Google's Worldwide Developer Day Places Emphasis on 'Mash-Ups'
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By Jefferson Graham  LOS ANGELES -- Internet search giant Google wants to be everywhere you are online. It hopes to be to the Internet what Microsoft is to the desktop, ever-present and essential.
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These sites employ many different tactics in their efforts to take some of Google's pie. Here's how they stack up.
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Google Inc.'s profile was relatively low as the World Mobile Congress opened, but chip makers eager to help develop the first phones using Google's Android operating system were not so quiet.
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Adobe has teamed with Google on a plug-in that interacts with Google 3D Warehouse.
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Blog: The big three tech companies all have their own mashup editors.  Who comes out on top?
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The race for the best mashup builder picks up as Microsoft opens up Popfly at the Web 2.0 Summit.
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The BBC and Yahoo are holding a hack day for web developers and designers.
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As I was driving all over &#8220;God&#8217;s creation&#8221; today, from meeting to meeting, there were a number of interesting developments and announcements. The first concerned the enhancements to the Google Local Business Center. Barry Schwartz has a terrific, thorough overview of each of the new features:  Add photos to your Google Maps listing Add custom (data) attributes [...]
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Software giant eyes search pioneer to bolster its competition with Google.
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What's in it for developers? Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops - the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to write for their new OS. Another event will be held in Boston on February 23rd (check at the blog for an announcement). Here's what they told us. The mantra for Android is that itâs "a complete and modern embedded OS, with a cutting edge mobile user experience, a world class software stack for building apps and open platform for developers users and industry". That of course breaks into lots of different specifics some of which are more solid than others. Computer people coming to mobile have a very different view of phone architecture to phone people adding features. Phone people see the phone functions - the GSM chipset, Bluetooth, DVB-H, for example, as a foundation, with drivers on top. Then there's an abstraction layer, an operating system, a user interface framework and the applications on top.â¦
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Several organisations will celebrate Saturday&#39;s International Software Freedom Day by hosting open source events around the country.
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(InfoWorld) - Just ahead of this Thursday's Google Developer Day 2007 events, Google began offering on Tuesday a release candidate for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.4, an upgrade to the company's framework for writing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications in Java. Focused on improvements in speed and stability, version 1.4 features optimized output in which applications load faster. Developers can speed up existing Google Web Toolkit applications by recompiling with the 1.4 release candidate, which is downloadable here. The toolkit is intended to make it easier to write AJAX applications such as Google Maps and Gmail. No date has been set for the general release of version 1.4 "This is undoubtedly the biggest GWT release yet," said Bruce Johnson, a developer of the toolkit, in a blog. "In addition to 150-plus bug fixes, GWT 1.4 RC includes a ton of new features, improvements, and optimizations." An ImageBundle capability in version 1.4 creates a single composite image from many small ones, allowing for consolidation of HTTP requests. This improves application responsiveness, the company said. The composite image is permanently cacheable, which means users' time is not spent on bytes they already have, Google said. Version 1.4 also features an enhanced UI library with widgets that make it easier to build user interfaces. A RichText widget provides a simpler way to add sophisticated text-editing capabilities to applications while a SuggestBox widget offers auto-complete functionality that can be tailored to any need, Google said. HorizontalSplitPanel and VerticalSplitPanel capabilities enable resizing of portions of the user interface. Benchmarking functions in the toolkit integrate with the JUnit testing framework, so developers can record and compare the speed of code snippets across different parameters. Internationalization and localization support has been improved with NumberFormat and DateTimeFormat capabilities, which allow developers to parse and format numbers, dates, and times for users worldwide, Google said. The toolkit was launched a year ago and has been used to build products, such as Google Checkout, for online shipping. Google made the toolkit available in an open source format, via an Apache 2.0 license, later in 2006. The company noted that the creators of the toolkit, Johnson and Joel Webber, will speak at Google Developer Day 2007, in San Jose, Calif. on Thursday. Google Developer Day events also are being held in 10 locations around the world for users of Google APIs and developer tools. Places such as Sao Paolo, Brazil; London, and Paris also will host Google developer events on Thursday. Featured on the agenda are discussions on technologies such as Google AJAX APIs, the Google Maps, YouTube APIs, and mashups.
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The company said at MacWorld Monday that it will retool its all-in-one Google application for the iPhone, improving the UI and speeding up loading times.
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The folks heading up the Dutch PHP Conference this year (happening in 5 short days) have posted the complete list of speakers for this year's event including:   Cal Evans - "My First Mashup" Gaylord Aulke - "Zend Framework" Stefan Koopmanschap - "Symfony Framework" Derick Rethans - "Test-driven Development"   Unfortunately, if you haven't gotten your tickets already, you're going to have to wait until next year. According to Ivo Jansch, the conference sold out right before the early-bird deadline came around. With such a great showing from developers and a great lineup of speakers for this year, you can almost guarantee that there'll be a conference next year too - so keep your eyes out for it.
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Google Inc.  is allowing  users to add hundreds of different miniature Web-based programs  built by Google or outside programmers to other sites, the  company said on Tuesday.
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Google's path to greatness will be more than a one-way-search street.
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Product Manager Rajen Sheth tells how Google Apps will lure enterprise tech managers to Google services.