IO 13 Impressions

Overarching Theme: Consistent Experience and Activity synch across all devices.
Secondary theme: Saving you time to Live and Love.


What last year's Q hinted at this year's advances make concrete: it's not about the device, it's about your activities registering across all portals on the web, phone, tablet, desktop browser.  Indeed, more emphasis on Chrome, the browser, than ever before.

Google Play Game Services

• allows sync'd save of games state and other data
• manages peer to peer
• probably websockets

Android Studio

•  based on Intelli-J...pretty cool and mo'betta than stupid eclipse.
• Larry not happy about Oracle greed but seems resigned to slogging forward. "It will work out."

Developer Console based on Google + Groups

• App translations service...a pilot program 
• Referral Tracking tied to analytics
• Usage Metrics
• Revenue Graphs
• Beta testing with staged rollouts

Google Play Store:

• UX like TV circa 2000
• Google Play Music All Access Explore
•  Pandora killer
• iTunes adversary
• does it sync?
• $9.99/month US w/30 day trial
• $7.99 if you buy by 30 June

Galaxy S4 unlocked $649 on 26 June

HOUR 2: ON TO CHROME THE BROWSER

ChromeBook Pixel

WebGL Game on Nexus 10 Chrome

WebP also does animated GIF-style pix

WebM VP9 is 1/3 size of h264 avg of 50% reduction

Data compression on Chrome for mobile
    how does this work?

Shopping mobile 97% abandonment

• chrome preserves payment info
• 1-Click equivalent
• Std Payments on Web session

Web Components

•     Toolkit for Web Components--Open Source
•     How does this work?

Racer

•     Google Compute engine
•     Websockets

Free Pixel's all around...that's $1300 * 6000 attendees == $7.8M

Play for Education

•     Google Attacks the Education Market
•     developer.android.com/edu
•     Cromebooks going mainstream in edu--Malaysia 4G

New Google + Design with depth Looking ahead.

    related hashtags
        auto tag
        ranked search
        card flip to see
        image analysis/knowledge graf recognition
            eiffel tower example
   
    Hangouts
       

Google gets it: Personal Computing...not personal computers

   
Hangouts App?

Camera + Cloud:
    15GB Backup
    hilite...Google picks the best pictures
        driop blurry
        drop dupes
        drop bad exposure
        looks for famous locations
        looks for smiles
        looks for aesthetics
        social boost for people important to you
    Enhance
        Auto-enhance
            tonal distribution
            skin softening
            noise reduction
            structure
            ...etc.
    Auto Awesome
        auto-gen a animate WebP
        gifted this afternoon
       

Search
    Knowledge Graph
        ...at the top of the search
    OK Glass gets OK Google companion
    Google Now
    Hot-Wording: OK Google
Maps
    Pins start to go away
    Tufte a happy man: the map is the UI
    personalized maps
    clicks cause customisation of map
    public transit details...great for planning..hard for ad hoc
    Google Earth via webGL with no plugins
    near real-time photosphere submission
    Whole Earth realtime clouds
    Maps leads to Whole Universe
  

Larry Page
    Creating seamless experience of automated cars drives scale.
    Mapping and car is same tech.
    Drives Data centers, searching and storage.
    Done by writing small checks that don't affect business model
    Do experiences that make happy users
    Non-incremental thinking
    Law not keeping up with rate of change
    Geeks need to gointo other areas and speed them up
    Build mechanisms to allow experimentation...Burning Man
    Beta Test the effect on Society...humble launch and see effects
    Do the tech,let it disrupt, take advantage of gaps in the law
    Should crowdsource his voice but it screws his insurance
    2-3 years for smartphones to penetrate India and Africa
    He can almost run Google from his phone.
  
 Me:

• Google Attacks the Education Market...taking Apple on in the heartland
• Simple Chinese == People Republic and Traditional Chinese == Taiwan. That'll go over big in Peking
• Google Maps Offers? You already shorted Groupon--right?
• Google Maps meet Tufte's infinitely scalable information
• Google, not Apple, not Microsoft, is the Microsoft of the next decade.

• Important to not let AI derail personal Serendipity.  The pseudo- in the pseudo-randomness of my mind is...well...me. I would invoke Gide: Please do not understand me too quickly. Actually got question from audience. Larry not concerned...under your control. Your saved time greater than time spent mislead by Google.  Better to overcome your ignorance, like it or not. Then you can feel free to introduce randomness.

• US needs to get off its fat ass and get moving.
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• US tapping this gen of geeks to build next gen for the world. We all know what happens...our skills atrophy...they leapfrog.

• Transitioning from computers to computing, from nouns to verbs, not a web of objects but a web of actions
• Hard not to 'trust' Sergei and Larry, given the alternatives. I was especially touched by the repeated note of frustration when Larry talked about Google Health and other initiatives abandoned because the regulatory environment was insurmountable.  In some ways this dovetails with the inability of soceity and the law to get up to net speed.  He suggested some of us need to go into other professions to help speed them up--like government.  Parallel to this his call for a social beta-land for testing new tech ideas before they are widely deployed.  As uit is the only recourse is to disrupt and watch for consequences, intended and un-.