Spotlight on Developers: Gadgets to Visualize Data in New Ways

Continuing our Spotlight on Developers series, we present a few gadgets that give you new and exciting ways to visualize your data.Our spreadsheet gadgets API is all about giving developers the power to extend the functionality of Google Docs spreadsheets. The following four spreadsheet gadgets display information in unique ways.1. Tree Map Gadget (By Yaar Schnitman, former Technology Program Manager intern) - A color-coded area diagram that helps...

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Spotlight on Developers: Spreadsheet Mapper

This next post in our Spotlight on Developers series highlights a gadget that combines spreadsheets and the My Map feature in Google Maps. In addition to using it while househunting like our guest author did, you might even find it useful to plot out points of interest for a vacation or a road trip this summer. :)Last year, I was looking to move into a new apartment. Using a spreadsheet in Google Docs was a convenient way to list the apartments...

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Spotlight on Developers: Educational Spreadsheet Gadgets

As we gear up for Google I/O, our annual developer conference, we'll be presenting a series of posts highlighting some of the gadgets and applications that have been built by developers using our APIs. Today, we'll start with a few gadgets that might be useful for educators, students, and maybe word-lovers, too.Spreadsheet gadgets allow you to display spreadsheet data in new and interesting ways. Using our spreadsheet gadgets API and the spreadsheet...

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Teachers: How do you use Google Sites?

Last year, teachers shared examples of how they're using Google Docs in the classroom, and we listed these ideas on a Docs for Teachers page. While reviewing all of these teachers' ideas, I noticed that many teachers used Google Sites as a central website for their classes and class projects. Students and teachers also often created pages within their websites that include embedded documents created in Google Docs.This got me thinking... why don't we create a page to display educational uses of Sites like we did for Docs? If you're a K-12 teacher...

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Create groups of contacts to make sharing faster

People who regularly work in teams should check out the recently released standalone contact manager: http://www.google.com/contacts. It lets you manage your contacts and put them into groups.When you share a document in Google Docs, just click Choose from Contacts to pick one of these groups. There's no need to enter your collaborators' email addresses individually. The groups you create or modify while using Google Docs are stored in the contact manager and can be used across other services like Google Calendar, Picasa Web Albums, and Gmail.To...

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