Google, Mobile Phones, and O’Reilly – Insider Info
Posted • April 5, 2009 • Comments Off
A Conversation with Vic Gundotra from Google
At Web 2.0 in San Francisco Tim O’Reilly sat down with Vic Gundotra and talked about Vic and Google.
- Mobile and the open internet
- barriers are beginning to fall
- Apple led the way
Tiger his daughter brought to his attention the phone was the “answer” tool.
That’s when he knew he had to leave Microsoft and go to google.
Google mobile app for iPhone and Blackberry

Tim “Does Google see them selves as the one to own and develop all the parts of the internet operating system?”
You can’t control the internet.
Google is working to develop the voice recognition system in house so they will have more control.
Google location based source is open and uses everything else.
- Google reviews come from Google partners.
- Google is doing a good job of providing APIs.
- Hell’s Kitchen facebook app powered by Google engine.
If you are going to build an application what platform do you build it for?
Gmail web app for iPhone uses html technical prototype stay tuned.
This app cashes the emails so you can read them even when you don’t have an internet connection.
The first internet app for mobile…
The internet is open no one owns or controls it.
Google is working on chrome for the Mac.
The White House used Google Moderator
whitehouse.gov/openforquestions
spiked at over 600 questions per second
Is Google buying tiwtter?
Google has no comment.
NetBooks may become almost free.
The power of the cloud
Google search does not share QPS numbers.
Google will create a full suite of offline apps.
Failure is just part of learning!
Late,
Gary Pool



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