Sujit Reddy has created an AS3 library for Google Calendar which includes:

1. Authenticating to the Calendar service
2. Retrieving calendar lists
3. Retrieving all calendars
4. Retrieving only calendars that a user owns
5. Managing calendars
6. Creating new calendars
7. Updating existing calendars
8. Deleting calendars
9. Retrieving events for a specified date range
10. Creating single-occurrence events
11. Updating events
12. Deleting events
13. Reminders and Notifications

At Sujit weblog you will see how to implement the library and the link to download.

Now that the end of the world, sorry I mean year is reaching again Google has provided the top search results for 2008. It’s always funny and curious to look at the results, at least for me.

So, for the Global Fastest Rising terms we have:

1. sarah palin
2. beijing 2008
3. facebook login

Inside U.S. we have also sarah palin, obama, facebook and twilight getting many hits.

Outside U.S. the terms winner’s are shared between: games, youtube, facebook, obama and many more.

“financial crisis” also has many searches but also terms has “who is obama” and “who is mccain” – Who cares?!

Take a look at the complete table at Google Zeitgeist Home

Today I tried to visit youtube.com which I found to be down. One hour later when opening YouTube I was presented with a banner to join my Google account with YouTube, cool! You can now login with your Google account.

I believe that Google should merge their Google Video with YouTube, it just doesn’t make sense to offer the same service (or similar) in two different places. Please Google merge all videos in one place.

Another feature YouTube could change is the 10 minutes limit for videos. We should be able to upload video files bigger than that. Please think about that.

Learn More About This Project

Available at Google Code

Know more at Maps API Blog

There’s some buzz about Google being able to read Flash text. It seems that Google is using Adobe Systems’ Search Engine SDK technology.

This is great news, Flash and SEO were like two “enemies” but I believe that finally great days are coming for Flash and Developers.

I’ll leave here the link to an article where you will get more info about this.

More: http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13530_1-9844989-28.html

Today I had a good surprise, it seems guys at Google decided to re-create SearchMash using Flex. Their interface will allow you to see small thumbnails of your search with Snap, consult related images, videos and maps.

Great job!

I found a article spectulating that Google might buy Adobe, and the reasons for it. Has for me this has no point at the moment. Anyone?!

Full article

As much as site publishers want to present the best possible presence to their visitors, they equally want to stay in the good graces of search engine spiders, and Google’s in particular. It presents a challenge to webmasters: how to use Flash while showing the Googlebot what it needs to see?

Full Article

“With almost no effort and at no cost, webpage owners can add complex, dynamically updating content to their own websites using Google Gadgets. Because there is such an enormous variety of Google Gadgets to choose from, webmasters also have a great deal of freedom to select only the gadgets that will best complement their own page. There are games, news clips, weather reports, maps, and more.”

Google Gadgets

Via lifehacker

Via Lifehacker

“Programming competition that will grab your interest, entice your mind and engage your skills.”

Tell me more

Create 3D objects for free with Google SketchUp

Google SketchUp

Authoring tool and publisher that lets you set up a web page at yourgmailname.googlepages.com.

http://pages.google.com/

Today Google introduced a new feature at Gmail that will allow user´s to chat with other user´s of Gmail
directly from the mail box…

This feature was not implemented in all mail accounts so if you still don´t see this feature at your Gmail account you will have to wait for the activation.

Take a look to a screenshot and get more info here

Yesterday while watching a video at “Google Video”, I detect some options at right panel to download the video, and a new option that will give you the code to embed the video on your site.

Google Video

Google.com – Top Gainers of 2005

1. Myspace

2. Ares

3. Baidu

4. wikipedia

5. orkut

6. iTunes

7. Sky News

8. World of Warcraft

9. Green Day

10. Leonardo da Vinci

Google News – Top Searches in 2005

1. Janet Jackson

2. Hurricane Katrina

3. tsunami

4. xbox 360

5. Brad Pitt

6. Michael Jackson

7. American Idol

8. Britney Spears

9. Angelina Jolie

10. Harry Potter

Froogle – Top Searches in 2005

1. ipod

2. digital camera

3. mp3 player

4. ipod mini

5. psp

6. laptop

7. xbox

8. ipod shuffle

9. computer desk

10. ipod nano

Visit the Google Press Center to take a look at the impact of some 2005 events.

Gmail accounts will now have a mini RSS reader built in. Simply go to settings and choose any RSS feed that you would like to be displayed in your inbox.

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