Google URL Shortener has just launched its own website. The feature worth mentioning is that you can view statistics on all URLs you have shortened. The statistics include referres, traffic details and visitor profiles.

Google URL Shortner is:

• Stable: Nearly 100% uptime
• Secure: Automatic spam detection based on the same type of filtering technology we use in Gmail
• Speedy: Doubled speed

There are unofficial extensions available for Chrome: goo.gl URL Shortener and Firefox: goo.gl lite.

Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google. For example, the “90%” contour means that 90% of people visiting Google have their browser window open to at least this size or larger.

This is useful for ensuring that important parts of a page’s user interface are visible by a wide audience. And designers can use this tool to get better insights and user experiences for their websites and applications.

In the above example image, there is a donate now button which falls within the 80% contour, meaning that 20% of users cannot see this button when they first visit the page. 20% is a significant number; knowing this fact would encourage the designer to move the button much higher in the page so it can be seen without scrolling.

Google, the search engine giant, is now taking initiatives with fonts and just launched:

Google Font Directory: It provides high-quality open source web fonts. You can browse their catalog of available fonts and copy the code required to use them on your web page.

These fonts also support HTML5 and CSS3 styling options like drop shadows, rotation, etc…

Google Font API: It provides a simple, cross-browser method for using any font in the Google Font Directory on your web page. Applying a font is easy: just add a special stylesheet link to your web page, then use the font in a CSS style.

Its similar as we add stylesheets in our web pages, the difference here is: the stylesheet is hosted at Google and comes with a parameter.

A new JavaScript library called WebFont Loader is also launched with the collaboration of Typekit and the Google. It gives you more control over font.

jMaps is very handy jQuery plugin to Manage Google maps. jMaps provides a really easy API to create and manage multiple google maps on any page.

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The Google Maps API for Flash provides a new way to add interactive Google Maps to your website, using Adobe’s Flash plugin to display dynamic map content! This API exists as a fully independent alternative to the existing JavaScript Maps API, and provides many of the features of that API while also adding the ability to mix Flash content with Google Maps.

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Chronoscope is an open source release of a charting and visualization platform for GWT, used as the centerpiece of Timepedia’s website. Chronoscope provides a high performance, cross browser platform for visualizing possibly large and complex datasets. It supports interactive frame rates on data sets with tens of thousands of points by using multiresolution representation and incremental streaming.

When the number of points about to be plotted exceeds a certain heuristic, Chronoscope falls back to a lower resolution representation of the dataset, which can be provided by the user, or automatically calculated by various filtering algorithms. This is similar to mip-mapping techniques commonly used in 3D graphics to reduce bandwidth and decrease aliasing. It also gives non-programmers intuitive controls over almost every aspect of the look of a visualization.

It requires Google Web Toolkit.

Website: http://timepedia.org/chronoscope/

Google can be referred as a giant of internet world. Such companies do not need to invest for advertising / marketing. But Google has hard times in Japan, their search system is not popular in Japan, so they always try to find the way to reach the public to educate them to use their products.

Here is the Google Chrome ad for Japan.

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Its good and friendly feature of Google Chrome that let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. By opening up a new tab it gives you a thumbnail preview of the your 9 most visited sites.

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There is a lot of programatic headache that can be accompanied by attempting to tackle the Google Checkout API. With the overhead of any online monetary transactions and three different layers of integration means a lot of documentation to cover. The gCartEncoder is a PHP library that allows you to alleviate some of the headaches and get an implementation of a phase one integration in place.

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As I was setting up my google and adbrite ads, I noticed that the color presets from googles palletes didnt match the color of my sidebar. And the thing is, I dont know the exact HTML Color code for my sidebar since it only has RGB Codes set on the CSS File. So I asked my good ol’ pal Google to help me find a way to convert it to HTML Color code, and boy did it work like charm. Google handed me The RGB Color Calculator.

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