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  • Google Maps Developers Talk Visualizations

    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.

    Here’s what you can expect to see today from the folks behind Google Maps:

    For the second part of our “A Journey of 245k Points” series, Paul Saxman shows some cool tricks for creating stunning map visualizations of numerous ship voyages using polylines, making polylines interactive, and creating animations of voyages with symbols.

  • Google Is Showing Developers Some Love And Then Some

    Facebook runs their weekly Operation Developer Love to keep the development community up to date on the newest features hitting their platform. It’s pretty great and one of the many unique things about the platform. Some recent changes from Google make it seem like their pushing for more of an Operation Developer Love You And Never Let You Go.

    The three new features that hit Google this week are extremely important from a developer’s point of view. There’s a need for feedback and collaboration that you don’t see a lot unless the developer sets up their own Web site or if they seek out forums and communities for it. Google did the hard work for them with the latest features hitting the Chrome Web Store and Google Play.

    Earlier this week, Google unveiled a new commenting tool for developers. It allows developers to reply directly to user reviews on Google Play and the Chrome Web Store. It’s a great benefit to developers because they can now directly interact with the users without the use of emails or dedicated communities. It also has the added bonus of allowing developers to defend themselves against malicious attacks that take the form of reviews on Web sites like this.

    The other big news for developers is Google Developers Live. It’s been described by the folks at Google as a Google I/O that lasts year round. In reality, it’s more of an expansion/continuation of the weekly Office Hours hangouts that various departments within Google hold. The expansion comes in the form of new programming for developers including game shows.

    These changes show that Google is at least trying to make it look like they care about developers and it’s working. I’m sure most people have already forgotten the pain Google inflicted by not telling developers about the changes coming to Google+. It seems that Google is ready to be more open and forward with developers about changes coming to their platforms.

  • Google Developers Live Is I/O All Year Round

    Wouldn’t it be awesome if Christmas came every day? Of course it wouldn’t because Santa would never get any sleep and I would be broke by the second day of buying presents. How about Google I/O coming around every day? Now that I can get behind.

    You may remember that Dart Editor walkthrough that we wrote about today. It turns out that the video, and all of the other Google I/O 101 videos, are part of new program called Google Developers Live. Google describes it as a year-round Google I/O with events and programs that are meant to foster the relationship between Google and the developers that use their products.

    Here’s what Louis Gray of the Developers Relation Team had to say about it:

    Louis Gray

    Louis Gray 1 hour ago

    Introducing: Google Developers Live

    Google I/O kicks off next week in San Francisco, putting Google Developers face to face with Google employees and other product experts for three full days. We'd like to bring that face to face experience to our developers year round, and starting today, introduce Google Developers Live, a destination for developers around the world to connect to Google face to face to face, with the power of Google+ Hangouts and YouTube.

    Tune in to Google Developers Live at http://developers.google.com/live and start filling your calendar with Office Hours, App Reviews and more from Google's many products, along with original programming. Whether you're looking for Android, Chrome, Google+, Drive, Cloud Platform, Google Maps, YouTube or something else, we’ve got a hangout for you – all year round.

    Google Developers Live, all year round – Google Developers Blog
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    As you can see, Google Developers Live is all about you – the developers. One of the main features of Google Developers Live is the already famous Office Hours that has developers of certain platforms speaking with other developers and answering their questions. It’s the other ideas contained within that are worth getting excited over.

    According to Google, we’ll start seeing more “live, interactive broadcasts.” It includes “developer-focused game shows.” I’m still clamoring for a return of Match Game PM and a developer based version could be just as funny.

    The current schedule doesn’t list anything beyond the usual developer help videos and Hangouts. It’s still a great addition to the weekly Google schedule of events for developers and fans alike to take part in. Being able to check the Office Hour schedule on an actual calendar is also much appreciated.

    It will be a while before we start to see amazing Google related game shows (like a Match Game PM adaptation), but it should start to really take off after Google I/O. The company obviously wants to keep developers engaged with the latest happenings at Google so we’ll see how it turns out. All I know is that I’m going to hold them to that game show promise.