It has been a busy week as usual, especially for those interested in the world of Geo.
In API and developer-product news...
Base diving with Google Gears covers an application that we built that searches Google Base and saves the information with Google Gears allowing for off-line use.
The Safe Browsing API was released, which allows your application to use the API to download an encrypted table for local, client-side lookups of URLs that you would like to check. Now you can stop phishers and malware abusers.
Guicing Up Your Testing is the first article in a series on Google Guice by our own Dick Wall.
The Google AJAX Feed API's Slide Show Control is now available as a Google Gadget.
The mapping world was busy as always:
- Add Traffic to Your Mashup (Button + Legend, too)!
- Three new KML resources up
- Set Country/Viewport Restrictions in your GClientGeocoder for More Tailored Results
Around Google
T.V. Raman has discussed his experience using the new open source OCR that we are working on, comparing it to commercial alternatives that he uses.
Put your business on Google Maps with the Local Business Center which has launched a new look.
The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit took place at Google last week. For more information read the wrapup article.
Google Tech Talks
Semantic Web: The Semantic Web is a field aiming a the creation, deployment, and interoperation of machine readable data on the Internet. In the talk we present some projects in DERI on Semantic Web technologies - notably Semantic Interlinking of Online Community sites, Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering, and ActiveRDF, a library for Browsing, programming and navigating Semantic Web data.
View more tech talks.
Podcasts
In Google Developer Podcast Episode Four we had the chance to interview Mark Limber on Google SketchUp, and how developers can use the Ruby, C++, and other APIs.
The OpenMRS Project: You'll get a chance to learn from Paul about the history of OpenMRS, life as a brand new organization in Summer of Code, and the social change uses of open source in developing nations.
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