We kicked off Day 1 of Google I/O this year by highlighting the progress of the web platform.The Day 1 keynote included a number of exciting announcements and demos from the Chrome Team. To demonstrate the power of building with HTML5, Sundar Pichai in…
Google I/O attendees and speakers this year had the opportunity to participate in some fascinating and important conversations around the social web. The Developer Sandbox featured 16 companies on hand to talk about their social efforts, including Atla…
The Android intensity at Google I/O 2010 was definitely palpable. The Android presence included all of Day 2’s keynote along with a full session track, office hours, an Android device display of over 50 phones, and (many people’s favorite) the Deve…
I’m returning to host Ignite at Moscone West for the third Google I/O on Wednesday at 4pm PST (here’s the wave). The short talks will be a mixture of tech culture, tech achievements and tech challenges. Our nine speakers will be the perfect cap to the …
Google I/O is now just a month away, and we’re incredibly excited by the breadth of companies and developers that will be showcasing their applications in this year’s Developer Sandbox. As of today, over 100 companies are listed on the I/O website, and…
Ignite will be at this year’s Google I/O! Last year, we had talks on big data, cartography and DIY devices — a “typical” Ignite line-up. This year, our line-up includes folks like Cheezburger CEO, Ben Huh, and digital artist, Aaron Koblin. However…
This year’s conference is now sold out, which means we’ll be seeing over 4,000 of you on May 19-20 at Moscone West! For those of you who can’t join us in person, video recordings of all sessions and keynotes will be available on YouTube following the c…
This post is part of the Who’s @ Google I/O, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who’ll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O. This guest post is written by Seth Priebatsch, Chief Ninja of SCVNGR, who’s creating a mobile game fo…
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) team had an exciting 2009 — ending the year with a Campfire One where the team announced the release of GWT 2.0 with Speed Tracer. Developers are quickly adopting GWT to build compelling apps in the browser, and we’re exci…
Following up on last week’s announcement of offline access in Gmail Labs, we’re happy to let you know that read-only offline access is now an option in Calendar for Google Apps customers.So on top of organizing your Gmail inbox while you’re traveling o…
I happen to work in the New York City office (one of Google’s many distributed offices), while most of my teammates work in the Mountain View headquarters. While we make good use of video conferencing, there are times when I need to talk to a teammate …
When you next open a spreadsheet in Google Docs, you’ll notice a number of updates to the spreadsheets interface. The simplified toolbar makes it easier to find the most commonly used formatting tools, and spreadsheet features can be found in the new m…
When small businesses use Google Apps, it’s easy for administrators to help employees configure user settings account-by-account. But this approach doesn’t scale up very well for larger companies.Now that we have a growing list of customers with hundre…
People have been discussing the promise of corporate video for years. But to date it hasn’t met expectations. Doing it well meant investing tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in specialized video hardware and software that are difficult to s…