Web Development Live

To encourage the creation of more Web-based applications during the next several years, Google Inc. will invest in three key areas for developers, including opening up its servers to host their applications, encouraging pervasive connectivity to the Web, and making the browser more powerful, said Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president of engineering, who gave the opening keynote speech at this year’s Google Developer Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

“Google was born in the era of the Web,” Gundotra said. “It’s the only platform we’ve known. It was a platform that was formed by consensus. It was all of us collectively that agreed to a few standards. We feel a debt of gratitude toward that community.”

Gundotra conceded that Web developers working atop Google-provided development tools and servers would lead to remunerative opportunities for the Mountain View, Calif.-based company. “As the Web gets bigger and enables better Web apps, it attracts more users. For us, more users means more Google searches, which leads to more revenue. But the money we make will get dumped back into the platform.

Tags: better web, consensus, debt of gratitude, developer conference, developers, development investments, development tools, google, google inc, google searches, key areas, keynote speech, moscone center in san francisco, mountain view, outlines, pervasive connectivity, servers, vic gundotra, vice president, web apps, web developer, web developers, Web Development

Related posts

• How does Google’s ‘Web platform’ differ from others?
• NetObjects Fusion 11 boosts pro Web tools
• Google courts Web developers
• Developers Praise Android at Google I/O
• Yahoo joins OpenSocial platform, forms nonprofit oversight group with Google, MySpace
• Microsoft platform tops Web 2.0 developer survey
• Microsoft giving away developer software
• Microsoft giving away developer software
• Java platform to get modularity
• Intuit Web Development Software Launches In Beta

Web Development Tutorial said Thursday it released its new QuickBase Web development program in beta.

Mountain View-based Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) said QuickBase is designed to let developers and independent software vendors “easily design, deploy and market on-demand collaborative and productivity applications to millions of small businesses.”

“We are now enlisting the help of an enormous community of talented developers to create innovative, rich Web-based solutions to important business problems,” said Bill Lucchini, vice president and general manager of Intuit QuickBase.

There is no cost to join the program during application development. Developers building on the platform will receive the QuickBase Developer SDK, which includes the toolkit for Adobe Flex, Web Development Tutorial a free QuickBase developer account and training resources.

Tags: application development, developers, mountain view, small businesses, vice president, Web Development, Web Development Software, Web Development Tutorial

Related posts

• Google outlines Web development investments in three areas
• zembly Provides Social Context for Web Development
• Grid Platform Enables On-Demand e-Commerce
• Google courts Web developers
• Developers Praise Android at Google I/O
• Collabnet Adds A Host Of Features Web Development Tutorial
• Yahoo joins OpenSocial platform, forms nonprofit oversight group with Google, MySpace
• Worthwhile West Side Effort Web Development Classes
• Website development services offered by Success Metrics
• Visual WebGui Launched Ajax Enterprise Application- Browser-Based Solution

All the economic development professionals can rest easy: Forbes magazine still favors Boise.Earlier this month, a Forbes reporter was in town interviewing executives at tech companies for the company’s annual Best Places for Business and Careers edition, which comes out in about a month.Shane Vaughan, the marketing director at the Boise software company Balihoo, was interviewed. He said it looks as if Boise will make the top 5 of this year’s list.The story will focus on Boise’s growing tech industry. The reporter interviewed other tech executives, including Kevin Benedict with MobileDataforce and Jason Crawforth, who recently sold his company Treetop Technologies to MobileDataforce.It is always cool to see the tech industry get a little more national recognition. But it’s too bad the article won’t come out until after the Legislature leaves town.Speaking of this session of the Legislature: Not much is happening for the tech industry.Last year, the Governor’s Tech Council had me somewhat excited about its $50 million package of incentives to help tech. But the governor soon put the kibosh on that.The governor, however, did offer me a glimmer of hope when he named a tech guy as the new Commerce Director.Jim Ellick, a former Silicon Valley executive with decades of tech-company experience, took over the job on July 1.I think Ellick didn’t make the best impression, partly because he wasn’t that accessible at first, and he’s not a very savvy politician.But from my interview with him and from what others have told me, he did know what he was talking about.I found it refreshing to hear from him that Idaho wasn’t doing enough to compete with other states and that the state should do something to help Micron.
But I don’t think our legislators found his views that refreshing. A month ago, Ellick took a sudden and unexplained leave of absence. I’ll be surprised if he comes back.His departure also left the fate of the governor’s council up in the air. The governor disbanded it, and Ellick was tasked with coming up with something new to replace it. When I first blogged on this, most people who commented weren’t surprised.”Idaho doesn’t want Micron. Why wouldn’t the guy in charge of trying to save tech in Idaho bail? He assumed that any state wouldn’t want to lose a employer as large as Micron … as anybody would. When he realized he was wrong, time to get out,” said Idaho123.Speaking of Micron: The company plans to unveil its plans for its image-sensor business at a media and analyst event Tuesday in San Jose . The company is pitching it as a new identity, but I’ll be curious to see if it also involves bringing on a new partner. Also mark your calendars for March 10, because that’s when Aaron Stanton says he’ll be releasing the big idea he pitched to Google more than a year ago.Stanton, of Boise, is the one behind the Web site CanGoogleHearMe.com. He launched the site after attempting to make an unsolicited visit to Google’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters to pitch his idea. He was turned away, but didn’t give up. He kept posting on his Web site and blogging about the effort and finally caught the attention of Google. But the last year, he’s been sworn to secrecy while he developed the idea.His Web site is still up and running, so you can catch up with all that he’s been up to over the last year.One final thought on the Forbes article. I’ll probably write a story about this when the article comes out, but I’m still not sold on the benefit of all this national publicity. The Boise Valley Economic Partnership is driving a lot of this. It has been forking over big bucks to its New York public relations firm to pitch Idaho to the national media. The group says we’ve already had 44 print and broadcast stories this year. I’ll feel a lot better about this flood of fluff if it finally leads to some meaningful jobs.Ken Dey is the high-technology reporter at the Idaho Statesman. Read his TechIdaho blog at IdahoStatesman.com. Reach him at 672-6757 or kdey@idahostatesman.com.

Tags: cra, fi, google, growin, job, mountain view, software company

Related posts

• Video games triumph as Hollywood falters
• Video games triumph as Hollywood falters
• Startup tests ‘natural language’ Web search
• MySpace opens up to developers
• MobileDataforce buys Treetop Technologies
• MobileDataforce buys Treetop Technologies
• MobileDataforce buys Treetop Technologies
• MobileDataforce buys Treetop Technologies
• MobileDataforce buys Treetop Technologies
• Letters to the Editor

The complaint was filed on November 6 in Marshall, in the Eastern District of Texas - the US court

with a history of decisions that are highly favorable to plaintiffs in patent cases - but the case

only came to light over the weekend.

The plaintiffs are Boston-based Northeastern University and Jarg, a start-up founded by a

Northeastern University professor that is the exclusive licensee of search technology patented in

1997, a year before Google was incorporated.

A spokesman for Mountain View, California-based Google said it believed the suit was without merit.

“While we have not been served, we are aware of the complaint and believe it to be without merit

based upon our initial investigation,” Google spokesman Jon Murchison said.

The leading Internet company derives 99 percent of its revenue from online advertising, which is

delivered in response to keyword searches Google users perform to find Web links.

Michael Belanger, president and co-founder of Jarg, said that his company had

become aware of the infringement several years ago, but lacked the resources to press its case until

it found a law firm willing to fund the case on a contingency-fee basis. Northeastern then signed on.

The plaintiffs’ attorneys are from the Texas-based global law firm of Vinson %26 Elkins, which is

paying the costs of the case, assisted by local counsel in Marshall and nearby Tyler.

The suit alleges that Google has never obtained a legal opinion on whether the company infringes on

the ‘593 patent. It seeks a jury trial and an injunction against further infringement of the search

patent, damages, royalty payments.

The case centers on US patent No. 5,694,593, entitled “Distributed Computer Database System and

Method,” which was invented by Dr Kenneth Baclawski, an associate professor in Northeastern’s

computer science department.

Baclawski is co-founder of Waltham, Massachusetts-based Jarg, which was incorporated in 1998.

He first published his method of searching and retrieving information from large, distributed

databases in 1994, according to court documents.

Jarg remains a small company focused on developing a new generation of semantic tools for Web

search, Belanger said.

It is testing its software with a handful of unidentified customers in the life sciences and

biomedical fields thorough its subsidiary, Semantics Life Sciences.

The plaintiffs are looking to be paid for their intellectual property, not put Google out of

business.

“We are just interested in a normal royalty if the case determines that … Google is using the

technology we developed,” Belanger said.

Tags: fi, google, mountain view

Related posts

• TechIdaho: Don't worry, Boise still has Forbes' favor
• zembly Provides Social Context for Web Development
• Yahoo-Microsoft battle bolsters Google
• Yahoo-Microsoft battle bolsters Google
• Yahoo joins OpenSocial platform, forms nonprofit oversight group with Google, MySpace
• WSJ’s Web Site Adds Facebook Function
• WSJ’s Web Site Adds Facebook Function
• WSJ’s Web Site Adds Facebook Function
• WSJ’s Web Site Adds Facebook Function
• WSJ’s Web Site Adds Facebook Function