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"Google, tomorrow, opens up the Moscone Center for the Google I/O conference with about 100 technical sessions designed to educate the developers of the world interested in making their applications ready for the Web Platform.\n\nI got the opportunity last week to speak to Kevin Marks (Google Developer Advocate), who took the time to speak a bit about the Google I/O conference, what attendees can expect (particularly on the social track). The goal of OpenSocial and all this support for Google developers is to really develop the social web, which is part of the larger goal of growing the web as a whole.\n\nAny user of Twitter doesn't need me to re-iterate this, but a good chunk of having a successful social app strategy is being able to scale those applications.\u00A0 It isn't coincidence, then that Google is going to be playing up during the I/O conference their cloud computing solution in the Google App Engine.\u00A0 One of the announcements that will be made at the conference is the pricing schedule for additional space on the service:\nFree quota to get started: 500MB storage and enough CPU and bandwidth for about 5 million pageviews per month\n$0.10 - $0.12 per CPU core-hour$0.15 - $0.18 per GB-month of storage$0.11 - $0.13 per GB outgoing bandwidth$0.09 - $0.11 per GB incoming bandwidth\n\nFor more discussion on these announcements, Google's strategy with OpenSocial, development philosophy for the social track, and other interesting tangents, download the MP3 file directly here.\n\nNever miss an episode with these links: Get the Mashable Conversations podcast here. Add directly to iTunes here (or give us a rating).Add directly to your Zune here.\nAre you a regular listener to Mashable Conversations? Consider filling out our Listener Survey.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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