Google goes offline

Junglebookboy writes: "Salubri brings us the latest Google scoop from Robert Scoble. Google has come out with a bunch of new features to coincide with Developer day! Read more on the Google blog here. The news in brief is that you can now read feeds offline with Google Reader... And there is a new mashup tool to compete with Microsoft's Popfly. www.googlemashups.com is up and running for beta (by invite only of course) A new version of Google Web Toolkit has also launched. Last but not least — Google just announced a new technology called Google Gears that allows easy development of offline accessible sites and web apps. This plugin provides an API that developers can use to store (and access) fairly large caches of information on the client PC so that the site is accessible when the PC is offline. Scoble describes the client side data storing as "like a cookie on steroids that you can talk to via SQL" which begs question: does this mean we can have our ads and pop ups offline too?"