Day 1 of Google I/O was an action-packed endeavor, shared with an excited community of developers on the ground learning about developing web applications with Google and open technologies, and showcasing some of their best apps.
Here are a few highlights from our keynote speech:
Google Web Elements is launched: Adding Google products to your website or blog has never been easier.
Check out a video playlist of this morning's keynote:
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, we thought we'd recap the 1st day of I/O with photos captured throughout the day:
In case attendees had trouble finding Moscone West, they were directed to look for the life-sized Google Maps pin placed right in front of the entrance.
I/O 2009 had higher attendance, but registration went much more smoothly this year.
An attendee checks out the I/O agenda board. Product stickers were distributed to attendees to stick on their conferences badges to identify fellow attendees with similar product interests.
Eric Schmidt greeted developers and kicked off the keynote
Vic Gundotra takes the stage to talk about "a more powerful web, made easier."
Vic welcomes Jay Sullivan, VP of Mozilla, while also thanking Mozilla and the larger developer community for tireless efforts towards new web standards. Jay gave a glimpse of Firefox 3.5 features.
Michael Abbott, SVP of Palm, talks about why the web is the platform and Palm webOS.
A view from the audience.
We gave all Google I/O attendees a limited edition Android-powered device in order to encourage and facilitate further application development on the Android platform, and provided a preview of Donut features.
Office Hours are a new addition to I/O, where attendees can drop in and bring questions for Google engineers. View Office Hours schedule.
