14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday, the Mountain View company started its long-awaited campaign of conferences that is meant to gather the developers from every corner of the world and present them the latest Google innovations. As we expected, the audience was quite impressive, no less than 600 Chinese web developers taking part at the Beijing event. The Google Developer Day first kicked off in Sydney, Australia, the country that received a lot of new Google products since its official national day.
"I've been at the Beijing event, where I gave a keynote about "Plumbing the Web -- APIs and Infrastructures" for 600 Chinese web developers. I talked about a couple of my favorite topics, Sitemaps and Webmaster Tools, and some of the motivations behind them. Then I talked a bit about consumer APIs and some of our backend infrastructures to support our platform," Narayanan Shivakumar, Google Distinguished Entrepreneur, Director, tried to describe the Beijing conference.
As I said when the Mountain View company announced the event, Google Developer Day is very similar to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, a meeting that is often used by the Cupertino firm to introduce new solutions and projects on the market. Obviously, the search giant used the Developer Day with the same goal, introducing some new tools recently designed buy the guys from the Googleplex. One of these solutions is Google Gears, an innovative technology that allows users to browse the visited websites even from offline mode.
Also, the search giant released an improved version of Google Reader, the web-based RSS client that allows you to read feeds and headlines straight from the online interface. Google Reader is now providing feeds trends and statistics about the subscribed articles and feeds. Using the recently debuted Google Gears, the Reader service can be now used even without an Internet connection.