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<title>What Google Gears means for SaaS developers</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=340</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 02:27:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Phil Wainewright</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=340</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google's announcement of Gears has handsomely fulfilled the first of my end-of-year predictions for on-demand, made back in December:  "We'll see more and more on-demand vendors coming out with clients that support offline working. In fact, I think we're going to see an important debate developing in the SaaS industry about the best way to deliver functionality to users."  That second sentence is an important qualification. Coming in the wake of the release of both Adobe Apollo and Microsoft Silverlight, Gears is almost a defensive announcement (screenshot courtesy of Marc Orchant's write-up). Far from being some kind of knock-out blow for desktop applications, as the Financial Times naively implied today, I see Gears as an admission that the browser needs to move ... ]]>
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<title>Google Gears available for OS X</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=566</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 09:55:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jason D. O'Grady</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=566</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google has apparently closed the "offline hole" when using its online office suite (Google Docs and Calendars) with the announcement of Google Gears. The best news is the that the new 710kb tool is available for the Mac.   Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:                  Store and serve application resources locally                Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database                Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness      More information on Google Gears can be found on the Developer Site, FAQ and Developer Forum. ]]>
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<title>Google tests new 'Mashup Editor'</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5222</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 07:58:52 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Larry Dignan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5222</guid>
<description><![CDATA[First there was Yahoo Pipes. Then Microsoft's Popfly. Today, it's Google's Mashup Editor.    Google has begun offering limited test to "a small number of developers."  The news comes as Google launches a host of new toys for developers including Google Gears, which is designed to provide offline access to Web applications (see Podcast, blog focus, news story and Techmeme).    Google says the Mashup Editor can allow developers to publish mashups with a "few lines of code and one click of a button."    Specifically, the search giant notes the Mashup Editor allows you to:     Take some AJAX UI components, data from your users and Google services like Google Base and Google Maps or external feeds and mash them all together using our simple framework. ... ]]>
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<title>Sprinkle Ajax with some scouring powder by Google Gears</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=323</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 06:38:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ed Burnette</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=323</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google asked me if I wanted to be in on an embargoed news release item earlier today and I said no. Companies never give you enough information in those things, so if you write something early to be the first to post, you end up missing a feature, leaving something out, or having to go back and re-write the article. At least their embargo times are measured in hours instead of weeks, unlike Sun. But I digress...    Google has announced a nice way to support online and offline web-based applications with the same code using Google Gears. Gears originally had the code name "scour" leading to all sorts of puns in the code and mailing lists with "scouring powder" and so ... ]]>
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<title>Google Web Toolkit 1.4: &quot;Have to see it to believe it&quot;</title>
<link>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=322</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 06:08:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ed Burnette</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=322</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google just released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.4 Release Candidate, a major upgrade to the company's open-source framework for writing AJAX web applications in the Java programming language. A download is available here (make sure you get the latest 1.4 version).  Highlights include:     The new ImageBundle feature creates a single composite image out of many small ones, which allows dozens of individual HTTP to be consolidated into a single request (more below).   15-20% smaller JavaScript output. Developers can speed up existing Google Web Toolkit apps simply by recompiling with 1.4 RC.   A simplified and enhanced startup sequence that removes one HTTP round-trip, reduces the startup script by 80%, and loads modules about 33% faster.   Modularized RPC that lets GWT connect to your ... ]]>
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