• Socrata Offers Developers and OpenData Enthusiasts Hackathon In A Box
  [May 20, 2013] The cool crew from Seattle-based Socrata are providing government users, opendata enthusiasts, developers, and others with a very cool OpenData resource in the form of a “hackathon in a box” – a toolbox of resources, documents, tools and other handy items of interest to anyone getting involved in an opendata hackathon or similar event. Need [...]
• Developers and @ChrisPirillo Take to the Skies in Ungrounded Hackathon
  [April 29, 2013] UnGrounded: a hack at 30,000 feet via Chris Pirillo (@ChrisPirillo) — Now here’s something geeky and dam cool from British airways – imagine a hackathon while you jet over the Atlantic on a flight from San Fran to London! Yes indeed, according to the Verge, On a transatlantic flight from San Francisco to London, the [...]
• Perks Added For Developers In Facebook Home
  [April 8, 2013] At its much hyped Android event, Facebook unveiled Home, a custom set of apps that transform any ol’ Android phone into a Facebook phone. The event was mostly focused on what Home can do for users, but Facebook wants its stable of developers to know that Home is for them as well.
• Create Great Widgets For Android
  [March 18, 2013] One of the more unique aspects of Android is its support for home screen Widgets. This support was introduced with Android 1.5 and developers have since created a number of unique, and sometimes utterly amazing, home screen widgets for Android devices.
• Your Web Forms Should Be Using Autocompletetype
  [March 4, 2013] In the latest Webmaster Help video, Google’s Matt Cutts answers his own question:
• How Google’s Javascript Bot Can Kill Your Website
  [February 18, 2013] In recent years due to developers misguided attempts to make the web a more interesting place with things like JavaScript and Ajax, search engines have had to come up with new tools to make the content that’s hidden behind these technologies accessible. While I’m sure the people at the Googleplex have nothing but the best [...]
• Airplay Gets New Rival Called DIAL From YouTube And Netflix
  [January 28, 2013] DIAL stands for Discovery And Launched (I guess “DIAL” sounded better than “DAL”). It also happens that it was created and is maintained by Netflix and YouTube (with input from “a variety of partners”). It’s described as a simple protocol that 2nd screen devices can use to discover and launch apps on 1st screen devices. [...]
• Google Play Will Soon Be Allowing All Android Developers To Reply To Reviews
  [January 16, 2013] In a rather awesome move for developers, Google allowed Android developers to directly reply to reviews on Google Play back in June. Unfortunately, the ability to do so was restricted to those who had achieved “Top Developer” status on the platform. Now Google is rolling out the ability to everybody.
• A Look Back On A Year Of Open Web Development With Mozilla
  [December 17, 2012] 2012 has been a momentous year for the Internet despite the best efforts of lawmakers and International groups to knock it down a peg. Google and Facebook have already looked back over the year, and have shared some stats on what was trending over the last year. Now Mozilla, makers of the popular Firefox browser, [...]
• Effective Utilization of Google’s GEO API
  [November 26, 2012] Google has posted a new video to its Developers YouTube channel about a couple of campaigns that use the Geo API. The brands involved are Nature Valley Trail View and Band of Bridges. The campaigns come from the core creative teams at McCann Erickson NY, Goodby Silverstein & Partners and Famous Interactive.
• Latest Android Developers Office Hours
  [November 5, 2012] Google has uploaded an Android Developers Office Hours hangout from this week. If you have an hour to kill, enjoy:
• New Tool to Track Changes Made to Google’s 50 Webmaster Guidelines Pages!
  [October 15, 2012] Google’s Webmaster guidelines are quite like the teachings of the Bible in the search industry as SEOs have to follow them and refer to them quite frequently. Shaun Anderson of Hobo-web has come up with a tool that tracks the changes made to the top 50 Google webmaster guidelines. SEOs need to be aware of the updates made by Google and with this tool they can learn if any guideline documented was updates by Google. Here is the list of changes made recently:
• Google Adds New Features To Hangout
  [October 1, 2012] The Google Places API has been seeing a constant barrage of updates this year. It could be a great new source of revenue for Google, and it's great for businesses (except for this guy). That's why it's super important for developers to stay in the know in regards to changes coming to the Places API.
• Facebook Updates Graph API
  [September 4, 2012] Facebook needs to continually improve its services so that users, developers and investors remain happy. The social network has given a lot of recent attention to its Open Graph and related services. The trend continues today with an update to the Graph API.
• Secure Your Google Apps With Two-Factor Authentication
  [August 13, 2012] If you are running your emails through a Google Apps account and are not using two-factor authentication then now may be a good time to do so.
• Google Introduces Improvements in Content Experiments!
  [July 30, 2012] Last week Google retired the old Analytics?and is now working on making the Analytics V5 version better-smoother. The feature newly bettered by Google is Content Experiments, which they announced last month. The A/B testing for a common goal is supported by the content experiments tool and it has been improved at several levels by Google.
• Google+ is Absolutely a Success
  [July 9, 2012] Recently Eric Schmidt said "Google+ is doing better than I expected given the competitors in the market and the success [of Facebook]. Do I think it's a success? Absolutely. Absolutely." (TechRadar)
• Using Video To Recover From A Google Algorithm Update
  [June 18, 2012] Dr. Melody King, VP of marketing at Treepodia, recently wrote an article called "Pushing Back on Google Penguin: How to Improve SEO with Video Links". It's not so much about Penguin, as it is generally improving your ranking using video. Really, this is about doing better in search, regardless of whether you've been hit by an update, but with so many hit by updates like Penguin and Panda, webmasters are looking for ways to quickly recover. Done right, video just might be a great way to do so.
• Matt Cutts Talks Duplicate Content
  [June 4, 2012] This week, Google posted a new Webmaster Help video featuring Matt Cutts talking about a potential duplicate content issue. This time, he even broke out the whiteboard to illustrate his points.
• Recovering From Google’s Penguin Update
  [May 14, 2012] About two weeks ago, April 24th to be exact, Google launched what is being called their Penguin Update. Per Google, this algorithmic update should impact around 3.1% of search queries and is geared towards punishing pages that have been spamming Google, while promoting "high-quality" sites in their search results. The update was originally discussed as an "over optimization" penalty.
• Now Get 90 Days Search Query Data with Google Webmaster Tools
  [April 30, 2012] Google Webmaster Tools will now provide the historical search query data to 90 days. Also, the number of keywords reported has also increased to the top 2,000 for each day of the selected date range. Earlier, the data was available for a period of 35 days, and the number of top keywords was 1000. Webmasters have welcomed this news as this data cannot be accessed from anywhere else and now they can analyze trends better with detailed information.
• Introduction To Web Development WIth Dart
  [April 16, 2012] There are many languages and platforms when it comes to developing apps for the Web, mobile and servers. One of the languages vying for your attention is Google's Dart Web development language.
• SEO Advice From The Experts
  [April 2, 2012] Want some SEO advice direct from the experts? Of course you do, who wouldn't. Well, Google is here to share their pick of the 5 most common SEO mistakes you should avoid. Oh and it seems Mr Google, Matt Cutts, might have a bit of competition in the video advice caper at the moment in the form of Maile Ohye, Google's Developer Programs Tech Lead.
• User Administration Feature Added to Google Webmaster Tools
  [March 12, 2012] It's finally happened! Google Webmaster Tools now has the much sought after feature- user administration. This feature was recently added to Webmaster Tools by Google, and now provides site owners to can grant third party access to their Google Webmaster Tools account, quite easily. Now webmasters can give other people access to their Google Webmaster Tools account without giving over username and password details. In fact they need not have to give other admins full control of their site too.
• Remove Paid Links Without Hurting Your Search Engine Rankings
  [February 27, 2012] When it comes to search engine rankings, we all know that one of the major search engine ranking factors is how many links you have to your website. Especially text links that include the keywords your trying to rank for in the anchor text. So, if you want to rank well for "red widgets", then having lots of links with "red widgets" in the anchor text pointing to your site will help your search engine rankings. It helps so much that many site owners have bought text links to their website. So, why would you want to remove paid links to your website? Especially if those paid links are helping your website's organic, or natural search engine rankings?