April greetings to our Google Friends. Enjoy this month's update on
our products and services.
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POWER TIP
Share your bookmarks
Saving and sharing bookmarks is now easier, faster and more social.
With a single click, you can now share your bookmarks with your
friends on Facebook and your followers on Twitter or Buzz. We show you
how many people are following your list so you can track how the
popularity of your lists change over time. We've also created a
bookmarklet that allows you to add any page on the web to any of your
lists, directly from your browser's toolbar, with just one click. When
viewing a page that you would like to add to one of your bookmark
lists, click the bookmarklet in your browser's toolbar, select the
list you want to add it to and you're done. To use this feature, drag
the bookmarklet button from any list page to your toolbar.
https://www.google.com/bookmarks
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NEW PRODUCTS & UPDATES
Search Stories Video Creator
The Search Stories Video Creator tool allows you to quickly and easily
create your own animated search story on YouTube. All you need to do
is type in your Google searches, pick some music and you've got your
very own story to share with your friends.
http://www.YouTube.com/SearchStories
Google Follow Finder
This experimental service in Google Labs helps you expand your Twitter
network. Enter your Twitter account name and you'll see a list of
people you might be interested in following. You can also get
interesting suggestions by entering other Twitter user names.
http://www.followfinder.googlelabs.com
Earth View in Google Maps
Google Maps now includes Earth view, a way to see Google Earth's 3D
buildings, imagery and terrain right in your browser. To help you get
started with this feature, we've selected 36 places for you to fly to,
which you'll see in the left-hand panel on Maps if you click the link
below. Simply go to Google Maps and click the Earth button to explore
the world in 3D.
http://maps.google.com/earthview
Updates to Google Apps
We've introduced some new functionalities to both Google Docs and
Gmail. Documents support better formatting options with a margin
ruler, better numbering and bullets and more flexible image placement.
Spreadsheets now have a formula editing bar, cell auto-complete, drag-
and-drop columns and more. We've also added a new drawings editor to
Google Docs, so now you can build flow charts, schematics, and other
kinds of diagrams collaboratively. In Gmail, we've introduced a new
nested label feature and the ability to drag and drop attachments. You
can also see people's calendar availability and send an event invite
right from Gmail.
http://www.googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/google-apps-highlights-4162010.html
Hubble Telescope's 20th birthday
On April 24, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Hubble
telescope's launch into Earth orbit with a Google Doodle. We also
teamed up with the Space Telescope Science Institute to share 20 of
our favorite Hubble images. You can see these images on our Hubble
birthday webpage and fly to their locations in space by downloading
the Hubble tour in Google Earth.
http://earth.google.com/hubble20th
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MISCELLANY
We think it's important for government information to be made
available and accessible to the public. To support this goal, we
recently introduced the Public Data Explorer, an experimental
visualization tool in Google Labs designed to help you comprehend
large volumes of data and statistics through rich visualizations. You
can mash up data from public agencies, non-profits and organizations
using line graphs, bar graphs, maps and bubble charts. We also
recently announced a partnership with the Sunlight Foundation to
support the Design for America contest to make government data more
comprehensible to the public. If you live in the U.S. and have ideas
for how government data can be made more accessible and transparent,
the deadline to enter the contest is May 17.
http://www.google.com/publicdata
http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/designforamerica
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