Google is holding one of its occasional “Campfire One” events for developers on April 7. These events, which are held outside on the lawn at Google Headquarters, have always included big product announcements in the past. At a May 2008 Campfire One Google announced details of Friend Connect. A month before that, in April 2008, Google announced App Engine.
What will they announce this time? A good bet is Java on AppEngine, which we’d previously heard wouldn’t be announced until the I/O conference in May. But the product would be a good fit for Campfire One. Of course, it may also be something else entirely. We’ll attend (either because we’re invited or because we just show up) and live blog whatever it is that happens.
I would rather Google focus more on less projects, but this is a project that would be great for them to focus on instead of the half done garbage they have so often tossed out.
…that Conficker is actually GDrive
they introduce just about everything and then step back. Instead they should concentrate on there fair products to retain love from users. Else yahoo gonna take all that glory away pretty soon
My opinion is that building just one brand is a single point of failure; don’t you agree? And they have been forced by the Fed(up) justice system to abandon so many good projects in the past. They have a high level of distrust as a result. And so, whatever good they can salvage, maybe selfishly for themselves, they try to. Who isn’t selfish? All the judges and the lawmakers are. All the executives are. And they show absolutely no hesitation in using great force regularly and disproportionately. Hence, it makes sense to get a foothold into every promising from where they can build something acceptable, respectable ad most importantly, USEFUL, given the volatility. They also get threats from so many entities in diverse fields under varied lawbooks – just yesterday they were singled out for privacy risk. That risk is present with every provider and that is the problem that people do not understand. The justice system must change from the top. Let’s hope it does so at least as the Maya calendar ends. But I doubt such things happen in reality. FUD is a powerful weapon and with great power comes great responsibility. The permanently scarred face of Darth Sidious must remind you of it all the time. No one is exempt from responsibility. Not me, not you. The risk for power-bearers merely appears less or absent. Spacetime is a big thing with many empty spaces.
speaking world domination …
They’ll offer a few brain mapping connectors to G1 with Android supplying the software needs. And then – “Don’t remember, just wish” All your thoughts, archived, labeled, and safely backed up at multiple locations (gulp!).
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All your brains are belong….
Ok, Ok, i’ll stop for now
lawl.
Look forward to the actual announcement
I think Google Analytics API will be out of beta
me thinks it will be android related!
I’m surprised it stayed under wraps this long. Invites went out weeks ago.
Please let it be GDrive. Though, Dropbox is already rocking my world in that department.
I wish they first fix the products they already have. Google Checkout, for example.
There are other products to fix too! Like I read on the net about the loop-holes in Google Docs.. some problem with Adsense!
Ah, other news is they are about to stop the Video ADS from April 2009!
Anyways, I still believe in Google. These guys rocks!
Google has been in to many top products. Why the need to get in to so many things. bring about stability and richness in to the products you already have. Iron out Gmail failures, security failures in Google docs etc
Only the paranoid survive, and the Google powers-to-be are obviously smart enough to realize that search is ultimately vulnerable to challenge from old and new competitors. Ergo, diversify as long as you (still) can. I still don’t understand how things like Google books can be legal though. Significant outposts of the Google empire, Google books, Youtube, maybe even things basic to Google search service as it appears now, e.g. file caching, may be built on questionable foundations, at least in the common sense world. In the space-time continuum of the real world however, light, as the legal system, can bend to unusual laws unfathomable to ordinary human minds. Subtle are the ways of the Lord.
Please post more, WiseDoggie – I had a good chuckle.
Google are too strong! Without Google search will spend alot of my time in searching data.
where is the gDrive?
Is gmail down again? can’t access gmail, adsense, analytics.. is it only me?
problem occurs only in chrome browser – FF can login to these services with no problems
I am guessing its PHP support on the appengine or maybe gdrive.
I’d have to second that. I bet on PHP rather than Java. They might be working on Java, sure, but going from Python to PHP makes more sense.
Luckily I have an invitation. Michael, would you personally be there too? It will be great honor to meet you in person. Also I would love to show you the product I am working on and will have already launched before this event.
I am now excited for sure …. Hoping michael shows up.
Will be the coolest thing … I really look forward to it if it is java support on google apps…
and all those morons that are talking about half cooked ideas being spit out unfortunately don’t understand much of iterative, user feedback driven engineering basics / principles. Good luck to them.
Don’t you know that it will be Google Chrome for Mac ? You’ll see!
They’re going to announce ‘Google Blueprint’ which consists of the layout and floor plan of every building in the world!
Maybe they announce the GoogleMind, a chip that will control our mind…hehehe
See the humor of Nerdson: http://www.prof...e-o-googlemind/
Im hoping its AdSense for Ajax Search API announcement. Would be a great way to expand revenue streams, lock in more developers using their services/APIs, and instantly unleash an army of applications that have already been developed into revenue generating apps.
just do it
http://axees.ea....clickbank.net/
Please open up the API more.. let us see the number of searches for a keyword.. none of this ’some’, ‘a little’, ‘a lot’ nonsense. please.
My bet is A NEW WEB BROWSER.
With over 200 software platforms competing for mindshare, Google needs to throw more parties just to keep up. http://sw.tEarn.com/ Many developers are shifting to twitter, iPhone, and Facebook. For example, OpenSocial gets little mindhsare and might end up in the deadpool.
Hmm, whatever it is.. please keep us posted TC. Thanks.
everybody is now waiting!
Google is announcing. They have created the world’s first real Cylon.
I think they might announce a cloaking jacket or the ability to read your thoughts.
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taking over the world
Mike, is this an open event or is it only people with invitations?
Will be interesting to see what they announce…..gotta keep things fresh at G!
I don’t see the event mentioned on its homepage http://code.goo...e.com/campfire/
it’s fake, imho
Sorry, i was wrong
Hasn’t anybody confirmed the veracity of this?
Ivan, I think you might want to check a dictionary for the meaning of the word “veracity”.
Daniel Brusilovsky is attending, according to his twitter @danielbru
Hey .. has the anouncement been done yet? Not heard till now….