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Embed Google Maps on your website or blog
There's a new feature on Google Maps that enables you to easily embed an interactive map on your website or blog just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML (much in the same way as embeddable YouTube videos work). On Google Maps, pull up the map you want to embed-- it can be a location, a business, a set of driving directions, search results, or a map you've created. Then copy the embed code by clicking "Link to this page," and paste the code into your blog or website. You can create a map using the map-making tools in the My Maps tab and display it on your website using this embed feature.
http://maps.google.com
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NEW PRODUCTS & UPDATES
Updates to Google Earth
With the new Google Earth (4.2), you can see a view of the night sky and explore the universe from home. Browse, zoom and click on the sky the same way you can with the Earth. Thanks to partners such as the Hubble Space Telescope, you'll see beautiful imagery of space and the objects in it, together with lots of additional data including constellations, the moon, planets, a user's guide to galaxies, and the life of a star. There are also updates to Google Earth layers, including new overlays. A Book Search layer includes placemarks of location names mentioned in books that are available in Google Book Search; a Traffic layer overlays live-traffic data for major cities that are already published in Maps. We've also included high- resolution photos from across the U.S., placed so that they line up with the terrain, letting you see the "real deal" superimposed on 3D imagery.
http://earth.google.com/
StarOffice now in Google Pack
A free office productivity suite for creating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on the desktop, StarOffice, is now optional software within the Google Pack. And by using the Open Document Format, StarOffice is fully compatible with Google Docs & Spreadsheets so you can easily upload and share your work.
http://pack.google.com
Paid storage for Gmail and Picasa Web Albums
U.S.-based English-language users of Gmail and Picasa Web Albums can now purchase additional storage to be shared across these products. We want you to be able to live more of your life in "the cloud" -- where your data is available to you any time, from any PC. Eventually, we hope you can have one place to store you information - in whatever form - online. We've integrated this extra storage across Picasa Web Albums and Gmail for now, and plan to add more Google services soon.
http://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage
Web History now includes Google Book Search
Web History now includes Books, which means those of you who use Web History can see your searches on Google Book Search as part of your web history. it's easy to view and manage your past book searches, and get better personalized results too.
http://books.google.com
Google News now integrates videos
Now, in addition to articles and images from thousands of different publishers, Google News in the US, UK and Ireland integrates news video results with help from YouTube. Video partners include CBS, Reuters and others, and when available, clusters of news stories on the Google News page now feature embedded videos.
http://news.google.com
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MISCELLANY
As our lives move increasingly online, we all tend to take for granted the convenience of having websites know our shipping address, our preferred email format, the movies or music we're likely to enjoy, and of course our credit card or bank account numbers. Many news stories about what's called "online privacy" have delved into the implications of businesses (like ours) holding all of this personal information for you and every consumer. We encourage you to study the privacy policies of every company you do business with online, including us. Look for clearly-written explanations and reasonable terms. We're trying to go further than current industry standards, too, by being as transparent as we can possibly be in telling you about what data we keep, how long we keep it, and so on. If you're interested in these matters, you may enjoy the first video we've made to explain basic privacy concepts in an easy-to-watch 5 minute format. (We plan to produce more on this topic in the future). We hope you learn something and also let us know what you think.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLgJYBRzUXY
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