Learn Renewing Quondam Resolutions For The Novel Year
As nosotros caput into 2012, we’ve been sticking to about sometime resolutions—the necessitate to focus on edifice amazing products that millions of people beloved to role every day. That way taking a difficult await at products that replicate other features, haven’t achieved the hope nosotros had hoped for or can’t hold upward properly integrated into the overall Google experience.
Here’s an update on about products that volition hold upward merged, open-sourced, or phased out inwards the coming months:
Here’s an update on about products that volition hold upward merged, open-sourced, or phased out inwards the coming months:
- Google Message Continuity (GMC): In Dec 2010 nosotros launched an electronic mail disaster recovery production for corporation customers that role Google's cloud to dorsum upward emails originally sent or received inwards an on-premise, Microsoft Exchange system. In the fourth dimension since nosotros launched, we've seen hundreds of businesses sign upward for it. By comparison, inwards that same time, we've seen millions of businesses motion alone to the cloud alongside Google Apps, benefitting from disaster recovery capabilities built straight into Apps. Going forrard we've decided to focus our efforts on Google Apps as well as destination back upward for GMC. Current GMC customers volition hold upward able to role GMC for the duration of their contract as well as are encouraged to consider using Google Apps equally their principal messaging as well as collaboration platform.
- Google Sky Map: This app was created yesteryear one-half a dozen Googlers at the Pittsburgh office inwards their twenty percentage fourth dimension to present off the amazing capabilities of the sensors inwards the first-generation Android phones as well as offering a window into the sky. Since nosotros launched the tool inwards 2009, nosotros stimulate got managed to part our passion alongside to a greater extent than than twenty 1000000 Android users. We volition hold upward open-sourcing Sky Map as well as are collaborating alongside Carnegie Mellon University inwards a partnership that volition run into farther evolution of Sky Map equally a serial of pupil projects.
- Needlebase: We are retiring this information management platform, which nosotros acquired from ITA Software, on June 1, 2012. The applied scientific discipline is beingness evaluated for integration into Google's other data-related initiatives.
- Picnik: We acquired this online photograph editor inwards 2010. We’re retiring the service on Apr 19, 2012 as well as then the Picnik squad tin perish along creating photo-editing magic across Google products. You tin download a nada file of your creations through Picnik Takeout or re-create them to Google+. As of now, the premium service is costless to everyone. Premium members volition have a total refund inwards the coming weeks.
- Social Graph API: This API makes information almost the populace connections betwixt people on the spider web available for developers. The API isn’t experiencing the form of adoption we’d like, as well as is beingness deprecated equally of today. It volition hold upward fully retired on Apr 20, 2012.
- Urchin: In 2005 nosotros acquired Urchin, whose online spider web analytics production became the foundation for Google Analytics, helping businesses of all sizes mensurate their websites as well as online marketing. We’re fully committed to edifice an industry-leading online analytics product, as well as then we’re saying goodbye to the client-hosted version, known equally Urchin Software. New Urchin Software licenses volition no longer hold upward available afterwards March 2012.