Google’s got something up its sleeve.
Google will be hosting one of its “Campfire One” events for developers on April 7, just over one week from today. These events usually take place right out on the lawn at Google HQ and usually mean that some sort of big announcement is impending.
At the campfire held in May [...]

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Google has gotten a big break as far as exposure and marketing.
The White House is now using Google Moderator, hosted on AppEngine, to help figure out what questions Barack Obama should address at an online Town Hall meeting this Thursday.
In only a few short hours, 6,932 people have sent in 7,037 questions and have also [...]

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Back at DEMO 08, Best Buy’s social media team created Giftag, an online gift registry and social sharing application.
After learning about Google App Engine, however, the Giftag development team decided to move Giftag on to Google’s App Engine.
They then proceeded to re-launch the Giftag application just in time for Black Friday.
In this video [...]

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As expected, the bad news from Google doesn’t end with yesterday’s layoff announcement.  They’ve also announced the shutdown of several Google services (Google Reader is in the clear, though, whew!).
Included among the soon-to-be-deceased are: Google Notebooks, Google Catalogs, Dodgeball, Google Video, Google Mashup Editor, and future development of Jaiku, although the service itself [...]

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