Google I/O Thursday Keynote
Google focuses on the Web for its second day I/O keynote
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:35:29 PM
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:35:56 PMThis is only for Google Docs, though, Google told me earlier. Google spreadsheets and presentations still need a network connection.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:36:16 PMChanges are saved locally, and then synced when you go back online.
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:36:30 PM
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:36:33 PMThis is years overdue.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:36:47 PM"Like *that* it's going to sync back to my Drive"
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:37:27 PMSmall pop-up tells you when Docs syncs. Very seamless.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:37:28 PMIt was pretty fast, which is good. This is hard to do, because Google basically has to build a local version of Google Apps that runs in the browser for when there's no connection to the server.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:37:55 PMSpreadsheets and presentations offline coming later. Don't hold your breath, based on track record so far.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:38:04 PMApps for Drive
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:38:11 PM
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:38:45 PM
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:38:51 PMWe haven't heard whether Google Docs offline will work only on Chrome. That's my guess.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:39:02 PMWe're look at Lucid Chart, one of his favorite Drive apps
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:39:05 PM
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:39:27 PM
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:39:40 PMTalking Drive SDK v2.0
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:40:31 PM
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:40:50 PM
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:40:57 PMI might've misheard, but it sure sounded like he just said that Docs offline works on Chrome for iOS. That's big, if this goes to all iterations of Chrome and outside of Chrome.
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:41:30 PM
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:42:33 PM
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:42:44 PMSindar again, Chromebooks in Best Buy's now.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:42:55 PMI like the new Chromebooks -- big step forward for the limited subset of people who are happy living in a browser. Here's my hands-on from a few weeks ago: news.cnet.com
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:43:01 PM
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:43:27 PMUrs Hoetzle coming on stage.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:43:44 PMUrs Holzle, sorry. He's a smart puppy.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:44:12 PMServers and infrastructure
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:44:35 PMTalking large data centers and the large networks needed to connect them
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:44:53 PM
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:44:58 PMGoing retail with Chromebooks is a big deal: it signals that Google thinks the things are ready for mainstream customers. They'll be sold in little explainer booths, I think, so nobody walks home with a Chromebook and gets an ugly surprise when it doesn't run Portal 2.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:45:13 PM7.5 billion hits per day in App Engine
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:45:21 PMGoogle App Engine is a foundation for running apps on the Web -- now 1 million active apps.
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:45:25 PM
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:46:02 PM
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:46:04 PMApp Engine was powering a live streaming and vote contest during a Japanese event when 1/3 of the country was watching and voting.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:46:07 PMNice thing about App Engine -- it scales up and down to handle peak demands better if your company doesn't have a bajillion servers when traffic to your Internet site gets heavy.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:46:19 PMThat's around 40 million people
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:46:44 PMWe're getting into the next option part: virtual machines on demand. This is stepping on Amazon Web Services toes now. "Google Compute Engine Infrastructure as a Service."
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:46:46 PMThat's more people than live in California.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:47:37 PMSo you can spin up virtual machines (basically a computer that runs in a software compartment so it can be started easily) with this service.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:47:38 PMShowing Compute Engine working with App Engine now
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:47:51 PM
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:47:58 PMThis is like Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which is a giant force in the industry
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:48:20 PM