Google Developer Day 2007
10 cities, one world, one company: Google.
Sydney is up first, with some exclusive announcements, hours before the rest of the world hears about them.
700 registered users for the Google Developer Day 2007, the 2nd largest event today.
Google going offline with Google Gears: gears.google.com
Have the power of a full SQLdatabase at your fingertips for use online and offline, using SQLite. With automatic syncing, autoupdate, text search,... Gears also adds threads to JavaScript, making it ever more powerful.
Google Mapplets:
Mashup Google Maps itself, add your own mini app to Google Maps (and not the other way round, adding Maps to your app) as Mapplets. That way users can aggregate different data (using several mapplets) on one view in Google Maps. It also brings back the users to Google Maps, as they kind of lost them to the sites which integrate Maps.
API Overview by Bo Majewski
A general overview of the Maps API, about 23 demo's, without a glitch. Google is open sourcing the GMaps Utility Library, so everyone can improve on the Marker Manager; you can now add driving directions to your own mashup, and there's a limited availability of traffic overlay data.
Soon you'll be able to add AdSense for Maps to your own Maps mashup, enabling you to monetize on your application (and Google too of course).
What's wrong with those lanyard things? Your name tag is always turned around. Maybe they should just print your info on both sides...
Comments
I wanted to insert a map of the spot where I went bush walking into Vox, but couldn't work out how to do it with Google without getting into the API stuff.
I can understand Google wanting to get eyeballs onto their site, but it's not quite what I was looking for.
Good way of getting cheap annotations on the maps though :-)