Google Friends Newsletter - February 2009
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Google Friends Newsletter
Feb 25, 2009, 8:08:29 PM2/25/09
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Google Friends Newsletter - February 2009
Winter greetings to all of our Google friends. We hope you enjoy this
month's update on our products and services.
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POWER TIP
Syncing for iPhone, Windows Mobile and SyncML devices
One of the hardest parts about switching phones is getting your
address book and calendar to your new device. We're making that
process a little easier with the release of a beta version of Google
Sync for the iPhone and Windows Mobile phones, as well as a contacts-
only version for phones that support SyncML. Google Sync lets you get
your Gmail contacts and Google Calendar events onto your phone so your
address book and calender are always up-to-date.
http://m.google.com/sync
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NEW PRODUCTS & UPDATES
Doodle 4 Google 2009: "What I Wish for the World"
This month we launched our second annual Doodle 4 Google competition
where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo
and see what new designs they come up with around the intriguing theme
"What I Wish for the World". The National Winner will win a $15,000
college scholarship to be used at the school of their choice and have
their design displayed on Google.com on May 21. We'll also award the
winner's school a $25,000 technology grant. The 40 finalists will
travel to Google's New York office and have their doodles in an
exhibition at the Smithsonian's, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design
Museum.
http://www.google.com/doodle4google
Collaborative Annotations on YouTube
The YouTube team has just completed a major upgrade to to annotations,
the interactive commentary you can add to videos. Now you can add
annotations to other people's videos (with permission from the video
owner, of course). And if you want to let your friends add annotations
to your video, simply view the video and you will see a special URL in
the "Video Owner Options" on the right (you can also access this URL
from the annotations editor). You can disable the URL at any time, and
you can always delete annotations added by others.
http://www.youtube.com
Ocean in Google Earth 5.0
We recently launched the next big step forward in 3D geo-browsing.
Google Earth 5.0 includes the long-awaited launch of Ocean, which
offers a way to drop below the surface and learn about one of the
world's greatest natural resources. Other features in the latest
version of Google Earth include Historical Imagery, which lets you
travel back in time with imagery from years past, and Touring, which
lets you create an easily sharable, narrated tour of your
destinations. You can also take a tour of the Red Planet by visiting
Mars in Google Earth.
https://earth.google.com
See where your friends are with Google Latitude
Google Latitude is a new Google Maps for mobile feature, as well as an
iGoogle gadget that lets you share your location with your friends,
and vice versa. Use your Google account to sign in, and then easily
invite friends from your existing list of contacts, or by entering
their email addresses. It's currently available on Android,
BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile devices; we will have support
for other handsets soon.
http://www.google.com/latitude
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MISCELLANY
Our co-founder Larry Page published the very first edition of Google
Friends Newsletter using eGroups in April 1998. Thanks to fans and
readers who keep coming back, it's a tradition we're proud to
continue. Since then, of course, new resources and tools have come
into being, giving us more ways to help interested folks understand
how we work and what we do. Our network of corporate blogs is a fast,
immediate way to share news as it happens, covering everything from
new product launches and features to some of the plain old silliness
that transpires in our offices around the world. And we regularly post
videos on the Google Channel on YouTube, where you'll find
presentations and talks given by Googlers as well as visits from
newsmakers. If you're hungry for more of the goings-on at Google, we
encourage you to check out some of these additional resources.
http://www.google.com/press/blogs/directory.html
http://www.youtube.com/google
Winter greetings to all of our Google friends. We hope you enjoy this
month's update on our products and services.
------------
POWER TIP
Syncing for iPhone, Windows Mobile and SyncML devices
One of the hardest parts about switching phones is getting your
address book and calendar to your new device. We're making that
process a little easier with the release of a beta version of Google
Sync for the iPhone and Windows Mobile phones, as well as a contacts-
only version for phones that support SyncML. Google Sync lets you get
your Gmail contacts and Google Calendar events onto your phone so your
address book and calender are always up-to-date.
http://m.google.com/sync
------------
NEW PRODUCTS & UPDATES
Doodle 4 Google 2009: "What I Wish for the World"
This month we launched our second annual Doodle 4 Google competition
where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo
and see what new designs they come up with around the intriguing theme
"What I Wish for the World". The National Winner will win a $15,000
college scholarship to be used at the school of their choice and have
their design displayed on Google.com on May 21. We'll also award the
winner's school a $25,000 technology grant. The 40 finalists will
travel to Google's New York office and have their doodles in an
exhibition at the Smithsonian's, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design
Museum.
http://www.google.com/doodle4google
Collaborative Annotations on YouTube
The YouTube team has just completed a major upgrade to to annotations,
the interactive commentary you can add to videos. Now you can add
annotations to other people's videos (with permission from the video
owner, of course). And if you want to let your friends add annotations
to your video, simply view the video and you will see a special URL in
the "Video Owner Options" on the right (you can also access this URL
from the annotations editor). You can disable the URL at any time, and
you can always delete annotations added by others.
http://www.youtube.com
Ocean in Google Earth 5.0
We recently launched the next big step forward in 3D geo-browsing.
Google Earth 5.0 includes the long-awaited launch of Ocean, which
offers a way to drop below the surface and learn about one of the
world's greatest natural resources. Other features in the latest
version of Google Earth include Historical Imagery, which lets you
travel back in time with imagery from years past, and Touring, which
lets you create an easily sharable, narrated tour of your
destinations. You can also take a tour of the Red Planet by visiting
Mars in Google Earth.
https://earth.google.com
See where your friends are with Google Latitude
Google Latitude is a new Google Maps for mobile feature, as well as an
iGoogle gadget that lets you share your location with your friends,
and vice versa. Use your Google account to sign in, and then easily
invite friends from your existing list of contacts, or by entering
their email addresses. It's currently available on Android,
BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile devices; we will have support
for other handsets soon.
http://www.google.com/latitude
-------------
MISCELLANY
Our co-founder Larry Page published the very first edition of Google
Friends Newsletter using eGroups in April 1998. Thanks to fans and
readers who keep coming back, it's a tradition we're proud to
continue. Since then, of course, new resources and tools have come
into being, giving us more ways to help interested folks understand
how we work and what we do. Our network of corporate blogs is a fast,
immediate way to share news as it happens, covering everything from
new product launches and features to some of the plain old silliness
that transpires in our offices around the world. And we regularly post
videos on the Google Channel on YouTube, where you'll find
presentations and talks given by Googlers as well as visits from
newsmakers. If you're hungry for more of the goings-on at Google, we
encourage you to check out some of these additional resources.
http://www.google.com/press/blogs/directory.html
http://www.youtube.com/google
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