Google IO 2013

 Google IO 2013  was Google's 2013 developer conference which discussed a few things at least tangentially related to the indieweb, such as their Google+ silo, and image & video formats.

Etherpad Notes
Some raw notes archived from https://etherpad.mozilla.org/googleio

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Attendees / Notetakers:
 * Tantek Çelik - http://tantek.com - @t
 * ... add yourself and your personal URL/twitter here ...

URLs:
 * https://etherpad.mozilla.org/googleio - this EtherPad
 * https://twitter.com/googleio
 * https://developers.google.com/events/io/
 * https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions

Notes:

Keynote:
 * http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/15/live-blog-live-from-the-google-io-2013-keynote/

Chrome talk in Keynote
 * WebP pushed as alternative to JPG (smaller) and has animation support to (GIFa)
 * H.264 vs. VP9 (~1/3 the size)

Google+ Platform Overview

Motivation to add +1 button:
 * Google search results show who +1'd a post u

Questions:

Related updates since

 * The the +1 button motivation given is now (as of 2014? 2015?) obsolete as Google search results no longer show +1'd a post.