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By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsI just have to take a breath as I start this posting. The last couple of weeks have been a real trip as we first announced
OpenSocial and then
Android, both announcements that have drawn a lot of interest.
Let's start with Android. We started out
announcing the
Open Handset Alliance and made sure people realise that this effort is bigger than a Google Phone. It is a mobile platform, with many phones to come! After some of the initial surprise we released the part that you, as a developer, care about:
Android SDK.
We have been astonished at the response. We now have over
three and a half thousand messages on the
Google Group with four thousand members. The discussion has been all over the map, from initial Eclipse setup, to discussing the
sample code, to working on how to
write native applications on the platform.
We have plenty of material for you to absorb, but a great way to start it:
We are so excited to see the developer interest, and can't wait to see the applications that
win money from the $10M prize pool.
Finally, to show how open platforms propel themselves, we got to release
open drivers for the QualcommMSM7K.
It's the socialJust before the Android launch, we
unveiled the group that worked together to create the
OpenSocial APIs.
We have only just begun here, and the current API is a baby 0.5 release, but it is contagious to see the container and social developers work together. Patrick Chanezon sat down and
chatted with us about the new APIs and the
Campfire One announcement shows you a lot.
To enable developers to get containers going quickly we have put out an opensource
container sample and have also seen the beginnings of
Apache Shindig, another potential container.
The container partners are coming online quickly. We have already seen the
hi5, Ning, and Plaxo sandboxes go live and more are coming.
To get a feel for the various containers and applications that have already been developed, check out
video interviews that tell the story nicely.
And in other news...Android and OpenSocial are not the only bits of news out there. Let's have a quick roundup:
Gmail got a backend
facelift and we announced a new
email migration API.
There are a couple of fun new open source projects announced:
AxsJAX aims to make accessible Ajax applications more possible, and
nsscache is an open source named services system.
We put together a nice piece on
a spider's view of Web 2.0 which discusses SEO principles and how Web 2.0 practices affect, or do not affect them. What about Web -1.0? That is discussed in this great tech talk on
the Web that wasn't. A nice history lesson.
I got to host my first tech talk at Google. I was lucky enough to pull in Steve Souders, Chief Performance Yahoo!, to discuss
High Performance Web Sites and YSlow. If you want to make sure your sites run well, check out his core principles.
Oh, and one other thing. The Google Code team did a huge amount of work in
revamping Google Code which coincided with the major launches. We believe that the site is a lot cleaner now, and gives us a base to work on as we move forward to do a better job at serving all developers out there. Thanks for joining us so far.
As always,
check out the latest tech talks,
subscribe to the Google Developer Podcast and visit
the Google Code YouTube channel.2013, By: Seo Master
