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Google I/O Keynotes: Day 1

Posted By Jeff On May 20, 2010 @ 2:27 pm

The following is my review/keypoints from the Google Keynotes this year. Some will be brief, some more expanded.
Day 1

Most of Day 1 spoke about HTML 5, the advancements that it is making and what can be done with it. A few nice examples were given, such as a clickable TV.

The WEBM Project was also discussed in length. The idea behind this is to have an open source video codec (vp8) so that there is an industry standard, instead of every program and OS having it’s own. Goodle invested $125 million towards this project.

Sports illustrated is on board with this open source idea, and had a presentation of how it plans to use HTML 5 and vp8 to make their magazines interactive online. However, the CEO made a comment about it being good, so can be marketed. In my opinion, I feel he fails to see th real reason behind Open source, and just that it’s new, shiny and trendy. However, he’s also old so he’s not important.

Google Wave has also granduated out of Beta, is available to everybody without a beta invite and was also made available to Google Apps, which is fantastic.

The biggest annoucement of the day was the Google Chrome Web App Store. In short: It’s the Android Market Place for Web Apps. This is sensational, and I saw it coming once they introduced the product store for Google Apps a few months ago.

This is big news, because it will allow the millions upon millions of web apps and web games to be categorized, marketed and more importantly found by users. I can’t wait until this is released to the public, or I can find my way into a beta.

With all the web apps being developed, VM Ware discussed management tools for them. Unfortunately, yours truely had to run for work during the later half of this presentation.

Tags: Chrome, Google, HTML 5, VM Ware, Vp8, Wave, Web Apps, WEB M Project