• Chrome Frame, Google’s IE Tool Has Been Killed
    [June 17, 2013] Google announced that it is retiring Chrome Frame, its way of “chrome-ifying Internet Explorer”. It was a way to let developers get around the not-modern-enough IE of 2009. The plug-in left beta in 2011.
  • The End Of Google Checkout
    [May 30, 2013] Google announced that it would shut down Google Checkout in favor of Google Wallet back in 2011. This week, the company announced that in six months Google checkout will be officially dead to merchants.
  • Google Released I/O 2013 Session Schedule
    [May 6, 2013] Google I/O must be somewhat overwhelming for some developers. There’s a lot of ground to cover and you can only attend so many sessions in a day. That’s why a tight schedule is of the utmost importance so you better start building one now before it’s too late.
  • Google Doesn’t Want You Building Custom File Pickers In Your Drive Apps
    [April 18, 2013] You’re building a Google Drive app, and now you want to implement a file picker. You can either build your own or use an existing service. Google argues against the former in its latest Google Drive SDK hangout:
  • Google Releases Interactive Chrome DevTools Training Course
    [March 25, 2013] Developing Web apps can be made easier by using Chrome DevTools, but not everybody knows how to use them. To remedy that, Google is now offering a free interactive course on how to get the most out of the development toolset.
  • Design Android Notifications
    [March 4, 2013] There’s a time and place for every notification in Android. Consumers won’t be happy if you constantly spam them, but smart notification design is key to enhanced engagement. Learn more about it in this week’s Android Design in Action.
  • Facebook Launches New Hub For Developers
    [February 11, 2013] Facebook has just announced Developers Live, a new destination (in the form of a Facebook app) that allows developers to keep up with all of the latest news.
  • Custom Search Engine Gets Redesigned By Google
    [January 21, 2013] Google has launched a new layout for Google CSE (Custom Search Engine), which displays results in an overlay, over top of any content on the page.
  • 30-Minute Presentation On Getting Started With AdMob On Android
    [January 3, 2013] Google has put out a presentation about getting started on Android with AdMob on its Developers YouTube channel. If you want to monetize your business using Google’s mobile platform, it might be worth a half hour of your time.
  • Watch Google’s Latest TV Developers Office Hours
    [December 3, 2012] Google has put out a new Google TV developers Office Hours hangout. The video features a developer demoing a gesture-based interface for Google TV.
  • Android Developer Team Answers Questions
    [November 12, 2012] Google has uploaded another Android Developers Office Hours hangout. It features the EMEA-based Android Developer Releations team (from the Google TV Team) answering questions. As usual, it's about an hour long.
  • Google Uploaded A New Google TV Developers Hangout Video
    [October 25, 2012] Google has been posting a lot of hangouts to its developer YouTube channel lately, and this week, they uploaded one for Google TV app developers.
  • iOS Facebook SDK Updated
    [October 8, 2012] Facebook recently updated its iOS SDK to version 3.1 to take advantage of iOS 6. The update brought a number of other features, but there's still much work to be done. Facebook now has a smaller update available that you'll want to grab as soon as possible.
  • AdWords Scripts Available Worldwide
    [September 10, 2012] Google announced that AdWords scripts are now to all advertisers around the world. Google has also added the ability to run more complex scripts, use real-time data to manage campaigns and automate scripts with scheduling.
  • The App Dashboard For Facebook Receives An Upgrade
    [August 23, 2012] Any Facebook developer is no doubt well acquainted with the app dashboard. Long time developers know the ins and outs like the back of their hand.
  • Three Ways to Build Links in the Age of Google Penguin
    [August 6, 2012] Last month, I talked about The Seven C's of Content Quality, as a way of helping you develop higher quality content. Why is this important? Because the Google Panda algorithm rewards quality content above any other on-page signal, and the Seven C's serve as a proxy for Panda's content quality algorithm. Still, on-page factors are less important to Google ranking than links and social signals-how Google determines the relative importance and context of the page to other experiences on the web. That’s what we’ll cover today.
  • Do you know what gclid= is?
    [July 16, 2012] Recently we were a little stumped with gclid and the Google Analytics cookie that's placed on user's computers. We were asked:
  • Is Google About To Maim Amazon Cloud?
    [June 25, 2012] I don't like to use the word "kill," when it comes to tech competition. Rarely does one product actually come out and kill its competitor. That goes especially for when the competitor is a market leader, and an Internet giant, but even giants can be vulnerable to severe competitive damage, and Amazon may soon have a big battle on its hands.
  • Google?s Official Recommendation for Building SEO Friendly Mobile Sites!
    [June 11, 2012] Finally, Google has released its official recommendations on how to build mobile sites that Google likes and that are user friendly too. To sum up the recommendations in a nut shell, the best idea is to opt for a responsive design or you may turn to device-specific HTML. The search engine has also specified the need for you to communicate when you are using device-specific HTML.
  • 6 Tips to Create Page Titles That Get Clicked
    [May 25, 2012] Anyone who does their own website's SEO will know that your website's page titles play an important role in determining your success.
  • Google Does 53 Updates to its Search Algorithm in April
    [May 7, 2012] Google has released a list search updates that came in to effect in the month of April. This is apart from the Penguin update, Panda 3.5 Refresh and the Panda 3.6 Rollout that has happened in the last couple of weeks. 53 changes that affect search results.
  • Negative SEO- What Google Says and What You Can Do?
    [April 23, 2012] Negative SEO- when others (read-competitors) can affect your rankings with bad links. Is this thought just SEO paranoia or does this actually happen?
  • Six Good SEO Ideas: Making Sense of Google?s Latest SEO Statement
    [April 9, 2012] Last week, I wrote an article making sense of the five common SEO mistakes portion of Google's latest SEO commentary, posted on March 19th on Google's Webmaster Central Blog.
  • Google Gives a Facelift to the Ad Review Center for AdSense
    [March 27, 2012] The Ad Review Center for AdSense is now more ?powerful' as it has been overhauled by Google. Publishers now have more control over the ads showing up on their sites.
  • GWT Adds Admin Tools
    [March 12, 2012] It's finally happened! Google Webmaster Tools now has the much sought after feature- user administration. This feature was recently added to Webmaster Tools by Google, and now provides site owners to can grant third party access to their Google Webmaster Tools account, quite easily. Now webmasters can give other people access to their Google Webmaster Tools account without giving over username and password details. In fact they need not have to give other admins full control of their site too.