Android Devs can now begin to optimize their applications for Google TV

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In the autumn of last year, Google made a first attempt to take over your living room with the launch of Google TV is a platform that combines online using television content to create promising to usher in a new era of convenience and interactive experience.

Unfortunately to date, he was mainly a dud. The platform too complex user interface and content issues (some of the main channels specifically blocking access to their Web sites from Google TV devices) has resulted in low adoption. Google is reportedly giving platform for major revamp, and there is at least one more bright light in the future: coming soon, Google TV will support Android applications.

Now, Google has been promising platform will receive Android support since it was first announced that until now has not been strong indication as to when this will happen in reality (most specific got Google was "summer"). Today we are one big step closer to seeing that promise come off: Google just released a preview version of Google TV plugin for Android SDK.

This does not mean that you can install Android applications yet. Rather, it means that developers can begin to configure their existing Android applications for so-called "10-foot experience", in such a way that their application will be ready as soon as the update of the Google TV ship to users.

With the Android blog:

It is still early days, Google TV, and this release is another step in the developer tools for on the big screen. While initially a small number of applications available on TV, we expect that through the early release of the add-ins, which you will be able to bring optimized TV apps in ecosystems more quickly. To start doing this, load the add-in to Google TV today. In addition please continue to contact us in the Android developer community forum Google TV. We look forward to your input!

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(Founder of stories) Kevin o' Connor: "search this again tomorrow we begin business"

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Serial entrepreneur, Kevin o' Connor's latest venture-FindTheBest, a company that offers comparison on everything from credit cards to the golf course. Kevin was the founder of FindTheBest to DoubleClick, which Google ended up buying for $ 3 billion.

In this episode, the founder of the stories about ' Connor takes us back to its days of DoubleClick, where he joined Atlanta's Internet Security Systems in its infancy. He tells host Chris Dixon, 20-year-old college drop-out had to do with his signing with the launch. Speaking of those first days, '' Connor said: "I don't think any of us realized that it would be worth billions of dollars".

Below about ' Connor discusses life after ISS and the way in which he and Dwight Merriman, took the road create a DoubleClick. He said two quit his job, spent six months, brainstorming products and initially excluded from the job site services. How about ' Connor tells Dixon, two "major" in the wrong pitching prospects.

Dusting yourself off, they struck gold when determining dozens of ideas from the ' Connor in the basement. The idea of DoubleClick was crowned the winner and after taking center stage on the ' Connor said: "I went up and I told my wife ... The search ended, tomorrow we start the business.

Be sure to watch both videos for additional considerations, along with past episodes of the founder of the stories that can be found here, especially one with former DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan.

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