Brad Neuberg (Google Gears) on “What’s the Open Web and Why It Matters” - Threads! Offline! Full-Text Search! Desktop Shortcuts! Mobile!

On April 14+15 the Open Web Vancouver 2008 conference will showcase open web technologies, communities and culture, and evangelize the Open Web to developers, designers, organizers and the community at large.

What’s the Open Web? We have invited Brad Neuberg (Google) - who will talk about ‘Google Gears: Teaching the Open Web New Tricks’ at the Open Web Vancouver 2008 conference - for some insight.

Gears is an open source plug-in that teaches current web browsers new tricks. Gears is a clever way to raise the bar cross-browser and cross-platform, today, running inside of Firefox and Internet Explorer on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. No more waiting years for features to show up across all browsers and platforms.

APIs include: A real embedded relational database (SQLite) for web sites! Client-side full text search! Threads for JavaScript! Offline! Secure and fast cross-domain mashups! Desktop Shortcuts! Better web APIs for mobile devices! and more!

What’s the Open Web? Why does the Open Web Matter? Contest - Win Three Open Web Vancouver 2008 Tickets

On April 14+15 the Open Web Vancouver 2008 conference will showcase open web technologies, communities and culture, and evangelize the Open Web to developers, designers, organizers and the community at large.

What’s the Open Web? Good question. Tell us “What’s the Open Web and Why It Matters” and win a free two-day Open Web Vancouver 2008 conference pass.

How the contest works: Write a posting answering the two questions:

• What’s the Open Web?
• Why does the Open Web matter? Why is the Open Web important?

That’s it. Publish your posting on your site, blog or elsewhere and than tell us about it to get short-listed for the free two-day Open Web Vancouver 2008 conferece pass. Choices include:

• Add a comment with a link to your “What’s the Open Web?” posting to this posting.
• Add a comment with a link to your “What’s the Open Web?” posting to the Open Web Vancovuer 2008 Upcoming event listing.
• Add a wall posting with a link to your “What’s the Open Web?” posting to the Open Web Vancouver 2008 Facebook event page.
• Send a tweet (@openweb200 with a link to your “What’s the Open Web?” posting to the Open Web Vancouver 2008 Twitter.

Not interested in Open Web? As an alternative tell us “What’s Web 3.0 / Microformats / the Semantic Web / the Giant Global Graph and why it all matters”.

Questions? Comments? Send them along to the Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 (3.0) Developer Forum/Mailing List. Thanks!