The whole day I was waiting on the livestream of the first wave of new announcement Google would make. And now Google I/O 2010 has finally started and when I post this it’ll probably be ended already. And boy there’s a lot of nice stuff already flooding into Google Buzz and Reader. You can find  a summary about the first day at the official Google Blog here.

Jeremy Chone posted a nice list of the new keynotes already:

Google I/O Great first keynote. Key take away:

1. HTML5 is coming fast, by end 2010 most of the modern browser will have most of HTML5.
2. VP8 Open Source and WebM for full open video.
3. Some cool Adobe CS5 HTML5 support
4. Flash to support VP8 by end of year…. THIS IS HUGE.. Great contribution from Adobe to push open video.
5. Wave Open to everybody
6. Some deep integration of Spring/GWT for enterprise (this one, not a big fan, personally). Spring is the J2EE of the 21st century.

A nice keynote I like myself is the Chrome Web Store Google announced. This is an open market place for developers where they can sell there web apps. On the Chrome blog it’s possible to read the whole announcement.

So far so great in my opinion! What do you think about these new features? I’m already wondering what we’ll see next day. I’ll try to keep up and keep you posted.

This morning I found out that Google Calendar had a new look. Now it looks similar to other services Google provides like Google Docs and Reader. The way how Calendar works didn’t change however. It’s still fast and easy to use, it just got a new look and feel. In my opinion it got a more professional look today. Curious? Go to www.google.com/calendar and find out for yourself!

The old look:

And the new look:

On html5demos.com you’ll find a nice overview about HTML5 features like the canvas method. It’s a great list to check what will be possible in the future. Behind every demo you can easily filter which browser you want to test in or which type of feature you want to see. Check it out and be impressed!

Want to test if your browser supports these new features? Check out this page: http://html5readiness.com/.

The last few days I got some quality time with Expression Blend. Of course that’s not enough time to figure out all of Expression has to offer.  So below impressions and opinions are based only on the experiences I had with the software last few days and information about it I’ve found on the Internet. So keep in mind these impressions can change any moment I find out workarounds or tutorials which make my live easier in Expression or don’t….

Flash gets allot of attention the last few weeks, a lot of the news about it is negative. Adobe has to start countering the negativity around Flash. Today I read an article that also puts up a new barrier for Flash. The article contents were about Apple’s new Flash alternative called Gianduia.

Gianduia is a new framework to build rich web apps while using web standards and no plug-ins. Gianduia is written in Javascript and gives developers a possibility to already make applications without having to depend on plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight. So, easy for developers and easy for end users.

You can read the whole article at: AppleInsider | Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia

I’m not a big Microsoft fan. I won’t hide that fact. Most of the time they get me frustrated by doing some strange and non logical shit. Today however I found out about the Microsoft Security Essentials, a free program which is one of Microsoft’s best besides SyncToy and Windows 7.

Basically it’s an anti-virus program which also runs at the background monitoring your system. And the great thing about this tool is that it runs really smooth and fast. I just did a full scan about 3 times quicker then my old Avira, which is good software too but is terribly slow. So thumbs up towards Microsoft on this one. Keep up the good work.

Another part about the Security Essentials is the simple layout of the program. It’s easy to see how to navigate and what to do on each tab. This used to be a whole different ballgame. Seems they did a very good job on the user interface here. Interested? Read more reviews at: PC Advisor Review