Google IO - Part 1
So as most of the people that would ever look at my site know. I spent most of yesterday traveling to San Francisco to attend Google IO this week.
So far, today I checked out the keynote and boy did it get the gears in my head turning. Out of all of it, the stuff that interests me mostly is "Open Social" and "Google Gears". The possibilities are endless with these tools.
During the keynote, a big wig from MySpace showed us how they are utilizing "Google Gears". If you have google gears installed, and are viewing with Firefox - if you check out your message mailbox you are allowed to full text search and sort messages.
Basically "Google Gears" is adding in functionality that currently doesn't exist in browsers. Luckily, HTML 5 that are using many of the features that Google is in Gears so HTML 5 is looking pretty promising.
Open Social is the other promising google product i've been checking out. It pretty much brings the web together. With OpenID ( most of you are familiar ) you can use one id across multiple sites. With OpenAuth you can authenticate and set what sites you want to be able to access your information and what they can access. With OpenSocial you can create tools be "social". www.ilike.com was the example used.
**Update** I forgot to mention Google Web Toolkit. I'm not 100% interested in it because I don't know java. But basically what it allows you to do is develop in your favorite java ide - debug - and do everything that you would do if it was a typical java app. But heres the kicker, google web toolkit will allow you to view the app in both a java viewer and in a web site live. Basically Google Web Toolkit will optimize and convert your java code to cross browser friendly javascript.
Sweet eh?
Uploading some pictures now - sorry if my blog is incomplete.. I fail at blogging.
Will link to pictures shortly.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27119546@N04/sets/72157605303645702/