Some interesting news was delivered during the Google I/O keynote.
In terms of Google App Engine, the announcement that got the biggest applause was that it was now open to all signups - no waiting list and a few tens of thousands of developers.
Beyond that, the two new APIs were announced - the memcache API and the Image API.
Some pricing expectations for usage beyond the free chunk given to you were given:
- CPU: 5 million "average" page views free, 10-12c per core-hour thereafter
- Storage: 500MB free, 15-18c per GB-month thereafter.
- Incoming traffic: 5 million "average" page views, 11-13c/GB thereafter
- Outgoing traffic: 5 million "average" page views, 9-11c/GB thereafter
The Google Web Toolkit 1.5 release candidate was released today, which brings Java 5 language features.
In terms of OpenSocial, the 0.8 version specification was released yesterday, and that AOL has joined the OpenSocial initiative.
I'm curious why the Google app engine news hasn't been picked up by the media anywhere? I don't even see it mentioned on Reddit or Digg. It seems like it would be big programming news.
Is Google going to announce it officially later on? Is it not actually open to everyone just yet?
Looks like it is on the Google App Engine blog [googleappengine.blogspot.com] now - http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2008/05/announcing-open-signups-expected.html [googleappengine.blogspot.com]