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Rollover

Rollover means closing out a position in the current-month futures contract and taking a fresh position on the next-month futures contracts.

Script

In computer programming, a script is a program or sequence of instructions that is interpreted or carried out by another program rather than by the computer processor (as a compiled program is).

Scripting

A scripting language is a form of programming language that is usually interpreted rather than compiled. Conventional programs are converted permanently into executable files before they are run. In contrast, programs in scripting language are interpreted one command at a time. Scripting languages are often written to facilitate enhanced features of Web sites. These features are processed on the server but the script in a specific page runs on the user's browser.

Security

In the computer industry, refers to techniques for ensuring that data stored in a computer cannot be read or compromised by any individuals without authorization. Most security measures involve data encryption and passwords. Data encryption is the translation of data into a form that is unintelligible without a deciphering mechanism. A password is a secret word or phrase that gives a user access to a particular program or system.

Sharpen

All digital photographs lose a certain amount of sharpness. That means that most photographs will look a bit blurred and their details won’t be as prominent. Basically, sharpening makes the edges of a photographed object appear more distinct.

Serif:

In typography, serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface (or seriffed typeface). A typeface without serifs is called sans-serif, from the French sans, meaning “without”. Some typography sources refer to sans-serif typefaces as "grotesque" (in German "grotesk") or "Gothic," and serif types as "Roman."

Sans Serif:

In typography, a sans-serif or sans serif typeface is one that does not have the small features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. The term comes from the French word sans, meaning "without".
In print, sans-serif fonts are more typically used for headlines than for body text.[1] The conventional wisdom holds that serifs help guide the eye along the lines in large blocks of text. Sans-serifs, however, have acquired considerable acceptance for body text in Europe.
Sans-serif fonts have become the de facto standard for body text on-screen, especially online. This is partly because interlaced displays may show twittering on the fine details of the horizontal serifs. Additionally, the resolution of digital displays in general can make fine details like serifs disappear or appear too large.
Before the term “sans-serif” became standard in English typography, a number of other terms had been used. One of these outmoded terms for sans serif was gothic, which is still used in East Asian typography and sometimes seen in font names like Century Gothic. Sans-serif fonts are
sometimes, especially in older documents, used as a device for emphasis, due to their typically blacker type color.

Shockwave

A technology developed by Macromedia, Inc. that enables Web pages to include multimedia objects. To create a shockwave object, you use Macromedia's multimedia authoring tool called Director, and then compress the object with a program called Afterburner. You then insert a reference to the "shocked" file in your Web page. To see a Shockwave object, you need the Shockwave plug-in, a program that integrates seamlessly with your Web browser. The plug-in is freely available from Macromedia's Web site as either a Netscape Navigator plug-in or an ActiveX control.
Shockwave supports audio, animation, video and even processes user actions such as mouse clicks. It runs on all Windows platforms as well as the Macintosh.

A site map

(or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.
While some developers argue that site index is a more appropriately used term to relay page function, web visitors are used to seeing each term and generally associate both as one and the same. However, a site index is often used to mean an A-Z index that provides access to particular content, while a site map provides a general top-down view of the overall site contents.

Smart quotes

To make these typesetting characters easier to enter, publishing software often converts typewriter apostrophes to typographic apostrophes during text entry (with or without the user being aware of it). This is known as the “smart quotes” feature. Apostrophes and quotation marks that are not automatically altered by computer programs are known as “dumb quotes.” Some implementations incorrectly enter an opening single quotation mark in places where an apostrophe is required, for example, in abbreviated years like ’08 for 2008.

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Well, here came the end of the SCULPTURE practice lesson...
I am thankful for the opportunity to have such a nice teacher and such interactive lessons. It wasn' t only fun, -- it was also interesting and useful for developing our creative thinking.
I may also say that i liked the task very much - representing an animal through different materials - quite a captivating one! ..and I am happy that we hadn't just to sculpt in a boring classical style..we did both sculpting and fixing in order to achieve the best result.
I think the concept of sculpting is changing a lot...Now, a sculptor is not only working with clay - he can also arrange from other different materials, like metallic wires, paper, etc. And the contemporary methods are amazing too- Do anything you want, using any kind of materials- we have all the necessary things - WE JUST NEED TO BE CREATIVE! :)
Thank you!

BULL5. Cardboard

Cardboard bull with 2 different sides

BULL4. WOOD

BULL3. METALIC WIRES

BULL2. Clay/ABSTRACT

BULL1. Clay

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PHP

PHP is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages. You create pages with PHP and HTML. When a visitor opens the page, the server processes the PHP commands and then sends the results to the visitor's browser, just as with ASP or ColdFusion

Pixel

The pixel (a word invented from "picture element") is the basic unit of programmable color on a computer display or in a computer image.

Platform

In computers, a platform is an underlying computer system on which application programs can run. On personal computers, Windows 2000 and the Mac OS X are examples of two different platforms.

Raster

In computer graphics, a raster graphics image or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium. Raster images are stored in image files with varying formats (see Comparison of graphics file formats).

Reach

In the application of statistics to advertising and media analysis, reach refers to the total number of different people or households exposed, at least once, to a medium during a given period of time. Reach should not be confused with the number of people who will actually be exposed to and consume the advertising, though.

Release Candidade (RC)

The term release candidate (RC) refers to a version with potential to be a final product, ready to release unless fatal bugs emerge. In this stage of product stabilization (read QA cycle), all product features have been designed, coded and tested through one or more Beta cycles with no known showstopper-class bug.

Render

Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model, by means of computer programs. The model is a description of three-dimensional objects in a strictly defined language or data structure. It would contain geometry, viewpoint, texture, lighting, and shading information. The image is a digital image or raster graphics image.

Resolution

Image resolution describes the detail an image holds. The term applies equally to digital images, film images, and other types of images. Higher resolution means more image detail.Image resolution can be measured in various ways. Basically, resolution quantifies how close lines can be to each other and still be visibly resolved.

RGB

The RGB color model is an additive color model in which red, green, and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three additive primary colors, red, green, and blue.

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Event: In computing it is an action that is usually initiated outside the scope of a program and that is handled by a piece of code inside the program. Typically events are handled synchronous with the program flow, that is, the program has one or more dedicated places where events are handled. Typical sources of events include the user (who presses a key on the keyboard , in other words, through a keystroke). Another source is a hardware devices such as a timer. A computer program that changes its behavior in response to events is said to be event-driven often with the goal of being interactive

Mozilla Firefox is a web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Official versions are distributed under the terms of a proprietary. Firefox had 22.05% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of March 2009, making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide, after Internet Explorer.

Font: In typography it is traditionally defined as a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface. For example, the set of all characters for 9-point is a font, and the 10-point size would be a separate font, as would the 9 point upright. Since the introduction of computer fonts based on fully scalable outlines, a broader definition has evolved. Font is no longer size-specific, but still refers to a single style. Bulmer regular, Bulmer italic, Bulmer bold and Bulmer bold italic are four fonts, but one typeface.

Grayscale: In photography and computing, a digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample , that is, it carries only intensity information. Images of this sort, also known as black-and-white are composed exclusively of shades of gray , varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest.[1] Grayscale images are distinct from one-bit black-and-white images, which in the context of computer imaging are images with only the two colors , and white (also called bilevel or binary images. Grayscale images have many shades of gray in between. Grayscale images are also called monochromatic , denoting the absence of any chromatic variation.



Hexadecimal: In mathematics and computer science (also base , hexa, or hex) is a numeral system with a radix , or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0-9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F (or a through f) to represent values ten to fifteen. Its primary use is as a human friendly representation of binary coded values, so it is often used in digital electronics and computer engineering. Since each hexadecimal digit represents four binary digits (bits )-also called a nibble -it is a compact and easily translated shorthand to express values in base two .

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.[1] Its use for retrieving inter-linked resources led to the establishment of the World Wide Web . HTTP development was coordinated by the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), culminating in the publication of a series of Requests for Comments (RFCs), most notably RFC 2616 (June 1999), which defines HTTP/1.1, the version of HTTP in common use.

Image map: In HTML and XHTML , an image map is a list of coordinates relating to a specific image , created in order to hyperlink areas of the image to various destinations (as opposed to a normal image link, in which the entire area of the image links to a single destination). For example, a map of the world may have each country hyperlinked to further information about that country. The intention of an image map is to provide an easy way of linking various parts of an image without dividing the image into separate image files.



Impression: An online advertisement impression is a single appearance of an advertisement on a web page. Each time an advertisement loads onto a user's screen, the ad server may count that loading as one impression. However, the ad server may be programmed to exclude from the count certain nonqualifying activity such as a reload, internal user actions, and other events that the advertiser and ad serving company agreed to not count. For online advertising, the numbers of views can be a lot more precise. When a user requests a web page, the originating server creates a log entry. Also, a third party tracker can be placed in the web page to verify how many accesses that page had. There are other advertising pricing structures, which are generally referred to as Cost Per Action (CPA) :



Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search (HITS) (also known as Hubs and authorities ) is a link analysis algorithm that rates Web pages, developed by Jon Kleinberg . It determines two values for a page: its authority, which estimates the value of the content of the page, and its hub value, which estimates the value of its links to other pages

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MONOSPACE FONT
a font whose letters each occupy the same amount of space. This contrasts to variable-width fonts, where the letters differ in size to one another.

MP3
digital audio encoding, It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, standard for digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players.

MPEG
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) was formed to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. the way in which a decoder shall interpret the bitstream is defined.

MULTIMEDIA
is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content forms. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms.

OPEN SOURCE
is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge). Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical strategic element of their operations. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet, which provided access to diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities.

A page view (PV) or page impression is a request to load a single page of an Internet site . On the World Wide Web a page request would result from a web surfer clicking on a link on another HTML page pointing to the page in question. This should be contrasted with a hit, which refers to a request for a file from a web server .
In computer science and linguistics , parsing, or, more formally, syntactic analysis, is the process of analyzing a sequence of tokens (for example, words) to determine their grammatical structure with respect to a given (more or less) formal grammar .
A path is the general form of a file or directory name, specifying a unique location in a file system . A path points to a file system location by following the directory tree hierarchy expressed in a string of characters in which path components, separated by a delimiting character, represent each directory. The delimiting character is most commonly the slash ("/"), the backslash character ("\"), or colon (":"), though some operating systems may use a different delimiter . Paths are used extensively in computer science to represent the directory/file relationships common in modern operating systems, and are essential in the construction of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication . PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting e-mails to increase the security of e-mail communications.

content+personal page

ARTS MANAGEMENT website
all the students will have to have their own page.
here is the draft in google docs of what am i thinking to put there:
some of my articles, assignments. essays, may be CV and a couple of general words. Also- links to my facebook and this blog. :D

the bull

my bull is going to be represented through different techniques. first- it was the classical sculpture, second- an abstract bull and third- something very unusual but usual for the contemporary art- the idea or representation of the same bull -- through paper, glue, metal and carton....and honestly, i like the third way of representation more- it is so authentic and unique... It gives you even more ideas about a bull than watching the firs bull(in the classical sculpting method). It is about more movement, action and energy, which i think is the most important to express!

And here comes the pictures with the evolution of my bull :D

content website

i thought it is going to be much more simple...
i am the leader of the CONTENT group for our ART MANAGEMENT website.
Well, first- it is hard to construct the sentence in a foreign language, i mean not the simple one- but when you want to use some metaphors...you know how you would say the certain things in Romanian, but in English it sounds different. Searching for the right expression takes time and efforts :)
Second- i would say- it is complex- which i like but didn t expect!.. I mean i thought writing text just for the first welcome page, but the thing are getting more serious and we should also write comments about people, pictures, videos, etc.

A lot of work to do but we did a great job this lesson! Thank you, Zsofi for the BIG help! ;)




Don't really feel being an artist but interested in the World of Arts? Then, help managing it!

Be the main conductor of the Art Orchestra!
Arrange the artist's strokes in the market's demands!

(1st page)


BAAM (Bachelor of Arts in Arts Management)

What is it?

It is a course offered by IBS for the people who are interested in both Arts and Business. Just think about museums, galleries, concerts, theatres, exhibitions, performances or any other kind of artistic and entertaining product which requires creativity in Business. This market needs a big diversity of professions and BAAM programme gives you an insight of every of these Art fields.

Why in Budapest?

Budapest is one of the most beautiful cities in Central Europe with a rich cultural environment, charming places, inspiring views and a vibrating nightlife. Lots of foreigners recognized this after a short trip to Hungary and stayed for longer time after falling in love with the city. Besides this reasons, lots of international students decided to study here because of the affordable living expenses.

Why at IBS?

Our school is the only place in Central Europe that gives the students a great opportunity to study how to Manage Arts from real experienced professionals.
Our international environment will make your student life more colorful and the Oxford diploma - your CV more powerful!

(2nd page PHILosophy)

DEFINITIONS

CMYK
ink is typically applied in the order of the abbreviation- cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black. The CMYK model works by partially or entirely masking certain colors on the typically white background

CPC
is the amount of money an advertiser pays search engines and other Internet publishers for a single click on its advertisement that brings one visitor to its website.

CPM
It is important to remember that when someone says something like, "our CPM is $5," this means that the cost per impression is $0.005. where M is the roman numeral of 1000). When used in advertising it relates to the cost per thousand page impressions.

CREATIVE
(noun, in advertising), referring to materials, imagery, or collateral prescriptively produced through creativity and the creative process

CRYPTOGRAPHY
is the practice and study of hiding information. In modern times cryptography is considered a branch of both mathematics and computer science and is affiliated closely with information theory, computer security and engineering. Cryptography is used in applications present in technologically advanced societies; examples include the security of ATM cards, computer passwords and electronic commerce which all depend on cryptography.

CSS
is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation
CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the colors, fonts, and layout

DEMOGRAPHICS
Marketers typically combine several variables to define a demographic profile. A demographic profile (often shortened to "a demographic") provides enough information about the typical member of this group to create a mental picture of this hypothetical aggregate. For example, a marketer might speak of the single, female, middle-class, age 18 to 24, college educated demographic.

DEVICE INDEPENDENT
A program or file is device independent when its function is universal on different types of device.
For the Web, this means writing simple common denominator HTML&CSS so that most Web browsers on most devices can render it.

DNS
gives the name for IP address

DPI
Dots per inch (DPI) is a measure of spatial printing or video dot density, in particular the number of individual dots that can be placed within the span of one linear inch (2.54 cm.) The DPI value tends to correlate with image resolution, but is related only indirectly.

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API - An application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, data structures, object classes and/or protocols provided by libraries and/or operating system services in order to support the building of applications

A banner is a flag or other piece of cloth bearing a symbol, logo, slogan or other messageAdvertisements on the Internet which carry the shape of a banner are also commonly called "banners".

Color depth or bit depth, is a computer graphics term describing the number of bits used to represent the color of a single pixel in a bitmapped image or video frame buffer. This concept is also known as bits per pixel (bpp), particularly when specified along with the number of bits used. Higher color depth gives a broader range of distinct colors.

In computer graphics, a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images.

Brand management is the application of marketing techniques to a specific product, product line, or brand. It seeks to increase the product's perceived value to the customer and thereby increase brand franchise and brand equity

Broadband in data communications is frequently used in a more technical sense to refer to data transmission where multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to increase the effective rate of transmission, regardless of data signaling rate.

A Web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music, games and other information typically located on a Web page at a Web site on the World Wide Web or a local area network.

A cache is a temporary storage area where frequently accessed data can be stored for rapid access. Once the data is stored in the cache, future use can be made by accessing the cached copy rather than re-fetching or recomputing the original data, so that the average access time is shorter.

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard protocol for interfacing external application software with an information server, commonly a web server.

The task of such an information server is to respond to requests (in the case of web servers, requests from client web browsers) by returning output. Each time a request is received, the server analyzes what the request asks for, and returns the appropriate output

Click-through rate or CTR is a way of measuring the success of an online advertising campaign. A CTR is obtained by dividing the number of users who clicked on an ad on a web page by the number of times the ad was delivered (impressions). For example, if a banner ad was delivered 100 times (impressions delivered) and one person clicked on it (clicks recorded), then the resulting CTR would be 1 percent.

things are getting hotter ! :D

well...enough with the classical style of working with sculpture :)..now we start doing smth even more interesting! And this is...--- this is.... --- abstract/modernist sculpture:)..which means- not paying too much attention to the technical part and sculpt it so right BUT put the emphasis on the IDEA.
In my case- i will sculpt the same bull- but in an abstract form!
mmmm...that s even more exciting! :D

i have my website'''

uraaaaaaaaa
it is almost ready!!!
i did what i wanted to do!
happy!!!!
here are the 3 ready pages- the main one(first page), the DANCE one and the MUSIC one ))

Animals

Well, wouldn t say it was difficult to do it. For me, sculpture is a bit easier than drawing portraits..but still...of course there are some disproportions..it s the first time i am sculpting animals :) in the same time, i am happy for my result)

...

still working on the website
it will be about Budapest events
i am getting disappointed about the Dream weaver, because i cannot fulfill my imagination in designing the page how i want..but anyway i enjoy it...
so, the site will be about events, the upcoming events and some of my feedback about the events which have already passed.
looking forward to seeing the final result!
here is the draft in Google docs!

lay out
draw apdv
css (wright)
ap elements
apBanner (rename it)
guidelines (green lines from the left)
leyout
apd
draw table
rename on zour wright apmenu like content and menu
color select css stzles all plus
ap banner
background
apply
AT THE BOOTM OF THE PAGE- FONDS SIZE, BUT BETTER TO CLICK ON BAND ON THE RIGHT
COMMON-3 IMAGES
OR INSERT - IMAGE
NAME IT-OPICTURE AFTER LAYOUT AND DRAW A BOX ON ap ELEMENTSÍ11
SELECT PICTURE
PRESS OPTIMIYE
FILE
PLAY WITH PERCENTAGE
STYLE PAGE
CONTENT
BOX
PADDING
CLICK 2 TIMES ON CONTENT

MY HAND

WOWww.. it is so great and strange and may be in a sense scary to see your hand..which is not your hand..but a white stone which has the exact form of your hand...fascinating...strange feeling..interesting method.
And it doesn't meter that you felt cold and not really pleasant perception on your hand (i mean the plaster) which is firs cold and then becomes hot - for 40min.. All the thoughts about the inconveniences will disappear from your mind, if you think about your children or grandchildren who may see this piece in many many years from now on...
Hmmmm...I imagine how I find this piece of plaster after a looooooooooong time..i am old..and am looking at it and remind myself when i was19 .. sad..:(

FINAL RESULT

Starting the website in Dreamweaver

CSS style sheet
Starter page
health and nutrition home page (ex)

practicing Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver
site
new site
advanced
name the site
open folders
ok
in the right corner u will see all the necessar folders
CSS
attach external style sheet
browse
CSS
Main
media- screen
underlain
new CSS Rule
tag
name- h1
ok
color-red

this is what we did today. Downloaded lesson nr 3 - an example of a website.We changed some stuff..colors..letters, in one word- changing the design.

API

An application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, data structures, object classes and/or protocols provided by libraries and/or operating system services in order to support the building of applications.[1] An API may be:

Language-dependent; that is, available only in a particular programming language, using the particular syntax and elements of the programming language to make the API convenient to use in this particular context.

Language-independent; that is, written in a way that means it can be called from several programming languages (typically an assembly/C-level interface). This is a desired feature for a service-style API that is not bound to a particular process or system and is available as a remote procedure call.

There are several kinds of API publishing policies often encountered, including the following:

Companies do not release API information to anybody outside of the company.
Companies protect information on their APIs from the general public. For example, Sony used to make its official PlayStation 2 API available only to licensed PlayStation developers. This enabled Sony to control who wrote PlayStation 2 games. Such control can have quality control benefits and potential license revenue.
Companies make their APIs freely available. For example, Microsoft makes the Microsoft Windows API public and Apple releases its APIs Carbon and Cocoa so that software can be written for their platform.

[edit] API examples
Below are listed some well-known APIs.

The PC BIOS call interface
Comedi Data Acquisition API
Single UNIX Specification (SUS)
Windows API
The various Java Platform Edition APIs (Micro, Standard, Enterprise)
ASPI for SCSI device interfacing
Carbon and Cocoa for the Macintosh OS
iPhone API
OpenGL cross-platform 3D graphics API
DirectX for Microsoft Windows
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)
Google Maps API
MediaWiki API
YouTube API
PayPal Payment Pro
Facebook API (Facebook)

MASK. Next steps.

in order to be clear what i am talking about- (Daniel thx 4 mobilepics!)- here is the explanation with pictures:
So, we did the form of our mask,covered it with a white substance which gets dry in 20min, then took out the clay from it AND Now - work with this form!..which is a kind of negative of our mask.
Next step is to cover it with soap. Not too much!..then, take out the unnecessary amount of soap with the brush. After that - WC paper in action! :))... we need water with glue. We deep the paper in this water and cover our form..after 2 slices- doing the same but with magazine paper. Min 5 slices.

website.

1st lesson-
choosing a travel agency webpage we like.., and presenting min.5 reasons why do we like it. .. Couldn t resist not writing something which i didn t like too :)
honestly, it was not so easy to find a page i DO like...all of them had something wrong in their design or color or information displayed, etc.
Here is what i ve got>
http://www.visitmaldives.com/

REASONS I LIKE IT

1. colors are not too vivid, pleasant for the eye
2. it is not too much information on the first page. easy to follow the links i am interested in. well organized info
3. i can read it in many languages
4. it prepaires my trip step by step *(destination, getting there, where to stay, what to do)
5. can download visitor s guide
6. photo galery
7. industry news
8. can see even videos
9. pics are loading very fast

Something I DO NOT like

brochures should be desplayed on the whole page, not just in the left corner! / the right part of the page is totally white.


2 lesson/ dreamweaver..finding out some tricks in how to organize well the info for our future personal website >D

1st 2 lessons

we are doing a MASK !!!
first- a sketch, finding the idea - what kind of mask it is going to be.
second- clay! .. modeling the shapes.
third- applying a kind of pottery on our form, which was prepared by mixing the white powder with water.. a sticky substance which will strengthen in 20min.
And..here we are! We have the form of our mask!
What are the next steps?
Looking forward to seeing what happens next lesson :D
excited!

Our website.1st steps.

Well, here we are.
First steps for creating a web site.
So many interesting ideas, so many opportunities!
What did we do? -- smth very simple! -- entered our google account and began working in power point. Wasn't difficult at all, but still we found out (through our small mistackes)- how a good website should look like. These small mistackes are most of the time-the main reason of why the website is not good - and it may be about anything- the too vivid color or the too small letters, or not the right picture...So, you should be very attentive about these small tricks and try to be unusual!
Next- was the Dreamweaver, a session introducing the tools you can use to create websites. This is the most widespread option among professionals today. Easy to follow, nice result at the end. Really good software!!!

Early history

Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2003.Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page, a Ph.D. student at Stanford.[1] In search for a dissertation theme, Page considered—among other things—exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.[2] His supervisor Terry Winograd encouraged him to pick this idea (which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got"[3]) and Page focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks to be valuable information about that page (with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind).[2] In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student and close friend, whom he had first met in the summer of 1995 in a group of potential new students which Brin had volunteered to show around the campus.[2] Page's web crawler began exploring the web in March 1996, setting out from Page's own Stanford home page as its only starting point.[2] To convert the backlink data that it gathered into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm.[2] Analyzing BackRub's output—which, for a given URL, consisted of a list of backlinks ranked by importance—it occurred to them that a search engine based on PageRank would produce better results than existing techniques (existing search engines at the time essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page).[2][4] A small search engine called RankDex was already exploring a similar strategy.[5]

Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant Web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. By early 1997, the backrub page described the state as follows:[6]

Some Rough Statistics (from August 29th, 1996)
Total indexable HTML urls: 75.2306 Million
Total content downloaded: 207.022 gigabytes
...

BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux. The primary database is kept on an Sun Ultra II with 28GB of disk. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have provided a great deal of very talented implementation help. Sergey Brin has also been very involved and deserves many thanks.

-Larry Page page@cs.stanford.edu

Originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google Inc., on September 4, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.

The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol,"[7][8] which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb, "google," was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning, "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."[9][10]

By the end of 1998, Google had an index of about 60 million pages.

Do u know where GOOGLE comes from? :)

http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html#1

1995
Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 22, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 21, is assigned to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree about most everything during this first meeting.
1996
Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year -- eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.
1997
Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google -- a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
1998
August
Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn't exist yet: a company called Google Inc.
September
Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.
Google files for incorporation in California on September 4. Shortly thereafter, Larry and Sergey open a bank account in the newly-established company's name and deposit Andy Bechtolsheim's check.
Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he's a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.
December
"PC Magazine" reports that Google "has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results" and recognizes us as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.
1999
February
We outgrow our garage office and move to new digs at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just 8 employees.
April
Yoshka, our first "company" dog, comes to work with our senior vice president of operations, Urs Hoelzle.
May
Omid Kordestani joins to run sales -- the first non-engineering hire.
June
Our first press release announces a $25 million round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins; John Doerr and Michael Moritz join the board. The release quotes Moritz describing "Googlers" as "people who use Google."
August
We move to our first Mountain View location: 2400 E. Bayshore. Mountain View is a few miles south of Stanford University, and north of the older towns of Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose.
November
Charlie Ayers joins as Google's first chef. He wins the job in a cook-off judged by the company's 40 employees. Previous claim to fame: catering for the Grateful Dead.
2000
April
On April Fool's Day, we announce the MentalPlex: Google's ability to read your mind as you visualize the search results you want. Thus begins our annual foray in the Silicon Valley tradition of April 1 hoaxes.
May
The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.
We win our first Webby Awards: Technical Achievement (voted by judges) and Peoples' Voice (voted by users).
June
We forge a partnership with Yahoo! to become their default search provider.
We announce the first billion-URL index and therefore Google becomes the world's largest search engine.
September
We start offering search in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, bringing our total number of supported languages to 15.
October
Google AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting and performance feedback.
December
Google Toolbar is released. It's a browser plug-in that makes it possible to search without visiting the Google homepage.
2001
January
We announce the hire of Silicon Valley veteran Wayne Rosing as our first VP of engineering operations.
February
Our first public acquisition: Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, an archive of 500 million Usenet discussions dating back to 1995. We add search and browse features and launch it as Google Groups.
March
Eric Schmidt is named chairman of the board of directors.
Google.com is available in 26 languages.
April
Swedish Chef becomes a language preference.
July
Image Search launches, offering access to 250 million images.
August
We open our first international office, in Tokyo.
Eric Schmidt becomes our CEO. Larry and Sergey are named presidents of products and technology, respectively.
October
A new partnership with Universo Online (UOL) makes Google the major search service for millions of Latin Americans.
December
Keeping track: Our index size grows to 3 billion web documents.
2002
February
Klingon becomes one of 72 language interfaces.
The first Google hardware is released: it's a yellow box called the Google Search Appliance that businesses can plug into their computer network to enable search capabilities for their own documents.
We release a major overhaul for AdWords, including new cost-per-click pricing.
April
For April Fool's Day, we announce that pigeons power our search results.
We release a set of APIs, enabling developers to query more than 2 billion Web documents and program in their favorite environment, including Java, Perl and Visual Studio.
May
We announce a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.
We release Google Labs for users to try out beta technologies fresh from our R&D team.
September
Google News launches with 4000 news sources.
October
We open our first Australian office in Sydney.
December
Users can now search for stuff to buy with Froogle (later called Google Product Search).
2003
January
American Dialect Society members vote "google" the "most useful" Word of the Year for 2002.
February
We acquire Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger.
March
We announce a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google's vast network of advertisers. (Weeks later, on April 23, we acquired Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.)
April
We launch Google Grants, our in-kind advertising program for nonprofit organizations to run in-kind ad campaigns for their cause.
October
Registration opens for programmers to compete for cash prizes and recognition at our first-ever Code Jam. Coders can work in Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.
December
We launch Google Print (which later becomes Google Book Search), indexing small excerpts from books to appear in search results.
2004
January
orkut launches as a way for us to tap into the sphere of social networking.
February
Larry Page is inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
Our search index hits a new milestone: 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images.
March
We move to our new "Googleplex" at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, giving 800+ employees a campus environment.
We formalize our enterprise unit with the hire of Dave Girouard as general manager; reporters begin reporting in April about our vision for the enterprise search business.
We introduce Google Local, offering relevant neighborhood business listings, maps, and directions. (Later, Local is combined with Google Maps.)
April
For April Fool's we announce plans to open the Googlunaplex, a new research facility on the Moon.
May
We announce the first winners of the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, awarded to outstanding women studying computer science. Today these scholarships are open to students in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe.
August
Our Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock takes place on Wall Street on August 18. Opening price: $85 per share.
September
There are more than 100 Google domains (Norway and Kenya are #102 and #103). The list has since grown to more than 150.
October
We formally open our office in Dublin, Ireland, with 150 multilingual Googlers, a visit from Sergey and Larry, and recognition from the Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Mary Harney.
Google SMS (short message service) launches; send your text search queries to GOOGL or 466453 on your mobile device.
Larry and Sergey are named Fellows by the Marconi Society, which recognizes "lasting scientific contributions to human progress in the field of communications science and the Internet."
We spotlight our new engineering offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India with a visit from Sergey and Larry.
Google Desktop Search is introduced: users can now search for files and documents stored on their own hard drive using Google technology.
We launch the beta version of Google Scholar, a free service that helps users search scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
We acquire Keyhole, a digital mapping company whose technology will later become Google Earth.
November
Our index of web pages reaches 8 billion.
December
We open our Tokyo R&D (research & development) center to attract the best and brightest among Japanese and other Asian engineers.
The Google Print Program (since renamed Google Book Search) expands through digital scanning partnerships with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, and Oxford plus the New York Public Library.
2005
February
We hit a milestone in Image Search: 1.1 billion images indexed.
Google Maps goes live.
March
We launch code.google.com, a new place for developer-oriented resources, including all of our APIs.
Some 14,000 programmers from six countries compete for cash prizes and recognition at our first coding competition in India, with top scores going to Ardian Kristanto Poernomo of Singapore.
We acquire Urchin, a web analytics company whose technology is used to create Google Analytics.
April
Our first Google Maps release in Europe is geared to U.K. users.
For April Fool's, we announce a magical beverage that makes its imbibers more intelligent, and therefore better capable of properly using search results.
Google Maps now features satellite views and directions.
Google Local goes mobile, and includes SMS driving directions.
My Search History launches in Labs, allowing users to view all the web pages they've visited and Google searches they've made over time.
We release Site Targeting, an AdWords feature giving advertisers the ability to better target their ads to specific content sites.
May
We release Blogger Mobile, enabling bloggers to use their mobile phones to post and send photos to their blogs.
Google Scholar adds support for institutional access: searchers can now locate journal articles within their own libraries.
Personalized Homepage (now iGoogle ) is designed for people to customize their own Google homepage with content modules they choose.
June
We hold our first Summer of Code, a 3-month $2 million program that aims to help computer science students contribute to open source software development.
Google Mobile Web Search is released, specially formulated for viewing search results on mobile phones.
We unveil Google Earth: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.
We release Personalized Search in Labs: over time, your (opt-in) search history will closely reflect your interests.
API for Maps released; developers can embed Google Maps on many kinds of mapping services and sites.
August
Google scores well in the U.S. government's 2005 machine translation evaluation. (We've done so in subsequent years as well.)
We launch Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables Gmail users to talk or IM with friends quickly and easily talk using a computer microphone and speaker (no phone required) for free.
September
Overlays in Google Earth illuminate the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina around New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Some rescue teams use these tools to locate stranded victims.
DARPA veteran Vint Cerf joins Google to carry on his quest for a global open Internet.
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee begins work at our new Research and Development Center in China.
Google Blog Search goes live; it's the way to find current and relevant blog postings on particular topics throughout the enormous blogosphere.
October
Feed aficionados rejoice as Google Reader, a feed reader, is introduced at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.
Googlers volunteer to produce the first Mountain View book event with Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink" and "The Tipping Point." Since then, the http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks has hosted more than 480 authors in 12 offices across the U.S., Europe and India.
November
We release Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, for measuring the impact of websites and marketing campaigns.
We announce the opening of our first offices in São Paulo and Mexico City.
December
Google Transit launches in Labs. People in the Portland, Oregon metro area can now plan their trips on public transportation at one site.
Gmail for mobile launches in the United States.
2006
January
Our first Code Jam in China concludes in Beijing. The winner, graduate student Chuan Xu, is one of more than 13,000 registrants.
We announce the acquisition of dMarc, a digital radio advertising company.
Google.cn, a local domain version of Google, goes live in China.
We introduce Picasa in 25 more languages, including Polish, Thai and Vietnamese.
February
We release Chat in Gmail, using the instant messaging tools from Google Talk.
Eric Schmidt is inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Larry Brilliant becomes the executive director of Google.org, our philanthropic arm.
Google News for mobile launches.
March
We announce the acquisition of Writely, a web-based word processing application that subsequently becomes the basis for Google Docs.
A team working from Mountain View, Bangalore and New York collaborates to create Google Finance, our approach to an improved search experience for financial information.
April
For April Fool's we unveil a new product, Google Romance: "Dating is a search problem."
We launch Google Calendar, complete with sharing and group features.
We release Maps for France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
May
We release Google Trends, a way to visualize the popularity of searches over time.
June
We announce Picasa Web Albums, allowing Picasa users to upload and share their photos online
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) adds "Google" as a verb.
We announce Google Checkout, a fast and easy way to pay for online purchases.
Gmail, Google News and iGoogle become available on mobile phones in eight more languages besides English: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese and Turkish.
Gmail launches in Arabic and Hebrew, bringing the number of interfaces up to 40.
July
At Google Code Jam Europe, nearly 10,000 programmers from 31 countries compete at Google Dublin for the top prizes; Tomasz Czajka from Poland wins the final round.
August
We launch free citywide WiFi in Mountain View.
More than 100 libraries on 10 campuses of the University of California join the Google Books Library Project.
Star Trek's 40th Anniversary Convention in Las Vegas features a Google booth showcasing tools appropriate for intergalactic use.
Apps for Your Domain, a suite of applications designed for organizations of all sizes, and including including Gmail and Calendar, is released.
Google Book Search begins offering free PDF downloads of books in the public domain.
September
We add an archive search to Google News, with more than 200 years of historical articles.
Featured Content for Google Earth includes overlays from the UN Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, the Jane Goodall Institute, and the National Park Service.
The University Complutense of Madrid becomes the first Spanish-language library to join the Google Books Library Project.
October
Together with LitCam and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning, we launch the Literacy Project, offering resources for teachers, literacy groups and anyone interested in reading promotion.
We announce our acquisition of YouTube.
We release web-based applications Docs & Spreadsheets: Word processor Docs is a reworking of Writely (acquired in March).
Google Custom Search Engine launches, giving bloggers and website owners the ability to create a search engine tailored to their own interests.
We acquire JotSpot, a collaborative wiki platform, which later becomes Google Sites.
November
The first nationwide Doodle 4 Google contest in the U.K. takes place with the theme My Britain. More than 15,000 kids in Britain enter, and 13-year old Katherine Chisnall is chosen to have her doodle displayed on www.google.co.uk. There have been Doodle 4 Google contests in several other years and countries since.
December
We release Patent Search in the U.S., indexing more than 7 million patents dating back to 1790.
2007
January
We announce a partnership with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile telecom carrier, to provide mobile and Internet search services in China.
February
We release Google Maps in Australia, complete with local business results and mobile capability.
Google Docs & Spreadsheets is available in eleven more languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian.
For Valentine's Day, we open up Gmail to everyone. (Previously, it was available by invitation only).
Google Apps Premier Edition launches, bringing cloud computing to businesses.
The http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3412849248991F4A kicks off with Senator Hillary Clinton, the first of several 2008 Presidential candidates, including Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain, to visit the Googleplex.
We introduce traffic information to Google Maps for more than 30 cities around the US.
March
Our first Latin American software coding contest ends with Fábio Dias Moreira of Brazil taking the grand prize. He scored more points than 5,000 other programmers from all over the continent.
We sign partnerships to give free access to Google Apps for Education to 70,000 university students in Kenya and Rwanda.
April
This April Fool's Day is extra busy: not only do we introduce the Gmail Paper Archive and TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) -- we lose (and find) a real snake in our New York office!
We add eight more languages to Blogger, bringing the total to 19.
May
In partnership with the Growing Connection, we plant a vegetable garden in the middle of the Googleplex, the output of which is incorporated into our café offerings.
We move into permanent space in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Governor Jennifer Granholm helps us celebrate. The office is an AdWords support site.
At our Searchology event, we announce new strides taken towards universal search. Now video, news, books, image and local results are all integrated together in one search result.
Google Hot Trends launches, listing the current 100 most active queries, showing what people are searching for at the moment.
Street View debuts in Google Maps in five U.S. cities: New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver.
On Developer Day, we announce Google Gears (now known just as Gears), an open source technology for creating offline web applications.
June
Google Maps gets prime placement on the original Apple iPhone.
YouTube becomes available in nine more domains: Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland and the U.K.
We announce a partnership with Salesforce.com, combining that company's on-demand CRM applications with AdWords.
We unveil several "green" initiatives: RechargeIT, aimed at accelerating the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the completion of our installation of solar panels at the Googleplex, in Mountain View, and our intention to be completely carbon-neutral by the end of 2007. We also announce the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, in collaboration with Intel, Dell, and more than 30 other companies.
Google Earth Outreach is introduced, designed to help nonprofit organizations use Google Earth to advocate their causes.
July
We announce the acquisition of Postini.
The first CNN/YouTube debate takes place between the eight U.S. Democratic Presidential candidates. (The Republicans get their turn in November 2007.)
Google Finance becomes available for non-U.S. markets for the first time, in Canada.
Google Apps is now available in 28 languages.
August
We ask users for their interpretation of how Gmail travels around the world, and get more than 1,100 video responses from more than 65 different countries.
To infinity and beyond! Sky launches inside Google Earth, including layers for constellation information and virtual tours of galaxies.
September
AdSense for Mobile is introduced, giving sites optimized for mobile browsers the ability to host the same ads as standard websites.
Together with the X PRIZE Foundation we announce the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon for a $30 million prize purse.
We add Presently, a new application for making slide presentations, to Google Docs.
Google Reader becomes available in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, English (U.K.), Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese and Korean.
October
We partner with IBM on a supercomputing initiative so that students can learn to work at Internet scale on computing challenges.
November
We announce OpenSocial, a set of common APIs for developers to build applications for social networks.
Android, the first open platform for mobile devices, and a collaboration with other companies in the Open Handset Alliance, is announced. Soon after, we introduce the $10 million Android Developer Challenge.
Google.org announces RE, an initiative designed to create electricity from renewable sources that are cheaper than coal. The initial focus is on support for solar thermal power and wind power technologies.
December
The Queen of England launches The Royal Channel on YouTube. She is the first monarch to establish a video presence this way.
2008
January
Google.org announces five key initiatives: in addition to the previously-announced REbid in the 700 MHz spectrum auction to ensure that a more open wireless world becomes available to consumers.
February
For people searching in Hebrew, Arabic, or other right-to-left languages, we introduce a feature aimed at making searches easier by detecting the direction of a query.
Google Sites, a revamp of the acquisition JotSpot, debuts. Sites enables users to create collaborative websites with embedded videos, documents, and calendars.
March
We finally complete the acquisition deal for DoubleClick.
Together with Yahoo and MySpace, we announce the OpenSocial Foundation, an independent non-profit group designed to provide transparency and operational guidelines around the open software tools for social computing.
April
We feature 16 April Fool's jokes from our offices around the world, including the new airline announced with Sir Richard Branson (Virgle), AdSense for Conversations, a Manpower Search (China), and the Google Wake-Up Kit. Bonus foolishness: all viewers linking to YouTube-featured videos are "Rickrolled."
A new version of Google Earth launches, incorporating Street View and 12 more languages. At the same time, KML 2.2, which began as the Google Earth file format, is accepted as an official Open Geospacial Consortium standard.
Google Website Optimizer comes out of beta, expanding from an AdWords-only product. It's a free website-testing tool with which users can continually test different combinations of their website content (such as images and text), to see which ones yield the most sales, sign-ups, leads or other goals.
We launch Google Finance China allowing Chinese investors to get stock and mutual fund data as a result of this collaboration between our New York and Shanghai teams.
We introduce a collection of 70+ new themes ("skins") for iGoogle, contributed by such artists and designers as Dale Chihuly, Oscar de la Renta, Kwon Ki-Soo and Philippe Starck.
May
Following both the Sichuan earthquake in China and Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma), Google Earth adds new satellite information for the region(s) to help recovery efforts.
Reflecting our commitment to searchers worldwide, Google search now supports Unicode 5.1.
At a developer event, we preview Google FriendConnect, a set of functions and applications enabling website owners to easily make their sites social by adding registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, plus applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
With IPv4 addresses (the numbers that computers use to connect to the Internet) running low, Google search becomes available over IPv6, a new IP address space large enough to assign almost three billion networks to every person on the planet. Vint Cerf is a key proponent of broad and immediate adoption of IPv6.
Google Translate adds 10 more languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish), bringing the total to 23.
We release Google Health to the public, allowing people to safely and securely collect, store, and manage their medical records and health information online.
We introduce a series of blog posts detailing the many aspects of good search results on the Official Google Blog.
California 6th grader Grace Moon wins the U.S. 2008 Doodle 4 Google competition for her doodle "Up In The Clouds."
June
Real-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time.
With the launch of Google Site Search, site owners can enable Google-powered searches on their own websites.
A new version of Maps for Mobile debuts, putting Google Transit directions on phones in more than 50 cities worldwide.
For the first time, Google engineers create the problems for contestants to solve at the 7th Annual Code Jam competition.
July
We provide Street View for the entire 2008 Tour de France route -- the first launch of Street View imagery in Europe.
Our first downloadable iPhone app, featuring My Location and word suggestions for quicker mobile searching, debuts with the launch of the Apple 3G iPhone.
We work with the band Radiohead to make a music video of their song "House of Cards," using only data, and not cameras.
Our indexing system for processing links indicates that we now count 1 trillion unique URLs (and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day).
August
Street View is available in several cities in Japan and Australia - the first time it's appeared outside of North America or Europe.
Google Suggest feature arrives on Google.com, helping formulate queries, reduce spelling errors, and reduce keystrokes.
Just in time for the U.S. political conventions, we launch a site dedicated to the 2008 U.S. elections, with news, video and photos as well as tools for teachers and campaigners.
September
Word gets out about Chrome a bit ahead of schedule when the comic book that introduces our new open source browser is released earlier than planned on September 1. The browser officially becomes available for worldwide download a day later.
We get involved with the U.S. political process at the presidential nominating conventions for the Democratic and Republican parties.
We release an upgrade for Picasa, including new editing tools, a movie maker, and easier syncing with the web. At the same time, Picasa Web Albums is updated with a new feature allowing users to "name tag" people in photos.
Google News Archive helps to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.
T-Mobile announces the G1, the first phone built on the Android operating system. At the same time, we release a new Android Software Developer Kit, and the Open Handset Alliance announces its intention to open source the entire Android platform by the end of 2008. The G1 becomes available for purchase in October.
We launch Transit for the New York metro region, making public transit information easily available for users of the largest transportation agency in the U.S.
Thanks to all of our users, Google celebrates 10 fast-paced years.
October
We release the first draft of Clean Energy 2030, a proposal to wean the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity use and to reduce oil use by cars 40 percent by 2030. The plan could generate billions in savings as well as millions of "green jobs."
We introduce Google Earth for the iPhone and iPod touch, complete with photos, geo-located Wikipedia articles, and the ability to tilt your phone to view 3D terrain.
Googlers in Mountain View build a zip line to travel across the small Permanente Creek separating a few of our bulidings.
November
In a vote by 5-0, the FCC formally agrees to open up "white spaces," or unused television spectrum, for wireless broadband service. We see this decision as a clear victory for Internet users and anyone who wants good wireless communications.
After we discover a correlation between certain search queries and CDC data on flu symptoms, we release Google Flu Trends, an indicator of flu activity around the U.S. as much as two weeks earlier than traditional flu surveillance systems.
We announce the availability of the LIFE photo archive in Google Image Search. Only a fraction of the approximately 10 million photos have ever been seen before.
SearchWiki launches as a way for users to customize their own search experience by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Comments can also be read by other users.
December
We invite musicians around the globe to audition to participate in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, the world's first collaborative online orchestra.
Google Friend Connect is available to any webmaster looking to easily integrate social features into their site.
Street View coverage more than doubles in the United States, including several states never before seen on Street View (Maine, West Virginia, North Dakota, and South Dakota).
We partner with publishers to digitize millions of magazine articles and make them readily available on Google Book Search.
And on and on What's next from Google? It's hard to say. We don't talk much about what lies ahead, because we believe one of our chief competitive advantages is surprise. You can always take a peek at some of the ideas our engineers are currently kicking around by visiting them at Google Labs. Have fun, but be sure to wear your safety goggles.