Now have custom URLs for sites created using Google Sites on your domain

Now Google Apps domain administrators can map public sites hosted on Google Sites to their own domains. Sites can be mapped individually to a specific URL, like http://www.example.com, and as a group under a specific URL, like http://sites.example.com/[name of site].

So in your company if you have a site each for HR, Marketing, etc you can now have URLs like:

http://hr.example.com
http://marketing.example.com

and these URL will be diverted to site created using Google Sites. To do this you will need to set these URLs from admin control panel. The option is available in service settings in for sites - "web address".

Read more on Google blog
Google Sites Blog: Google Sites on your domain

Downloading documents programmatically with Google Docs API

sausheong shows the way to download Google Docs through API


An interesting and perhaps little known feature in the Google Documents List Data API (perhaps because it’s currently undocumented!) is that you can use the APIs to programmatically get the word processor documents in various formats. This means that if you have a document currently in your folder (or anyone’s folder for that matter), you can use the APIs to save it to your computer. Why is this useful, since we can already do this from the browser?

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