Google Cloud

Google is all about offering online-centric services, and during Google I/O the company may introduce a new cloud computing platform to compete with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), according to . This announcement would be more interesting to developers since we're talking about the ability to rent virtual servers to run server-side apps.

But a Google-branded EC2-type service could help support new and interesting online businesses. EC2, for example, is used or has been used by many services you rely on every day including Dropbox, Instagram, Netflix, Quora, and Reddit. If Google does get into the virtual server game, let's hope they don't have a as .

Project Glass

Some critics are hoping for a sneak peek at also known as Google Glass, the search giant's . But the Google co-founder Sergey Bring recently said Project Glass wouldn't hit store shelves until at least 2013.