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 5:49:08 PM
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:49:24 PMIt's all internet plumbing that's pretty important if you're in the business of IT. Not everybody is keen to run this stuff themselves. But a lot of people are insecure about leaving this core technology to somebody else.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:49:43 PM"Scale. Performance. Value."
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:49:53 PM
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:50:05 PMUrs showing how adding 10,000 cores to a gene project cuts the delay in analysis from once evrery 10 minutes to once every few seconds.
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James Martin 6/28/2012 5:50:37 PM
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:51:13 PM"Virtual machines and storage are predictably fast."
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:51:29 PM"
Compute engine great value. 50% more compute per dollar than other cloud providers." -
seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 5:51:40 PMTalking the value of Compute Engine. How it lowers the cost of computing.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 5:51:48 PMNow open in "limited preview"
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:16:45 PMBig white unlabeled dirigible. The new Google bus from SF to MV, perhaps.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:17:11 PMCountdown to the leap out of the blimp. Door is open.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:17:26 PM30 seconds.
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James Martin 6/28/2012 6:17:41 PM
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:18:02 PMthere they go
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:18:03 PMGoPro sponsorship for one of the jumpers. They do well with Jeb Corliss, wingsuit jumper extraordinaire.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:18:18 PMVideo is better than yesterday
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:18:29 PMChutes open
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James Martin 6/28/2012 6:18:36 PM
SF upside down
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:18:54 PMPuff of smoke on third skydiver's chute opening so radio aiming folks know which skydiver is theirs.
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James Martin 6/28/2012 6:19:43 PM
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James Martin 6/28/2012 6:20:07 PM
High fives!
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David Hamilton 6/28/2012 6:20:25 PMA bunch of us at CNET HQ just crowded over to a northeast window to see the jumpers bail from the blimp. Nice view from here in SOMA.
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James Martin 6/28/2012 6:20:32 PM
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:20:35 PMHairy moment near a skyscraper there...
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:20:41 PMThe audience wasn't nearly as edge-of-seat as yesterday, though this was fun again. Nobody worrying whether this would be a "snuff keynote" like yesterday.
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James Martin 6/28/2012 6:20:54 PM
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:21:29 PMBikers are away.
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atechieinchrist 6/28/2012 6:21:31 PMthis is like watching a part 2 of a hit movie, cool but no excitement
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:21:58 PMBike flips seem so tame after watching a skydiver play chicken with a skyscraper.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:22:10 PMCameraman just walked into a vent pipe
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Golinvox 6/28/2012 6:22:30 PMis it just me or does that walk in music sound like Doctor Who?
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:22:44 PMBrin is slow-wlaking while telling us that they're in a rush. Something's going on...
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:22:44 PMBrin is wearing shorts. Didn't see if he's got the Crocs or the Vibram Five Fingers on his feet though.
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James Martin 6/28/2012 6:23:08 PM
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:23:15 PMVerdict is in: Crocs.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:24:27 PMCrowd chortles as the cameraman avoids Collision 2.0
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:24:31 PMI keep thinking that Google executives are very different from Apple and Microsoft executives. Imagine Steve Ballmer or Tim Cook walking around doing improv TV on the roof of Moscone wearing beachwear.
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:25:10 PMOK, now for the rapelling down the building.
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James Martin 6/28/2012 6:25:15 PM
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stephen.shankland 6/28/2012 6:25:47 PMI'm sorry, but forward rappelling just looks like it's for people in commando movies.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:26:03 PMGoing through the 3rd floor now
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:27:00 PMThey never made it into the keynote.
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:27:20 PMI suspect they'll be riding around all day, dodging wary Googlers...
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seth.rosenblatt 6/28/2012 6:27:32 PMAnd th-th-that's all, folks.