Adding the keystone to their future web strategy!

It is offline and open source and a major step to the final product (this is beta, like all Web 2.0stuff) 

 check it out at: http://gears.google.com/

..as a lot top blogs posted today.

from: http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/gears-puts-google-in-the-drivers-seat/2007/05/31/1180205350391.html

Gears puts Google in the driver’s seat

The Google Gears plugin download page.

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May 31, 2007 – 9:00AM
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Google is rolling out a technology designed to overcome the major drawback faced by all web-based applications: the fact that they don’t work without an internet connection.

Google Gears is an open source technology for creating offline web applications that is being launched today at Google’s annual Developer Day gatherings around the world.

“With Google Gears, we’re tackling the key limitation of the browser in order to make it a stronger platform for deploying all types of applications and enabling a better user experience,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in a statement.

The Google Gears technology is designed to be used for web applications such as email and word or image processing.

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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Historic discussion live from D 2007

Posted May 30th 2007 10:01PM by Ryan Block

from:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/30/steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-historic-discussion-live-from-d-2007/

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We kind of never thought we’d see the day where Mac and PC voluntarily shared the stage on neutral ground, but that day is today. Very soon Bill Gates and Steve Jobs — both pioneering execs that need absolutely no introduction — will sit up in front of the audience here at D and discuss god knows what. Don’t miss this, people, who knows if this will happen again in any of our lifetimes. You’ll know when we get started. Who’s got odds that they don’t walk out and say “Hi, I’m a PC.” “Hi, I’m a Mac.”?

We’re in! They’re playing the Beatles, just like they did when Jobs came out the first time.

Update: Video recap online! Right after the break, but before the rest of our coverage.

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You can meet & discuss at virtual Heiligendamm (Burg Hohenzollern) at:

oeconomica 67,41,31 (SL address)

…But I think you get a better experience at the real location, respectively 5km away behind the new €12Mio fence. Perhaps they could maintain the fence afterwards as anti capitalistic bulwark.

only $2.5Mio

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