Dion Almaer and I gave a talk at Web 2.0 Expo titled “Taking the Web Offline and On the Desktop” which covered some general information about the space and then drilled down into more details about Google Gears and Adobe AIR. The talk also got into how these two technologies can be complimentary while enabling two different sets of use cases. The slides are up on SlideShare and I’ve embedded them below.
Serge Jespers talked to the team at Boulevart, the company behind the Google Analytics AIR application and found out that they’re working with Google and that Google is going to both host the application and is supporting development on it. Serge has a video interview up including some news about the new features.
The Google Analytics AIR applications was by far one of the coolest applications we saw from the community. Nocolas Lierman created his own API for Google Analytics and wrapped a valuable desktop experience around that. It’s great to know that Google was as impressed as everyone else with the application and they’re helping out. It’s a great application for users of Google Analytics.
