DANIEL SIEBERG: Hi there.
I'm Daniel Sieberg with I/O Live.
And we are at the Google+ Sandbox.
And I am joined right now by Timothy Jordan, who is a
senior developer advocate, going to be our virtual tour--
wait, you're not virtual.
You're real.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: I feel real.
I mean, I just kind of--
DANIEL SIEBERG: Yeah, you're quite real.
So you're going to be our real tour guide--
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yes.
DANIEL SIEBERG: --here for the Sandbox.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yes.
DANIEL SIEBERG: So tell me, first of all,
what's over my shoulder?
Let's start maybe our right to left--
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Right over there?
DANIEL SIEBERG: --the left to right.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Left of the screen?
DANIEL SIEBERG: Yeah, left of the screen.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: That thing over there?
DANIEL SIEBERG: Exactly.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: We've got two Google+ Hangout booths.
Now, they're showcasing Google+ applications that were
just recently announced, one by Goko and the other by the
Art Project.
And we're going to learn more about both of those.
DANIEL SIEBERG: [INAUDIBLE]?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yeah.
DANIEL SIEBERG: OK.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: We've got Office Hours right here.
Now, this is where any attendee at Google I/O can
just come right up and talk to a Googler, and get their
questions answered about the platform.
DANIEL SIEBERG: No question too big or too small?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yes.
DANIEL SIEBERG: OK.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Over here, we have the lounge area.
Now it's kind of like Office Hours but a bit more casual.
Go there to hang out and exchange ideas with your
fellow developer or Googlers, if we happen to
be there doing some--
DANIEL SIEBERG: I get that, hangout.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Hey.
We call it a Hangout In Real Life--
DANIEL SIEBERG: Nice.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: --or a HIRL.
Right over here, we've got two demo booths.
One is Google+ History.
And the other is Google+ Events, both announced here at
Google I/O, which takes us to another announcement at that
big old wall showing the tablet experience on the Nexus
7 tablet that we just announced.
And it's really beautiful.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Now, what is this display that's
going on over here?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: This is one of my favorite parts.
DANIEL SIEBERG: #io12, right--
TIMOTHY JORDAN: You write--
DANIEL SIEBERG: --let's you know about.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: --a post with #io12 on Google+.
And there's a good chance it's going to be showing on this
wall at some point during Google I/O. It's using the
Google+ API to grab those posts and do this great visual
representation here on the floor.
And I think it's actually a really cool way that we're
bridging the conversation between here at Moscone and
the rest of the internet that's also at Google I/O. You
know we have over 30,000, I think it is, developers
joining I/O extended.
So if you're out there, hello.
DANIEL SIEBERG: I think I saw your name go up there.
All right, well let's go take a look at the Hangout booths.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yeah, let's do that.
Here we are with Goko.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Yes, and Alexander from Goko joins us.
ALEXANDER SHEN: Hi, how's it going?
DANIEL SIEBERG: So we're looking at a computer game
here, as you might play, of course.
But you've integrated the Hangouts into the game.
And you're in a Hangout right now.
Tells us about that.
ALEXANDER SHEN: That's right.
So what Goko is, basically, we're a games company in a
development platform.
And what we've done is that we are helping HTML 5 game
developers create some really great games, and offer things
like multi-player, virtual economies, things like that.
So what we've done is we've partnered
with Rio Grande Games.
And we have Dominion here.
And Dominion's a very popular deck-building game.
So we have this board game.
We have Google+ Hangouts on the bottom.
Because this way we can integrate video chat, and be
able to play with multiple players across the country,
and make it feel like we're at the same table.
But we're not.
And with this game, we just have some really nice artwork
from the game company.
And we're just trying to create this traditional game
experience in a digital format.
DANIEL SIEBERG: And the graphics are beautiful.
But you can also include some aspects of Hangouts, like
facial tracking, into the game.
ALEXANDER SHEN: That's right.
So one of the things we did-- and one of the great offers
that Google+ Hangouts has-- that we can use face tracking
data, and essentially overlay images from the game.
So if I'm playing my friend right now, and I decide to
play the minion card, over on my head you'll see right here
I've got the minion head face tracking me.
It's like, aw, he's played the minion card.
It's awful.
So this way we know--
it's just a little more fun.
It makes you actually feel like not only playing
Dominion, but you're kind of in it.
DANIEL SIEBERG: And when you're trash talking, you can
actually see people just like you would in
person, too, right?
ALEXANDER SHEN: Absolutely.
DANIEL SIEBERG: That's great.
So if people want to play this, when is it coming out?
How will it be integrated?
ALEXANDER SHEN: So right now you can actually sign up for
the beta if you go to dominion.goko.com.
And you sign up for the beta there.
Or if you're a developer interested in the platform,
goko.com, and you can just sign up.
So all of these games and many of our services will be
released later this summer.
DANIEL SIEBERG: And for anyone who's curious about what that
development process was like for Hangouts, can you maybe
offer some advice or tips for people?
ALEXANDER SHEN: Definitely, the documentation and being
able to work with the Google team, it's been a blessing.
And it's very well documented, and just having the right
people to take a look at it all.
And it's really easy to use.
So just in general, just keep at it and you'll be fine.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Cool, I'll let you guys get back to your game
here, right?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yeah, we don't want to keep you
from the play time.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Yes, exactly.
All right.
Alexander, thank you.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Thank you, Alex.
Let's go check out some art.
DANIEL SIEBERG: OK, all right, good call.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Hey, Daniel, over here.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Hey, Timothy, I lost you there for a second.
It's a big place.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: So we're here with Piotr who is with the Art
Project, which is a pretty cool way to
experience art in a Hangout.
Piotr, can you start by just telling us
about the Art Project?
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: Sure.
The Art Project is a platform that we provide to museums and
institutions that want to put more of their
art collections online.
We started about a year ago with 17 museums.
And now we're up to 150 collections in 40 different
countries, about 30,000 works of art.
DANIEL SIEBERG: It's absolutely amazing
what people can do.
But now, through the magic of a Hangout, you can do these
same kind of tours of artwork with your friends.
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: Yeah, we've basically brought the Art
Project experience inside a Hangout.
You can start a Hangout either straight from Hangouts or from
the Art Project.
And whoever you're with can either start a tour or share
the works of art that they're looking at.
And you can interact that way as well.
DANIEL SIEBERG: All right, so you're in a Hangout right now?
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: Yeah.
DANIEL SIEBERG: OK, are you leading this
tour or are you following?
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: No, actually, a friend of mine, Marzia,
another developer on the Art Project, is going to be
leading us through this particular tour.
So we're just going to wait until she starts it up.
DANIEL SIEBERG: All right.
MARZIA NICCOLAI: So I'm going to start a tour here so I can
show Piotr what happened to me the other
day here in San Francisco.
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: So I'm just joining Marzia's tour.
MARZIA NICCOLAI: Art Project allows you to search by
collections, artists, and artworks.
DANIEL SIEBERG: And this is exactly what people would see
if they decided to choose this within a Hangout?
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: Yeah, exactly.
It's just an app that you can start up here at the top or
directly from the Art Project.
And now Marzia is just walking us through the tour that she
has picked for us.
MARZIA NICCOLAI: OK, so I saw this painting.
And it put me in mind of my favorite story, that of the
titan Prometheus who brought fire to the gods.
Here in the Art Project, we can see what
happened to him in stages.
The first thing that happened is Hephaestus, the god of
engineers, one of my favorite, bound him to a rock.
So you can see here--
oh, look at that.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: That's an unfortunate shot.
You know, Prometheus just wanted us to be
warm, the poor guy.
MARZIA NICCOLAI: That's a--
DANIEL SIEBERG: Marzia decided to pick a good one.
MARZIA NICCOLAI: Oh, I misspelled it.
Then he's tied to a rock.
And you can see him here.
But the actual interesting thing is you can see what's
about to happen to him.
We have the eagle.
And everyone knows that the punishment for Prometheus
bringing fire to the gods was him having his liver
perpetually chopped out by the eagle.
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: You picked really happy
ones for us, Marzia.
Thanks.
MARZIA NICCOLAI: So that is the story of Prometheus.
And I did not realize how inappropriate it would be
until I saw the zoom.
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: But the idea is that you could look at all
the details of the works of art.
And someone, an art expert or an art lover, like Marzia, can
walk us through all of the material and show us all the
details that are the most interesting to them.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: You know, that's really cool.
I think this solves a problem, being able to see art that you
wouldn't otherwise be able to go see in person, and yet
still do it with your friends.
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: No, absolutely.
And the opportunities for the museums and other experts to
actually be able to reach a wide audience using Hangouts.
Hangouts On Air, in particular, the fact that you
can record and broadcast it to as many people who won't be
able to come to the museum or won't be able to hear the
curator talk about the work that they know so well.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Right, so we should say this integrates
into Hangouts On Air.
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: Yeah, absolutely.
DANIEL SIEBERG: I mean this is broadcasting,
being recorded somewhere.
It could be shared elsewhere beyond just this experience.
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: So it's museum educators and art lovers
around the world can go back to it and find out more.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: So one more quick question for me is how
is your experience developing with the Hangout APIs?
I mean this is really visually rich, pulling that media in,
and showing it, and synchronizing that across the
two screens.
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: I mean the Art Project only launched about
two months ago.
So really we've been focusing on the development of this and
other new features for the rest of the Art Project.
So it's really quick and easy to develop for Hangouts, a few
synchronization and message passing things to make sure
that we could get the screens to sync up across all of the
different machines and that the state would be as light as
it could be so that it could be really fast and responsive.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Well, I'm not an artist at all.
But I can appreciate a great app when I see one.
That is fantastic.
Piotr, thank you so much for the--
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: Thanks a lot.
DANIEL SIEBERG: --virtual tour.
PIOTR ADAMCZYK: Yeah, of course.
DANIEL SIEBERG: We appreciate it.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Thanks, Piotr.
DANIEL SIEBERG: All right.
We got some more stuff to see.
We should go.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Let's do that.
DANIEL SIEBERG: All right.
I'll race you.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Hey, Daniel.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Yeah?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Let's sneak up on David Glazer.
DANIEL SIEBERG: I know.
Here he is.
He doesn't suspect anything at all.
Hey.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: How you doing there?
DAVID GLAZER: Good, how are you guys?
DANIEL SIEBERG: We're doing great.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: We're doing really well.
Everybody out there, this is David Glazer, a director of
engineering here at Google.
DAVID GLAZER: Hi.
DANIEL SIEBERG: So tell us a little bit about the exciting
announcements related to Google+, some of the sort of
things you're taking away as developers that are
interacting with folks here in the Sandbox.
DAVID GLAZER: Yeah, I think the most, to me, personally,
the most exciting announcement was there were a
whole bunch of stats.
The stat I was happiest about was one, which is
we're one year old.
And for us who have been working on this project for a
year, that's really the most amazing thing is that, in the
12 months since we launched Google+, so much has happened.
I went to a session today where someone was talking
about some of the new features in the platform.
And they said, this is the first time we've talked about
Google+ at I/O. Because it didn't exist last year at
Google I/O.
DANIEL SIEBERG: And for developers, this is such a
huge opportunity for them to tap into that, as well, and
have this kind of conversation with different developers.
DAVID GLAZER: Yeah, so really what happened over the last
year is we built up a base of users, and usage, and features
that we then get to build on top of, and some of the news
today was how we're doing that, and then more ways for
developers to build on top of.
And that's what the rest of the news was.
So I guess probably the number I'm the second most excited
about after one was 250 million, which is the number
of users who are now Google+ users.
And having those 250 million users means that we have
things to give them.
And so we launched Events.
I know you've talked to some other people.
You've seen what's going on with Google+ Events.
We have a big Event that everyone here
is invited to tonight.
That's great.
We now have 250 million users who can use that, invite their
friends, and share pictures, and go into party mode, and
all of that.
We have ways for these users to get to Google+ from a lot
more places.
So we have the new tablet, which is awesome.
I have five emails from my son who was watching at home.
He interrupted me every time a new device was held up saying,
Christmas or July or can you bring one home?
So we have all these new places where
you can access Google+.
And the app is stunning on the tablet.
The new UI on the new hardware is just amazing.
It's hard to test, because I keep getting lost in it.
I keep saying, oh, I'm supposed to look for bugs.
And then I read for 15 minutes, and then, oh, I'm
supposed to look for bugs.
DANIEL SIEBERG: That's probably a
good thing and allowed.
DAVID GLAZER: It's a very good thing.
And then on the developer side, on the platform side,
you heard today that we now have more people using Google+
from mobile than from desktop.
And as a result, we've been really beefing up the mobile
aspects of the platforms.
So we have new capabilities for mobile developers to make
it easier for them to build Google+ capabilities into
their application.
We announced the Google+ History API today.
It's an early developer preview.
But it's a great way for developers to help their users
save privately what they do in their app, and then later
optionally share it, which, in turn, leads to
more use of the app.
All of these new capabilities are being built on top of the
250 million users in the first year of stuff.
So it's fun.
DANIEL SIEBERG: All right, well, you were probably busy
doing something important.
So we're going to let you get back to doing that.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: He's finding bugs.
DAVID GLAZER: I'm pretending to find bugs.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Thank you so much for your time
DANIEL SIEBERG: All right, David, we appreciate it.
All right, let's keep moving here.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: All right.
All right, Daniel, now we're at the Google+ History booth
with Silvano.
Silvano, how are you?
SILVANO LUCIANI: I'm very party mode today.
So I miss it.
DANIEL SIEBERG: I'm very excited to
learn more about this.
It sounds really cool.
SILVANO LUCIANI: So yeah, this is the Google+ History API.
And it's an early developer preview.
And like Instant Upload, it will allow users to save their
online activities in a private space, and then, if they want,
they can also share it.
And we launched this early developer preview, because we
want the developers out there to start experimenting with
this API to bring their awesome content
to our Google+ users.
But let me show it to you.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Yes, please do.
SILVANO LUCIANI: And I will use an API
starter that we have.
And it's open source.
And it's in our developer documentation at
developers.googl e.com/plus/history.
So the first thing, you need the user
to sign in to Google+.
And this is very easy with our sign in button.
As you can see, this is the through flow that has gone
seamlessly.
Now, I can choose one of the activities.
So let's say I want to buy something.
I click on the Buy Activity.
That application is showing me the JSON Exchange,
that it's going on.
And now I will show you, in the Google+ user interface,
the moment that you've read them.
And this is your moment.
I bought Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which is one of my
favorite book.
And if I want, I can also share it.
And if you see, each snippet is populated by the data that
you specified using schema.org markup
when writing the moment.
And using the sharing model of Google+, I can decide to make
this experience public or just share it with my friend or
with my avid readers circle.
And there you are.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Now, if developers want to get started
with a Google+ History API, what's their first step?
SILVANO LUCIANI: So they need to sign in.
And we have a very easy procedure.
And you can find all the information that you need at
developers.googl e.com/plus/history.
And we just need your email address.
We will sign up you to a group.
And then you are up to go, and start developing, and having
fun, and send us your feedback.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Great.
Silvano, thank you so much for this demo.
SILVANO LUCIANI: Thank you for coming.
DANIEL SIEBERG: We appreciate it.
All right, we've got to run off to our
last appointment here.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yeah, we're going to
go talk to the Events--
DANIEL SIEBERG: Yes.
Let's do it.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: --Events folks, yes, do that.
Hey, Kavi and Tina.
How are you doing?
DANIEL SIEBERG: What's going on over here?
It sounds like Events is what we're going to be talking
about right now.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: We've been watching from home.
And by we, I mean, of course, everybody watching from home.
And we saw the Events announcement.
It looks really cool.
And I want a sneak peek at what you can do with this.
TINA CHEN: Great.
Google+ Events captures the way people experience events
in real life.
Because an Event doesn't end when you RSVP, we wanted to
help people capture important moments as they happen, and
help them share and revisit those memories afterwards.
DANIEL SIEBERG: So it's kind of this before, during, and
after idea, which I love.
So maybe give us a walk through here.
KAVI HARSHAWAT: Yeah, absolutely.
So when you're ready to create an Event, you can go to
Google+, and click on the Events icon at the top.
And you can create all different types of events,
everything from picnics and barbecues to
weddings and even concerts.
You can create a virtual Event using Google+ Hangouts, and
then share them with whoever you like.
And when you're ready to share them, you can actually share
them with circles or individuals, including people
who are not yet using Google+.
And after you've created the Event, the people you invited
will actually see the Event in their Google+ stream, in
email, Google+ notifications, or even in
their Google Calendar.
DANIEL SIEBERG: So they really have no
excuse for missing anything.
TINA CHEN: And during the Event, you'll be able to turn
on party mode.
Whenever party mode is on, new photos you take with your
Android device will be instantly shared with
everybody invited to the Event.
So that means, even if you couldn't make the Event,
you're able to see all the activity and participate from
your phone or your desktop.
KAVI HARSHAWAT: And after the Event is over, all the photos
are collected in a single place.
And you can view the most popular photos, the ones that
have been plus oned or commented the most at the top
of the page as Event Highlights.
Photos can also be organized by photographers or the people
who are tagged in them, so you can see all the photos from
the people you want to see them from.
DANIEL SIEBERG: And when is this going to
be available then?
TINA CHEN: So on desktop is rolling out today.
So you should see it soon.
If you go and install the new Android app
for phone and tablet.
You should just get that right away.
And it'll be available in the iOS app store
pretty soon, too.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Awesome.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Yeah.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: This is really cool.
Thank you so much.
TINA CHEN: Thank you.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Thanks, Tina and Kavi.
We appreciate it.
TINA CHEN: You guys enjoy it.
DANIEL SIEBERG: And thank you, Timothy-- yes, we will--
for being our tour guide here in the Google+ Sandbox.
We've learned a lot.
We've seen a lot of cool stuff.
And of course, we hope people stay engaged with all this
discussion.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yeah, we really do.
You know, the conversation doesn't have to stop here.
Please check out our online documentation.
You can find out more about everything that we've talked
about today.
That's developers.google.com/plus.
Join us in the discussion forum.
And join us on Google+ as well.
DANIEL SIEBERG: I've got to get my hands on one of those,
by the way.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Yeah, me too.
All right, thanks, Daniel.
DANIEL SIEBERG: Thanks so much, Timothy.
All right.
And stay tuned for more on I/O Live.