- The browser is the platform, but it’s not powerful enough…
- Google was born on the web — it was a platform born of consensus
- Chrome aims to make the browser more resilient
- one app is independent from the other
- can automatically create app shortcuts like Fluid
Gears for Mobile being developed by Charles Wiles in London
app engine examples:
- wordle.net — makes word clouds
- buddypoke.com — one of the most popular open social apps
- code.google.com/p/metasyntactic — now playing, iPhone app
- one of top 20 free apps
- pixverse — pixwall & pixchat, open social apps
Android — Mike Jennings
Supposedly the first live demo of a real Android device in the UK.
The big demo of accelerometer-enabled street view doesn’t work in the UK as there’s no data, and the rest of the demo looked a little flat. The UI was even a bit sluggish at times.
GWT — Sumit Chandel
- write really sophisticated web apps in the browser
- how do you handle GWT debugging? debug into Java code using “hosted mode browser”
- runs your java code as bytecode, rather than generated javascript
- can see stringified DOM contents of any widgets that you use
- demo: lombardi blueprint
- recently released GWT v1.5
- java 5 language features
- can use annotations to help optimisations
- performance enhancements
- browser support (mid 2008):
- Firefox 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0
- Internet Explorer 6 and 7
- Safari 2 and 3
- Opera 9.0
OpenSocial
- added Hive & Netlogs support
- Apache Shinding is an open source reference implementation of an OpenSocial container
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