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Wishlist:

- No free stuff.

- A registration site not subcontracted out to a third party who sets up a Cold Fusion application to handle ticketing.

- Dedicated press passes for the keynotes so that reporters/bloggers et al don't clog up the rest of the conference (this one may already be true, I'm unclear).

The state of the registration system last year was shameful for a company that makes the lion's share of its revenue from the web.

Didn't Google do the registration themselves last year?

I think the secret of registration last year was that Bay Area IPs were intentionally deprioritized.

It's great that the dates are known.

Indie devs can book flights and hotels to visit San Francisco regardless of whether they have an I/O ticket or not. If they don't get a ticket they can organise their week around other events e.g. work at coworking spaces, attend tech events, meet friends, some sight-seeing etc.

Companies could arrange a similar schedule for their employees. Just being in San Francisco to network and meet potential partners and clients is as valuable as attending I/O sessions.

An added bonus of knowing the dates early is that you can now plan your family vacation or company off-site without worrying about potentially missing out on a tech conference.

Do not book your flights yet. Remember Google IO 2012... they announced some dates, then a few months later they changed the dates of the event (shifted it a few weeks later). Be careful when you book flights until they officially put tickets on sale.

EDIT: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/save-date-for-google-...

initially announced on Oct 17, 2011. Changed on November 28, 2011. Dates of the event shifted from April 24-25 to June 27-29, 2012.

I'd bet this was to give them time to get the entire Project Glass demo ready. Sergey's baby.

Huh. I'll be starting an internship at the Mountain View office a few days after I/O. Will be interesting to see what the dynamic is coming down from the I/O high.

I was an intern this past summer and it was pretty unique to see the event unfold from the inside.

Interesting, especially if your host presented :)

I hope they stop giving away free stuff.

I agree. Maybe they should limit it to a single item, e.g., "the latest nexus dev phone" or "$300 of AppEngine credits."

Maybe then, the tickets wouldn't sell out within the first 45 mins (a good thing for developers who really want to go learn and network).

The 45 minute sell out implies that people had 45 minutes to book. However, as we know, the site was slammed immediately and it took 45 minutes for Google to fall over itself trying to process. It was effectively sold out immediately.

Given the number of tickets available (~4K I think) and the something like 1k+ hits/sec they had, the tickets would have been gone in a few seconds if the site had held up, not in minutes or hours.

Really? I'd love a new pair of glasses.

I have seen people register just for free stuff and not pay attention to conference (Considering tickets get sold out in 2 minutes, if you really want to go for conference sake, its a bummer).

What are the odds that Google can pull off an orderly registration this time? Considering prior years IO registration, and the recent Nexus 4 fun, I would say about nil.

Has anyone attended an I/O satellite event at a non-Cali Google office? I'm thinking about signing up to visit Google in DC for I/O.

I'd like to know your impressions.

> Has anyone attended an I/O satellite event at a non-Cali Google office?

I spoke at one of those events. It was pleasant, and I met some interesting folks. Looking back, it would have been perfectly alright to skip the satellite event.

I went to one in NYC. It was neat to see talks by a couple people from Google NY before the conference began, but I am not sure that I got much from watching the conference itself there.

The question is how long we have to wait until Google introduces a 'desktop' view of Android with multiple windows.

I'm saying later next year, but it could easily be at IO.

All the groundwork is there and there's little stopping Android being adopted as a 'real' OS.

I would say that the biggest barrier to that is Chrome OS. Or, rather, where in the market Android stops and Chrome OS starts.

My opinion regarding this is that Chrome OS is now ready to be ported to Android. All of Google's flagship devices now ship Chrome instead of 'Browser' and afaik Chromebooks are all ARM now (although Android is cross architecture)

"afaik Chromebooks are all ARM now"

This isn't correct. Chromebooks/ChromeOS are meant to be processor neutral just like Android.

The Samsung XE303C12 device released a few months ago is the only current official Chromebook device that is ARM based among half a dozen devices, most of which are x86, and Google hasn't said anything to suggest that they are shifting Chromebooks to the ARM exclusively.

In fact, the latest Chromebook release (Acer's C7, which was released after the Samsung ARM one) is an x86 device.

Nope. Android is missing quite a few core Chrome OS dependencies (e.g. trusted boot and SecComp BPF). And exactly one Chrome OS device is ARM (the Samsung A15); the other ~7 devices are Intel.

I don't see a point in releasing the dates 6 months before the event. I think we all know the approximate dates. It's not like you can block those dates and go out purchasing flights and hotel. Nothing is for sure until a pass is bought. And something tells me they are already sold out. One thing I noticed is they released a hash #io13 to follow on Google+, may be they are just pushing us to use Google+.

Keep in mind, last year they changed the dates after the announcement.

I wrote some scripts to stalk all the official Google blogs, Twitter hashes, and G+ tags and call me instantly so I could leap into action. I thought they were going to make it a surprise you know, reward the most crazed followers by just declaring it registration time so the camper hitting F5 don't win. No such thing. It was that way the year before too.

There is really no reason for them to change it. There are hundreds of thousands of people interested and a few seats. They'll sell out and be the dominant search engine regardless. Sadly that leaves it more luck of the draw than anything else.

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