{"id":7035,"date":"2010-05-19T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T05:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=7035"},"modified":"2010-05-19T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T05:15:21","slug":"google-io-day-one-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/7035\/","title":{"rendered":"Google I\/O Day One Wrap Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/I0210AndroidBooths.jpg\" alt=\"Google IO 2010\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The theme of today&#8217;s I\/O keynote was Google&#8217;s commitment to HTML5 and web apps. The day&#8217;s significant announcements all lend support to Google&#8217;s web centric vision of the future:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google announced that it has open sourced the \u00a0high performance <strong>VP8 video codec<\/strong> that Google acquired through their acquisition of On2. VP8 packaged with the Ogg Vorbis audio codec in the\u00a0 Matroska\u00a0 container format make up <a href=\"http:\/\/webmproject.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/introducing-webm-open-web-media-project.html\"><strong>WebM, a new web video standard that is 100% open source and royalty free<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 WebM is available now. <em><strong>YouTube <\/strong><\/em>is encoding all new HD videos with it. All the major browser vendors, except for Apple, are already or will soon be supporting it.\u00a0 WebM support is included in today&#8217;s <em><strong>Firefox <\/strong><\/em>nightly build and <em><strong>Opera<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Chrome <\/strong><\/em>Betas that are available now.\u00a0 <em><strong>Microsoft <\/strong><\/em>has promised to support WebM in a future IE release. .<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/google-io-2010-day-1-more-powerful-web.html\"><strong>Google App Engine for Business<\/strong><\/a>, which includes SQL and SSH support, a service level agreement and new per user pricing model was announced.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2010\/05\/chrome-web-store.html\"><strong>Chrome Webstore<\/strong><\/a> for web apps was previewed. The Webstore is intended to facilitate web app discovery and make it possible to sell web apps just like native apps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several new web apps were demoed:\u00a0 <em><strong>Clicker,<\/strong><\/em> a search engine and directory for web video,\u00a0 photo editor <em><strong>MugTug <\/strong><\/em>and an online version of<em><strong> Sports Illustrated<\/strong><\/em> magazine that mirrors the look and feel of the print version but also includes interactive features in both content and ads.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the keynote, Google also announced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewave.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/google-wave-available-for-everyone.html\"><strong>Google Wave is now open to all<\/strong><\/a>, no invitation required.<\/li>\n<li>An early Beta of <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/storage\/\"><strong>Google Storage for Developers<\/strong><\/a>, a new cloud data storage platform competing with Amazon S3.<\/li>\n<li>The<a href=\"http:\/\/googlecode.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/introducing-google-font-api-google-font.html\"> <strong>Google Font API<\/strong><\/a>, a library of quality open source web fonts.<\/li>\n<li>Enhancements to the <strong>Feed<\/strong> and <strong>Google Maps API<\/strong>s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the surface very little of today&#8217;s announcements seems to apply to mobile. But I feel it was a big day for mobile, especially mobile web. Sure, the Chrome WebStore, WebM and the web apps were presented in the context of the desktop web. But make no mistake, Google considers HTML5 and web apps the future of mobile too. At a press conference after the keynote, Sergy Brin said he felt that the more limited hardware of mobile devices favored native apps for now, but that in a year or two desktop and mobile HTML5 capabilities will converge. What is happening now in the desktop browser is coming soon the mobile browser.<\/p>\n<p>Based on several hints that Vic Gundrota\u00a0 dropped today,\u00a0<strong> the big  announcements are tomorrow and will be Android and  mobile related<\/strong>. That will almost certainly be Android 2.2 (Froyo)  and Google&#8217;s much rumored\u00a0 TV initiative. I&#8217;m sure there will be some  surprises as well. The Chrome Webstore seems a natural for the browser  centric Chrome OS.\u00a0 A Chrome tablet would be a nice followup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of today&#8217;s I\/O keynote was Google&#8217;s commitment to HTML5 and web apps. The day&#8217;s significant announcements all lend support to Google&#8217;s web centric vision of the future: Google announced that it has open sourced the \u00a0high performance VP8 video codec that Google acquired through their acquisition of On2. VP8 packaged with the Ogg Vorbis audio codec in the\u00a0 Matroska\u00a0 container format make up WebM, a new web video standard that is 100% open source and royalty free.\u00a0 WebM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/7035\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68],"tags":[92,1073],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7035"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7043,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions\/7043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}