Archive for the “Google I/O”
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
During Widgetwebexpo, I noticed that there was alot of discussion about paid spread of widgets and almost none about organic spread of widgets. This caused me to change my presentation. There were companies represented there and widget teams that I felt could really benefit from some simple techniques of how to spread a gadget. So [...]
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The videos are coming out as are the slides for the Google I/O sessions. It is pretty cool that they are making some of the full presentations available.
I was going to be discussing Android today, but instead you can just watch the sessions themselves. Here is “An Introduction to Android” to get you started.
To see [...]
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Google Apps Engine
Some quick answers to what Google Apps Engine offers, and why you might want to care about it.
A few months ago, Joyent (and Dell, and Facebook) announced free hosting (for a year) to budding application developers. These free servers were designed to scale and help developers who had applications which “took off” in [...]
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
There was so much put out at Google I/O that it will likely take a while to discuss all my notes on it.
On the Google gadget front I learned an interesting thing (and also got a sweet Google code tshirt) at the visualization desk….
There is a Google visualization gadget directory. Neato.
Also there has been extensive additions [...]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Update: My history of SocialMedia.com contained some factual errors, and I was called on it and corrected. I am taking out the part I was wrong about and will add the corrections I received to the end of this post.
SocialMedia.com had a session at Google I/O, a developer conference.
Think about that.
SocialMedia.com have an extraordinary amount of data. [...]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
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 [...]
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