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Friday, September 3, 2010


"Wave in a Box" Google's open source project

Alex North, (Software Engineer, Google Wave team) Say's

Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the future of the open source code and Wave federation protocol. After spending some time on figuring out our next steps, we'd like to share the plan for our contributions over the coming months.

We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we've already open sourced (detailed at waveprotocol.org) to flesh out the existing example Wave server and web client into a more complete application or "Wave in a Box."

This project will include:

  • an application bundle including a server and web client supporting real-time collaboration using the same structured conversations as the Google Wave system
  • a fast and fully-featured wave panel in the web client with complete support for threaded conversations
  • a persistent wave store and search implementation for the server (building on contributed patches to implement a MongoDB store)
  • refinements to the client-server protocols
  • gadget, robot and data API support
  • support for importing wave data from wave.google.com
  • the ability to federate across other Wave in a Box instances, with some additional configuration
This project will not have the full functionality of Google Wave as you know it today. However, we intend to give developers and enterprising users an opportunity to run wave servers and host waves on their own hardware.

Since the beginning, it has been our vision that the Google Wave protocols could support a new generation of communication and collaboration tools. The response from the developer community to date has been amazing and rewarding. Even more so now, we believe that developers and other projects are a critical part of this story.

While Wave in a Box will be a functional application, the future of Wave will be defined by your contributions. We hope this project will help the Wave developer community continue to grow and evolve. We'll discuss more technical details of our plan on the Wave Protocol Forum, which is the best place to keep up with the latest progress on the open source project and learn how you can contribute.

--related--

Adwords - http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/09/adwords-editor-801-for-windows-and-mac.html
Gmail Blog - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.html
Google Blog - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/back-to-future-two-years-of-google.html
Chrome - http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/09/back-to-future-two-years-of-google.html
Googel Wave - http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-next-steps.html

Source - http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-next-steps-wave-in-box.html

New Login page for Orkut!

Ariel, (orkut operations team), and Virginia Roman, (Google editorial team) Say's

We've all been having so much fun releasing exciting new ways to connect with your friends and share the things you're interested in, we've even made a new sign-in page to reflect all the wonderful newness of it all before you've even logged in:



Besides being brighter and more welcoming, it will have links introducing the latest news, so it'll be easier than ever to keep up with everything that's new on orkut.

We hope you enjoy it!

-- related --

Adwords - http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/09/adwords-editor-801-for-windows-and-mac.html
Gmail Blog - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.html
Google Blog - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/back-to-future-two-years-of-google.html
Chrome - http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/09/back-to-future-two-years-of-google.html
Googel Wave - http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-next-steps.html
Orkut - http://en.blog.orkut.com/2010/09/new-sign-in-page-for-orkut.html

AdWords Editor 8.0.1 is Available for Win & Mac!

Jason Shafton, (Inside AdWords crew) Say's

In order to make it easier for you to manage your account and take advantage of location extensions, we're releasing a new version of AdWords Editor, 8.0.1, for Windows and Mac.

AdWords Editor 8.0.1 now supports location extensions, our new and improved way to run local ads. To support this change, we've transitioned the local business ads in your AdWords account to ads that are compatible with location extensions, added the Extensions tab in the AdWords Editor interface, and removed the Local Business Ads tab. This new Extensions tab should help make it easy for you to create and manage your location extensions. Learn more.

To help you focus on just what you need when you're managing your AdWords account, AdWords Editor 8.0.1 also introduces collapsible and expandable panels, progress bars for tasks that can take some time, improved adding of My Client Center accounts, simplified exception requests, and more helpful error messages.

To learn more about all of the new features in version 8.0.1, such as support for campaigns using target CPA and enhanced CPC bidding options, read the release notes.

If you're already using AdWords Editor, you'll be prompted to upgrade automatically, as soon as it's available for you. After you install the new version, you'll need to download your account again. To preserve your comments and unposted changes, select the 'Backup then Upgrade' option in the automatic upgrade prompt, then import the backup file after downloading the account. We're launching version 8.0.1 to all users over the course of the next few weeks, so don't worry if you don't get it right away.

Thursday, September 2, 2010


Happy Birthday Chrome :)

Brian Rakowski, (Product Manager) Say's

Watching the 1985 classic Back to the Future last night, I was struck by how much things can change with time. The main character Marty McFly travels 30 years back in time, only to find that his house hadn't been built yet, skateboards hadn't been invented and nobody had ever heard rock 'n roll.

Looking back today on Chrome's second anniversary, it's amazing to see how much has changed in just a short time. In August 2008, JavaScript was 10 times slower, HTML5 support wasn't yet an essential feature in modern browsers, and the idea of a sandboxed, multi-process browser was only a research project. All browsers have come a long way in the last two years and the web has become much more fun and useful.

Happy 2nd birthday, Google Chrome!
(Illustration: Mike Lemanski, click image to expand)


Since Chrome's first beta launch for Windows, we've brought our Mac and Linux versions up to speed, and continued to make the browser faster, simpler, and safer across all three platforms. We've also introduced a boatload of features, including a more customizable New Tab page, browser themes, side-by-side view, password manager, better privacy controls, built-in Adobe Flash Player, Autofill, automatic translation, HTML5 capabilities and synchronization of various settings such as bookmarks, themes, extensions and browser preferences—just to name a few. Finally, there are now more than 6,000 extensions in our gallery to enhance your browsing experience.

Behind the scenes, we continue to extend the security features that help you browse the web more safely. This includes Chrome's Safe Browsing technology—which serves as a warning system if you're about to visit a site suspected of phishing or hosting malware; Chrome's auto-update mechanism—which helps ensure that the browser is always up-to-date with the latest security updates; and the browser's "sandbox"—an added layer of protection which prevents malicious code on an exploited website from infecting your computer.

The old Chrome: our very first beta!


Chrome now: Our brand new release today


Today, we're releasing a new stable version of Chrome that is even faster and more streamlined. Chrome is now three times faster than it was two years ago on JavaScript performance. We've also been working on simplifying the "chrome" of Chrome. As you can see, we took the already minimalist user interface and stripped it down a bit more to make it easier to use. We combined Chrome's two menus into one, revisited the location of the buttons, cleaned up the treatment of the URL and the Omnibox, and adjusted the color scheme of the browser to be easier on the eyes.

Sliding back into Doc Brown's DeLorean and setting the dial ahead by a few months, we have more in store for Chrome. As always, we're hard at work on making Chrome even faster, and working on ways to improve graphics performance in the browser through hardware acceleration. With the Chrome Web Store, we hope to make it much easier to find and use great applications on the web. We also ratcheted up the pace of our releases so that we can get new features and improvements to everyone more quickly.

If you haven't tried Chrome recently, we invite you to download our new stable version today at google.com/chrome. For those of you who have been using Chrome, thanks for a great second year! We hope that Chrome has made your life on the web even better, and look forward to the next year.
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