We are trying an
experiment, putting up Code Review in a variety of formats, from text to audio
(iTunes)
and video.
After a great trip to
Brazil and Mexico for the Google Developer Day events (Europe in September and
October) I am back at it.
There has been some great news in
the last week or so, shall we take a peak?
The GData team announced
OAuth
support around the horn. OAuth is:
An open protocol to allow secure
API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web
applications.
And, now you can use the standard to access Google services.
This is great, as you can write your applications to the one standard, and have it work across
various back-ends.
There was some great news that Google, Yahoo!, and
Adobe participated in. We have improved
Flash indexing working with Adobe's Searchable SWF library, and some smart
algorithms. We can now add URLs that are part of the SWF to the pipeline, and can fire off
events to grab more data. This is another improved step (we could grok text in the SWF before)
and we hope to see many more as we get better at indexing richer and more varied content on
the Web.
We also open sourced the Browser
Sync code to see if a community wants to come together to continue to support
it.
Testing is tough, and we saw two interesting releases that sit in
very different realms of the testing world.
Firstly, the Selenium team
produced
Selenium Ice a great new way to drive Internet Explorer as you test your Web
applications.
Secondly, if you are a C++ developer and you like
testing, you may be interested to take a peak at the Google
Testing library for C++ that we released.
The GData teams
have also come up with a couple more releases to go along with the big OAuth
announcement.
The first lies with Google Calendar. You can access your
GCal data through GData, but what if you just want a nice visualization of the calendar on
your website?
CalVis
does just that. You get to customize the look and feel, and the library does the rest.
Mrinal Wadhwa flex-ed
his muscles to add Gears support to Flex applications via a nice simple library. If
you are building Flex applications and want access to the growing Gears components, check it
out.
Yesterday was a very Web "3D" day. We released Lively
a 3D virtual experience that is the newest addition to Google Labs. It lets you create an
avatar and rooms to hang out in. I also saw that Vivaty launched, and some are talking about how
virtual
worlds are hot in the Valley.
Lively has GTalk integration,
and we just released Google
talk for iPhone just in time for the new iPhone 3G launch at the end of the week. I
will probably head down to one of the Apple Stores and upgrade myself!
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