Il 2009 di Google

Piaccia o meno la sua politica e il suo modo di agire, Google è indubbiamente tra le aziende più produttive, se non la più produttiva, dell’intero panorama tecnologico.

Questo è il suo 2009, con il lancio dei suoi principali prodotti in ordine cronologico:

January

• Offline Gmail gets released with Google Gears
• Picasa for Mac released

February

• Google Latitude and search by voice for Android launch
• Google Sync for your mobile phone launches

March

• Google Calendar goes offline with Google Gears

April

• Google Profiles show up at the bottom of search results
• Updated mobile Gmail and Google Calendar webapps for iPhone and Android launch
• Google Maps mashup tracks swine flu
• GV Mobile makes Google Voice the default for your iPhone (later, Apple pulled this app from the iTunes Store for reasons that are still unclear)

May

• Engineers demo Google Wave at the Google I/O conference, give developers access to the Wave “sandbox”

June

• Google Apps Sync syncs Microsoft Outlook with Gmail, Google Contacts, and Calendars (updates with push Gmail in September)
• Google Squared puts your search results into a spreadsheet
• Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs, and Talk leave beta

July

• FeedDemon, NetNewsWire sync exclusively with Google Reader
• Google announces Chromium OS (but doesn’t release any code, doctored screenshots and fan-made versions start popping up)
• Apple rejects all Google Voice applications from the iTunes Store
• Gmail Tasks graduates from Google Labs (where it first appeared in December of 2008)

August

• Gmail makes importing mail and contacts from old email accounts easy
• PubSubHubbub gets baked into Google Reader

September

• Google Wave Preview opens to 100,000 users
• GrandCentral closes its doors, transitions entirely to Google Voice
• Google Sidewiki launches

October

• Google offers voicemail storage and transcriptions for your existing phone number (part of Google Voice)
• Google Maps Navigation adds turn-by-turn GPS to Android
• Google Voice gives existing users invitations to send to their friends

November

• Chrome OS announced, Chromium build demo’ed and source code released (here’s how you can try out a Chromium build yourself)
• Google Chrome adds bookmark sync
• Google releases Go, a new programming language

December

• Chrome browser hits Mac/Linux with extensions enabled (Chrome for Windows left beta in December of 2008)
• Google’s new real-Time search includes Twitter streams
• Google Public DNS launches
• Google “lets the sun set” on Gears, moving to HTML5
• Google Goggles for Android searches the web by photo
• Google Favorite Places puts a barcode on restaurants and shops you can scan with your mobile phone

[via Lifehacker]

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