Google I/O 2010 Celebrates the Web as the Platform of Choice

This year's I/O event is a recognition and celebration of the web's evolution into the software development platform of choice. It's also an opportunity for Google to share its work in moving the web forward and keeping it open. The web has become more powerful in more places -- from enterprise deployments to mobile handsets. Google's announcements today enable developers to take full advantage of the web platform:

An open, global platform means better performance and broader access for all applications

    * Chrome Web Store: Google is announcing the Chrome Web Store, an open marketplace for web apps that helps people find the best web applications across the internet and allows developers to reach new users.

    * WebM Project: Google joined a broad array of companies and web community members to announce WebM, an open web media format project. We have open-sourced VP8, a high-quality, web-optimized video codec, and are contributing to the project under a royalty-free license.
    * Wave open sign-ups: Google Wave is open to all users at wave.google.com, as a Google Labs product -- no invitation needed. Google Apps administrators will also have the option to add Wave as a Labs feature for their domains, helping groups of people communicate and work together more productively.
More information about Google I/O 2010 is available at http://code.google.com/events/io/.

Google I/O 2010 Celebrates the Web as the Platform of Choice