Why only registered Android developers? There's a lot more to I/O (and Google) than just Android..
What do you mean by "hacked into it"? Do you mean people used wget -r on the developer docs and grep'd out codes to try?
What do you mean by "hacked into it"? Do you mean people used wget -r on the developer docs and grep'd out codes to try?
- Ofcourse, I was just eliciting a contrast to Apple's registration system for developers, Android dev was just 1 use case I'm pointing too.
"What do you mean by "hacked into it"? Do you mean people used wget -r on the developer docs and grep'd out codes to try?"
- Did you read the blog in full before asking this? In the blog, this is what Stan mentioned:
"By this time several HTTP crawlers had been created by individuals looking to secure a ticket to Google I/O ahead of today’s lottery. The crawlers used various tools and libraries to download images, web pages, and Youtube video annotations looking for more codes."
Google was created by creating web crawlers that indexed the content to rank pages. This exercise was a tribute to those algorithms.
Anyway, the easter eggs were just that: a small game for promotion and fun. There were around 300 of these - the Google+ I/O community alone has 43000 Members (Disclaimer: I got one 3 days after they started the easter eggs).
If Google's I/O team is smart they secretly check for peoples public activity through their Google+ account when they select winners in "the lottery". If they favor people who follow Google Developer pages or who liked some of the tech videos on youtube, they would already filter out a lot of the civilists.