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:
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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.
