Watch the webcast of Google's Analyst Day live:
http://google.client.shareholder.com/visitors/event/build2/mediapresentation.cfm?MediaID=27713#
It starts in 2 minutes at 1PM EST 10AM PST |
Currently Sergey Brin, George Reyes and Eric Schmidt are answering questions. |
The presentation Vint Cerf presented was given somewhere in Taiwan a few days ago...
http://flickr.com/photos/tenz1225/sets/72157602603758234/ |
was there anything really announced?! |
The one thing that I thought was really cool was the new Gmail javascript framework that is in the works. It pre-fetched the data from the individual messages and made the site lightning fast. Every click was instantaneous since the data was already on the client. |
The webcast which ended doesn't seem to be available in an archived version yet, though if I understood it right it will be. Brian, I'm curious if you know more about what they said about Gmail 2.0 (if that's the new version they were talking about...?). Here's a quote from a NYT blog:
<<The Gmail demo has some interesting new features. First, Google promises that it will soon rebuild Gmail on a new Javascript architecture. What does it mean? The service will look the same, but it will be a lot faster. The audience claps. A Google product manager also says that Gmail now supports IMAP, a mail protocol that ...>>
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/google-analyst-day-1-demos-but-nothing-on-facebook/#more-576 |
<< The webcast which ended doesn't seem to be available in an archived version yet, though if I understood it right it will be >>
I believe it's available now. |
From what I can recall they talked about how they completely rewrote the Gmail javascript engine. He actually pulled it up on his computer and gave a demo and it was amazingly fast due to all the pre-fetching. He was able to keep clicking on the "next" button from within an email and the new emails would just appear instantaneously. I was very impressed. Visually it looked exactly the same but from what I can recall they said that the new engine will provide them with much more capabilities. That is about as far as they went with it from what I can recall. The only other thing they mentioned was the new support for IMAP (which i still dont have!!!)
Once the webcast is online we can see if I missed any details. |
