Google’s largest developer event  had attendees coming from all over the world. The overwhelming response from the developer community resulted in delayed start for the keynote. The keynote was delivered by Vic Gundotra, Vice President, Engineering. He started off by asking all the right questions. Some of the highlights are:

• As web applications get more complex and interactive, why should developers suffer from poor standards that browsers follow?
• How can we unlock the O.S capabilities to make our applications run faster?
• What is Google doing to improve the scenario using Gears (i.e helping in setting the HTML 5 standards).
• Web 2.0/2.5/3.0 is not just about pretty interfaces but good engineered applications that are fast and fluid.

He touched three main parts of web Client, Connectivity and Cloud.

1. Making Client more powerful: Enabling more operations on the client side with multi-threaded operations and local storage.
2. Making Conectivity more pervasive: Making sophisticated applications available on mobile devices through Android.
3. Making Cloud accessible: Increasing the ease of deploying web applications using Google’s AppEngine.

Other announcements:

1. Opensocial 0.8 released.
2. Google AppEngine: Memcache and Image Manipulation API released
3. GWT 1.5 released

There were various updates on the individual tracks such as OpenSocial, Android, Gears (Google debranded Gears), GWT, Ajax APIs, Google Maps, Google Visualizations, AppEngine, Google Guice (depedency injection framework).
I will be posting more details about the various tracks shortly!!