So I’ve finished my first day at Google I/O. Man, what a day it was. The keynote was great and I actually got to sit front row. To see Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google no more than 20ft away was pretty cool. Vic Gundotra was the most active of the speakers and I’d say the most well-spoken next to Eric.
They have been really pushing hard for evangelising the next phase of the internet. I think of it similar of the situation when desktop software became mature. Multi-threaded apps were necessary, storage, accessibility, API standards for drawing etc. These are now the things that are translating into the things that Google is trying to promote. Background workers, pixel-based drawing, and offline mode just to name a few obvious examples.
I’m really stoked for this since I was one that was brought up upon C/C++ and threading and the like is a natural thought process for me. Initially, coding javascript in the early days was almost a step backward for me – but now it appears that’s about to change. I’m really happy a large company is behind these sorts of changes. I really means the web is moving in an incredibly exciting direction. Kudos Google.
If you want to check out the keynote for yourself, head to Google Youtube keynote for Google I/O 2009.
