Google I/O Day 1: HTML5, Open Source Video and Interesting Apps
Posted on 19. May, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News
While many expected big announcements at Google I/O, Day One featured mostly a build-up to what is expected to be much larger announcements at the second keynote that is happening tomorrow morning. Some of the rumors that have been heard about Android and Google TV did not come to fruition, at least for today.
A big revelation is the fact that Google’s $124.6 million purchase of video codec firm On2 will allow the company’s VP8 technology to be open sourced in a initiative known as WebM. This is going to be embraced by an array of web-centric companies, including Opera, Mozilla and Skype.
Some interesting web-based software companies were featured like the TV-Guide-ish Clicker.tv and MugTug, which is a browser-based image editing software that is powered by HTML5′s 2D canvas technology:
Heavily presented at today’s keynote were advancing technologies that are propelling the web. Interestingly, the CEOs of both Mozilla and Opera had a chance to talk and then the Chrome Web Store was announced which clearly will only be run within Google’s own Chrome browser and eventually Chrome OS.
We’ll be intently watching tomorrow, however, and keep posting updates as fast as we can.
One Response to “Google I/O Day 1: HTML5, Open Source Video and Interesting Apps”
Leave a Reply
WebP: Ambitious, But Just as Much as a New OS | thechromesource - Google Chrome and Chrome OS News and Resources
30. Sep, 2010
[...] the goal of introducing WebP, the photo-based relative of the open-standard WebM for video released during Google I/O. WebP’s goal is to offer a faster experience for image-heavy sites, which most web properties [...]