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As Google's I/O conference continues, developers are in the spotlight. Two new APIs have been released: an image manipulation API, and (more interesting to web app hosting in general), the memcache API. As our sister site GigaOm notes, with Yahoo in limbo and Microsoft missing in action on the Internet, Google is making a huge play for developer mindshare. In today's Google I/O recap on GigaOm, you'll find some good thoughts on Google Gears, HTML5, Javascript, AJAX. Android and Ruby on Rails. Take a gander.

Our recent post on free, open source tools for web developers showed that lots of developers read OStatic's blog posts. Now, our sister blog GigaOm has a very interesting piece on what all of you out there working with Ruby on Rails, Python and AJAX ought to be keeping in mind regarding who actually hosts your web-based applications. It's called the Internet, and some people are misunderstanding how it works, says Allan Leinwand. Check it out.