Brainnovate

If you are like me, you at least considered going out to S.F. for the Google IO conference. Maybe you even went. The well constructed marketing site certainly piqued my interest, although to be honest I was afraid it would turn out to be a CJU’esk infomercial for Google technologies.  In the end I decided not to go- and now a lot of the sessions have just appeared online.  Lucky me.

So far I have only begun watching the ones that are of interest to me.  For starters, I have been watching “Even Faster Websites.”  This is a natural fit for me, because faster websites improve conversion rates.  I had not heard of or even thought of a lot of the tweaks mentioned- many of which have to do with javascript. Since our multivariate testing software Vertster uses a lot of javascript and ajaxy stuff, this is a good fit for those reasons as well.

I also am going to take a look at the session “Painless Python for Proficient Programmers.”  I have only taken a cursory look at Python, but look forward to learning more about it and Google’s new app engine.