Google Friends Tips and Tricks Newsletter

Express yourself on Google Maps

You can now use Google Maps to write reviews for businesses. To get started, click on the ‘Write a review’ link at the top of the business details window. Whether you’ve discovered the best deli in your neighborhood or had fantastic service at a restaurant last weekend, share your reviews with everyone on Google Maps.

http://maps.google.com

Discover content on Google Calendar

Use the new Google Calendar gallery to browse events and calendars that are available to everyone. You can find cool content from Netflix, the NBA, and Disney, to name a few. Some other new features you’ll find in Google Calendar: send an email update for an upcoming event with the “Email Guests” link on the top right of the event details, and select “Show current time” from the “Settings” page to view a red line over the current time on your calendar.

http://www.google.com/calendar/gallery

It’s a small world

Something we’ve learned from YouTube is that interesting and compelling video content can come from all kinds of people, from professionals to students to parents and families. And because great videos also come in all languages, YouTube is now available in 9

countries: Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Users visiting the YouTube site from these regions will experience a fully translated and localized site, including videos in their own languages, video ratings, sharing, and content flagging. Any content posted to YouTube will be accessible from all the localized country sites, and switching from one YouTube language site to another is simple — just click the “Country” link at the top of the page.

http://www.youtube.com

Google Developer Day

On May 31st, we held the first Google Developer Day around the world.

More than 5,000 software developers gathered in San Jose, London, Paris, Madrid, Hamburg, Moscow, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, and Sydney.

These software pros use Google products to build websites and programs for consumers and businesses — such as software applications that sync Google Calendar and other calendar programs, or real estate sites that display listings on top of Google Maps. In addition to free food, these software engineers spent the day leading technical sessions on how to build great products using Google services.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=the0KZLEacs