The Sacramento Google Technology User Group is holding its next meeting on March 8, 2012 at 06:30 PM. Please note that we have a new meeting location: VSP Vision Care 3333 Quality Dr Rancho Cordova, CA Agenda: Introduction to MongoDB (Thomas) Android Clinic (All) For more information, please visit: http://www.sacgtug.org   We will raffle off: One AnDevCon III Conference pass One Android In Action 3rd Edition (Manning)   Anybody is welcome to attend our meetings, which are free and open to the public. Thomas Amsler Sacramento GTUG Organizer 

The Sacramento Google Technology User Group (SacGTUG) is holding an Android Developer Day on September 10, 2011.  For more information, please visit http://www.sacgtug.org This is event is free of charge and space is limited. If you are interested in developing Android applications, please attend this event and sign up here. Event Date and Time: September 10, 2011 09:30 AM - 05:00 PM Event Location: IKEA 700 IKEA Court West Sacramento, CA 95605 Event Organizer: Sacramento Google Technology User Group (SacGTUG) Thomas Amsler

UC Davis law professor Anupam Chander spoke to a large crowd at the California Museum on Tuesday, April 19th about the role social media has played in the recent uprisings around the globe, and how it could be a key player in making the world better. Just prior to the professor taking the stage, a wonderful meet-and-greet was held in the lobby of the museum. Politicos, business leaders, media experts, teachers and others chatted over mouth-watering hors’doeuvres provided by Blue Prynt and wine provided by Grace Patriot Wines. Professor Chander was there to discuss a new paper that he had recently published called Googling Freedom. His presentation came in three parts: (1) is social media

Search on our site no longer sucks. We spent the last few weeks digging up our original search system and revamping it entirely. No longer will you see out-of-date Google search results with duplicate entries. Now you will find custom, up-to-the-minute results parsed into three different types: articles, users and comments. You’ll also notice that there are now new icons to represent the different content types, and you will find them to be consistent site-wide, not just in the search results. One other noticeable change is the search box in the navigation bar. Now it is much more visible with a white background and clear in purpose due to the button saying “search” and not just “go.”

It's a blessing and a curse to be a wine lover living in Sacramento. After all, you're surrounded by hundreds of wineries producing some of the world's best vintages – from urban wineries like Revolution Wines and Rail Bridge Cellars here in the central city to Sacramento County, the Sierra Nevada foothills and beyond to Napa Valley. But when you want to do some wine tasting, that blessing can feel like a curse. How do you choose from all those tasting rooms? And with more and more of them charging tasting fees, how do you find the best deals: from free tastings and fees that apply toward purchases to private tastings well worth the extra bucks? A couple of local wine connoisseurs have

The Sacramento Google Technology User Group, SacGTUG, is meeting every month. SacGTUG was founded in April of 2010. The group discusses Google related technologies such as Android, App Engine, GWT, and Google APIs.  Anybody is welcome to attend our free meetings. For more information, please visit: http://www.sacgtug.org I hope to see you at our next meeting. Thomas Amsler SacGTUG Organizer 

Ever wanted to create your own doodle on the Google homepage? Three local companies — Digital Deployment, Fuel Creative Group and JM Design — teamed up to create two web-based kiosks enabling you to do just that. They’re located in the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. “Doodle 4 Google: If I Could Do Anything, I Would...” features the kiosks alongside 40 doodles from children whose art finishes the sentence, “If I could do anything, I would...” The winning drawing was featured on the Google homepage last month. The kiosks also debuted in the exhibit last month, allowing visitors to draw custom doodles and e-mail them to themselves or friends from the mu

Sacramento’s elected officials and city staff want to use the Internet at breakneck speeds. The City Council gave staffers the go-ahead Tuesday night to ask Google to set up an ultra-high-speed broadband network in Sacramento. In February, Google released a document saying that local governments could apply for the speedy network. “We plan to test ultra-high-speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country,” the document states. The network would be 100 times quicker than the speeds available to the majority of the public, the document also states. Google also says that the network would be available to users in the chosen community or communities at a “compet

Thanks to all of you who came to the Media Panel at the Urban Hive Wednesday night! We have another engaging event scheduled for next week. Jeff Marmins, who taught our last Facebook workshop, will be leading the Google event titled, "Get Google in your Social Media Mix." Jeff is the creator of Social Media Path and partnership director of Social Media Club Sacramento. The event will be at the Sacramento Press office Dec. 15 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Jeff will discuss how to condense all of the social media sites you post to into one application on Google, successfully use RSS feeds and answer your specific questions. This workshop is designed for intermediate Google users. If you'd like a