Thursday, May 31, 2007
Google Gears
At its developer conference, Google announced Google Gears, an open source technology for creating offline web applications. The new browser extension extends use of Web-based online applications into an offline mode. As an example. the Google Reader now allows offline reading of the top 2,000 items. Very cool.
Google also is gearing up to support creation of a single, open source way of enabling access to email and online calendars, for example, without access to the Web. Google Gears obviously also will allow developers to embed indexing and search functions into other applications.
Google Gears is another step towards making Web-based applications respond just about as well as offline, hard-disk-drive-based applications.
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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