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Fridaygram: email journey, humans and robots, special space launch

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By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor This week we launched Story of Send, a new site that shows you what happens to your email after you click (or tap) Send. The site is meant for everyone, so you can share it with your [insert favorite non-nerdy reference person here]. Even though Story of Send [...]


Hangouts Hackathon: 1 API, 5 developers, 2 weeks

By Jonathan Beri, Google+ Developer Advocate Cross-posted from the Google+ Developers Blog Last week we released an update to the Google+ Hangouts API, which includes several new features and possibilities to build on, like the ability to respond to facial movements in real-time inside an app. As with any new API, we’re especially interested in [...]


Fridaygram: App Engine search, rock-tossing chimp, man vs. beast

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By Scott Knaster, Google Developers Blog Editor Google App Engine has a well-deserved reputation for regularly adding cool new features and other improvements. This week the team launched full-text search, which has been a hotly desired feature since the earliest days of App Engine. The new App Engine Search API enables you to search documents [...]


Pricing plan announced for Google Cloud SQL

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By Joe Faith, Product Manager Google Cloud SQL provides a fully managed database service for Google App Engine applications. Hosted on Google’s infrastructure and based on the familiar MySQL database, Google Cloud SQL automatically provisions and maintains your databases, allowing you to focus on your applications and services. In March, we were delighted to welcome [...]