• Information You Need To Know About Google Play Game Services
  [May 16, 2013] During today’s Google I/O keynote, the company announced Google Play game services – a series of APIs that help developers add more features and value to their Android and iOS games.
• Before Writing Code or Launching Your Website, Do This
  [April 22, 2013] I found a series of articles that I wrote more than 10 years ago. But, amazingly enough, all of this information is still valid and true. It’s a great primer on what you should, and should not do before launching any website, especially an e-commerce website.
• Gold Support Customers For Cloud Platform Now Have Compute Engine Available
  [April 8, 2013] Google announced that Computer Engine is now available to Google CLoud Platform’s Gold Support customers. Product manager Navneet Joneja writes on the Google Enterprise Blog:
• Interactive Chrome DevTools Training Course Introduced By Google
  [March 25, 2013] Developing Web apps can be made easier by using Chrome DevTools, but not everybody knows how to use them. To remedy that, Google is now offering a free interactive course on how to get the most out of the development toolset.
• Developers Have Until March 28 To Submit Their Game For Ouya’s Launch
  [March 11, 2013] Ouya, the little game console that could, is about to be shipped out to all the early adopters that supported the console during its Kickstarter phase. To make sure it has plenty of games before it gets into the hands of gamers, developers are now free to start uploading their creations to Ouya.
• Facebook’s App Insights Get Search Results Tab
  [February 25, 2013] Over the past few months, Facebook has added a number of metrics to App Insights. It’s invaluable data that allows developers to analyze where traffic is coming from, and where they can capitalize on said traffic. Now Facebook is adding a new metric that may prove very important as Graph Search gets into the hands [...]
• Google Drive SDK OAuth Changed Discussed By Google
  [February 4, 2013] Google recently added some new options for how OAuth requests are initiated for Google drive Apps. Google has posted a video discussing the changes, and sharing some tips and tricks.
• Google’s Custom Search Engine Gets Redesigned
  [January 21, 2013] Google has launched a new layout for Google CSE (Custom Search Engine), which displays results in an overlay, over top of any content on the page.
• Getting Started With AdMob On Android
  [January 3, 2013] Google has put out a presentation about getting started on Android with AdMob on its Developers YouTube channel. If you want to monetize your business using Google’s mobile platform, it might be worth a half hour of your time.
• Crash Reports Now Being Offered To Amazon Developers
  [December 10, 2012] Amazon announced that it was providing free A/B testing to developers who made apps for its platform, but the goodies aren't stopping there. Now developers will have access to crash reports as well.
• Google Features Two Brands Utilizing The 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.
• Visualizations In Google Maps Discussed By Developers
  [November 5, 2012] Google Maps is an integral part of many apps used across the Web and mobile devices. Developers need to know how to make the best use of the service. That's why Google holds roundtables with the people working on these products to show off the new features hitting their respective services.
• Firefox Social API Being Tested By Mozilla And Facebook
  [October 17, 2012] Mozilla has had a hand in developing many of the Web APIs that Chrome, Firefox and others have been implementing over the last year. The non-profit company is now developing its latest Web API that has the potential to make a big splash on the Web.
• Microsoft Develops TypeScript To Make JavaScript Development Easier
  [October 9, 2012] JavaScript has been one of the core foundations of HTML5 since the beginning. Microsoft has been aggressively pushing HTML5 in Internet Explorer 10. So what happens when you take Microsoft's desire to create proprietary programming languages and their insistence on HTML5? You get TypeScript, the company's own version of JavaScript.
• Website Owners Now Directly Emailed By Google Webmaster Tools
  [September 17, 2012] Google Webmaster Tools has changed their policy, and is now going to start emailing web site owners directly if they detect critical or important issues with your web site. Before now, Google would only notify you about these issues via Google Webmaster Tools’ interface–and you had to log in to receive the messages.
• How will Google?s ?transition rank? patent affect SEO?
  [August 30, 2012] Recently, I read an interesting blog post by Barry Adams titled “The Adversarial Relationship between Google and SEO“. He argues that Google’s not an SEO’s friend but rather an adversary and cited quite an interesting patent filing by Google titled 'Ranking Documents'. If you’re an SEO I’d strongly suggest you take the time to read this document in full. Also, Bill Slawski provides an excellent analysis of how this new approach will affect a page’s rankings.
• Why You Should Enable Two-Factor Authentication For Google Apps and GMail
  [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 Sends Out Link Warnings Then Retracts Them!
  [July 23, 2012] It was a very confusing 24 hours for webmasters around the globe. Google sent out a new unnatural link warning letter (Google has been sending out these notices for a while now), and it sent the webmasters into panic. The panic was mainly due concerns of another Penguin update on its way. Here is the letter Google sent out:
• Mozilla Mucks it up with Open Source Accelerator Program
  [July 2, 2012] Mucker Lab, one of the newest startup/accelerator programs based in Los Angeles announced yesterday they will be partnering with Mozilla's WebFWD to create a joint acceleration program aimed at at open-source ventures.
• Improve Your Ranking Using Video
  [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.
• Browser Size Tool Comes To Google Analytics
  [June 5, 2012] Google announced the launch of the Browser Size analysis tool in Google Analytics, under the In-Page Analytics report. The tool shades the portions of a page that are "below the fold," and shows you what percentage of users are seeing how much of the page.
• Google Informs Us That Instant Pages Works Great
  [May 22, 2012] How comfortable are you with Google's prerendering capabilities? Do you like the idea of your site loading faster in Chrome thanks to this technology? The idea behind Instant Pages is to immediate load the top search result for a particular query, so, when it's clicked, it immediately loads up in your browser. Naturally, when Google discusses this technology, it refers to its Chrome browser, the prerendering works in the following browsers:
• 53 Google Changes That Affect Search Results
  [May 7, 2012] Google has released a list search updates that came in to effect in the month of April. This is apart from the Penguin update, Panda 3.5 Refresh and the Panda 3.6 Rollout that has happened in the last couple of weeks. 53 changes that affect search results.
• Can Others Affect Your Rankings With Bad Links?
  [April 23, 2012] Negative SEO- when others (read-competitors) can affect your rankings with bad links. Is this thought just SEO paranoia or does this actually happen?
• Google Updates Android Emulator
  [April 10, 2012] I absolutely adore emulators. They're super fun to play around with and are incredibly useful when trying to figure out if a program or game is going to run on specific hardware. Android is one of those platforms that really benefits from an emulator since there are so many hardware variations running the operating system. Google has updated the Android emulator today to make app creation easier for developers.