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Google Web Elements Make Popular Google Apps Available by Copy and Paste

D.J. Smith

Principal

Google has just released Google Web Elements, a collection of popular Google Apps including Maps, Conversation, Custom Search, Calendar and YouTube News, among others.

Until now, with some exceptions, integrating these elements into a website would have required programming of varying degrees of complexity. Now with Google Web Elements, all that is required is a little customization and then copy and paste, much like embed code for a YouTube or similar video player.

EXAMPLE:
Here is a map to our McLean office:

D.J. Smith is Co-Founder & Senior Principal at WebDriven. A 15-plus year veteran of the Internet, he still remembers - albeit not too fondly -- how to setup a gopher site.

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D.J. (WebDriven) | July 14, 2009 (10:44 PM)

While these little guys are promising, they still seem a bit buggy based on our tests. Like other cloud-based offerings of Google tools, we think this one will only get better.

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