GoogleIO

Registration, originally uploaded by lectroidmarc.

Last week I was fortunate enough to take in the GoogleIO conference in San Francisco. This was google’s first developer conference - a quick 2 day event. As you can see from the photo, the event was well attended. Some take-aways from this past week:

• GWT really should be evaluated on any project with aggressive javascript/ajax use.
• Translation API mixed with crowdsourced editing is a very interesting global strategy
• Steve Souders is diving deep into performance bottlenecks and his presentations are must reads.
• Storage API coming soon to google maps allows you to free your user generated geodata, allowing it be found more easily via google search.
• Android, running on hardware similar to iphone, with streetview maps and overlays would really solve the local promotions/coupon problem
• Still no gdata access to search Youtube via geo. Having this for Picassa might actually take some market share from flickr.
• Google Gears makes me want to find a problem that needs offline access as part of the solution.
• Once they crack facebook, there will only be one choice: opensocial
• The visualization api has a number of interesting components - intensity maps with events would really come in handy