Google Developers Group, innovation-based programs at An-Najah University, and Startup Weekend events.
According to the Google Geo Developers Blog, Google is also rolling out a Software Developers Kit (SDK) for iOS maps that will allow developers to link directly to full Google maps functionality within their apps and also to use a simplified URL scheme to link to specific map locations.
Google lets developers build heavily customized keyboards for smartphones running its Android mobile operating system.
Revenue, based on cost-per-impression or cost-per-click metrics, is split between Google and developers.
Last, as an open source project, Google invites developers and other interested citizens to contribute and participate in improving this tool for the future.
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Like Microsoft before it, Google cultivates developers, with all-day mapping conferences, lunches with Schmidt, work on new coding languages and open-source development, and almost daily postings of new code and product information on a company blog.
For instance, Google will ban developers from distributing their client software outside of the Google Mirror API Client distribution channel for Glass.
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But just as developers can use Android to build fresh apps for your smartphone, you can be sure that Google will allow developers to tinker with its glasses.
To fight piracy, Google will allow developers to check if the users of an app are licensed to use the app through its servers.
Since the open-source platform was first unveiled in 2007, Google has let developers, device makers and wireless carriers, and more recently even Facebook, modify the platform to suit their business interests.
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For years, theres bgeen a lot of talk about the potential of augmented reality, so it is exciting to watch that potential realized, whether at big companies like Google or DIY developers like Powell.
"Obviously, money motivated a lot of people to write, but the opportunity to have your program reviewed by Google and fellow developers has drawn a lot of smaller developers into the contest, " says AndroidGuys' Webster.
OpenSocial's greatest strength could be its greatest weakness: Google hopes applications developers will work with OpenSocial technology because they need only write an app once for it to run on many popular sites, including Orkut, MySpace, Friendster and Bebo.
Google first gave some leading developers the ability to reply to user comments on Google Play last year, but it looks like it's now letting considerably more devs in on the act.
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Answers and ran add-ons at Mozilla, and Paul Rademacher, who came into Google after doing the first mashups with Google Maps, and was something of an evangelist for the external developers working with Google products.
What Leviathan discovered probably should concern Android app developers and Google, rather than consumers who use Android phones and tablets.
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There is already an algorithm that measures mood, actually, that was created by developers at Google, called the Google-Profile of Mood States (GPOMS).
Almost immediately after he announced the product with a one-paragraph note on the Google company blog, developers in South Korea and Russia were testing his code.
Now Facebook, Apple, Google and smaller app developers are collecting nuanced details like location data and address-book info, and across a wider breadth of people (more than a billion in the case of Facebook).
Mr. Page's comments come one day before the start of Google's annual conference in San Francisco for software developers who create applications for Google's Android and Chrome computer-operating systems.
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Application developers have embraced Google's two-year-old Android Market because they want alternatives to Apple's App Store.
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The three firms hope to fund a community of developers to make Google Glass the next major computing platform.
The update announcement comes at a time when Google has been criticised by developers for not encouraging users, and handset makers, to adopt the latest operating software.
Given that Apple and Google offer more apps to developers and that iOS and Android together account for about 90 percent of the global mobile OS market, Heins will need to come up with better numbers to make his criticism of Apple stick.
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At the meeting, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said Mr. Page had "lost his voice" and "can't do any public speaking engagements for the time being, " including the coming week's Google annual conference for software developers and at the second-quarter earnings conference call that is expected in mid-July.
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Google is also releasing the connector software as an open-source product so developers can build connectors to what Google executives said are about 300 other content management systems on the market.
The Nexus 7 tablet, which goes on sale this month, is the first-ever Android tablet sold by Google, part of its efforts to convince developers to create apps for its mobile system and users to buy into its online marketplace called Google Play.
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Interestingly on the same day that news broke that Google has pledged not to sue any open source users or developers using its patents, unless of course they sue Google.
Google will encourage hundreds of outside developers to write new software for these phones.
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