Announcing Ad Catalog v2 for iOS

We are pleased to announce the release of Ad Catalog v2 for iOS. Ad Catalog is a sample application which showcases a number of best practices when it comes to integrating AdMob ads into your iOS application.

This updated version shows how to integrate AdMob ads into four different types of iOS layouts - TabbedView, TableView, ScrollView and OpenGLView. Highlights include:

• The TabbedView example shows how to correctly implement a GADBannerView singleton that gets reused across many different views


• The TableView example shows how to correctly reuse a single ad inside multiple cells in a TableView


• The OpenGL and ScrollView examples show how to correctly dock an ad to the top or bottom of your screen, outside of your content

You can download a zip file from the google-mobile-dev download page, or you can get the source by taking a look at our online repository.

If you have any comments, questions, or feature requests for Ad Catalog, please let us know about them on the forum or during our office hours.

 - Raj Parameswaran, AdMob Team

Do Alexa Widgets Increase Your Alexa Ranking?

Most of the people on the internet tell you that by adding Alexa widgets to your blog will dramatically increase your Alexa ranking. However, we I would like to explain you is that there are sites like UpMyRank i.e a service in which traffic is exchanged to different domains, well this service is fake and the rankings can't get higher with them. Its better to avoid them rather then wasting your thousands of dollars on it.


Here is what alexa say's about putting alexa widgets on your blog's:

"Then there are the blogs that tell you to put one of our Alexa Widgets on your site. They all claim that your rank will improve dramatically. But, of course, it doesn't work. That would be ridiculous, right? But you wouldn't know that if you read these blogs."

I can't remember how many times I have seen the following titles, "How To Boost Your Alexa Rankings", How To Increase Your Alexa rankings, It's really amazing to see that most of the people really don't know how alexa work and what will increase alexa rank of their blogs in a guaranteed way.

Their is a saying that "Common sense is not common in common people" and it's really amazing to see that how many people fall for this. Alexa ranks websites on the basis of traffic, not on the basis of alexa widgets.

If you are really interested in increasing your alexa rankings, I would recommend you reading the following post:

• 10 Great Tips To Boost Your Website's Alexa Rank

Delivery Manager: A new way to manage email routing

Google Apps administrators can use a new feature in the administrator control panel to manage routing and basic filtering of email to on-premise systems as well as email to Google Apps users. These changes are a part of the integration of Postini and Google Apps.



Editions included: 

Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education



Languages Supported:

All languages



For more information:

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2685650

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/08/continuing-transition-from-postini-to.html



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Simplified SSO login screen in Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook

The login dialog for users who have enabled Single Sign On (SSO) login to Google Apps, but not Google password login has been simplified (shows only one option for entering a password), and the authentication landing page better redirects users back to the Google Apps Sync application.



Languages Supported:

All languages



Editions included:

Google Apps for Business, Government and Education



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http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=153463



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Scheduled Release track features update 8/21/12

Spreadsheets: Users now have the ability to name a range in a spreadsheet. You can then protect such a named range instead of protecting the whole sheet. You can also use the name of the range in formulas.

Spreadsheets: Users can now pick the color and style of cell borders. This features is accessible as an added option through the cell borders toolbar button.



The following features are intended for release to these domains on August 28th:

Gmail: 1:1 Video chat in Gmail has been upgraded and will be powered by Google+ Hangouts. If both sides have created a Google+ profile you will get the full Hangouts experience including the ability to add up to nine other people to the conversation, screen sharing and integrated Google Docs collaboration.



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Scheduled



Editions included:

Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education



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http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=63175

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/07/video-chat-with-whole-team-with.html

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1279090



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Don't Miss What's New In Analytics Each Month: Opt-In For The Product Update

Google Analytics is constantly being updated to provide you with powerful analytical tools and the best user experience possible. As a marketer or analyst, keeping up with these regular changes, updates, and tools will help you be more effective. You may already refer to our blog, Google+, and Twitter feed to stay up to date. Do you also know about our monthly product update email that compiles the Analytics highlights for the month?

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App Engine 1.7.1 Released

If there were an Olympic coding event, we have no doubt that the gold medal winner could be found amongst the App Engine developer community. So today we’ve got a new release out so you can hone your skills just in case they are needed in Rio in 2016.



App Admin

• Usage Report Download - We’ve added the ability to download the past 90 days of your application’s usage reports as a CSV file.

• Namespaces in the Memcache Viewer - The Admin Console now supports retrieving memcache values that are stored in a non-default namespace.

Python

• Appstats updates - We’ve included a few new things in appstats with 1.7.1. You can now view RPC cost information in appstats. We’ve also added an interactive console which lets you trigger and then examine an RPC call for real-time debugging.

• PyCrypto 2.6 support - We’ve included the latest version of PyCrypto as an option for third party libraries in Python 2.7.

Java

DataNucleus App Engine Plugin 2.1.0 - We’re excited to announce that with the latest upgrade we’re making V2 of the DataNucleus plugin fully supported. V2 adds support for JPA 2 and JDO 3, and this point release contains a variety of bug fixes. You can see the full list here.



Appstats Analytics Trusted Tester

We are looking for early Python and Java Trusted Testers to try a new interactive visualization tool for troubleshooting and tuning application performance. If you are interested in trying out this new tool please sign up here.  



URLFetch

We’ve updated the way URLFetch handles multiple headers in response to one of our public issues. When a response contains the same header multiple times, these values will now be returned as a list.


Conversion API Decommission

We are decommissioning the experimental Conversion API as of our November release. Please begin exploring alternative document conversion mechanisms.



The complete list of features and bug fixes for 1.7.1 can be found in our release notes (Java, Go, Python). For App Engine coding questions and answers check us out on Stack Overflow, and for general discussion and feedback, find us on our Google Group.

Attention App Engine experts: Interested in helping new businesses and enterprise customers be successful with Google Cloud Platform? Check out our job posting for Solution Architects. We are also hiring technical writers in Mountain View and San Francisco to document cool new App Engine features and engage with the community to broaden the impact of Google's cloud offerings.