Google Gears

Google Gears has been announced at Google Developer Day 2007. An open source project for developing and delivering data when offline. They want this to become an industry standard. In theory*, users could use apps without an internet connection. Developers could develop with google apis offline. A demo of this can be seen at Google Reader once you've downloaded Google Gears. I'm downloading now, and again, can't wait to get my hands into the code. Dammit Google, I was already busy and now I have so much new to learn!