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  • Bonnie Bogle
    Nov 18, 2008
    Google CEO Eric Schmidt Talked Open Data, Innovation
    Schmidt Talks About Smart Policy and Openness Will Benefit Us
    In a talk put on by the New America Foundation today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt talked about how government policy should spur innovation, and how it can. It was good to hear Schmidt emphasize the benefits of opening up government data – and how...
  • Ian Cairns
    Apr 9, 2008
    Mapping Content to Better Tell a Story: Refugee Camps on Google Earth
    Using Maps to Convey Information and Get People More Involved
    Yesterday's announcement that the UNHCR and Google are mapping humanitarian work in refugee camps is a really encouraging sign of what's to come in online advocacy. Maps are incredible for the amount of digestible information they can quickly convey...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Mar 18, 2008
    5 comments
    Washington DC Google's Summer of Code Event: Get Your Drupal Project Sponsored
    Understand the Application Process, Find a Mentor, and Learn More This Thursday
    We're taking Summer of Code local to university students in Washington, DC. On Thursday we're hosting an event on Google's Summer of Code for Drupal for students interested in participating this year. Past and future participants will be on hand to...
  • Aron Novak
    Feb 7, 2008
    13 comments
    FeedAPI 1.0 Released
    New Flexible Aggregator for Drupal Ready for Use
    After being in development for about seven months, we released FeedAPI 1.0 nearly two weeks ago! This is really exciting for me and everyone else who has been craving a more flexible aggregator for Drupal. We wanted FeedAPI to be as flexible and as...
  • Ian Ward
    Apr 12, 2007
    1 comment
    The (Drupal) Boys of Summer: SMS and Aggregation for Google Summer of Code
    We found out today we'll be mentors for two of Google's Summer of Code projects, and we are excited. In sum, 20 Drupal projects were accepted in the Summer of Code, which is great news for the community. Myself along with Ted Serbinski from...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Feb 1, 2006
    Advertising blog posts
    Our client Haiti Innovation recently received a Google Grant and we’ve been helping them on their AdWords campaign. In the past few months they’ve been blogging pretty aggressively to try to increase website traffic, and it’s worked. So when they...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Nov 14, 2005
    1 comment
    Urchin Gets more Google
    Urchin (link via the google cache) a web analytics company and a division of Google has just been drawn deeper in, been transformed, rebranded, and now re-emerged as Google Analytics. The business plan of what had been Urchin has been remade into...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Nov 10, 2005
    3 comments
    Google Speak
    Adding content to Google Base and thinking about Drupal
    A couple weeks ago when the not-yet-released Google Base briefly popped up online, a bunch of tech bloggers became really excited by this mysterious, new service to organize classifieds and other listings, possibly similar to eBay or Craigslist....
  • Eric Gundersen
    Oct 17, 2005
    Google Desktop Uninstalled... For Now
    The new google desktop is great until it starts thinking your computer is idle when it is not. I installed it a few weeks ago and loved the searching and was enjoying the feeds, the little notepad and looking at our flickr picts randomly role...
  • Ian Ward
    Oct 8, 2005
    2 comments
    Two New Releases, Heads Turns Back to Drupal
    Writeboard (http://writeboard.com/) came out this week, as did Google Reader at http://reader.google.com. These two releases spurred two separate but related conversations, the first about Writeboard and how Drupal can work as a Wiki, and/or do...