October Speedlinking

I haven't been able to post as often or as in depth as I'd like to have this past month. I chalk it up mostly to work, we all love 12 hour days right? But now that sign-off has passed and our last release of 2007 is calmly approaching (its on Friday), things have settled down a bit. Below are some great links from October, most of which I wanted to mention at some point and haven't gotten a chance to until now. Enjoy.

• The JavaScript Library for Google Calendar was released. This allows for authenticated, cross domain access. Hopefully Picasa Web will follow suit.

• GWT goes to the iPhone

• The Python Client Library came out with version 1.0.8

• The Digg Oracle demonstrates Gears' Worker Pool

• Google's Stock broke $600. It is now well over $700

• Orkut ramps up for a US push

• Vortex combines the know-how of Dojo and Gears

• LabeledMarker v1.1 in Google Maps comes out with Marker and Label toggling

• Google Reader comes out with Subscriber stats. Read about the controversy here. Google responds here

• Google Maps Goes Social

• The AJAX Search API gives direct access to YouTube Channels

• Blogger GData JavaScript client library released with offline Blogger client example

• Google Code Search goes to SiteMaps

• The Ajax API gets Dynamic Feed Control

• You can now play Youtube videos in Google Earth

• Summer of code wrapped up with Graduation

• Google Finance adds new Gadgets and an API

• YouTubes player becomes Customizable

• A Greasemonkey script lets you have nested folders in Gmail

• Blogger adds Comment Notification

• Google cracks down on pages selling PageRank links

• Google contributes to MySQL

• Google Mac updates Leopard

• Gmail enables IMAP

• Google Maps gets Clickable Polygons

• There is now a wizard for adding Google Gadgets to your blog

• Webmaster central fixes the Cross Domain Sitemap errors

• Google maps adds Flash Content into KLM

• Google Notebook adds labels and bookmarks

• Blog Search is now included in Google History

• A cheap "Google PC" is on the market

• A new Photo Picker for Gmail and Orkut pulls from Picasa

• GTalk may soon be able to connect to other networks like AIM and Yahoo! Talk

• The new version of Gmail comes out

• Google Code gets a facelift

• Webmaster Tools gets Geographic Targeting

• The Google Gadget Directory gets a facelift

• Microsoft is going to release the Microsoft Sync Framework to compete with Gears

• Picasa Web gets opened. (Flikr can transfer a picasa album to itself)

• Webmasters can now provide feedback on sitelinks

• Blog.gears comes out

• Mapplets gets a documentation and example update

• New articles are posted for KML

• The Ajax slideshow gets a full Control Panel

• Map of the Dead!! Google Maps overlay shooting game!