October Speedlinking

I haven't been able to post as often or as in depth as I'd like to have this past month. I chalk it up mostly to work, we all love 12 hour days right? But now that sign-off has passed and our last release of 2007 is calmly approaching (its on Friday), things have settled down a bit. Below are some great links from October, most of which I wanted to mention at some point and haven't gotten a chance to until now. Enjoy.

• The JavaScript Library for Google Calendar was released. This allows for authenticated, cross domain access. Hopefully Picasa Web will follow suit.
  
  
• GWT goes to the iPhone
  
  
• The Python Client Library came out with version 1.0.8
  
  
• The Digg Oracle demonstrates Gears' Worker Pool
  
  
• Google's Stock broke $600. It is now well over $700
  
  
• Orkut ramps up for a US push
  
  
• Vortex combines the know-how of Dojo and Gears
  
  
• LabeledMarker v1.1 in Google Maps comes out with Marker and Label toggling
  
  
• Google Reader comes out with Subscriber stats. Read about the controversy here. Google responds here
  
  
• Google Maps Goes Social
  
  
• The AJAX Search API gives direct access to YouTube Channels
  
  
• Blogger GData JavaScript client library released with offline Blogger client example
  
  
• Google Code Search goes to SiteMaps
  
  
• The Ajax API gets Dynamic Feed Control
  
  
• You can now play Youtube videos in Google Earth
  
  
• Summer of code wrapped up with Graduation
  
  
• Google Finance adds new Gadgets and an API
  
  
• YouTubes player becomes Customizable
  
  
• A Greasemonkey script lets you have nested folders in Gmail
  
  
• Blogger adds Comment Notification
  
  
• Google cracks down on pages selling PageRank links
  
  
• Google contributes to MySQL
  
  
• Google Mac updates Leopard
  
  
• Gmail enables IMAP
  
  
• Google Maps gets Clickable Polygons
  
  
• There is now a wizard for adding Google Gadgets to your blog
  
  
• Webmaster central fixes the Cross Domain Sitemap errors
  
  
• Google maps adds Flash Content into KLM
  
  
• Google Notebook adds labels and bookmarks
  
  
• Blog Search is now included in Google History
  
  
• A cheap "Google PC" is on the market
  
  
• A new Photo Picker for Gmail and Orkut pulls from Picasa
  
  
• GTalk may soon be able to connect to other networks like AIM and Yahoo! Talk
  
  
• The new version of Gmail comes out
  
  
• Google Code gets a facelift
  
  
• Webmaster Tools gets Geographic Targeting
  
  
• The Google Gadget Directory gets a facelift
  
  
• Microsoft is going to release the Microsoft Sync Framework to compete with Gears
  
  
• Picasa Web gets opened. (Flikr can transfer a picasa album to itself)
  
  
• Webmasters can now provide feedback on sitelinks
  
  
• Blog.gears comes out
  
  
• Mapplets gets a documentation and example update
  
  
• New articles are posted for KML
  
  
• The Ajax slideshow gets a full Control Panel
  
  
• Map of the Dead!! Google Maps overlay shooting game!

Google Mashup Editor Blog: New Stuff - 10/4 Feature Release

Google Mashup Editor Blog: New Stuff - 10/4 Feature Release

There was a feature release for the Google Mashup Editor and they also created a new blog for all updates and notices.

Features include

• Geo encoding of any element in feed
• XPath helper in Feed Browser
• In memory feed - ${tmp}
• google.mashups.isUserAuthenticated(): method that returns true if and only if the user is authenticated
• centerOnLocation(address) method added to map module: Takes a string and centers on the geo encoded location that is represented by the string

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed IE6 error that causes fatal errors in some applications.
• Fixed Maps bugs and upgraded to Maps API version 2.88.
• Fixed the display of images in tabs.
• Performace improvements for syntax highlighting in the Editor.

GME 9/14 Feature Release

A new version of the Google Mashup Editor was released on Friday. Highlights of new features include:
- Ratings and Labels for external feeds
- Now uses GWT 1.4 (newest version)
- New "Save" event. List and item modules throw a save event when new entries are added to a feed
- Smarter loading of external libraries
- Documentation and samples were updated to support new features

Bug fix highlights:
- Auto-complete can now be used when entry has a coma
- "nowrap" style for blue-theme CSS class was removed
- Documentation links in the editor now point to the correct docs
- Source highlighting in the editor was fixed

For the complete list, check out this post

Google Mashup Editor Blog: New Tutorial: Using Picasa Web Album Feeds in GME

The guys over on the Mashup team have posted a new tutorial on how to use the Google Mashup Editor to mash Picasa Web Albums with a Google Map. The example is here. I started working on my own but I haven't really played with the GME before. Hopefully I'll have that tomorrow.