Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Developing for Google+

Just a quick note: Google+ API released: The Google+ platform brings that nuance and richness to all of the web. We started with Google’s own products, added the +1 button for site owners and content publishers, and introduced games from a handful of partners. That’s just the beginning though — we want every one of [...]

Yet another like button

Facebook’s like button. This time from Google: +1 http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/

Location queries in Google

I didn’t know this before, but Google provides Location-Queries. So a query like ‘Restaurants 4 km around Madrid‘ results in a nice list of restaurants 4 km around Madrid. Nice. :)

“think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler”

Protocol buffers are Google’s language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams [...]

Jira Plugin for Google’s Chrome browser

A nice plugin to integrate Jira into Google Chrome.

The Google-Skull scares me

I am using Google Mail with Google’s Chrome Browser and I am a little bit scared of this scull.

Goo.gl URL shortening

Image via CrunchBase Didn’t know, that Google has it’s own URL shortener Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. The core goals of this service are: Stability – ensuring that the [...]

Google Mail phone call feature

What a nice feature:

Setting Zoom level in Google Maps v3 after fitBounds()

I just had the problem that I added multiple markers to a v3 Google Map and executed fitBounds to see them all at ones. But the zoom level was much to high, when having only one marker. Calling the setZoom() method afterwards didn’t make any difference, so I searched a little bit and found this [...]

Different icons for Google Maps

Just found this nice collection of free icons. They are especially designed for the use with Google Maps: google-maps-icons