If you've been watching Best Buy closely, you already know that Best Buy is constantly trying to come up with new and creative ways to use App Engine to engage with their customers. In this guest blog post, Luke Francl, BBYOpen Developer, was kind enough to share with us Best Buy's latest App Engine project.As part of Best Buy's Connected Store initiative, we have placed QR codes on our product information Fact Tags, in addition to the standard pricing and product descriptions already printed there. When a customer uses the Best Buy app, or any...
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Friday, 11 February 2011
It’s only February and we’re already at our second release for the year! Today’s SDK release, 1.4.2 focuses on improving and updating a few existing App Engine APIs. Improved XMPP API to help applications better interact with users. Notifications are sent when users sign in and out and when their status changes, and the application can now set presence details to be returned to the user. Subscription and Presence notifications are enabled as inbound services in the application configuration.Task Queue performance and Task Queue API improvements....
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Today we launched Google Art Project in collaboration with 17 of the world’s most renowned museums. Google Art Project is built on top of App Engine and lets you take virtual tours of famous museums using internal Street View technology, view high resolution images of famous art work, and create personal virtual artwork collections.When Art Project started development several months ago, the team built the application using Java and the Master/Slave...
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