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Google I/O Keynote
On May 28, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. PT / 12:30 p.m. ET, Google will hold the keynote at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco. Expect news on all of its platforms: the web, Android, Chrome, and more. Fast Company's Harry McCracken, John Brownlee, and Jared Newman will be there to cover it in person and will share developments as they happen.
Did you miss the event? You can watch the keynote video here and read a quick recap of they keynote's highlights here.
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@HarryMcCracken I store it in Dropbox, but not because of the carousel feature -- though that is pretty nice.
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@HarryMcCracken Same here. Do you think that would change if they turned it into a dedicated photo sharing service? That seemed to be one of the only things it was good for.
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I think the key to panoramic pong is to not pay attention to your opponent's half of the screen.
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I would totally visit G+ more if I thought of it as photos rather than a fourth social network when I only have enough attention span for three of them (Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram).
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Jared, that Techcrunch report is exciting. Google+ Photos killer feature seems to be the Auto Magic functionality. Bring that everywhere and couple it with unlimited storage and you've converted me from Flickr (which I just switched entirely to!)
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Having flashbacks now to playing Pong (cocktail table version) at the bar at Howard Johnson's, which they let me into even when I was 12, at least for Pong-playing purposes.
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I could see myself just auto-backing up everything to Google, letting its algorithms run amok, and seeing whether that's better or worse than my hand-organized OneDrive albums.
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Maybe a long shot, but maybe this panoramic game of Pong is related to Google's VR ambitions, somehow?
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The ball in this panoramic Pong seems to actually be round. To me, that means it isn't Pong.
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I'm just waiting for some subversive anarchist to type in the initials F.U.K. on this Pong game. But I'm a child.
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"Google Glass 2.0 will be a purpose-built device that delivers the best version of Pong. Ever!"
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In a very short amount of time, this same room will host Apple's WWDC. We'll be liveblogging that, too!
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I finally ran out of free space from Google, which is annoying. If I could just remove the attachments from email without deleting the email itself it would be no problem to free up space. Why doesn't Google allow this? And what are my options beside paying (which I've already done)?
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@harrymccracken Big day, I'm looking for Google to simplify the Android dev process, like Apple did with Swift.by Doggzilla via twitter 5/28/2015 3:59:58 PM -
At WWDC, they let you in about fifteen minutes before Tim Cook strides on stage, and being ready to liveblog can be a scramble. Google, on the other hand, allowed the press in so early that we still have another half hour to go.
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That's a great point about simplifying Android dev. Let's face it: Android in many ways is a better designed experience than iOS, but it's still comparatively much, much more difficult to develop for. Google needs to grease that friction away any way they can.
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@noahr I would love an attachment management tool from Gmail, something like the attachment view in Outlook's mobile apps but with the ability to delete stuff.
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Here's a question: if Google can give away infinite storage for video and photo, why can't they do this with photos in email too?
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@harrymccracken How about a Moto G style Nexus phone, inexpensive & usable, that supports the Google phone service? Would shake things upby Doggzilla via twitter 5/28/2015 4:03:42 PM
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I dunno if this guy works for Google or not, but some sort of Android hype man just ran by me, hooting, pumping his fist, and shouting "Yes!" to no one in particular.
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These keynotes always have folks who hoot and holler. Possibly even ones who are here entirely for that purpose.
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I recall many years ago, during the infamous Mark Zuckerberg keynote at SXSW, before it started, there were a bunch of people near the front dancing to the music that was playing. We were all charmed by their enthusiasm. Later, it came out that they were Facebook employees.
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Finally got my phone out to Shazam the peppy pop music being played here. At the moment I pressed the button, they cut off the tune to announce that a lost wallet had been found.
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the Live Stream has started, focused on the crowd views as they take their seats. stay tuned.
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You may be able to see our tiny, tiny heads somewhere in that livestream.
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Random tidbit: More or less all the Google PR people who work on Google Play are all out on maternity leave right now, and so don't need to be at IO. The Google PR person who told me this wondered if it was a conspiracy.
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@harry what we got on the livestream is "Don't Stop" by Knightlifeby Joel Arbaje via YouTube 5/28/2015 4:12:09 PM
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Android, coming soon to Rube Goldberg machines near you.
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I NEVER know what the music is at these events without Shazam. With the exception of when Apple hired Tony Bennett to sing "The Best is Yet to Come" at its final Macworld Expo.
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(On the 360 screen in here, they are now showing some Rube Goldberg machine, controlled by Android. The music is comically over-the-top: I'm pretty sure I heard the Conan the Barbarian and Dark Knight soundtracks mixed together in there.)
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We could read deeply into what all this stuff means, but I'm just going to assume it's Google trying to keep us mildly entertained until the keynote starts.
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Getting back to Google+ morphing into a photo service: The single thing that matters most to me for photos is that any service I choose stay around indefinitely. Everpix, which was started to keep your photos safe forever, was scarcely in business for a year.
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First game of the pong semifinals almost ended up a skunking. 15-1.
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Jared, come on, that giant CGI whale that just swam through here was OBVIOUSLY a nod to a cetacean-optimized version of Google Glass.
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I hope that Rube Goldberg, somewhere, knows that his name and sense of humor are still part of American culture.
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Google went to the trouble of licensing Pong from Atari. There's a little copyright disclaimer at the end of every game.
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Of all the companies I'd expect to get upset about an unlicensed riff on their games, Atari's at the top of my list.
