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Highlights from Google I/O

By Andy Smith May 19, 2010, 4:41 AM PDT

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Highlights from Google I/O

At Google I/O, Google’s annual developers conference, attendees got a free Android device going into the show and a lot of information to digest after leaving it. From the opening keynote, highlights include HTML5, browser computing, app engine, partnerships, and more. Andrew Mager was at the show and filed this live report.

Credit Andrew Mager for photos and captions.

Highlights from Google I/O

Highlights from Google I/O

Gear on hand.

Highlights from Google I/O

Let the show begin before a full house.

Highlights from Google I/O

The stage was dominated by a huge screen.

Highlights from Google I/O

Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering at Google, said 5,000 people are at this year’s Google I/O. In three years, it’s the largest and fastest-selling-out I/O.

Highlights from Google I/O

Sundar Pachai has even more to say about HTML 5.

Highlights from Google I/O

Pachai says we need to make sure web applications can do everything that desktop applications can do.nnThe hardest thing to get right is making sure browsers can keep up with web developers.

Highlights from Google I/O

HTML 5-enabled mobile browsers are outpacing other phone browsers.

Highlights from Google I/O

Pachai says that video is one of Google’s final frontiers, including their interest in VP8, one of the web’s best codecs.

Highlights from Google I/O

Folks from Mozilla and Opera both got up on stage and pledged their support for WebM, a truly open codec.

Highlights from Google I/O

The latest version of Dreamweaver has something called u201cMulti-Screen Previewu201d, which lets you see different screen sizes that your website will look in. You can even attach separate stylesheets with each view.

Highlights from Google I/O

The design/code view has improved a lot, and lets you switch between versions of your site with ease.

Highlights from Google I/O

Here is how Tweetdeck looks:

Highlights from Google I/O

Imagine a Google tablet, with this as the home page.

Highlights from Google I/O

Sports Illustrated is a monster traditional brand that is taking advantage of Google’s support for HTML 5.

Highlights from Google I/O

Highlights from Google I/O

Besides taking advantage of the amazing photography and video, SI is building a social magazine experience.

Highlights from Google I/O

They are creating new types of advertising. A camera ad: imagine a whole catalog of products that you can inspect in your web browser/tablet. You can test out lenses right on the website. Time, Inc. is working with The Wonder Factory to build web apps.nnChrome Web Store will have 40 partners at launch, and work perfectly on the Chrome OS browser.

Highlights from Google I/O

Lars Rasmussen opens Google Wave up for everyone. It’s now part of Google Apps. He says the best application of wave is for companies to do internal communication.

Highlights from Google I/O

The VMWare guys are on stage showing an open-source tool called Roo. They are building a expense report web application using GWT in less than 200 keystrokes.

Highlights from Google I/O

Using Google Web Toolkit, you can build interfaces that update each other in real time. Here is an Android updating an iPad.

Highlights from Google I/O

Google announces App Engine for Business, with professional support.

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