Google Gears Offline Web Applications are out now!
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.
Gears puts Google in the driver’s seat
The Google Gears plugin download page.
Hutcheon
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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