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Kiran Prasad runs mobile development at LinkedIn. He is top notch, and I have had the pleasure to chat with him in the past about mobile.I was really excited to see that his team had shipped new LinkedIn Mobile apps across iOS, Android, and the mobile Web site.

As we see app dominance have a massive impact with the mobile ecosystem boom, we see people wondering if the Web can step up again. Sometimes people think that means a write-once-run-everywhere solution where you build a Web app that runs on a variety of platforms. This can work for some subset of applications. People love to pit "web vs. native", but if you look at what is being bought out there, there is much more "native WITH Web".

There is allegedly some huge news tonight with a beta2 release of a mobile platform. It is said that the platform contains a new WebKit CSS property -webkit-overflow-scrolling that if set to touch would enable native scrolling within overflow:scroll.

I am very excited to see JavaScript code under Joe Hewitt’s name again. He has been frustrated with the state of scroll physics in Web apps on iOS, and I am guessing that after using the new mobile Web Twitter …

Everyone will talk about Angry Birds, but the most important talk at Google I/O is the presentation on the future of the Web platform by two Alex's and an Ian. This is Alex's coming out party. This is where we see his vision for the future. Take note.