Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ming Yong from Socialwok, where they share their recent experiences at the Google IO 2010 developer conference.

Google IO 2010 is Google’s largest annual 2 days developer conference participated by over 5000 people attending over 90 technical sessions covering every aspect of technology from the search giant. I was attending Google IO together with my colleagues Navin Kumar and Vikram Rangnekar. Our company Voiceroute Pte Ltd was invited to demonstrate and talk about how our online business collaboration service Socialwok (http://socialwok.com) uses Google technology.

This was our first Google IO event and we were very excited about the cool new technologies that Google might unveil at the event. In addition, Google was also giving out a free Nexus One mobile phone for every conference participant.

On both days of Google IO, we would start the day with the keynote address. During the first day, Vic Gundotra (Vice President of engineering at Google) got on stage and talked about how Google envisions that the web will evolve to support rich web based applications. Google announced that it was making available free to everyone a new high-quality and open standards based video format called WebM (http://www.webmproject.org/). Google also announced the new Google Chrome store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore) that will allow millions of web users using the Chrome web browser to find and purchase any type of web applications.

On the day two keynote, Google unveiled the much anticipated Google TV project. Google is now bringing the web surfing and web search experience to the TV. Users can now browse the web, search for TV and youtube content using their television sets. Eric Schmit (CEO of Google) held a round-table discussion with partners like Sony and Adobe describing how Google TV could touch the lives of millions worldwide by changing the way people use their television sets.

Google had a nice surprise for everyone when it announced that it would be giving every conference participant a second free 4G compatible mobile-phone called HTC EVO that came with a free 30 day broadband wireless package.

Google IO was definitely a great experience for a Singapore startup like Socialwok. My colleagues and I had a great time talking and demoing Socialwok to the conference attendees, Googlers and famous technology bloggers like Robert Scoble and Louis Gray. We also got lots of press attention from high traffic web sites like theNextWeb and Techcrunch who wrote articles about Socialwok at Google IO. All in all, we were definitely very happy to leave the conference with two very nice smart phones knowing how our friends in Singapore would be so envious.