I’m about 2 weeks late getting around to writing about Google I/O and most people already know what went on but I’ll share a bit more. The keynote was given by Vic Gundotra. Vic announced that Google would be pushing HTML 5.0 in order to speed up acceptance of the web as a platform. He included 5 things that Google is excited about. These include,

• The canvas tag
• The video tag
• GPS/Location data
• Offline data
• Web workers

At the end he announced that everyone gets an android phone. Since Android phones are starting to come out now they seem to really be ramping up trying to get people to write applications.

After attending sessions, mostly on appengine, I attended the after hours party which included interesting talks with Brett Slatkin and Guido Van Rossum both from the appengine team and one being, of course, the creator of the python programming language and ridiculously famous.