Weekly Google Code Roundup for June 18-22th
By Dion
Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsIt has been a busy week
as usual, especially for those interested in the world of Geo.
In API and developer-product news...
Base
diving with Google Gears covers an application that we built that searches Google
Base and saves the information with Google Gears allowing for off-line use.
The
Safe Browsing API
was released, which allows your application to use the API to download an encrypted table for
local, client-side lookups of URLs that you would like to check. Now you can stop phishers and
malware abusers.
Guicing Up Your
Testing is the first article in a series on Google Guice by our own Dick Wall.
The Google AJAX Feed API's
Slide
Show Control is now available as a Google Gadget.
The mapping
world was busy as always:
Around Google
T.V. Raman has discussed his experience using the new
open source
OCR that we are working on, comparing it to commercial alternatives that he
uses.
Put
your business on Google Maps with the
Local Business Center which has launched a
new look.
The
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit took place at Google last week. For more
information
read
the wrapup article.
Google Tech
Talks
Semantic
Web: The Semantic Web is a field aiming a the creation, deployment, and
interoperation of machine readable data on the Internet. In the talk we present some projects
in DERI on Semantic Web technologies - notably Semantic Interlinking of Online Community
sites, Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering, and ActiveRDF, a library for Browsing,
programming and navigating Semantic Web data.
View
more tech talks.Podcasts
In
Google
Developer Podcast Episode Four we had the chance to interview Mark Limber on Google
SketchUp, and how developers can use the Ruby, C++, and other APIs.
The
OpenMRS Project: You'll get a chance to learn from Paul about the history of
OpenMRS, life as a brand new organization in Summer of Code, and the social change uses of
open source in developing nations.
