchers,including papers authored by Googlers
and a wide variety of our tech talks. You might be interested in
learning more about href="http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html" >MapReduce
and the Google
File System, two pieces of Google-grown technology that have
allowed us to operate at enormous scale. We also recently put
together a few university research programs and we're eager to
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Posted by Mendel Chuang, Product
Marketing Manager

Google Desktop lets you not only search your computer easily, but
you can also personalize your desktop. From cultivating a virtual
potted plant, to reading the latest news and checking the weather
forecast, you can customize your desktop with a variety of gadgets
and a sidebar. Some of you have asked if you can also put gadgets
on iGoogle homepages next to your other gadgets. And starting
today, the answer is yes.

With Google Desktop 5.5
Beta, you can you now embed Google Desktop Gadgets right into
your iGoogle homepage. Gadgets on an iGoogle homepage can have more
advanced functionality, such as href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?root=/ig&dpos=top&num=24&url=http://desktop.google.com/gow/gadgets/glass_media_player.xml"

onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" >playing
music from your computer. You can find them alongside other
gadgets in the iGoogle Content Directory. We've also improved
some of the other features; such as better looking Quick Search
Box, support for multiple copies of a gadget, and improved Outlook
search functionality. Read more on the href="http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2007/10/igoogle-meets-desktop-gadgets.html" >
Google Desktop Blog and check out href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?root=/ig&dpos=top&q=desktop.google.com&btnG=Search Homepage Content"

onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" >these
gadgets you can now add to your iGoogle homepage. height="1" width="1" />

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