Google gears up for conference

28th May 2008

Web developers will be welcomed by Google to the company's biggest conference of its kind this year.

Almost 3,000 web developers will gather for a keynote speech and about 100 technical sessions about web application development.

The company said its developer products were aimed at making it easier to build the web and the keynote speech will focus on three areas in particular – making clouds of computer power available, making browsers more capable and powerful and making sure connectivity enables this.

Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for developer product at Google, said there is a "passionate community working together to move [the internet] forward".

"What makes the real difference is the aggregate effect of us all working together, with open standards and open source," he added.

Google recently launched Friend Connect, a Web 2.0 application that acts as a bridge between social website applications like Facebook using a simple piece of code.