or Google the Open Source Company presents their new technology!

The Google I/O conference in San Francisco is the first of his kind, during two days the conference provides the attendee 90 sessions grouped by the following categories:

• Ajax and JavaScript
• APIs and Tools
• Maps and Geo
• Mobile
• Social

Furthermore they held sessions like Code labs, Tech Talks and the Fireside Chat. So maybe you’re looking for the “Search” category? Yes there are a few lessons about search optimization and the Ajax Search API, but most sessions are about new modern technologies like Gears and the Google App Engine.

Those people who knows Google as the search engine provider and advertising company would be very surprised about the strong open source character of this conference. With the vision

Create a better, full featured Internet using modern technologies

Google has invited any developer to use Google technologies in their own applications.

While listening to several sessions, I get an good idea about Gears, OpenSocial, Google APIs like Authentication API, content API’s and the Google Checkout API. Before joining this conference I accepted to learn something I can use within my next projects. OpenSocial is something I like, a kind of standard how to create your own Social Community.

My first impression about Gears is not so positive; the idea is really good, but it looks like a browser add-on aka Adobe flash (not the function but the idea how to provide the technology to the client). All presentations are available to the public next week on the Google I/0 website.