Static Maps API - Google Code The Google Static Maps API lets you embed a Google Maps image on your web page without requiring JavaScript or any dynamic page loading. The Google Static Map service creates your map based on URL parameters sent through a standard HTTP request and returns the map as an image you can display on your web page. New! The Google Static Maps API Usage Limits have changed. Creating an API key and including it in your request allows you to track usage in the APIs Console, and to purchase additional quota if required. This document details the Static Maps API v2. A Quick Example The following example contains the URL of a static map image of downtown New York City, which is displayed below: Notice that you don't need to do anything "special" to get this image to show up on the page. Audience This document is intended for website and mobile developers who want to include Google Static Maps API images within a webpage or mobile application. API Key
Developer's Guide Overview - Google Data Protocol - Google Code Warning: Most newer Google APIs are not Google Data APIs. The Google Data APIs documentation applies only to the older APIs that are listed in the Google Data APIs directory. For information about a specific new API, see that API's documentation. For information about authorizing requests with a newer API, see Google Accounts Authentication and Authorization. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. The Google Data Protocol provides a secure means for external developers to write new applications that let end users access and update the data stored by many Google products. This set of documents is intended for anyone who wants to understand Google Data Protocol. If you're looking for the Developer's Guide for a specific API, visit the Google Data Protocol API Directory. If you want to access an API in your favorite programming language, visit the Client Libraries download page. Protocol Version 2.0 vs. HTTP ETags.
Apture • Apture.com BigTable BigTable is a compressed, high performance, and proprietary data storage system built on Google File System, Chubby Lock Service, SSTable (log-structured storage like LevelDB) and a few other Google technologies. It is not distributed outside Google, although Google offers access to it as part of its Google App Engine. History[edit] BigTable development began in 2004[1] and is now used by a number of Google applications, such as web indexing,[2] MapReduce, which is often used for generating and modifying data stored in BigTable, Google Maps,[4] Google Book Search, "My Search History", Google Earth, Blogger.com, Google Code hosting, Orkut,[4] YouTube,[5] and Gmail.[6] Google's reasons for developing its own database include scalability and better control of performance characteristics. Design[edit] BigTable maps two arbitrary string values (row key and column key) and timestamp (hence three-dimensional mapping) into an associated arbitrary byte array. Other similar software[edit]
50 Resources for Getting the Most Out of Google Analytics Google Analytics is a very useful free tool for tracking site statistics. For most users, however, it never becomes more than just a pretty interface with interesting graphs. The resources below will help anyone, from the beginner to those who have been using Google Analytics for some time, learn how to get the most out of this great tool. For Beginners The following list of links will help you get started with Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented by Google Analytics. How to Use Google Analytics for Beginners – Mahalo’s how-to guide for beginners. Tips & Tricks If you’re already fairly familiar with Google Analytics and you’re ready to dig deeper and learn more about how to make use of the information that is available to you with Google Analytics, this list of tips & tricks is for you. Plugins, Hacks & Additions Want to learn how to get even more out of and extend Google Analytics by extending it with third party plugins, additions and hacks?
The Huge Collection of Google Analytics Tips | Search Engine Jou Putting aside all recent arguments and gossip as per privacy issues (yep, nothing is probably totally free and Google Analytics should be using its (your?) data in some way), I should confess, I love the tool and use it. I’ve been compiling the list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate. Today I am sharing the list and expect you to share yours too! Note: I haven’t tried all of these tricks with the new Google Analytics code yet, so if there are any problems with any of them, please report. Track 404 page (more info here): I’ve been reporting on the importance of handling your 404 page properly. Classify your site visitors, e.g. track the browsing and buying behavior of your “customers” (those who subscribed, made a purchase or downloaded your product): <script type=”text/javascript”>pageTracker. Google Analytics help page gives the following examples of the option usage: Track your banner ads with the same code as the above one.
earth album alpha - a slicker google maps + flickr mash-up Over 2 billion email messages migrated to Google Apps While the majority of Google Apps customers choose to “go Google” quickly without transferring old data from their previous IT environment, some companies are reluctant to step into the future without bringing along emails, calendar entries and contacts from the past. To that end we’ve released several data migration utilities, including Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook®, which we announced last week. These tools have helped unshackle thousands of organizations from their previous technology solutions. Our customers have migrated more than 2 billion email messages to Google Apps, and in the past 2 months alone, more than 14 million calendar events and 6 million contacts (not counting domain-wide address lists) were migrated to Google Apps from Microsoft Exchange® and Lotus Notes®. It’s been some time since several of our migration utilities launched, so we thought we’d summarize our data migration options here. Migrating from Microsoft® Exchange and Microsoft Outlook®:
Pivot Tables now in Google spreadsheets Posted by Jaideep Mirchandani, Product Manager, Google Apps Over the past few months, we’ve released a string of new features in Google Docs to give your business more tools for collaborative document editing and data analysis. From simpler file uploads to discussions and mobile editing in documents, we’re making it easier for you and your colleagues to work together on the web. Continuing with this effort, we’re launching pivot tables in Google spreadsheets, which will be rolled out to all Rapid Release users over the next 24 hours. With pivot tables, you can quickly narrow down large data sets to get high level insights. Say you run a retail chain and you have thousands of rows of sales data broken down by purchase. To see how pivot tables work in Google spreadsheets, check out this video: We hope pivot tables in Google spreadsheets will help you save time analyzing your data.