This document defines formatting and style rules for HTML and CSS. It aims at improving collaboration, code quality, and enabling supporting infrastructure. It applies to raw, working files that use HTML and CSS, including GSS files. Tools are free to obfuscate, minify, and compile as long as the general code quality is maintained.

Gmail is amazing. It's chock full of more shortcuts, settings, and features than you could shake a stick at. Even if you consider yourself a Gmail ninja, though, there are quite a few tricks you might not know about (and some that Google didn't even intend). Here are our top 10 clever tricks built right into Gmail.

How much better would social search be if Google surfaced results from all across the web? The results speak for themselves. We created a tool that uses Google’s own relevance measure—the ranking of their organic search results—to determine what social content should appear in the areas where Google+ results are currently hardcoded.

All of the information in this demo comes from Google itself, and all of the ranking decisions are made by Google's own algorithms. No other services or APIs are accessed.

Essential Reading :: HowTo Protect Your #Privacy On #Google +1 RT @GlenGilmore

A few months ago I wrote about WordPress Security. Now, armed only with the words “free WordPress themes,” builtBackwards’ Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin and Donncha O Caoimh’s Exploit Scanner, I’m going to take a look through the first page of Google to see just how safe pages ranking for “Free WordPress Themes” are.

Presentation at Voices That Matter Web Design Conference, San Francisco June 2010

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.

Gmail's Mail Fetcher can download messages from up to five other email accounts, centralizing all your email in Gmail. The tabs above have information on setting up Mail Fetcher, as well as troubleshooting tips for the common problems users face.

15 #Google Chrome Extensions for People Who Build Websites

If you’re concerned about how Google is using your personal information, there are steps you can take to protect yourself. We’ve compiled a toolbox of resources that we have found helpful in protecting our privacy. Check back often as we will be adding more as we find them.

Over the past few months, I have been slowly putting together a series on the new Google Bike-There Feature, which was released in March of 2010.  Part I of the series reviewed the overall application, how it works, and some of its advantages and disadvantages.  Part II discussed various online options for mapping bike routes and then reviewed one option, Open Street Map, in greater depth in order to compare and contrast it with Google’s Bike-There.  The third piece in the series will compare and contrast Google’s Bike-There with Ride the City, an online bike route mapping application that thinks like a cyclist in order to avoid busy roads and other cycling-unfriendly situations.  Additional posts in the series will involve a series of test-runs using the various applications.

Businesses and schools are moving to Google Apps in droves, and they're able to switch more seamlessly with the help of tools to move old email, contacts and calendar data from legacy solutions to Google’s cloud. We have administrator-managed migration utilities for Microsoft® Exchange and Lotus Notes®, and today we're making it a lot easier for many end-users to move their old data themselves if their administrators aren’t planning server-side data migrations.

Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook® is a new end-user tool that moves email, calendar and contact data from Outlook® profiles, PST files and Exchange accounts to Google Apps. With this new tool, migrations are:

Easy: a simple three step migration process is all it takes
Fast: migrate thousands of emails, calendar events and contacts per hour
Painless: users can continue to use Microsoft Outlook® until the migration is finished, and migrate in phases if that’s more convenient

Here are some reasons you may want to check out the new version of Google documents:

Real time collaboration: See updates from other collaborators as they edit the document.
Higher-quality imports: More consistent imports from your desktop into Google Docs.
Chat with other collaborators: As you make your edits, you can chat with other document editors about the changes, from within the document.
Ruler: Google documents have a ruler for setting margins, indentations, and tab stops.

Headed cross-country and worried about a new law that might get you stopped by the police in Arizona because you look like an illegal immigrant? Not to fear! Google has now added an “Avoid Arizona” option for those generating directions.

Let's just put this out there: the Droid Incredible is the best Android device that you can purchase in America right now. It's better than the Droid, better than the Nexus One, and certainly beats the pants off of any previous generation handsets like the Eris, myTouch, or Cliq. It's not just a very, very good Android phone (though it is); it's also an excellent smartphone no matter how you cut it. If you're on Verizon right now, you're finally getting really great options for phones, but the Incredible is currently sitting at the top of that heap with a good bit of distance to the next in line. Sure, there are still issues like a lack of quality titles in the Android Market, and if a hardware keyboard is a must, this won't do the job for you. Also, while Sense is truly great on this phone, there may be users who prefer a more streamlined, stripped down experience. Still, if you're looking for an ultra-fast, extremely capable smartphone that has the guts and gleam to go the distance, the Incredible just might be the Droid you're looking for. Yes, we made that joke.

VoiceCentral Black Swan is the next revolution in iPhone applications. It is not tied to the App Store. It is not a web site optimized for the iPhone. It is a feature-rich weblication that enables you to view and manage your Google Voice data just like a native iPhone application. It combines the iPhone's easy-to-use interface with the convenience of an always up-to-date web application.

The web is still buzzing about Google Buzz, sorry I just had to say it and everyone has their opinions about it. Personally I thank google buzz is great and I have my reasons to think that way but I’ll share those in another blog post. I did leave a comment on a webworkerdaily.com blog post called: Google Buzz: Already Better than Wave (and Maybe Facebook, Too) Saying: Yes, I think buzz is better than Wave at the moment for conversations but not for private collaborations. For that I’ll stick to Google Wave. Buzz is more like friendfeed than anything else. As for using it more than Twitter or Facebook in the future, I’m not sure but the possibility is there because it’s linked to google reader and my gmail.

#Google exit from #China is most linked in my FeverReader. Maybe most interesting is this on #netizen voices

Now that you can export and import email filters with Gmail, we've decided to compile some of our favorite filters for organizing your inbox into a single, handy download. Come and get it!

I’m sure some of them would counter that because location data is fairly standard right now, and moving easily between services, all of them will win. But that’s not true either. While location, as a whole, will win, there will be individual companies that end up ahead of others in the space. More to the point, there will be one or two services that people will go to for their social location data. That’s what we’re moving towards. And the bigger companies are starting to realize it. That’s why today we saw what may be the first maneuver in an upcoming rush to secure the location landscape, with Twitter snatching up Mixer Labs, the team behind GeoAPI.

This simple hack will liberate you from the silly speech bubble that the google chatback gadget offers. You will be able to include the link in anything. Make it a tiny URL link, include it in emails, put it in your myspace, use it on your blog - in your design - whatever you want.

Google's introduction of Wave is nothing if not ambitious. As opposed to saying "We have a new web mashup tool" or "We've taken multimedia email to a new level", they're pitching Wave as nothing less than the successor to email. My question, after seeing the demo, is "Is that an outrageous claim, or a way too modest one?".

I just set up an automatic backup of all 3000 of my friends' Twitter messages and became able to search through their Twitter history two years into the past with just five minutes of easy clicking. Only two things are required: Dave Winer's new Twitter OPML tool and a Google Reader account.

As she demonstrated in the video, using the example of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, this experimental tool from Google can be used to learn more about events that surrounded your ancestors' lives. If you know that one of your ancestors participated in a specific event, or was affected by one, use the tool to learn more about that event.

Google (NSDQ:GOOG) has taken a major step to link its Google Apps to the rest of the IT world, debuting the Google Secure Data Connector for linking Google Apps with corporate data that's stored behind a company's firewall.

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Simply send a Twitter update that includes 'L:' followed by your location.

searches 9 sites, including: http://www.instructables.com/, http://www.sutree.com/, http://www.tricklife.com/, http://www.videojug.com/, http://www.expertvillage.com/

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The Google Analytics Reporting suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. It uses it’s own custom API to interact with Google and nearly implements all features of Analytics. See the feature list for more info.

PartyChat is persistent chat-rooming for Google Talk.

Google Analytics plugin for WordPress blogs with local caching support. | Joyce Babu

MU doesn't play nice w/gCal

Plugin to maximise search engine positioning in Wordpress - UtheGuru.com