First things first. Here is what you should do. Watch this awesome playlist. If you didn’t make it to get an invitation yet due to the limited field trial be patient. I tried sending invites to some friends but I got a message saying that sending email invitations will be enabled soon!.

Interface

Amazing, simple and usable. It’s addictive, too.

Privacy awareness

From the way Plus handles the profile url using the user ID to visibility levels following you everywhere, Plus takes privacy very seriously. There are simple settings for notifications, profile and privacy. And of course there is Google Takeout where you can save a backup of your photos, profile information, contacts, circles, stream posts, and Buzz posts to your computer.

Integration

As I said before, it feels like everything is coming into place. You will experience deep integration with Google products coming together. There is also an Android app which will help you take full advantage of Plus with Instant Upload and Huddle. By the way there are no ads, except for the Google Maps place pages transmitted via Google Check-ins.

So, are you on Plus yet?

When you click on a transit station or plan a transit route with Google Maps and there are delays or alerts related to your trip, you’ll now see “live departure times” (indicated with a special icon) and service alerts.

ifttt works like this: ifthisthenthat.

Having thought about it for a while I came up with this task:

if New starred item in your Google Reader then Read later with Instapaper

So now every time I star an item in Google Reader, I know this will automatically send the item to Instapaper. Note that ifttt is currently in beta and tasks poll for new trigger data every 15 minutes.

By the way, Google Wave is now available for everyone as part of Google Labs. Just visit wave.google.com to try these tutorials for yourself.

How about you? Which browser do you prefer/use?

You can now download Chrome from google.com/chrome.

Android

Yes, Froyo is out. Android Gingerbread release currently planned for Q4, 2010. Froyo release includes major updates to these areas:

• Speed
• APIs and Services
• Browser
• Android Market

Three of the most striking changes there include over-the-air application installation, remote music streaming and the ability to turn your Android phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot.

Except for that, Android 2.2 aims towards improved overall performance that includes (and is not limited to):

• Performance of the browser that has been enhanced using the V8 engine, which enables faster loading of JavaScript-heavy pages.
• Dalvik VM performance boost: 2x-5x performance speedup for CPU-heavy code over Android 2.1 with Dalvik JIT.

Google TV

Google TV is the second big thing revealed on the second day at the Google I/O this year.

Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet.

If you ask me, the closest thing to Google TV is Boxee box. Have you tried Boxee?

First and foremost, the VP8 codec. Last summer Google acquired On2 for its video compression technology. Today, Google announced VP8 codec as part of a new project named WebM. By the way, VP8 is now open-source.

The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.

One of the most important things about this is that the WebM launch is supported by Mozilla, Opera, Google and more than forty other publishers, software and hardware vendors! Read more here.

…including Microsoft!

In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video as well as VP8 video when the user has installed a VP8 codec on Windows.

What’s Great About WebM

• Very high quality video
• Great video playback performance, even on older computers
• 100% free and open to everyone
• Supported on popular video sites like YouTube

Later on, Adobe shared some HTML5 love on the stage.

The keynote continued with the Chrome Web Store. The Chrome Web Store opens later this year.

Users will be able to discover a broad range of amazing web apps while developers will be able to reach millions of new users.

Next was Wave. Google Wave has been opened up to everyone as of today (also part of Google Apps as of today).

The keynote ended with an extensive reference to App Engine, GWT and some great things coming from Google + VMWare.

VMWare has been working with Google to bring an open-source layer for the cloud

You can watch the Google I/O 2010 Keynote online here.

I am guessing Day 2 will be all about Android. Woo hoo!

P.S. By the time I am writing this Google Buzz APIs come into play. Take a look here.

Native Client is an open-source technology for running native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from web apps.

With the Native Client SDK -which is available under Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux- you can build web apps that seamlessly use native C/C++ code to perform high-performance computation, render 2D/3D graphics, play audio, and respond to mouse and keyboard events. If you are interested in building Native Client apps, visit code.google.com/p/nativeclient-sdk.

Check out the Getting Started guide for more instructions for building and running the examples.