By some miracle I was awake when this conference began at 8AM (ouch), and I was impressed by the keynote. I am happy I made it to see it, I was thinking of skipping it.
Keynote Speech
The keynote, as I said was pretty good. In it, Google products were highlighted, but the real crowd pleaser was when Android (Google’s mobile phone solution) was used to show Street View and the compass feature was shown. This feature allows the phone user to move the phone around and have Google streetview follow it’s direction. So if you are looking South, the view in Google streetview is looking south as well, and if you turn around and face north, then the view in streetview will look North as well, real time following of the users direction made us geeks break out into spontaneous applause.
Open Social was highlighted as well, and hightlighted well. Some useage numbers were given…
Total reach: 275 Million
Amount of developers: 20,000
App installs 50 million
Impressive numbers for something that hasn’t really even been fully implemented yet 
AOL announced that they will have a gadget platform, and that it will be Open Social compatible. This wasn’t too surprising since AOL has been aquiring gadgget platforms for a few months now
Open Social Containers
Here are some items from Open Social containers…
iGoogle-
The new iGoogle is Open Social ready and Kevin Tom of Google put out some info…
-iGoogle usage: 50% USA / 50% out of USA
-Negative comments about gadgets will affect ranking in directory
-The Themes API will be updated shortly
- Canvas views for Open Social gadgets will be live this month
-Full open social compatibility… “this summer”
-There is an iGoogle developer blog
Imeem-
-3rd largest social media site
- Imeem media platform Open Social compatible
- Developers have access to media content (very interesting)
MySpace-
- remote container acces to MySpace data coming soon
- Full text search browser side is live on their site mail (via Google Gears)
Orkut-
- 60 million active users
- “millions” of app installs
- Rollout of Open Social to all users coming soon
AOL-
- My Aol will begin offering gadgets
- Adopting O-Auth
Linkedin-
- will offer home, profile, and canvas views for Open Social Apps
- Average user household income of 140,000 per year
- Will offer monetization to app developers
Netlog-
- Huge European social site
- 35 Million members
-4 billion pageviews a month
- will whitelist apps
- Offers help with localization/ language issues
- Monetization availible via charging “credits” and developer will recieve 65%
Ning-
- Adopting Shindig
- impressive numbers as far as users / social networks go
Google FriendConnect-
- Oauth and Open ID, and Open Social compatible
Yahoo -
-180 billion pageviews a month
- Social apps will be able to query yahoo social data
- Updates and presence data will be made availible (as in.. what a user is doing right now)
- will have canvas view
Here are the slides from the “Meet the containers” Open Social session…
That’s it for now, I will put out more about other sessions soon…
Related posts:Google I/O Coverage – Part Two
Google I/O Coverage – Part Three
Google Gadgets Work Everywhere, even Facebook!
Comments on this entry are closed.