Google Application Infrastructure Opening

Google starts preview release of its infrastructure for developers. ...

... "application-hosting tool that developers can use to build scalable web apps on top of Google's infrastructure. The goal is to make it easier for web developers to build and scale applications, instead of focusing on system administration and maintenance. " ...

Via Google: Your Apps on Google's Infrastructure

See video discussion of this application hosting capability ...

Software Innovation Time

Software engineer discusses Google's concept of twenty percent time. ...

Agile Scrum Concepts Discussed

Ken Schwaber, the original scrummaster, visits the Googleplex to discuss agile techniques. ...






The Agile Alliance

Global Perspective Google China

Google's research leader provides insights on developments in China for the company, where virtual teams and collaboration enable success. ...

Computing's Future is in the Cloud

Apple and Google. Devices and Clouds. An exciting look into the future of computing by Nick Carr, who sometimes thinks that IT doesn't matter, but always offers an interesting perspective. ...

... "At this very moment, in a building somewhere in Silicon Valley, I guarantee you that a team of engineers from Google and Apple are designing a set of devices that, hooked up as terminals to Google's supercomputer, will define how we use computers in the future. " ...

Via Nicholas Carr's Blog: Future of Computing

Google Project Manager Clip

Quick video insights from Google project manager ...

Morph Projects, Don't Kill Innovation

Insights on Google's innovation techniques, which includes advice on innovation projects. ...

... "Don't kill projects, morph them. Google doesn't waste ideas. Instead, they try to change and transform them into something the company finds useful. " ...

Via Self-Service & Kiosk Association: Google innovation

Web 2.0 3.0 Discussed

Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, compares and contrasts Web 2.0 and 3.0 ...

Google Hacks: Strategic Surveillance

Hans Kristensen demonstrates another use for Google Earth. ...

... "A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine. " ...

Via Strategic Security Blog: China Sub

Google Gears: Next-Gen Web 2.0

Google introduces Gears as an open source technology enable every web application to work better offline and offer a richer experience, not just Google applications. ...

... "This new browser extension is being made available in its early stages so that everyone can test its capabilities and limitations and help improve upon it. The long-term hope is that Google Gears can help the industry as a whole move toward a single standard for offline capabilities that all developers can use. Google Gears marks an important step in the evolution of web applications because it addresses a major user concern: availability of data and applications when there's no Internet connection available, or when a connection is slow or unreliable. As application developers and users alike want to do more on the web - whether it's email or CRM or photo editing - enhancements that make the browser environment itself more powerful are increasingly important. " ...

Via Google: Gears

Next Project Presentation: Google Tool On The Way

Google to build web-based presentation tool as part of its office productivity suite. ...

... "First of all, we want to welcome the team from Tonic Systems to Google. Tonic, which we've just acquired, is based in San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia. They have some great technology for presentation creation and document conversion, and it will be a great addition as we add presentation sharing and collaboration capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. " ...

Via Official Google Blog: We're expecting

Visualization and Analytics: Web 2.0

Check out Gapminder's visualization tool, now owned by Google. See link for time-delay view of country life expectancy and Per Capita income. Press play button to repeat visualization. ...

... "Gapminder's Trendalyzer software unveils the beauty of statistics by converting boring numbers into enjoyable interactive animations. We believe that Google's acquisition of Trendalyzer will speed up the achievement of this noble goal. " ...

Via Gapminder: Analysis Software