Topic: Google Developer Day

Google AdSense Coming To A Map Near You?

This InfoWorld article indicates that Google will be integrating more ads, including potentially AdSense, onto Maps themselves. The plan was discussed at Google Developer Day last week. When the program would roll out isn’t entirely clear — I was at Developer Day but not in that session — but Google has been experimenting with ads […]

What To Make Of Google Gears

Being a non-developer I was a bit of a fish out of water at Google Developer Day yesterday. The event, which took place in the 10 countries where Google has offices, was intended to showcase Google Gears and the company’s various APIs. I attended the event in California, which was moved from Google’s Mountain View […]

Google Gears Brings Offline Web Applications To Life

Today at Google Developer Day 2007, Google released Google Gears. Google Gears is a browser extension that will help developers create offline web applications in the open source framework. Gears is powered by JavaScript APIs enabling data storage, application caching, and multi-threading technologies for offline browsing and application use. Google Reader is the first online […]