Talk 2: Intro on GWT & Google APIs (Vikram Rangnekar, COO of Socialwok.com) http://www.linkedin.com/in/vikramr Description: Google Web Toolkit is a Java toolkit used for developing rich and standards compliant web-application interfaces. GWT requires you to develop your web interface in Java which is then compiled into optimized javascript. GWT makes your web GUI instantly work across the entire range of browsers (IE6, IE8, Webkit and Mozilla). We will understand rapid interface design / creation using GWT and how your applications can benefit from all the web-development best practices that Google has incorporated into the toolkit. Google API are all based on GData, there are a whole collection of API's that google made available. We will understand how to authenticate with google and go on to use a few of these API's.