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GigaOm: Google Continues Wooing Developers at I/O

As Google's I/O conference continues, developers are in the spotlight. Two new APIs have been released: an image manipulation API, and (more interesting to web app hosting in general), the memcache API. As our sister site GigaOm notes, with Yahoo in limbo and Microsoft missing in action on the Internet, Google is making a huge play for developer mindshare. In today's Google I/O recap on GigaOm, you'll find some good thoughts on Google Gears, HTML5, Javascript, AJAX. Android and Ruby on Rails. Take a gander.



Google Now Hosts Open Source Libraries

Are you using Ajax in your web application? If so, then you're probably using an open source JavaScript library, as well. Google announced earlier today that several popular JavaScript libraries, including Prototype and Dojo, will be freely available for web applications to incorporate in their HTML pages. By using Google's Ajax API, applications will be able to benefit from Google's fast content delivery network, as well as from the fact that browsers cache JavaScript files. So if any other application uses Google's copy of Prototype, your application will be able to used the cached version, saving time and bandwidth.


GigaOm: Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet

Our recent post on free, open source tools for web developers showed that lots of developers read OStatic's blog posts. Now, our sister blog GigaOm has a very interesting piece on what all of you out there working with Ruby on Rails, Python and AJAX ought to be keeping in mind regarding who actually hosts your web-based applications. It's called the Internet, and some people are misunderstanding how it works, says Allan Leinwand. Check it out.