The SitePoint Podcast: 12 Kinds of Awesome

Episode 17 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), and Kevin Yank (@sentience).

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Episode Summary

Here are the topics covered in this episode:

Google announces Wave

• Google Wave Preview (Google)
• Google I/O a Real Eye-opener! (SitePoint)
• Google Wave: A Whole New Communication and Collaboration Platform for the Web (Programmable Web)
• Sergey Brin: Google Wave Will Set A New Benchmark For Interactivity (TechCrunch)
• Laconica - The Open Microblogging Tool

Google Maps releases API v3.0 beta

• Announcing Google Maps API v3 (Google)
• Google I/O a Real Eye-opener! (SitePoint)

Opera 10 Beta

• Opera 10 Beta (Opera)
• What’s New in Opera 10 (Part 1) (SitePoint)
• What’s New in Opera 10 (Part 2: Performance) (SitePoint)
• Jon Hicks Discusses the New Opera Skin (Opera)
• Opera Mini (Opera)

Apple Releases Safari 4 (and backs down on tab placement!)

• Safari 4 (Apple)
• WWDC 2009 Keynote (Apple)

Apple gives Microsoft a ribbing at WWDC

• WWDC 2009 Keynote (Apple)
• Acid Tests (The Web Standards Project)

Palm releases the Palm Prē (with the webOS SDK for developers)

• Palm Prē
• Palm Developer Network
• More App Store Stupidity - iPhone eBook App Rejected For Including Kama Sutra (Cult of Mac)

Microsoft Bing

• Bing
• Microsoft vs Google: Bing It On (SitePoint)
• Microsoft Premieres Their Bing Television Commercial (SitePoint)
• Bing Developer Center (Microsoft)
• Microsoft Bing releases API with no usage quotas (Programmable Web)

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