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POWER TIPCustomize Google Maps with Mapplets You can now customize the content on your Google Maps using new features in the "My Maps" tab. The "Add content" link in this tab brings you to the Google Maps directory where you can choose from and add content and tools such as gas prices, weather, jogging trails, events, and more. These mini-applications for Google Maps are all built on our Mapplets platform.
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NEW PRODUCTS & UPDATES Google Checkout Gadget for iGoogleWe've launched a new "Shop with Google Checkout" gadget for iGoogle featuring some fun Top 10 lists of products available through Google Checkout, such as "Super Hero Must Haves" and "How You Knew You Grew Up In the 80's". When you add the gadget to your iGoogle homepage, you'll see a scrollable showcase of the day's featured items. And soon, you'll be able to create your own lists.
http://checkout.google.comGoogle Talk Gadget adds Group ChatThere's something new on the Google Talk Gadget: when you're chatting with a friend on Google Talk, you can invite one or more friends to join the conversation by clicking the "Group Chat" button from any chat tab. This was a top user request, and we hope it will make
chatting amongst your circle more useful and fun.
http://www.google.com/talkGoogle Apps for Nonprofits Recently we extended Google Apps Education Edition to all registered nonprofits in the U.S. Our hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools -- email migration, 24/7 assistance and integration APIs, plus web-based email, calendaring and online document collaboration -- fits well with the vital need among nonprofits for easy-to-use, flexible technologies requiring little or no investment. After all, schools and organizations should worry less about technology and focus more on fulfilling their mission.
http://www.google.com/a/npoGoogle Docs & Spreadsheets updatesNow Google Docs & Spreadsheets is easier for spreadsheet editing and collaboration. Now you can do things like freeze header rows and sort your data more quickly with the sort bar, create a draggable, horizontal break between your column headers and your data, view a color-coded collaborator indicator to see who else is viewing the spreadsheet and which cells they are editing. And the Quick Sum feature gives a sum, average, count, minimum, or maximum of your currently selected cells in the bottom righthand corner.
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MISCELLANYIt will come as no surprise to you to learn that we at Google are used to fast-moving communications. We make frequent nnouncements, we have a lot of products, and, well, things move quickly around here. This is one reason we publish quite a few blogs -- more than 50. And we want to reach those of you who follow Google directly -- a blog is a very easy way to do that. Most of our blogs focus on a single product, or country, or a specific audience. Here are a few of the most recent additions to our blog family which may interest you. (And might we suggest adding these to your Google Reader?)
Public Policy Blog - Google views on government, policy, and politics.
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/Gmail Blog - Tips and tricks on getting the most from Gmail.
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/Google Lat Long Blog - News & notes from the Google Earth and Google Maps teams.
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/You can find the entire list of our blogs on the righthand side of the original Google Blog.
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