Mark's World » googleio http://www.digitalspace.ca GNU Not just another ranting blog Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:35:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Google I/O day 2 http://www.digitalspace.ca/2009/05/28/google-io-day-2 http://www.digitalspace.ca/2009/05/28/google-io-day-2#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 06:47:13 +0000 Mark Lise http://www.digitalspace.ca/?p=104 Wow x2.  Yes, that’s Google I/O day two = wow x2.  Vic Gundotra wasn’t kidding when he had some more surprises up his sleeve at Google I/O 2009.  Wave was amazing to say the least.

Normally in these presentations you get the typical echo-chamber response to events.. lots of hype etc..  but this is really impressive.  [...]]]> Wow x2.  Yes, that’s Google I/O day two = wow x2.  Vic Gundotra wasn’t kidding when he had some more surprises up his sleeve at Google I/O 2009.  Wave was amazing to say the least.

Normally in these presentations you get the typical echo-chamber response to events.. lots of hype etc..  but this is really impressive.  Google Wave started 1.5 years ago, and if you think about it – that’s a long time ago to come up with this kind of vision of where the web should be.  Some have suggested that they have looked at Facebook connect and other web properties to guide them over time.  Maybe they did.. It’s irrelevant.  They’ve achieved some really neat stuff, plus they open sourced it.  They are ahead of the curve by a mile, although as they stated it themselves – the web hasn’t moved fast enough hence what they’re doing/releasing now.

To take a page from @anotherjesse, goodbye HTTP – hello XMPP.  The web as we know it is already old school, so welcome the new school of realtime communication and collaboration c/o Googl Wave.  I for one, as I mentioned in my last post, am quite excited.  The web is becoming more like an OS :)

]]> http://www.digitalspace.ca/2009/05/28/google-io-day-2/feed 0 Google I/O day 1 http://www.digitalspace.ca/2009/05/27/google-io-day-1 http://www.digitalspace.ca/2009/05/27/google-io-day-1#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 06:36:55 +0000 Mark Lise http://www.digitalspace.ca/?p=100 So I’ve finished my first day at Google I/O.  Man, what a day it was.  The keynote was great and I actually got to sit front row.  To see Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google no more than 20ft away was pretty cool.  Vic Gundotra was the most active of the speakers and I’d say the [...]]]> So I’ve finished my first day at Google I/O.  Man, what a day it was.  The keynote was great and I actually got to sit front row.  To see Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google no more than 20ft away was pretty cool.  Vic Gundotra was the most active of the speakers and I’d say the most well-spoken next to Eric.

They have been really pushing hard for evangelising the next phase of the internet.  I think of it similar of the situation when desktop software became mature.  Multi-threaded apps were necessary, storage, accessibility, API standards for drawing etc.  These are now the things that are translating into the things that Google is trying to promote.  Background workers, pixel-based drawing, and offline mode just to name a few obvious examples.

I’m really stoked for this since I was one that was brought up upon C/C++ and threading and the like is a natural thought process for me.  Initially, coding javascript in the early days was almost a step backward for me – but now it appears that’s about to change.  I’m really happy a large company is behind these sorts of changes.  I really means the web is moving in an incredibly exciting direction.  Kudos Google.

If you want to check out the keynote for yourself, head to Google Youtube keynote for Google I/O 2009.

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