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Posted by Bindu Reddy, Group Product
Manager

Last year, we shared our

href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/look-ahead-at-google-video-and-youtube.html"
id="k6vm" >vision for Google Video and announced a renewed
focus on organizing all the web's video. We have a lot of new
features to tell you about, so head over to the href="http://googlevideo.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-video-gets-facelift.html" >
Google Video blog for more information about our new look.

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Posted by Katie Hotchkiss, Online Sales
and Operations Manager

Last week at the annual meeting of our Online Sales and Operations
(OSO) organization, a group of us (1,211 Googlers from around the
world, to be exact) made an attempt to set a new

href="http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/default.aspx"
id="qy40" >Guinness World Record for the "largest cake
decorating lesson." This isn't the first time we've

href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/if-you-build-it-they-will-eat-it.html"
id="xz-s" >taken our culinary talents to great heights, but it
is the first time
we've attempted to bake our way to a new record.

The event brought our teams together, united around something we
all love: good food. We decorated a total of 171 cakes, using 800
pounds of butter cream and 500 pounds of fondant along the way. In
addition to this fun foray into the sugar arts, the two-day
conference featured a keynote speech by Al Gore, workshops with
faculty from the Harvard Business School, and several panels on
industry trends, including one on bloggers moderated by href="http://allthingsd.com/about/kara-swisher" > href="http://allthingsd.com/about/kara-swisher" >Kara
Swisher.

Check out this video of the day:

We'll report back if (and hopefully when) we hear the news from
Guinness.

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Posted by Dan Peterson, Product
Manager

Last November, href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/opensocial-makes-web-better.html"
id="acjj" >OpenSocial was created to help build infrastructure
for the social web. OpenSocial provides a common mechanism for
developers to easily hook into many different social networks and
extend their functionality. Sites including MySpace and orkut have
begun to provide OpenSocial applications to their users, and hi5
will be rolling out next week.

Today we're pleased that href="http://ycorpblog.com/2008/03/25/announcing-the-opensocial-foundation/" >
Yahoo! has announced its support for OpenSocial. We're
looking forward to having Yahoo! users join the hundreds of
millions of people who will soon enjoy OpenSocial applications.
This addition means even more distribution for developers,
encourages participation by even more websites, and, most
importantly, results in more features for users all across the
web.

In addition, Yahoo!, MySpace, and Google are joining with the
broader community to create a non-profit foundation to foster the
continued open development of OpenSocial. To that end, we've
also launched href="http://www.opensocial.org/" >OpenSocial.org, designed to
become the main documentation hub and primary source of information
about OpenSocial. To learn more, and to get involved, please review
the href="http://sites.google.com/a/opensocial.org/opensocial/OpenSocial-Foundation-Proposal" >
foundation proposal.

With that, welcome, Yahoo! We look forward to growing the social
web together.

Tags: , Dan, ManagerLast, November, OpenSocial, Peterson, Posted, product

Posted by Bill Kee, Associate Product
Marketing Manager

Last month, we href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/like-making-videos-love-gmail.html"
id="d4i0" >invited you to join the Gmail
collaborative video, pull out your video cameras and help us
imagine how an email message travels around the world. Two href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZIgdq9dp2M" id="ufek"
>Rubik's href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEhhzJB3n00" id="xy:r"
>cubes, a few jaunts href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKeD4J70jqM" id="djq9"
>in a bottle, beautiful href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFQdGkFZcE4" id="lqs1"
>sand animation, and one href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULwrZ22FJF8" id="ualc"
>dog's trip to the Southernmost point
of the continental US later, we'd received more than href="http://www.youtube.com/video_response_view_all?v=VfDW7qAdFGk"
id="c41." >1,100 fantastic
clips from Gmail fans from more than 65
countries. It was impossible to fit all of the great submissions
into one cut, but after hours of fun watching href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEAjqyQ2qM" id="wudp"
>jugglers, href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0QlJJ_aF-E" id="aa1j"
>firemen, href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKX82dsXWew" id="ly:n"
>camel-riders, and original href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIvQMk4k6JU" id="o151"
>animation, we edited highlights together into
this video and used the href="http://www.google.com/apis/maps/index.html" id="m.lo"
>Google Maps API to put together a map
showing where many of the clips came from (you can also see these
at >http://mail.google.com/mvideo):

href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=pl&geocode=&q=http://services.google.com/earth/mvideo.kml&ie=UTF8&om=1&t=k&ll=31.952162,-36.914062&spn=105.832053,158.203125&z=2&source=embed"
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Map

A big thank you to everyone who participated — your
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