Google plans worldwide developer day

location based services

(InfoWorld) - Google hopes to woo more developers to its Web services software platform with a 27-hour-long “Developer Day” on May 31.

To spark more interest in its development tools and APIs (application programming interfaces), the company on Wednesday invited developers to attend workshops at Google offices in 10 countries. Topics to be covered will include developing location-based services with Google Maps, Google Earth, and SketchUp; creating mash-ups with AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and Extensible Markup Language) and Google Gadgets, and developing with the Google Web Toolkit.
The workshops will take place at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, and at other offices in São Paulo, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, Moscow, London, Madrid, Paris, and Hamburg, Germany. The Mountain View event will be carried live via webcast, with the other events shown via a dedicated channel on Google’s YouTube video site.
In addition to new developers, Google could also be searching for new revenue streams.
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