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1. | Overview: Google+ Companion
Get the inside scoop on the newest social networking site: Google+
If you think you've seen it all when it comes to social networking sites, you haven't seen Google+ yet! Built from the ground up to be useful to both desktop and mobile users, Google+ offers the same great features as other popular social network sites yet, Google+ goes one step further by integrating popular Google technologies and introducing exciting new and unique features such as "Circles," "Hang," and "Sparks." Using clear, step-by-step instructions, Google+ Companion helps you master this amazing new social...
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2. |  Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, 3rd Edition By: Brian Clifton Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, 3rd Edition
Get the latest information about using the #1 web analytics tool from this fully updated guide
Google Analytics is the free tool used by millions of web site owners to assess the effectiveness of their efforts. Its revised interface and new features will offer even more ways to increase the value of your web site, and this book will teach you how to use each one to best advantage. Featuring new content based on reader and client requests, the book helps you implement new methods and concepts, track social and mobile visitors, use the new multichannel funnel reporting features, understand...
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3. |  Google Visualization API Essentials By: Traci L. Ruthkoski; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 15-APR-2013 Insert Date: 17-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Google Visualization API Essentials
Make sense of your data: make it visual with the Google Visualization API
Wrangle all sorts of data into a visual format, without being an expert
programmer
Visualize new or existing spreadsheet data through charts, graphs, and
maps
Full of diagrams, core concept explanations, best practice tips, and links to
working book examples
In Detail
There’s a lot of data in our world, and visual representations are often the best method of making sense of it all. Yet, it should not take an army of programmers and analysts to create visualizations in order to make data...
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4. |  My Google Chromebook™, Second Edition By: Michael Miller Publisher: Que Publication Date: 26-APR-2013 Insert Date: 16-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: My Google Chromebook™, Second Edition Step-by-step instructions with
callouts to new Google Chromebook photos that show you exactly what
to do
Help when you run into Chromebook
problems or limitations
Tips and Notes to help you get the
most from your brand-new Chromebook
Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you
through getting and keeping your Chromebook or ChromeboxTM
working just the way you want. Learn how to:
Quickly set up your Chromebook or
Chromebox, log in, and get productive
Get comfortable with Google’s
intuitive new Chrome Desktop interface
Reliably connect to Wi-Fi or Ethernet
networks
Use...
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5. |  Android Application Development For Dummies, 2nd Edition By: Michael Burton; Donn Felker Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 23-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 08-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Android Application Development For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Bring your big ideas to the small screen with this one-of-a-kind guide to creating amazing Android applications
The Android OS continues to rapidly expand offering app developers access to one of the largest platforms available, and this easy-to-follow guide walks you through the development process step by step. In this new edition of the bestselling Android Application Development For Dummies, Android programming experts Michael Burton and Donn Felker explain how to download the SDK, get Eclipse up and running, code Android applications, and share your finished products with the...
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6. |  By: Adam Tacy, Robert Hanson, Jason Essington, and Anne Tökke Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 07-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 26-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: GWT in Action, Second Edition Summary
GWT in Action, Second Edition is a completely revised
edition of the best-selling GWT book. It covers the new features
introduced in GWT 2.4 and 2.5, as well as the best development
practices that have emerged in the GWT community. It begins with a
rapid-fire introduction to GWT and Ajax to get you up to speed with
GWT concepts and tools. Then, you'll explore key concepts like
managing events, interacting with the server, creating UI
components, building your user interface declaratively using
UiBinder ... and more.
About the Technology
Google Web Toolkit works on a simple idea....
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7. |  Instant Google Map Maker Starter By: Limoke Oscar; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 18-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Instant Google Map Maker Starter
Learn what you can do with Google Map Maker and get started with building your first
map
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Understand the basics of Google map maker
Add places of interest such as your hotels, cinemas, schools, and more
Edit and update details for existing places
In Detail
Geographic information is increasingly becoming an integral part of our lives. Sourcing and making a reliable geographical directory and database of the places we love, let alone one online, is a very expensive...
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8. |  Android Arcade Game App: A Real World Project - Case Study Approach By: J. F. DiMarzio Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 22-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Android Arcade Game App: A Real World Project - Case Study Approach
Apress, the leading Android books publisher, continues to provide you with very hands-on, practical books for teaching and showing app developers how to build and design apps, including game apps, that can be built and deployed in the various Android app stores out there.
Android Arcade Game App:
A Real World Project - Case Study Approach is no different in that it walks you through creating an arcade style Prison Break game app—top to bottom—for an Android smartphone or tablet. This book teaches you the unique characteristics and challenges of creating an Arcade style game And it...
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Google+ for Photographers – January 2013 Update By: Colby Brown Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 31-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 24-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Google+ for Photographers – January 2013 Update In June of 2011, Google unveiled its first true foray into the
world of social media, Google+. The idea was not to build just
another social network but instead to create something much
greater—a social fabric connecting the entire Internet. After
just 15 months, Google+ is well on its way to achieving its goal,
with over 500,000,000 active users engaging with the social
features of Google+ and well over 130,000,000 active users on the
Google+ network.
From the start, it was obvious that Google+ would be a great
platform for photographers,¿allowing users to interact
professionally and...
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10. |  By: Lynette Young Publisher: Que Publication Date: 29-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Google+ for Small Businesses Small business owners: Use Google+ to
generate and convert leads, build buzz, and deliver flat-out
unbeatable service and support! World-renowned Google+ marketing
expert (and small businessperson) Lynette Young helps you target
the specific tasks that'll deliver the greatest and most immediate
returns, and execute on a tiny (make that non-existent)
budget, even if you have practically no technical expertise. No
huge corporate case studies here: This is 100% do-it-yourself,
ridiculously easy, fast, and cheap! Goals, objectives, strategies,
tactics: They're all here, all streamlined for your...
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By: Mike Procopio; Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 25-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 30-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Instant Google Drive Starter
Use Google Drive to safely store and access your files online in the cloud using your web browser, phone, or tablet
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
Use Google Drive to safely store, organize, and access your files from anywhere with your computer, phone, or tablet
Upload files and folders from your hard drive into Google Drive
Get stuff done in the cloud by sharing files, collaborating with others, and using add-on apps for Google Drive
In Detail
In recent years, we’ve enjoyed being able to do more and...
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12. |  My Google® Nexus™ 7 and Nexus™ 10 By: Craig James Johnston Publisher: Que Publication Date: 17-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 25-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: My Google® Nexus™ 7 and Nexus™ 10 My Google Nexus™ 7 and Nexus™
10
Step-by-step
instructions and corresponding step number callouts on photos
showing you exactly what to do
Help
when you run into problems or limitations of your Google Nexus
tablet or its apps, and you need to figure out what to do
Tips and Notes
to help you get the most out of your Google Nexus tablet and
its apps
Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you
through getting and keeping your Google Nexus tablet working
just the way you want.Learn how to:
• Get started fast
• Navigate the Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) operating
system
• Retrieve, play, and...
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13. |  YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts By: Alan Lastufka; Michael W. Dean Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 21-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 19-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts
Want to make a splash on YouTube? Even go viral? You've come to the
right place. This book is written by two veteran 'Tubers who live
their art and know what they're talking about -- especially Alan
Lastufka, a.k.a. "fallofautumndistro," who has over 13,000 YouTube
subscribers and over 4 million views. Alan and co-author Michael W.
Dean show you how to make a quality video, and how to optimize,
encode, upload, and promote it. This book can't promise you'll be
rich and famous, but it can tell you how to make great video art,
and what you need to do to get your work seen. You'll learn...
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14. |  By: Chris Buckett Publisher: Manning Publications Publication Date: 28-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 13-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Dart in Action Summary
Dart in Action introduces Google's Dart language and
provides techniques and examples showing how to use it as a viable
replacement for Java and JavaScript in browser-based desktop and
mobile applications. It begins with a rapid overview of Dart
language and tools, including features like interacting with the
browser, optional typing, classes, libraries, and concurrency with
isolates. After you master the core concepts, you'll move on to
running Dart on the server and creating single page HTML5 web
applications.
About the Technology
Dart is a web programming language developed...
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15. | Overview: Google+ Marketing For Dummies
Organize customers, craft targeted messages, or host Hangouts with Google's social network
Google+ is Google's social network that has the social media world abuzz with excitement. With Google tools like YouTube, Picasa, Blogger, and Picnik being integrated with Google+, marketers will find Google+ is the best way to reach the long-time users of Google?s other tools. Google+ expert Jesse Stay shows you how to create and maximize your Google+ presence to connect with your customers.
Explains how to sign up for your account and set up your brand profile
Shows you how to use...
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16. |  Professionell kommunizieren mit Google+ By: Oliver Gassner Publisher: Addison-Wesley Verlag Publication Date: 27-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 09-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Professionell kommunizieren mit Google+
Lernen Sie, wie Sie mit der Social Media-Plattform Google+ Ihr berufliches Netzwerk ausbauen und Ihren Wissensstand aktuell halten. Social-Web-Berater Oliver Gasser erklärt Ihnen praxisnah und auf den Punkt, welche Funktionen Google+ für Sie übernehmen kann, auch im Zusammenspiel mit den übrigen Google-Diensten. Verstehen Sie, wie Sie über Google+ Kontakte gewinnen, wie Sie gezielt kommunizieren, wie Sie sich und Ihre Firma optimal präsentieren und im Google-Ranking weit nach vorne bringen.
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17. |  Beginning Android Games, Second Edition By: Mario Zechner; Robert Green Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 07-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning Android Games, Second Edition
Beginning Android Games, Second Edition offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers, including Android tablet game app development considerations. You'll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and playable game apps that work on Android and earlier version compliant smartphones and now tablets. This will give you everything you need to branch out and write your own Android games.
The potential user base and the wide array of available high-performance devices makes...
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18. |  Pro Android Web Game Apps: Using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript By: Juriy Bura; Paul Coates Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 05-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro Android Web Game Apps: Using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
Dive into game development and create great multiplayer online games with Pro Android Web Game Apps. This hands-on guide covers both the theory and practice of browser game development for the Android platform. You'll use cutting-edge technologies to make game engines in your browser, establish real-time server communication, and create amazing gaming experiences with artificial intelligence and rich media.
Bring your knowledge of HTML and JavaScript to the next level with Pro Android Web Game Apps. You are guided through exciting projects that give you firsthand experience with core...
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19. |  Google Nexus 7 Tablet: Visual QuickStart Guide By: Chris Fehily Publisher: Peachpit Press Publication Date: 30-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Google Nexus 7 Tablet: Visual QuickStart Guide This Visual QuickStart Guide will help you get up and running
with the Nexus 7, Google's much-anticipated entry into the tablet
market. This guide connects all the capabilities of the Nexus 7 for
you, using full-color images and step-by-step instruction. You'll
learn how to tap and swipe, search and use voice control, find the
best apps, read books, watch movies, and listen to songs. Along the
way, you'll pick up indispensable tips for getting the most out of
your tablet.
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20. |  Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything, Second Edition By: Chris Brogan Publisher: Que Publication Date: 23-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 31-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything, Second Edition The 100% Updated, Start-to-Finish Guide
to Profiting from Google+!
Google+ is quickly maturing into an
incredibly valuable channel for profitable business--and, because
many of your competitors haven’t discovered it yet, it offers
you huge new opportunities. Google+ for Business,
Second Edition, will help you grab those opportunities right
now. Top social media speaker and business advisor Chris Brogan
will help you get great results fast, without wasting time or
money. This fully updated second edition distills the experiences
of leading-edge Google+ business adopters into powerful...
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