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Sidebar Gadgets: Coming soon to a Calendar near you
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
We've always believed users should have open and unencumbered access to their data, and Google Calendar is no exception. Whether through iCalendar, CalDAV, or the Calendar Data API, there are a multitude of options to access Calendar from other applications. However, developers have been asking for a way to extend the Google Calendar interface itself, and we've been listening.
Today, as part of
Google Calendar Labs
, we're opening up Google Calendar as a gadget container.
Gadget developers will already be familiar with most of this environment, complete with features such as OpenSocial for social networking and OAuth for working with third-party services. However, for the first time we're also providing an API to control and interact with the Calendar user interface. This means that even though your gadgets are running inside a sandbox, they are first-class elements of the Calendar user experience. In fact, many of the experiments we've made available through Calendar Labs were written using the publicly available gadget API.
We hope you'll share our excitement in opening up the Google Calendar interface. To get you started, take a look at the
Sidebar Gadget documentation and sample code
. If you have any questions or ideas for improvement, feel free to visit the
Calendar API help group
and let us know!
By Trevor Johns, Google Developer Team
Go Go Gadgets in Asia
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
By Min Li Chan, Google Developer Programs - APAC
It's cold and cloudy in Hong Kong and Taiwan this week, as our trusty
weather gadgets
indicate. At the Googleplex, where a quintessentially Californian winter is holding up, we had the distinct honor of hosting our Taiwan and Hong Kong gadget developer contest winners -- Hu Chih-Pao flew in from Taipei to tour our campus in December (see photos from his visit on his
blog
), while Alex Ng and Liu Chun-Yu visited us from Hong Kong two weeks ago.
Of the 190 submissions for the gadget contest in Taiwan, Chih-Pao produced a whopping
43 entries
, including a real-time
Taiwan Train Timetable gadget
and a gadget for the
Taiwanese traditional worship
of the Buddha of Mercy:
Alex and Chun-Yu's innovative use of gadget technology caught our eye, with their real-time
local Hong Kong TV program guide
with keyword-activated YouTube views, as well as their
Feng Shui
gadget:
Japan's
gadget awards
last year also showcased great gadgets from a pool of 178 submissions, including:
The
Earthquake information gadget
:
The
QR code generator gadget
from our Grand Prix winner,
kilo
:
(QR codes are widely used in Japan to store and display information, particularly URLs, which can be scanned and launched from a browser-enabled camera phone equipped with QR reader software).
We hosted our illustrious Japanese gadget contest winners last year at our office in Tokyo -- check out our interviews with them
here
.
We're thrilled to experience the creative, inspired, and locally relevant ways that developers are using gadgets and Google APIs here in Asia. As a quick sampler, take a look at the submitted contest gadgets for
Japan
,
Taiwan
, and
Hong Kong
on iGoogle in
Japan
,
Taiwan
, and
Hong Kong
.
Google Developer Podcast Episode Five: Adam Sah on Google Gadgets
Monday, July 16, 2007
By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs
Using iTunes?
The
Google Gadget Ventures
announcement was very exciting for us and the community. We couldn't wait to get Adam Sah of the Google Gadgets team to discuss Gadgets, and the new announcement.
Interview with Adam Sah on Google Gadget Ventures
What will you learn from this interview?
What Google Gadgets actually are and how they compare to widgets and blidgets and blodgets and ....
How there is a family of Gadgets. They aren't just for iGoogle!
How you can develop Gadgets in HTML, Flash, Java applets, and more. After all, this is just iframes people.
The security model with Gadgets
The subtlety behind phishing and Gadgets
The long tail of Gadgets, and how to share and promote your Gadgets
How you can post Gadgets on your blog or website
How we are in the second generation of Gadgets (not just a minimal view on your web app)
What an appropriate amount of resources to put on Gadgets
How to monetize your Gadgets
Information about the Google Gadget Ventures program
How to get going with the
scratchpad
in seconds
How Mapplets are Gadget too
How this is about real business (IBM and Salesforce.com)
How to deal with high volume Gadgets, and how we are here to help.
The role and timing of standardization of the gadget platforms
Read more about
Google Gadgets
, and check out the
forum
.
Start listening now
You can
download the episode directly
, or
subscribe to the show
(
click here for iTunes one-click subscribe
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News
The following are links that we mentioned in the podcast:
AppleScripting Google Desktop
means that you can tell the Google Desktop application to do things for you via script. Boss around the system from your own applications and scripts.
The new Google Earth Outreach program has some tutorials such as showing you how to
create KML from a spreadsheet
.
The
Google Mashup Gallery
is a mashup itself, that allows you to add your mashup to the mix. Now, everyone will be able to find your Britney vs. Christina mashup!
Geotagged Picasa JSON/KML Output + Driving Directions = Instant Scenic Tours
: If you were following the Google blogs yesterday, you would have heard that Picasa now gives you a sleek drag+drop interface for geotagging your photos, and that the Picasa Google data API now outputs the geotagged data using GeoRSS & GML elements. And if you were excited by all that news and immediately visited Picasa to try out the new feature, you might have noticed the big blue KML icon next to a "View in Google Earth" hyperlink. So Picasa now gives developers geotagged photo data both in KML output and the standard Google data API output formats, and that means we map developers have a lot of ways to start playing around with Picasa photos.
New
drag-to-route driving directions in google maps
- once you have a route, drag the blue line around to have it automatically re-route using your desired roads or intermediate destinations.
Google Gadget Ventures
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
By Tom Stocky, Google Developer Programs
Good news for Google Gadget developers. We've just launched
Google Gadget Ventures
, a new pilot program for distributing grants and seed investments to gadget developers and gadget-related businesses. We're excited about the opportunity this will give developers to build even richer, more useful gadgets and get recognized for doing it.
The program will provide two kinds of funding. First, we'll invite promising gadget developers (individuals or businesses) to apply for $5,000 grants to fund further development. These are not loans or equity investments; they're simply grants for gadgets that already have a thriving user base and we think have potential for even more improvement. To be considered for a grant, your gadget needs to have more than 250,000 pageviews per week, and you need to provide a one-page proposal on how you'd like to improve your gadget. This is a no-strings-attached grant; we won't ask for repayment of any kind. We simply ask that you work on your project in good faith.
Secondly, the program will make $100,000 seed investments in companies that either start as a Google Gadget or have a large Google Gadget component. In order to be eligible for a seed investment, you must have received a $5,000 grant, and you must propose a plan for making your gadget financially sustainable.
If you're interested in creating your own
Google Gadget
, we have several tools that can help. The
Google Mashup Editor
has an option for instantly deploying your web app as a gadget. For Java programmers,
Google Web Toolkit
provides another good way to write a gadget or a full-featured AJAX app with a gadget component. The
Google Data APIs
and
AJAX Feed API
can help power your gadget with rich data sources. You can even add offline functionality using
Google Gears
.
We hope you find these tools useful for creating gadgets, and we're eager to hear what you think in the
Google Gadgets discussion group
.
The Value of Google Gadgets
Friday, February 23, 2007
Post by Adam Sah, Google Gadgets Team
The past year has been very exciting for
Google Universal Gadgets
. We've seen developers create nearly 4000 gadgets that can be syndicated, enabling users to do anything from
monitoring their water intake
to
checking their location on a map
. These gadgets can be added to any page on the web, not to mention the
Google Personalized Homepage
,
Google Desktop
,
Google Page Creator
, and most recently the
Windows Vista Sidebar and Mac OSX Dashboard
.
In order to promote a more transparent and open ecosystem for gadget developers, we have introduced a new feature in the
Gadgets For Your Webpage directory
detailing the approximate number of gadget views each gadget receives per week. We expect that gadget developers (and potential gadget developers!) will be able to use this information to better understand the reach of their gadgets. A quick check will show that hundreds of gadgets are getting tens of thousands of pageviews each week -- and many are even getting millions.
And now, the technical stuff: These numbers are approximations, representing the number of times each gadget is rendered across all places Google Gadgets can be viewed. The pageview count is aggregated weekly to smooth out the normal daily fluctuations and we have filtered out automatic page refreshes. Individual gadget authors who want to know more specific information about their gadget's traffic should make use of the
Google Analytics library
.
As always, we're listening to your feedback on the
Google Gadgets Developer Forum
-- and if you want to get started writing gadgets, you can dive right into our
API Docs
. You can have your first one out the door before you know it.
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