I came across three good technologies, all related to Google’s efforts in recent times: HTML5, Google Wave and RDFa.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google launched the Google I/O 2009 in San Fransisco yesterday. As a part of this launch, Vic Gundotra, VP Engineering from Google gave some very interesting insights into his thoughts on where the future of the internet could be.
To begin with they were big on HTML 5.0, which is still yet to mature as a protocol. It is still in early stages – more on the current draft version of this at HTML5 on W3C Website .
The five main concepts of HTML 5.0 are:
- Canvas tags
- Video tags
- Geolocation
- Application caching and database
- Web Workers
I will soon write about each of these features and details about the same.
Btw, none of the leading browsers today have adopted HTML 5.0 yet. Mozilla might be the first one to be there with their Firefox 3.5 launch. Chrome, Safari and Firefox should be there very soon, while IE is expected to be the last to adopt HTML 5.0 due to its extensive dependency on corporate users to adopt this.
In the same conference, Vic also introduced Google Wave .
Google Wave is aimed at being a revolutionary concept that makes it easier for people to communicate – in other words, replace emails and IMs with Wave. ie. This will support both synchronous (IM) and asynchoronous (Email) communication within the same application.
Will try to provide more details about Google Wave in the near future, but I encourage everyone to sign up for a beta access into Google Wave as it might be the Web 3.0, if it blends well with the HTML 5 protocols.
One thing that was quite interesting after this presentation was the fact that Google was quite silent about the RDFa protocol. It has to be noted carefully that Google is pushing this protocol quite hard and is trying to tag everything available online, in order to have more meaningful meta data available. Will try to come up with a separate blog that explains RDFa and its features.
If Google pushes Wave to be HTML5 ready, gets Chrome on time and integrates RDFa to be built into Wave, it might actually lead to privacy questions, but we have seen how people with money and power have handled that part easily in the past.
In anycase, it all sounds like good news for the future of technology on the internet.