While a number of you have probably already used the goo.gl shortener — and you’ve almost surely clicked a link from one — now you’ll be able to program with it into any application or site. According to theGoogle Code Blog, goo.gl now has a full-featured API that can rival just about anything else on the market. Needfull documentation? You can find that, as well as an example of goo.gl implementation and much more in the blog post....

Google is making us feel fat. First, we nommed Donut, then Eclair, followed by Froyo, Gingerbread in December and then Honeycomb, its tablet friendly OS this month atCES. Now,as first reportedby our friends atPocket-Lint, Google will release “Ice Cream,” the next version of its mobile phone OS, Android 2.4 this summer. According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, Android 2.4, otherwise known as Ice Cream, is set for a June/July timeframe this year with an announcement expected at the company’s IO conference at the beginning of May in San Francisco....

TheGoogle Internet Bushas traversed ten states in India and arrived in Patna, the capital of Bihar, on Tuesday. Speaking at the launch event, Peeyush Ranjan, Google India’s managing director of R&D, said that more than 1.5 million people had gone online for the first time after visiting the bus,according to a report byThe Times of India. The bus has so far made stops at over 2000 locations in 120 cities and towns all over the country....

Oh how times have changed. Back in its early days, Google hired a gentleman by the name of Douglas Edwards to do marketing for the company. As employee number 59, Edwards faced some unique challenges from a company that was so focused on an engineering perspective. Most notably, in aninterview with the BBC, Edwards says that Larry Page once told him that “if we have to use marketing then we’ve failed”....

EngineerMalte Ublis feeling like he’s somewhere between a jet lag and a little too much of Hamburg’s techno scene. “Just perfect,” he says. Google’s Customer Solutions Engineer, Mark Ubl is currently in Berlin to speak atThe NEXT Conference, which focuses on “Data Love,” because “data is what electricity has been for the industrial age.” The Hamburg-based Ubl is one of the curators of the infamous and notorious JSConf.eu JavaScript conference and generally likes to spend his time creating things....