Are we ready to take the challenge?

This is the Era of web. Web mapping is becoming more and more popular these days. As GIS professionals are we ready to utilize the capabilities of HTML 5?

Google Chrome OS

Today google have announced their new project, which will be a natural extension of Google Chrome. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system, similar to google chrome web browser and that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Speed, simplicity and security will be the key aspects of Google Chrome OS and the security architecture will be completely redesign so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. Source code will be available to the developers later in this year and the OS will be available from the second half of 2010. This will be an another innovative product from the search engine market leader.

Key Benefits:

This is why I love Google

Google wave is another innovative technology by google. It helps users to communicate and collaborate on the web more efficiently and effectively. Developers can seamlessly extend this technology, rich set of open APIs allow them to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.



More info...
http://code.google.com/apis/wave/guide.html