Google’s I/O developer conference kicked off at San Francisco yesterday with a series of key announcements to their products, most notable being the addition of a web store to the Chrome web browser, an open source, royalty-free video format called WebM, an open Font API, and feature changes to Google Wave. The real time collaboration tool is now available on the its cloud-based Apps market place, and is no longer invitation only. The service can be enabled by Google Apps administrators, extending its functionality to businesses, schools and organizations.
Installable web apps at the Google Chrome Web Store Google Chrome and the Chrome Web Store will support installable web apps, while many of these will be free, developers will have the option to easily sell their apps through the store. The purchase process will be very simple, requiring only a few clicks. According to the keynote, the Chrome Web Store allows developers to access 70 million people. Demoes at the live keynote included a HTML5 web app for TweetDeck, Plants vs. Zombies, a popular iPhone/iPad game, and a magazine demo of Sports Illustrated. The Chrome Web Store won’t be exclusive in any way to the Google Chrome browser, they can be used by anyone using a modern browser that supports these web technologies, says the FAQ. The Chrome Web Store will be available later this year, more details will be shared soon.
WebM: Open and royalty free video codec Google has open sourced VP8, a streaming video codec it recently acquired from On2 for $124.6 million. There has been quite a bit of debate around the H.264 codec, which requires licensing, and was therefore not integrated by Mozilla Firefox, in favour of an inferior but open source Ogg Theora. Both Opera and Mozilla have pledged support for the VP8 codec, now called WebM. At the live keynote, it was announced that YouTube videos are being converted to the WebM format, and Adobe plans to add WebM support into Dreamweaver. Google Font API: Free to embed, download, and use Google has opened up a new API that lets web developers easily embed fonts on their pages, the Google Font Directory has 18 Western European web fonts including Droid Sans and Droid Serif, which is used on the Android OS. The Font API will work with CSS3 and HTML5. These open source fonts will be available for download in the future, and can be used for any purpose, including print. Support for other languages is also planned.
We're expecting more exciting announcements around the latest Android OS on day 2, Android Phones were also showcased at Google I/O, Phandroid has a gallery full of pics, many of these phones haven't been seen before.
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