Google IO 2010 Keynote Summary

San Francisco (GaeaTimes.com) - At the Google IO 2010 Keynote this morning, the internet search giant has unveiled new web technologies reaffirming its commitment for the open standards. The VP of Google, Vic Gundotra took the opening stage and clarified that web is the most important platform of our generation. He indicated that HTML 5 is taking off and the first spike is the YouTube adoption. The web belongs to all of us.
After Gundotra, VP Product Sundar Pichai took the stage and focused on the power of web applications. He indicated that we need to work so that the web applications become so powerful that we can do everything with them as we could with the native applications. Web applications need to access multi-core, cameras, etc. He showed a demo of Gmail using drag and drop an image into a new message.

Charles Pritchard of Mug Tug took the stage to preview darkroom, latest software for browser based image editing. It uses HTML 5 and using this, users can do basic image editing tasks within the browser. He rotated the images and used the red eye effect. He disconnected his WiFi to show that it also works without internet connection. The application is using JavaScript and Canvas.

Jim Lazone of Clicker showed how you can browse through available shows and just start typing to look for your query. Pichai took the stage and reminded that video is the most important form of content on the web. Their vision is that video should have a great free and open option. They have invested over $120 million on On2 tech to accomplish the vision.