Summary: We're recording this Roundtable on the final day of the Google developers conference, Google I/O. From my perspective as a jaded and grumpy tech journalist, it has been a pretty cool conference. Google launched its own 7-inch Android tablet, a new living room entertainment streaming appliance called the Q, Chrome for Apple's iOS, a competitor to Evite called Google+ Events... and that's just the shipping products. We also saw wing-suit skydivers wearing Google glasses jump out of an airship hovering over Mosone Center and glide to a landing on the convention center roof. So there's a lot to talk about, and I've got two great guests to run down the important topics that came out of the Google I/O conference: In the studio: Stephen Shankland, CNET News senior writer and alpha geek. Via Skype: Esther Dyson. Dyson is an investor in Internet startups in the U.S. and elsewhere, on the board of Airship Ventures (the company that took the Google wing-suit jumpers up), and former chair of the Electronic Fronteir Foundation and of ICANN. Reporter's Roundtable Ep. 125: Google I/O dissected on Reporters' Roundtable Listen Now: Download Today's Podcast Subscribe: iTunes (MP3) iTunes (320x180) -- iTunes (640x360) Podcast RSS (MP3) Podcast RSS (320x180) -- Podcast RSS (640x360) Show notes [0:00] Topic and guests introduced Related stories Google I/O 2012 Roundup The inside scoop on the Nexus 7 tablet (Q&A) Chrome goes mobile at I/O 2012 Google I/O giveaways: $5.5 million buys a lot of buzz Brin: Google Glass lands for consumers in 2014 [2:15] What did Google accomplish at Google I/O? [5:00] How important are Google's hardware products? [7:45] Do these new products mean Google is becoming a hardware company? [9:00] Google glasses: What will this project look like in a few years? [11:15] Aren't these glasses going to be incredibly disruptive, socially? [15:00] How does Google move forward in a world where mobile devices blow up the traditional search and advertising models? [17:30] Why the autonomous car matters so much to Google [19:20] Is the mobile handset a transitional technology? [21:00] Google as media powerhouse: How well can it compete with Amazon and Apple? [23:30] The social sphere: Does Google get social networking, and the way people really want to interact with each other? [29:00] Google and Apple: Frenemies or what? [32:00] Esther on Airship Ventures [34:30] Wrap-up
