Waiting for Google I/O Keynote
Sitting here on a bean bag with the laptop waiting for the keynote and I have to say this is the most excited I’ve been to attend a conference since the old days of COMDEX.  There are so many interesting sessions on Google’s Android movbile platform, cloud computing with appengine, HTML5, and more. This is a great view of all the leading edge technologies that will be common place in a year.
I’ve activated my Andriod phone Google generously sent me ahead of the conference. It auto assigned a number, so now I have a California mobile number. Oh well, its free for 30days. I have to say the browser borders on sucking compared to the iPhone. I’m forever hitting the wrong key, and my first task for it utterly failed – setting my out of office in Outlook webmail. The Google browser on the Android phone couldn’t pick a radio button in the outlook web interface to set my out of office. Switched over to my iphone, no problem. The email client on the android phone is not nearly as easy to use either, and I make many more typing mistakes with the full keyboard than I do with the iphone on screen keyboard.
This is going to be an awesome 2 days, already I’ve picked out sessions on:
- Open social web
- Google cloud
- Developing with HTML5
- Data migration in appenge
- High throughput data pipelines
- Next gen queries
- And more
One more thing – on the Android phone, you unlock it buy drawing a pattern on the screen. Cool huh? But, then the outline of your finger motion is on the screen, so pretty much anyone could see your “password”. The actual Google phone is probably better than the motorola version I have. The Google I/O Android App is awesome though – full conference shcedule, maps, build your own agenda, etc.
More to come!