Nice Work! Some great nature mashups.

Monday, January 14, 2008 11:55 AM

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

We continue to be impressed by the mashups GME developers are creating. We wanted to take some time to congratulate a few of you for some outstanding ones.

Floridoogle - Jack S.
This mashup combines photos and information about various plant species with Google Product Search to enable users to research and buy trees, flowers, seeds and bulbs from various vendors on the internet. Bonus points for being in Gadget form and enabling users to user the gadget on iGoogle, Google's personalized homepage.


Trails of Florianopolis - Ivan Linhares Martins
We've mentioned this one before but Ivan continues to work on this great looking mashup. His mashup explores the trails and the beautiful Nature of Florianópolis - an Island in the South of Brazil. Tips, trail rating, geographical information and other useful data describe each trail. The mashup combines data from Flickr, Google Base, Google Maps and Blogger.

Great work developers! If you'd like us to share your mashup on our blog please submit it to our mashup gallery and post about it in our developer forum. If you are new to GME check out our screencast gallery for videos on how to create mashups with the Google Mashup Editor.

Recipe of the Moment

Friday, January 4, 2008 3:06 PM

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

Michael Thompson, one of the top Google Gadget Developers, recently switched out his old Recipe of the Moment Google Gadget with a new one built with the Google Mashup Editor. His new gadget adds search functionality, and tabs so that users can find new recipes and do some easy measurement conversions.



Add this gadget to your personalized homepage and checkout the rest of Michael's Gadgets at his website: http://chronita.com/google_gadgets/

To learn how you can create gadgets using GME check out our latest screencast - Deploying a Mashup Gadget

Mashup Tutorials for the New Year

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 2:32 PM

Posted by Jason Cooper, Google Mashup Editor Team

Happy New Year! With 2008 now in full swing, the Google Mashup Editor team has returned to work and is actively preparing a host of exciting updates for the coming year. In the meantime, the new screencast gallery is bustling with four tutorials, the latest of which demonstrates how to leverage GME's integration with Google Gadgets by adding a simple mashup to iGoogle. Several new screencasts are already in the works and should be added to the gallery in the coming weeks, so be sure to check back often. And, as always, the mashup gallery and discussion board are available if you're in need of a quick GME fix.

Things to do over the holidays

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:36 PM

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

As the holiday season arrives as Google some of us are taking a break to spend time with our family and friends. Things might slow down a little around here until the new year but that doesn't mean you have to, there plenty of things to keep you busy over the holidays.

• Create a Google Gadget - Its the easiest way to get some great traffic to your application. Try creating a Google Gadget as a different view into your application or creating a stand alone app that would be interesting as a gadget. Check out recent tutorial on creating Google Gadgets using GME.
• Read a tutorial - We have created a bunch of tutorials to help you get started building some more sophisticated apps. You can also check out our Demo Gallery to see working demo applications. Remember you can also click the "View Source" link in any GME app to see how it was built
• Watch a screencast - We've just started building a set of videos that take you through building simple mashups. Check out our screencast gallery to see what we've been up to.

Happy Holidays from the Google Mashup Editor Team.

New stuff and bug fixes - 12/14

Friday, December 14, 2007 10:16 AM

Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team

We've pushed a few feature enhancements and bug fixes this morning in response to your feedback. This push includes expanding the number of items per page in a list, a new screencast gallery in our documentation, and several fixes for some high priority bugs. You can check out the new features and bug fixes in the GME Release Notes Application.

Please feel free to share your feature requests, bug reports or questions with us in our developer forum or post your mashup in our Mashup Gallery. Happy mashing!

GME Screencasts

Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:11 PM

Posted by Jason Cooper, Google Mashup Editor Team

Since its launch in May, GME's developer page has hosted a series of articles for the purpose of introducing advanced concepts or guiding the reader through the construction of a large, complex application. To complement these articles, the team has been working on a set of video-based tutorials to ease new developers into GME by introducing various aspects of GME and demonstrating how to build and publish small mashups with it.

Today, we are happy to launch the official GME "Screencast Gallery" for your viewing pleasure. We have a few of videos to start, but we plan to add new content regularly so be sure to check back often!

As always, we appreciate any and all feedback -- if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for new topics, please stop by GME's discussion board and let us know and we'll do everything we can to accommodate. In the meantime, happy viewing!

Happy Jollidays

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:11 AM

Posted by Jason Cooper, Google Mashup Editor Team

Yes, December has arrived once again, bringing the holiday season along with it. The holidays have always been a time of nippy weather and bustling storefronts, of togetherness and celebration -- a truly magical time of year. In the spirit of the season, I have built Jollidays, a small mashup which displays holiday event listings from Google Base, recipe listings for traditional holiday foods (with a search field provided for looking up less traditional cuisine), and snippets from a popular holiday-themed blog. Enjoy, and feel free to drop by the discussion board or mashup gallery to share your own creations.