The New York Times has a longer article on censorship of and through Google around the world. (Note as opposed to what you might understand from the article, not all countries’ censorship requests are forwarded to Chilling Effects. “We do not post removals from Google.cn on Chilling Effects because the Chinese government does not send written removal requests to Google,” Google once told me...
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Google is going live with panorama photos for Google Maps for New Zealand. When I tried it just now I saw the Street View feature already, though the maps were not colored Street-View-blue yet when clicking the yellow “peg man” icon.
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Sterling Udell is a freelance web developer who started programming with Google Maps since before the API was released. He’s the author of the book Beginning Google Maps Mashups.
In the last couple of days I’ve been actively exploring the creation of gadgets for GMail, and wanted to share some of my findings, both for GMail users and other gadget developers.
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Google says that recent reports on a Gmail vulnerability aren’t true (Google might mean this one at GeekCondition.com, as blogged here earlier; my emphasis in the quote):
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The YouTube.com player has become a bit wider. Ionut says, “YouTube’s Google Video-ization continues by using more space for the player and less space for the sidebar. YouTube changed the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9, generally used for high-definition TV.” Videos using the older proportions show black pillars to the left and right. [Hat tip to Haochi and Ionut!]
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Reto Meier is a software engineer in London. He blogs about technology, programming & Google, and is author of the book Professional Android Application Development.
Philipp Lenssen from Germany, author of Google Apps Hacks, shares his views and news on the search industry in the daily Google Blogoscoped. Items here are reprinted with his permission.
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