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Yesterday, we covered news coming out of the Google I/O developer event in San Francisco, including new offerings for web developers and a new iteration of the Android Developer Challenge, with cash prizes. Today, the event is continuing, and there is more interesting news. The company is giving developers an early look at a new project called Google Wave. It's a combination of conversation- and document-sharing online, including mashups of photos, videos, maps and more. Google has also announced HTML 5-based video support in its Chrome browser, which--like other open source browsers such as Firefox--will allow users to display video without a plug-in such as Flash. Here are more details.