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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Google Now is getting a new feature called Now On Tap. Hopefully it sprays beer into my mouth from my wearable.
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Basically, Google Now is always listening, no matter what app you're in.
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"Now on Tap" is a new Google Now feature for Android M features. It can understand stuff about the apps you're using. Listen to Skrillex and ask "What's his real name?" and it knows what you mean.
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In Now on Tap, you can ask, in Spotify, what's Skrillex's real name, and Google Now will give you the answer, without leaving the app.
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Now on Tap works in a variety of apps, and app devs don't have to program their apps to support it. Nice.
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Google Now may be the closest thing anyone has come up to answering the question "What's next for search on phones, where you really don't want to search?"
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It's pretty crazy. They just showed an example where your wife asks if you remembered to drop offthe dry cleaning. You just tap the home button, and Now on Tap automatically brings up a reminder card, as well as the address of the nearest dry cleaner's.
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iOS and Android have gotten so homogeneous lately. This finally sounds like a differentiator.
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Apple is supposedly working on a project called Project Proactive to try to counter Google Now in iOS. No wonder: Google Now is, in my mind, the single killer feature that tempts me to switch from iOS.
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@John I've never been able to make Google Now work for me. But this, and opening up more to third-party apps, could really help.
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Now that is a tool I've been wanting for years, the ability to tap on an actor or actress while watching something, and get info on them. Maybe not quite what I want, but closing in, it seems.
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Sounds like we're going to hear about the new Photos service now.
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I really wish Siri was anywhere near as useful as Google Now is already, let alone today's improvements.
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Apple loves Stephen Fry. Chennapragada name-checked Hugh Laurie.
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"How much time do we spend just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling to find the photos that we want?"
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Google Photos's logo is like a cubist version of the Apple Photos logo.
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I really wish Siri was anywhere near as useful as Google Now.
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Google Photos: Available from any device. So...any device? iOS devices? That would make sense, of course.
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Hey, David Lieb...the founder of Bump, on stage now.
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One killer differentiator for me would be if Google Photos supported RAW. That's a big failure in Flickr's new Flickr Uploadr apps.
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One impressive thing about Google Photos: it's super fast. They're swiping through photos crazy quick, yet none of them are local, they're all in the cloud.
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One difference between WWDC and IO: You know most of the people who will demo at WWDC. With IO, there are fresh faces, especially this year.
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Google Photos automatically organizes your photos by people, places, and things, all without tags.
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Auto-organization in Google Photos without any manual tagging is pretty sweet.
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The face recognition is great. It looks like Google Photos might be able to recognize a person, even going back to the day they were born.
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Hello world #io15 http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGHEpQLU0AAuEe6.jpg
by Google Photos via twitter 5/28/2015 5:45:01 PM -
Natural language search too. If you type in "Snow storm in Toronto" it'll pop up all the photos that feature snow and were geotagged in Colorado.
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I'm wondering how Google Photos can recognize the baby version of a more grown-up child.
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For both rational & emotional reasons, the fact that Google Photos isn't Google+ makes it more interesting to me.
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@HarryMcCracken: Agreed, even though some of this stuff, like Stories or automatically created animated GIFs, are already in Google+.
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This sort of reminds me of what Gmail did to e-mail. You don't throw away--there's too much stuff--just use search/filtering to find what you need.
