At their developer event Google IO, Google took the opportunity to announce WebM, a new project for pushing a video codec for HTML 5 that everyone can agree on.

I’ve been a long-time supporter of HTML 5, and have been getting excited about its prospects for some time. However, the announcement of this codec makes me even more excited than before.

Finally, we have a codec that all of the major browser vendors will be supporting for HTML 5. Finally, developers need not dream of a utopia where they only need encode their video once, and have it work on all major browsers – with HTML 5 and WebM together, we can now have that dream as new builds of the browsers are released.

With the continued proliferation of malware and websites of malicious intent on the Internet, consumers are offered little if no help in protecting their computers.

There is, however, help at hand.

Google, not only the most popular search engine, but also the largest single repository of information about the internet (internet metadata, if you like), now provide developers with an advanced way of warning users about malicious content on the internet.

This post is an overview of the Google Safe Browsing API; what it is, why you should use it in your application, and how it can help your users.