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
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.
- 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-.