The last month has been really exciting for the Chrome Web Store. Not only did we launch the new (and very much improved user experience), we also launch internationally. The Chrome Web Store is available in lots more countries, but one in particular is close to my heart - Canada. In fact, I was up in Canada last week for a hack-a-thon and to meet with some great companies to talk about the Chrome Web Store. With any newly launched product, there are lots of great opportunities for people to jump on board...
A couple of months ago, I blogged about the anatomy of a great Chrome Web Store listing - and it looks like it’s time to do an update. A couple of weeks ago, we changed the UI on the developer dashboard and started asking for new screen shots, and promotion images. Not only is the new UI a little easier to use and understand, but soon we’ll be launching a new user experience for consumers - which will require new assets from you. I’d strongly recommend updating your assets sooner than later to make sure...
A couple of folks at GDD and other events have asked what I use to create my slide decks, and I figured I’d share and add a link to a little plug in that I wrote for the slide decks. My slide decks are based on HTML5Slides, the Google HTML5 Slide Template - it’s the same one that was used at Google IO, generally by the Chrome DevRel team and lots of other folks. It’s freely available for anyone to use, modify, fork, whatever you want, and creating the content for it is pretty easy. One of my favorite...
My leg of the Google Developer Day tour is almost over, and it’s been AWESOME! Wow! Not only have I now visited 6 out of 7 continents (anyone know of any conferences or events in Antartica - it’s the only one left I’ve not been to), but I was able to add Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires to the list of cities that I need to come back and visit while on vacation. I’ve been thoroughly impressed with all of the developers here who showed me some of the really cool stuff that they’re working on. I presented two...
Well, hopefully it’ll be near you - if not, let me know in the comments where you are so we can try to get some more of these events set up! Google is holding a few developer focused hack-a-thons around the US and would like to invite you to attend. At these events, we will be covering some of the latest and greatest features of HTML5, Chrome Web Store and In-App Payments. You will learn about the end to end flow of building a web app, distributing the app and monetizing it using these APIs. You will also...
While on my way into work this morning, I read a post on SixRevisions asking the question “Is It Time To Rethink Website Navigation?” For a very long time, navigation on websites has been stagnant, it’s either a navbar across the top, or maybe down the side. Sometimes, with a little JavaScript, it’s interactive, but it almost always contains the same types of link. The logo almost always takes you “home”, there’s an about link, a site index link, contact us, well, you know what I’m talking about. Oh, and...