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April 6, 2008

Major Google Announcement Monday Evening: Is It BigTable?

Michael Arrington

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Google is hosting the second of their developer events, called “Campfire One,” on Monday (April 7) evening. Multiple people have forwarded email invitations to me for the event, where Google promises they’ll be “unveiling another exciting technology” to the developer community.

The first Campfire One event was held for thirty outside developers on November 1, 2007, where Google announced details of their OpenSocial initiative. They describe the events as “Every once in a while we’ll invite members of the developer community on campus to talk shop, share some news, and eat S’mores. We’re calling this “Google Campfire One.”"

I wasn’t invited to the event, but I clicked through on the invite link in one of the emails and signed up. A confirmation was sent back immediately afterwards. Since the RSVP page doesn’t appear to be limited to invited developers only, I won’t publish the URL.

My guess is that Google will be announcing the launch of web services that will compete head on with those offered by Amazon and others. The anchor for these services, we hear, is their internal database system called BigTable. Google has definitely briefed press on the imminent launch of BigTable as a web service, although as we said last week we haven’t been contacted.

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  1. Tim

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    You should stream some Qik video from the event if you have a Nokia phone that can do it so we can see. :)

  2. Patrick Hankinson

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    If they do launch Big Table my guess is they will offer it for free in comparison to charging for it like Amazon.

  3. Rami

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    I hope it is BigTable.

  4. Robert Scoble

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    I did the same thing as Mike did so will show up and bring my Qik camera. I hear it’ll be live video streamed anyway. The first one was.

  5. Alejandro Reyes

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    you weren’t invited to the event? quit playing…

    thanks for the heads up - will definitely be checkin back in here…

  6. SearcH◆ EngineS WEB

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    Do those Developers sign a NDA?

    The real sad aspect to all of this is that in this hi tech era - turnkey companies like Google do not see fit to open these meetings up to Developers from all over the world via video. - even if it is a private invite only experience

    When will these companies get into the 21st century????????

    There are so many brilliant minds around the world that can contribute - but do not find it convenient to take their bodies to a specific location at a specific time.

    If the real purpose is to pick the brains of Developers, you can get even more quality feedback from wisdom of the from crowds around the world.

  7. Bam Azizi

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    does it matter!! not to me and about %99 of the readers of this blog. okay maybe %98

  8. matt

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    Bigtable sounds good, but isn’t just for mega sites…like Google? how does BigTable help all of us little people?

  9. Robert Scoble

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    Search Engines Web: the guy I got my invite from didn’t sign an NDA with Google. The invite didn’t say anything about keeping it secret, either. I just can’t post it because I don’t want to burn my source or piss off Googlers. Who knows, tomorrow I might get an email asking me not to come.

  10. Michael Arrington

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    Robert Scoble: they invited you, but didn’t invite us? lame. Scobleizer is so 2005. Don’t they realize that?

  11. Andy Wong

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    Big Table is better for certain kinds of Web applications which store data rarely removed. The marketing target might be Web services running by business, rather than individuals who want cheap online storage directly.

  12. Alex Hammer

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Arrington and Scoble will not be denied!! (I’d probably call the company and ask to be let in, but not that that would likely help).

  13. Robert Scoble

    April 6th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Michael: they did NOT invite me. I got snuck an invite, just like you got snuck one.

  14. pico

    April 6th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

    They didn’t invite me too. Who am I? I am followed by Scobleizer.. Oh yeah, he follows everyone on his very wide radar…

    Just get that reported here and I listen to both Techcrunch and Google.

  15. Rushabh Choksi

    April 6th, 2008 at 11:14 pm

    It will surely be bigtable:)

  16. SEOrious Results

    April 6th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    Can’t wait to see Google laying it all out on the table….this Big Table offering of theirs will have to be free in order to compete with Amazon an all…..must say that free has always been synnonymous with Google’s offerings, so can’t see why it will be different this time round. When is Google’s expansions into various niches going to stop? This juggernaut is justy getting bigger and bigger!

  17. browse

    April 6th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

    Can someone please explain to me why BT -HAS- to be free? You’re talking about an enterprise-class information storage system here. Just because it’s Google doesn’t mean it’s free.

  18. ididak

    April 6th, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    Not just bigtable, the whole stack as web service for free, within reasonable limits. Otherwise, it doesn’t make any sense, as the latency and bandwidth between Google and your own web site will nullify a lot of benefits. Either Google Grid or Google Cloud would be a good name.

    It’ll be free because, Google already stores the entire web in BigTable, many times over. If everybody host their content on Bigtable, there is no need to crawl them anymore, saving a lot of crawling headaches.

    The day of most ISPs are numbered.

    For those who want to be independent of the Google Borg, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigTable and pick an open source project to contribute.

  19. Metal Chair

    April 6th, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    I like to try Google Campfire One

  20. NickeyD

    April 7th, 2008 at 1:12 am

    Do we get to peek their huge crawler index, too ?

  21. More Profitable than Justin.tv

    April 7th, 2008 at 1:40 am

    I wet myself when I read Google may be announcing a whole suite of suite of products to compete with Amazon Web Services. If they can offer an EC2 like solution that allows for static IPs AND let’s you choose which region of the world the virtual instance is located (e.g US vs. EU vs. Asia). File storage that can mirrored to difficult locations around the world (get closer to the end user)? Am I dreaming? For the love of Xenu I hope the service is NOT free though. Just give me prices competitive to AWS and I’m game.

  22. web hosting

    April 7th, 2008 at 2:49 am

    It looks like google is sharing same module like SimpleDB, in my view google should focus on different niche rather than limited to developer base only.

  23. iServiceshop

    April 7th, 2008 at 3:12 am

    “The day of most ISPs are numbered. ”

    We agree. Google would love to become “The Host” and they’d prolly do a heck of a good job!

    The Team
    http://iserviceshop.blogspot.com

  24. Bob Warfield

    April 7th, 2008 at 9:05 am

    I sure hope it is BigTable and more Cloud Services. The opportunity to launch a new Cloud Platform is perishable. Amazon is building up quite a lead.

    More on my blog:

    http://smoothspan.wordpress.co.....erishable/

    Cheers,

    BW

  25. nobosh.com

    April 7th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    How Apple of Google

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