May 2008
16 posts
Video: Google demos the HTC Dream at I/O... →
The demo of the accelerometer just has to be seen to be believed…
Project SocialSite
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Project SocialSite is delivering social networking functionality by adding social networking platform support based on the OpenSocial standard to any community site. Any social application written using the OpenSocial API can be seamlessly and easily hosted on a transformed community site that is powered by Project SocialSite.
“Open Social Stats
275M users of Open Social networks
20k Open Social...”
– David Glazer, Engineering Director, Open Social at Google
“v0.8 Open Social Highlights
RESTful
Template language”
– David Glazer, Engineering Director, Open Social at Google
“Google Web Toolkit : Java 5 language support in GWT 1.5 release candidate”
– Bruce Johnson, Engineering Manager Google Web Toolkit
“2 new APIs available this week. Memcahe API and Image Manipulation, and billing...”
– Kevin Gibbs, Tech Lead, App Engine
LaterLoop: Read Webpages Later on Your Phone or... →
Just been namechecked in the App Engine part of the keynote… really awesome service built on App Engine
“Real time fulltext search on messages in MySpace mail. Available today to all...”
– Allen Hurff, Senior Vice President, MySpace
“Key thing about what Google are doing right now. Make the cloud more accessible....”
– Vic Gundotra, Google
Looks like the wifi is dead
So much for my live blogging plan…
Google I/O
So, currently it’s jetlag 1 - chris 0. But all of that can be sorted with an early morning dose of coffee. Program for I/O looks really cool and with the current news stories floating around about what’s going on with App Engine it should be a really interesting and exciting meeting. Moscone seems pretty full o’ geek which is a good sign. Google seem to be doing a great job for...
Loki - You Can Get There From Here →
Amazing location stuff from the people behind the amazing wifi hotspot based location stuff on the iPhone. Playing a lot with this at the moment, it’s ideal for a big game we’re working on.
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Fluid, pure genius
Setting up something new gives you a real chance to try out things you’ve wanted to for ages and I have to admit to being slightly addicted to that at the moment. Current toy of choice : Fluid ” Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or Pandora fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and...
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Hello world
I guess all things relating to programming start this way, and so do we. We’re just getting ourselves ready to say hello to the world, we’ll be there in a day or two