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Nobody goes there anymore – it is too crowded – Google I/O

pmoosh — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:46:13 +0000

Well – I tried – I tried a couple of time, but to no avail. Google I/O sold out in less than an hour. So I am not going to this years Google I/O. Which is of course a disappointment. I guess I will survive (until I find out what goodies they give away ).

Google day 2

pmoosh — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:38:07 +0000

Well everybody expects this to be the Android day. There 2 TBA session o the Android track which kinda gives it away – as well as the fact that they haven’t talked about Android on the first keynote. I assume Adobe will be there again, showing Flash/Air on Android.

Vic starts it off -again.

Recaps his first day at Google meeting Andy Rubin – another stab at Apple/Jobs.

100.000 devices a day get activated. Android is No 1 in web usage according to Admob.

Some more figures …. 50.000 Apps 180.000 Developers.

22 demos:

Announcing Andriod 2.2 (FroYo): Dalvik VM

announcing a JIT for Dalvik: 2x-5x

Enterprise: (20 new features) Exchange stuff and more APIs

Application Data Backup API

Cloud-to-Device Messaging API (another stab at Apple).

A message can trigger an Android intent. (Can startup an App such as Maps or a Browser)

Announcing tethering (portable hotspot) – another stab at Apple

Browser: 2x-3x javascript improvement (comparing Froyo – Eclair and Apple iPad) yet another stab at Apple and another ….

Camera accessible via Web Apps.

Demo shows browser reacting to phone sensors.

Flash and Air on Android ( Of course another stab at …)

More app market features: Easier Update – better bug reports.

sneak peaks features of a “next” Version of Market App – Shows syncing on Androids over the internet.

Advertising (Google is now 10 years in Advertising). Again comparing with Apple. Adsense for mobile Apps. Expandable ad-format (links to videos etc. Click to call Ad, includes Maps etc.)

Another phone. Everybody gets a Sprint HTC Evo 4G!!!

Announcing Google TV.

Search is now built-into the TV. A small search bar will show up and searches program as well as the web.

Huge demoing issues with the bluetooth keyboard. Asks everybody to switch off their phones.

Pulls content off the web and the tv.

Tries to change the TV interface work like the web. “You bookmark” your favorite show etc.

Will have voice recognition interface – and can be controlled via an Android phone. API will be published – App developers can build their own remotes.

Androids is underneath Google TV. Android Apps will available for Google TV. They show Pandora App on Google TV.

Youtube anounces Youtube Lean Back built for Google TV.

Funny when they show Google TV they all like to say “It is that Simple” – which I thought is trademarked by Apple.

You can watch and listen to all the contents on all your devices – it is synced.

They will use the closed captioning and the Google translation so you can watch TV in any language.

Eric Schmitt show up – for final remarks. CEO’s show up: Intel, Sony, Logitech, Dish network, Best Buy and Adobe.

Adobe gets some time to talk up flash.

CEO’s have fun.

DishNet CEO talks about Ads tailored to the watching habits of the TV watcher.

Google I/O 2010 starts now.

pmoosh — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:54:21 +0000

Short Intro by Vic. So why is called I/O? Innovation and Open:

HTML 5 Momentum is gaining.

Come tomorrow at 8,30 !! BIG surprises (leaves with a big smile).

Next is Sundar (Product Dev VP): HTML is progressing. More HTML5 Mobile browsers.

HTML5 allows drag and drop and Notification (more like Outlook).

Mugtug Darkroom (sorta Photoshop) works offline (uses App Cache provided by Html5) A Javascript Application.

Clicker.com (Clicker.tv) another HTML5 App using workers etc. Organizes Web Video show – a little long. Also adds Netflix.

Big Announcement for Html5: Video (On2) VP8 is getting open sourced and free of license (see webM project www.webmproject.org) Supported by Mozilla and Opera. Youtube is converting (of course). (Going after Apple and H264). Plenty of sideswipes against Apple.

Opera announces their support for Webm . Looks pretty good.

What about Adobe? It supports VP8

Abobe is now on the Stage – Kevin Lynch: HTML5 is great 3 thing to show it:

Dreamweaver (most popular HTML dev tool besides Notepad).

Illustrator supports SVG.

Animation done with HTML5.

Support for Video (VP8 will be in Flash Player).

More stuff tomorrow on Flash on Devices.

Hard to find Web Apps. Preview of Chrome Webstore. Applications can be stored on the new tab page. Show a couple of games (one will be based on NaCl).

Terry McDonnel from SI: show Html5 prototype. With live video fields. The online version will have additional content. Very interactive. Has Google Buzz integrated. Found himself in a small conference room in MV. Good ending quote. HAs to be based on open standards, has to be searchable and well edited – if you get it right you can charge for it.

Lars Rassmussen ( the Wave guy): Wave is now available for everyone (part of Google Apps now). Good tool for collaboration. New changes Robots don’t have to be hosted on Google APPengine. Waves is integrated into Salesforce Chatter.

Next: Web at Work:

Cloud and Enterprise

Google and VMware? CEO Paul Mauritz is here!!!

Springsource (more than half of the new Java code is written in the context of Spring)

Springsource and GWT Integration. Demo: Develop an Expense report system in less the 200 keystrokes – Done.

Good integration of performance tools. Widget Libs available for Mobile. But Demo gods are not good.

These guys are running really late!

Announcement: Google App Engine for Business. Adds SSL and SQL .

I guess I will skill my 1st session … Well I didn’t get the 1st Android session was already full.

Replace EMC with Netapp and you get a new 3 letter Acronym – CVN

pmoosh — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:56:30 +0000

I signed u for this presentation and no CVN does not stand for Carrier Vessel Nuclear. We will hear the message on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 9:00–10:00 a.m. Pacific.

vmail me – it is official

pmoosh — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:07:15 +0000

Zimbra was bought by VMware. What will their new buddy Cisco say about that …

Interesting – if true – email me

pmoosh — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:43:09 +0000

There is a report on allthingsd that states the VMware is likely to buy Zimbra from Yahoo. Three things come to my mind:

1. Why – EMC maybe but why VMware?

2. Does that put them against Cisco and there attempt to rule the world of unified communication?
And does it mean that cracks are appearing in the VCE partnership?

3. And why didn’t Oracle snatch it up – their mail product certainly could need to little help

Happy New Year – 2010

pmoosh — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:40:30 +0000

Not a real post – but I wish everybody a Happy and Successful New Year.

Peter

What will IBM do?

pmoosh — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:32:33 +0000

There is a rumour that IBM might buy Juniper Networks. Met a Juniper employee yesterday, he mentioned that IBM oems their boxes. So IBM already puts its name on their boxes – so why not put the name on everything…

Read an article some days ago, that says it will happen in 2010. Good luck Juniper. As soon as switches will become (if they already aren’t) low margin items, IBM will sell you to Lenovo …

One Empire strikes back

pmoosh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:28:44 +0000

Have been wondering lately what HP or IBM will be doing since Cisco tries to step of their toes. How at least one puzzle has been solved. HP is buying 3Com. So is IBM after Brocade then, and will they get get beaten by Oracle again? The answer is probably around the corner.

One thing though works out quite nicely, if you plan to do a network oriented startup, you have more buyers you can choose from, not just Cisco.

But what about those companies that are not able to buy themselves a switch company – what if Dell can’t find anyone? EMC is moving closer to Cisco, although that – they will say – doesn’t mean much, and they will claim to be best partners. Dell is still selling EMC hardware and probably plenty of it. And they still sell plenty of 3Com and Cisco hardware as well. But if virtualization is the driving force, they better get their story right. Virtualization is affecting the whole stack – from storage and the network all the way through to the server.

There is only little impact on the short term, but long term it might become difficult for Dell and similar companies. Long term might depend much more on how Microsoft will succeed with there Virtualization strategy anyways. As usual Microsoft is late, that is no surprise question is how strong of a push the will make. Currently they are the No 2 player in the VM market with about a 4th of VMware’s marketshare.

Old Kids on the VBlock(tm)

pmoosh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:07:59 +0000

Here is the official announcement. The Register reports are here and here. This seems to be more than just the few slides I talked about a month or so ago. Quite a few companies are affected by that. The Register talks about the obvious ones. Smaller ones (Fujitsu, Rackable etc.) might get slammed. However, some big ones are out there, that we haven’t heard of. The question is: where is Microsoft?

All this infrastructure is nice, but it still is only infrastructure – a means to run applications. None of the application providers endorsed this venture yet. SAP or Symantec might, but it is hard to see Microsoft and especially Oracle to really appreciate this VCE (or EVC as The Register calls it). Oracle/Sun – it needs to happen sooner than later – will certainly make a point about the fact that it is about the apps.

BOT (build, operate, transfer) – as Chuck alludes is what this venture should deliver. They signed up a couple of big partners (mostly integrators and outsourcers). Many of those need a partnership like this, since IBM and HP are full systems providers and Dell tries to become one (They bought Perot Systems remember?).

Point here is that we know where HP, IBM stands, where Dell wants to be. We can assume, what Oracle/SUN think they should be. SAP happily runs on everything – they may wish they could run without a database., though. But where is Microsoft?

I would like to know…

Ooh I forgot one more name NetApp where will they go?