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- Display your foursquare checkins on Google Maps the easy way aboutfoursquare.com
Basically paste your KML feed into the Google Maps search box.
- High Performance Web Sites :: Diffable: only download the deltas stevesouders.com
Diffable uses differential compression to reduce the size of JavaScript downloads. It makes a lot of sense. Suppose your web site has a large external script. When a new release comes out, it’s often the case that a bulk of that large script is unchanged. And yet, users have to download the entire new script even if the old script is still cached.
- Google Apps vs. Google Accounts Parity Coming lifehacker.com
Yay etc.
- Web Application Exploits and Defenses jarlsberg.appspot.com
This codelab shows how web application vulnerabilities can be exploited and how to defend against these attacks. The best way to learn things is by doing, so you'll get a chance to do some real penetration testing, actually exploiting a real application.
- Google Font API - Google Code code.google.com
- Google Mapplets - Google Code code.google.com
Mini-applications that run within Google Maps. You can create Mapplets that add new features or overlay your data on Google Maps.
- Official Google Enterprise Blog: Modern browsers for modern applications googleenterprise.blogspot.com
Google gradually dropping support for IE6. "Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites."
- WebFaction Forum / Python script to set up Google Apps forum.webfaction.com
A Python script that uses [the Webfaction] API to create all of the DNS overrides you need to use Google Apps for your email.
To check in you need three conditions met: You need someone to review it and say it looks good. You need to be certified in the language – basically, you’ve proven you know the style of this language – called “readability.” And then you also need the approval from somebody in the owner’s file in that directory.
- Google Text-To-Speech (TTS) | Weston Ruter weston.ruter.net
A Google Chrome extension that helps you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Using Speed Tracer you are able to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application.
- Google Public DNS code.google.com
A free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.
- High Performance Web Sites :: Google Analytics goes async stevesouders.com
It’s extremely cool to see this pattern being evangelized for such a major piece of the Internet.
- Google and Best Buy Partner on Mobile Applications readwriteweb.com
- High Performance Web Sites :: Mobile Gmail and async script loading stevesouders.com
With mobile on my mind, I was blown away by the awesome performance tips in this blog post: Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Reducing Startup Latency. This post hits on the main point of my recent book - the impact of loading JavaScript. This is the #1 performance issue for today’s web apps.
- Webmaster Tools - Rich Snippets Testing Tool google.com
Allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa. Enter a web page URL to see how it may appear in search results.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Optimize your crawling & indexing googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Some handy tips, not all 100% obvious. Like the phrase "infinite crawl space".
- The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy's three-legged race fakesteve.blogspot.com
A classic quote from last time round: "The Borg-Yahoo merger won't work. Here's why. It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster."
- Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com) robinsloan.com
Finally had a chance to read this. Very good; an Instapaper classic.
- Kalle Hagman kallehagman.com
Portfolio built with Google Maps controls.
- Page Speed firebug extension code.google.com
Google's answer to ySlow.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Rich Snippets googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Google has started looking for microformats and RDFa. Finally, something concrete to put in front of clients when arguing for microformats.
- Adactio: Journal—Microformation adactio.com
Google announced that it was following in the footsteps of Yahoo’s SearchMonkey in indexing microformats and RDFa to display in search results. For now, it’s a subset of microformats—hCard and hReview—on a subset of websites, including the newly microformated Yelp. The list of approved sites will increase over time so if you’re already publishing structured contact and review information, let Google know about it. But the other new announcement is equally important. After a lot of hard work, the value class pattern is ready for use.
- qsb-mac - Google Code code.google.com
Google Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web.
- Ending the Great H1 Debate | Web Design Blog: Web Design & Innovation in web standards : Viget Labs viget.com
According to Cutts, more than one h1 is fine as long as you don't go crazy. Pretty much as expected.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | YouTube to block UK music videos news.bbc.co.uk
Well done, everyone.
- Gadgets - Google Code code.google.com
- The new natural search spam | Consumers may love faceted navigation, but Google hates it multichannelmerchant.com
While useful for consumers, faceted navigation as normally implemented actually confuses the search engines by generating massive numbers of URL permutations that contain mostly duplicated content. This is bot spam.
"We are moving all FeedBurner accounts to Google Accounts." Necessary but a bit annoying.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
We now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL.
- Recreating the button | stopdesign stopdesign.com
The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS
- Geeking with Greg: Marissa Mayer at Web 2.0 glinden.blogspot.com
Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.
- AJAX APIs Playground code.google.com
- YouTube - Wikitude AR Travel Guide uk.youtube.com
Search landmarks in your surroundings and view them on a map, list, and on an Augmented Reality (AR) camera view: What you see is an annotated landscape, mountain names, landmark descriptions, and interesting stories.
- Google Analytics Blog: Want to track Adobe Flash? Now you can! analytics.blogspot.com
This feature is a translation of the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language that dramatically simplifies the ability to track Flash, Flex and AS3 content.
- WordPress › XML Google Maps « WordPress Plugins wordpress.org
Allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. You just have to add a link to your self defined Map from My Google Maps, Picasa Webalbum Picture Map, any geoRSS Feed (like Flickr), your uploaded Google Earth file (kmz, kml) or any other dynamic or static Google Earth file (umapper.com, flickr.com, etc.)
- Google's Android Gets Game - Forbes.com forbes.com
"The [service] attracting the most buzz is "WiFi Army," a first-person shooter game currently in beta. Like a mash-up of laser tag and the parlor game Assassin, participants meet on the street (using Google Maps) and "shoot" each other with their phone cameras."
"Google has thrown its weight behind ambitious plans to bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected half of the globe." Smart.
- Google Mobile Ads services.google.com
- PC Pro: News: Google: mobile browsers are dead pcpro.co.uk
"Google claims that every phone manufacturer will offer full web browsers within a year, hailing the end of mobile-specific browsers." Aside from browsers on the billions of handsets that've been sold worldwide to date.