Marissa Mayer's Need for Speed
Read/WriteWeb's Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo!
Marissa Mayer from Google only has 10 minutes to speak at Web 2.0 Summit, so she gives a high level look at Google's use of Ajax in applications. She notes that the key reason they created Gmail in Ajax was speed. This is a theme in Google Maps too. In terms of Google Videos, she says how instant something is and giving instant gratification is key - they used to make users wait 24-48 hours to see their videos after uploading to GVideo.
She asks what does speed mean for future apps? She has a slide that shows browser support - FF2 and IE7. Marissa says we'll see built-in support for client side languages (e.g. javascript). She says also that people will spend more time online, due to increase in broadband etc - and this is good for Google. Another point she makes is that mobile hardware will improve a lot.
In conclusion, she says speed is very important for web 2.0 and the future of the Web.
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I like the way AJAX speeds up the web, but with the progression of bandwidth it will be its ability to selectively reload portions of the page that makes it a continuing asset and increases the "application" nature of websites.
Good God, was she really this boring? Did she say anything compelling or interesting whatsoever?
Speeding up the web (and your brain) with an accelerator makes sense...fascinating, 2x throughput/2x the work done in the same amount of time