The Google I/O Conference 2010 this year is pretty amazing, full of surprises, promising work that Google has put forward, and most of all, the constant teasing about Apple:) The biggest highlights I’d say from this 2-day conference are:
Chrome Web Store
Addressing the challenge of the internet with full of random good and bad web applications. Chrome Web Store is a natural fit for their long-term strategy on Chrome and ChromeOS with 70M chrome users today and at a steady growth, a marketplace for web apps live in the Chrome browser with a demonstrated app-store business model is almost a guarantee for Google.
HTML5 & VP8
The love of HTML5 at Google continues with announcing open web media format VP8 partner with WebM. And this time, rather than targeting all proprietary IP leaders, they had Adobe allied presenting their level of supports for HTML5 and open media including the Dreamweaver HTML5 extension and VP8 codec in the Flash Player.
Google App Engine for Business
The Google App Engine with improved features now offers enterprise customers a scalable infrastructure for hosting their own web apps. This would become a major competitor for could services like Amazon EC2.
Wave
The return of Google Wave and now publicly available without invitation clearly tells us it wasn’t one of their usual successful breaking products at launch. Let’s see how mature it is this time on Wave providing a collaborative working environment.
Android 2.2
Android 2.2. Codenamed Froyo, has presented a lot of additional features, improvements and a 2-5 times performance boost from last build. I particularly like the internet tethering and cloud synchronization on the fly. Android marketplace is looking promising too with over 50,000 apps. When Vic Gondotra, VP Engineering of Google, demos flash on Andriod, says “Turns out people on the Internet use Flash.” is a hilarious joke, he nails the audience.
Google TV
OK, this is big news, TV meets web, Web mees TV:
Google TV is a new experience for television that combines the TV that you already know with the freedom and power of the Internet.
It simply makes sense for Google to do so, I am particularly excited about getting rid of my silent PC in the living room for the single purpose of watching shows online.
Google has indeed being the most innovative internet and software technology company constantly providing the best services and innovations to the consumers. What I really like to see from Google is for them to have some of the best industrial designers. It seems Google has done everything right about the software and providing every possible solutions for the industry partners to utilize themselves at their own wills, but forget to provide standards not only about their software but also about the best and constant usability and user experience from consumer perspective. By then, Google will be done with their catch-up game, I will have no doubts about Google being able to address the one man behind 1984 problem.
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