Sessions at Google I/O 2011 about Google APIs in Room 4

Wednesday 11th May 2011

• Building Custom Client Libraries for Google APIs

  by Monsur Hossain, Joe Gregorio and Anton Lopyrev

  Although Google offers client libraries to access our APIs for a variety of languages, there are some languages out there that don’t yet have client library. In this session, we will demonstrate how you can easily build a client library for your favorite language using the new API Discovery service. Join us and learn how you can make it even easier to use Google APIs in your preferred programming environment.

  • Google APIs

  At 10:45am to 11:45am, Wednesday 11th May

  In Room 4, Moscone West

  Coverage video

• The YouTube Caption API, Speech Recognition, and WebVTT captions for HTML5

  by Naomi Black, Cynthia Boedihardjo and Jeffrey Posnick

  Captions make video accessible and more importantly: discoverable to search. Learn how we're live captioning Google I/O with a new open source gadget, discover caption features in the YouTube Data API based on speech recognition, and find out more about WebVTT, a new format to help broadcast TV subtitling make the leap to HTML5 and the Web.

  • Accessibility
  • Captioning
  • Google APIs
  • YouTube

  At 12:30pm to 1:30pm, Wednesday 11th May

  In Room 4, Moscone West

• YouTube's iframe Player: The Future of Embedding

  by Greg Schechter, Jarek Wilkiewicz and Jeffrey Posnick

  YouTube players allow for video playback in web applications. The latest YouTube's embedded iframe player supports both Flash and HTML5 video and exposes a rich API which lets you control the YouTube playback experience. We'll give you the details on how the API was developed, and show you how it can power the videos on your own website.

  • Google APIs
  • YouTube

  At 1:45pm to 2:45pm, Wednesday 11th May

  In Room 4, Moscone West

  Coverage video

• Building a Business Web Presence using Blogger APIs

  by Brett Morgan, Pat Coleman and Chang Kim

  Want to sell a website hosting solution to your clients that won’t keep you awake at night with the fear it might get crushed by becoming virally popular? Blogger’s new Admin APIs enable you to have a customer friendly interface that serves their needs, and yours. Come along and learn how to implement your next customer site atop Blogger.

  • Blogger
  • Google APIs

  At 4:15pm to 5:15pm, Wednesday 11th May

  In Room 4, Moscone West

  Coverage video