I/O: MySpace installs gears

Myspace unveiled a new search feature of their message center at Google I/O utilizing gears. As you search your messages, results are shown in real time, coming out of the local cache stored in gears. Hopefully this will give gears more publicity and other sited (ahem, facebook) will take a look at it ;)

This almost makes me want to create a myspace account to go play with it... ALMOST...

I/O: AppEngine is open!

Appengine is no longer limited to the first 10,000 people or hackathon attendees. Anyone can set up an account but each account is still limited to 3 apps. Guess all those extra gmail accounts will come in handy eh?

I/O: Lots of Android UI Videos!

Check them out, as usual, youtube is blocked at work for me... catchvideo.net to the rescue!

I/O: Web Browser, Meet Google Earth

Enabling you to switch a Google Maps mashup or page to 3D Google earth with just a few lines of javascript

I/O: AOL Joins OpenSocial

After today, AOL's products will support Google's OpenSocial.

I/O: Android on the HTC Dream

You might see some random I/O posts popping up from me over the next few days... ;) In the keynote at Google I/O, the HTC Touch was demonstrated running Android. Touch streeview, and heck, when you move the phone, streetview moves with you!

Video on Engadget and stills on Talk Android

Google hosting popular javascript libraries

I came across this yesterday looking for the mootools download link. Google is hosting a bunch of the popular javascript libraries on their server for you.


Pros:

• Use Google's Bandwidth
• Google takes care of keeping the files up to date
• Common include code across your apps
• Use Google as a Fast proxy
• Gadgets will have access to cached files

Cons:

• Have to rely on Google to keep files up to date
• Probably won't include beta releases of libraries

The main page is here and currently includes:

• jQuery
• prototype
• script.aculo.us
• MooTools
• Dojo

Example jQuery:

AppEngine Pricing announced

These look pretty cheap for what you get, and if one of my little apps actually got popular enough to fall outside of the free range, I'd gladly pay for it

Free quota to get started: 500MB storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million pageviews per month
$0.10 - $0.12 per CPU core-hour
$0.15 - $0.18 per GB-month of storage
$0.11 - $0.13 per GB outgoing bandwidth
$0.09 - $0.11 per GB incoming bandwidth

Google I/O started this morning, unhappy I am not there...

Google Treasure Hunt Week 3 is up

have at!

twitter2gTalk Goes Live!

Get your tweets onto Google Talk!

Twitter: A free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.

gTalk: (Google Talk) is a Windows and web-based application for voice over internet (VOIP) and instant messaging, offered by Google.

twitter2gTalk: Takes your current tweet and sets it as your Google Talk status (away) message.

I've been toying with this for a while now. I really wanted to launch twitter2gTalk as a service that anyone could use. I had the backend code all done and was dragging my feet writing the django front-end. I went to a hackathon for Google AppEngine and converted most of the code to run on that. You need a Google Account to login, but then again, you need one to use gTalk anyway.

I hope some people will find this cool or useful (some people have been waiting for this and already signed up). Feel free to follow me or the app on twitter for feature updates or subscribe to this blog.

Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed

Normally I don't just link to other posts, but Scoble's latest article is quite a read. It delves into Microsoft + Yahoo Search + Facebook giving Google and the rest of the open web quite a hard time. Definitely work the time to read.

Android Developer Challenge Judges and Top 50 Details

The Android developer's challenge has release most of the top 50 (a few opted to not be made public for now). A slide deck of the winners is available here. I've gone through some of them and they have been blowing me away. Lists are being put together with the websites for the winners. There is some really exciting work being done.

Even though its the first one on the list, AndroidScan still blows me away. It uses the phone on the camera to take a photo of a bar code, look up the product in a database, and then gets you all the information you would need about that product and where you can buy it right from your phone (amazon, ebay, etc). Do yourself a favor and watch the video.



I'll be going through that slide deck and will be posting some more of my favorites. Anyone else hope the HTC Diamond can run Android out of the box? ;)

Appengine Hackathon!

I'm heading to Google NY for the day for an appengine hackathon. I have a bazillion ideas banging around in my head. We'll see what I come back with. If anyone else is going to be there send me an email me or send me a tweet


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Got my Google appengine account!

But someone already registered gpowered =(

New Work Blackberry

Got a new blackberry at work today: The 8820. Much nicer then my old clunker which... err... broke... yeah we'll go with broke. Getting the curve when it comes out on Friday for Verizon. I can't install any applications on my work one, but as soon as I get my personal one, Google Blackberry app reviews will be pouring out =)