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2013-05-18 00:26:56 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

Google TV: Resurrection

+Google TV is an evolving platform that was way ahead of its time when it first came out and has been fighting "Google TV is dead" memes ever since, assisted by the first manufacturer Logitch bowing out from supporting their products very ungraciously. Even here at #io13  there were plenty of people looking at my Google TV logo on my shirt and saying "isn't that dead"? But the truth is quite different - and the amazingly strong response from developers attending Google I/O this year underscores that truth.

The truth is that Google TV's development team and management has undergone some important changes in recent months, but the platform itself has growing and enthusiastic support from a widening array of hardware vendors, apps developers and streaming media services - not to mention a quietly growing cadre of GTVe... more »

2013-05-17 04:33:59 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

If u want to give a try of cloud gaming on google TV, come to 3rd floor!:)

2013-05-16 04:49:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

I just love Google Music's All Access - it's the first service that I've used that suggested new music that I just liked.  Totally amazing.  (I guess having had all my music loaded was a huge win)

2013-05-15 22:47:41 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Over the past few months Google TV has gathered momentum by launching powerful features for our users such as the highest quality voice search of any TV product and strong manufacturer adoption of the platform. At Google I/O, it’s time to talk about developers and enabling them to bring more great experiences to TV.

Today, Google TV is moving to the latest version of Android (Jelly Bean, 4.2.2), and we’ve refactored Google TV so that our TV OEM partners can update to future versions of Android in a matter of weeks rather than months. For developers, this means you can build TV experiences using the latest Android APIs, including the NDK. 

Today Google TV is also moving to the latest version of Chrome, and from now on Google TV benefits from Chrome updates on the same six week cycle that you’ve come to expect from Chrome. In Chrome on Google TV, we’ve added support forhardware... more »

2013-05-15 04:23:36 (7 comments, 8 reshares, 10 +1s)

#googletv  users will be interested.  Was reminded today that a fast network isn't all you need to watch streaming video at the highest quality.  You also need a fast DNS.  Modern stream, such as HLS, MPEG-Dash, or SmoothStreaming, all get lots of little files, and using a Content Distribution Network (CDN), means that those files might come from many different places.  That means, you've got the potential of lots of DNS lookups, even if your network is really fast, with a slow DNS, your going to have hiccups.  

Fortunately, we've got the answer, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Google DNS) is really fast.  But you should always select the fastest for your network, so check out Namebench, a tool for characterizing your DNS and testing all the major systems - so you choose the fastest for your network.

2013-05-11 03:45:09 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 8 +1s)

Today we’re announcing 120 partners who are participating in this year’s Developer Sandbox at Google I/O. developers.google.com/events/io/developer-sandbox #io13   

What’s the Developer Sandbox?
The Developer Sandbox at Google I/O provides an interactive experience for you to connect with other developers and learn more about how you can use our developer platforms and tools.

Any time Google I/O is open, you can visit the Sandbox to: 
 • Attend Google Developer Office Hours to meet with the Googlers who know the products best. Google experts will be available all day to chat one-on-one about developer topics you’re interested in. Check back next week for the Office Hours schedule.
 • See our developer technologies in action. Meet with over a hundred companies and developers demoing their products. Check out our DeveloperSandbox site (de... more »

2013-05-11 03:43:40 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Today we’re announcing 120 partners who are participating in this year’s Developer Sandbox at Google I/O. developers.google.com/events/io/developer-sandbox #io13   

What’s the Developer Sandbox?
The Developer Sandbox at Google I/O provides an interactive experience for you to connect with other developers and learn more about how you can use our developer platforms and tools.

Any time Google I/O is open, you can visit the Sandbox to: 
 • Attend Google Developer Office Hours to meet with the Googlers who know the products best. Google experts will be available all day to chat one-on-one about developer topics you’re interested in. Check back next week for the Office Hours schedule.
 • See our developer technologies in action. Meet with over a hundred companies and developers demoing their products. Check out our DeveloperSandbox site (de... more »

2013-05-09 17:06:06 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

Interested in technology issues?  Politics?  Going to #io13  ?  You may enjoy this session.

2013-05-09 17:03:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Going to I/O?  Interested in Tech Issues?  This is the session for you.  I hear it won't be streamed, but video will be made available later.

2013-05-09 00:22:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

We just announced Google Developers Live at I/O live streaming details, and our live blogging gadget is back for 2013.

http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/05/were-going-live-from-google-io.html     #io13  

2013-05-08 04:24:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

+Romain Guy and I will be giving a talk this year at #io2013  on writing custom views for Android. We'll give you a tour of framework guarantees, patterns, best practices, gotchas, tips and tricks to add to your #androiddev  arsenal.

Impress your users! Confuse your competitors!

2013-05-08 04:21:36 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

If you're attending #io13 or following the live stream on day 2 (next Thursday) then be sure to check out the Freebase talk at 1:40PM PDT. The full video and slides will be available online after the talk.

2013-05-08 04:20:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

New DevTools Docs 1: Debugging JavaScript

We've been working hard on refreshing the official DevTools docs and just rolled out Debugging JavaScript. Learn about breakpoint debugging, exception handling, source maps and more.

https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/javascript-debugging

We'll be announcing more docs over the coming hours and days so watch this space! :)

2013-05-02 03:02:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

These are great – I wish I could do this research, but I'd have to give up way too much.  But the nice folks at JWT get to find all this stuff out.  It's cool, it's what's happening.  Most of this stuff will probably fail, but the ideas will live on in some other form.  Perhaps you can find your next app idea here.  Very useful info for developers or anyone looking for new ideas to stimulate their creativity.

2013-05-01 23:03:35 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Google I/O 2013 agenda and sessions schedule are now available!

developers.google.com/io/sessions

We’ll be presenting more than 120 talks and code labs ranging from introductory topics and hands-on sessions to advanced subjects across Android, Chrome and Apps, Google+, Google Maps and more. To plan your days, simply click or tap + on each session you just can't miss, then check out My Sessions to view your customized I/O schedule. If you’ll be viewing from afar, look for the camera icon to see what will be live streaming during the event (all sessions will be available for viewing after the event). Check back often as we add more sessions and code labs to the schedule.

To view the session schedule: developers.google.com/io/sessions
To plan or attend an I/O Extended event: developers.google.com/events/io/io-extended
To view live or recorded content:you... more »

2013-04-13 16:12:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#Makers ever get stuck looking for ideas?   #fashion  is a cool place for technology.  I ran acros this site today – 12 videos exploring everything from biomimetics, Deployable structures, Inflatables, Conductive materials, LED's, and much more.

2013-04-12 03:23:18 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

Google is offering startups $1,000 of credit to start building applications on Google App Engine. App Engine is a development platform that makes applications easy to write, simple to scale, and trivial to manage. Apply for App Engine for Startups at http://cloud.google.com/startups and use verification code DR-03. Application deadline is April 30, 2013.

2013-03-31 20:32:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Looks like it will be interesting as well.

2013-03-31 20:30:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Looks like a cool course.

2013-03-22 23:19:17 (4 comments, 6 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-03-09 22:53:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

I would like to thank Google for "Saving the Couch Potatoes: The Cloud-y Future of TV" Very well done.  #youtube   #googledevelopers   #sxsw  

2013-03-08 20:38:18 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Filling up the van w/ Monitors for +Jarek Wilkiewicz +Horia Ciurdar +Ossama Alami for the #sxsw2013   workshop tomorrow.  Come save the Couch Potatoes!, Then unloading w/ #sxsw  Volutnteers.

2013-03-07 16:05:17 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

Who knew…  We'd put easter eggs in a website.  :)

2013-03-07 13:40:53 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

2013-03-05 21:25:15 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

There are 12 seats still available for our #sxsw  workshop, register now! :) /cc +Les Vogel +Ossama Alami +Horia Ciurdar 

2013-03-03 04:03:33 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 11 +1s)

Much of this is useful for #googletvdevelopers  as well.

2013-03-02 20:03:36 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

There are still a few seats left for Saving the Couch Potatoes: The Cloud-y Future of TV #sxsw   #sxsw2013   #youtubedev   #googletvdev   #googletvdevelopers  

2013-02-23 22:47:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I work w/ so many great public speakers - The Times thoughtfully has provided advice on how you too can be a pubic speaker.

2013-02-21 18:31:18 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I couldn't agree more.

2013-02-20 12:10:39 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

Have you heard about glass?  Want to try it?  Check out #ifihadglass  

2013-02-16 19:27:43 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

I've been thinking a lot of an EEG project recently - just ran across this - it's open source.

2013-02-14 23:41:28 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

2013-02-07 22:53:41 (0 comments, 7 reshares, 8 +1s)

A few unexpected things with our latest release, this is important that all #googletvdevelopers  read about this.  I'll have one more post later in the day that is also important for all Google TV Developers.

2013-02-05 03:24:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-02-04 21:12:14 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

+Horia Ciurdar +Jarek Wilkiewicz +Ossama Alami and I will be presenting Saving the Couch Potatoes:The Cloud-y Future of TV at #sxsw2013 .  

In this workshop we will teach you the skills to save the TV and the couch potatoes. We will cover software techniques required to build amazing mobile + TV experiences, relevant standards, and platforms that enable these experiences in a cost-effective, scalable and profitable way. 
In our workshop, you will learn to build mobile and TV presence for a fictitious content network from the ground up in one day. You will start your day by creating fun video content, then syndicate it to YouTube, build a mobile and Google TV experience around it, and integrate analytics as well as monetization support. By the end of the day, you’ll feel like the media mogul you deserve to be.

2013-01-28 04:21:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Added photos to LA Video Hackathon by YouTube and Google TV.

2013-01-27 15:48:33 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

#ythackla. 2am and still coding!!

2013-01-27 02:28:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

LA Google Hackathon

2013-01-26 16:57:11 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

Prizes are here for the #ythackla http://ythackla.appspot.com

2013-01-26 16:56:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

#ythackla. Can't have a Google event without food!

2013-01-21 02:59:34 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-01-21 02:57:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-01-20 19:42:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

For the engineers out there - Has the potential to create some very significant breakthroughs and products in the coming two years.

2013-01-20 01:24:27 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-01-19 07:32:08 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

For those who don't know who Grace Slick is.  I saw her play on the Marina Green when I was a kid in the 60's.

2013-01-19 07:09:52 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I'm amazed what you can find on YouTube - nice to see that she mentions her backup singers Belinda Carlisle and Grace Slick - I wonder what ever happend to them?  Her sax player looks a lot like the late Clarence Clemons.

2013-01-17 20:57:05 (1 comments, 9 reshares, 11 +1s)

Some of you have noticed the YouTube app just updated to version 1.6 (4845).  Lots of cools stuff - one new feature you might have missed is that the YouTube Android Player API now works on Google TV.  Let us know when you have apps!  See https://developers.google.com/youtube/android/player/ for more info.

2013-01-16 23:31:44 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 5 +1s)

Headed to SxSW?  +Jarek Wilkiewicz +Horia Ciurdar +Ossama Alami, and I will be facilitating an all day workshop: Saving the Couch Potatoes:The Cloud-y Future of TV

We'll be leading you in all the steps from content capture, upload, syndication, building your app, monetization and more.

2013-01-16 22:43:11 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

We are excited to announce the new Google TV add-on compatible with Android 3.2 for the Android SDK. It includes some bug fixes and the Chrome browser for Android emulator for Google TV. 

Previously, Android emulator for Google TV was only supported on Linux systems with KVM. With this release, Google TV emulation is also supported on Windows and Mac operating systems. To get the best performance from your Android emulator for Google TV we highly recommend that you configure Virtual Machine Acceleration  for your operating system.  Among other improvements, web browsing and web search functionality are now supported through a new Browser application on the emulator.

The Emulator can be found in the Android SDK Manager > API Level 13 > Google TV Add On.

2013-01-16 18:43:16 (13 comments, 14 reshares, 17 +1s)

A lot of folks have asked about a Google TV Emulator for Windows and Mac - It's under API 13 / Google TV AddOn.  +Google TV Developers should post more about it later today.