And finally, my resolution for the next year is to have a couple of Android apps on the market (maybe a game who knows).

Keywords — that I took note during the sessions

• Google Web Elements — http://www.google.com/webelements/

• Data Liberation Front — http://www.dataliberation.org/

• Google Ajax APIs — http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/

• KML Tutorial — http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html

• Google Maps js API V3 — http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/

• Spring Roo –  Framework from VMWare that can easily be integrated with a GWT frontend — http://www.springsource.org/roo

• Google Chrome Web App Store — http://blog.chromium.org/2010/05/chrome-web-store.html

• WebM is an open media file format designed for the web.  — http://www.webmproject.org/about/

• http://www.openclipart.org

• Lots of things start or finish with enterprise enterprise enterprise (boooring…..)

• Draconian Future (from Keynote Day 2 — referring Apple and Steve Jobs I guess — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draconian

• Go ANDROID — Froyo 2.2 — 18 months — 180.000 developers — 50.000 applications on Market

• V8 Javascript Engine — http://code.google.com/p/v8/

• Sunspider javascript benchmark — http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html

• qik — video sharing site — well, I have heard qik before, but when you use it, with live streaming and instant sharing stuff, it really is amazing

• Dalvik VM — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_%28software%29

• VP8 — video codec — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP8

• What is Android? — http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html

• What is OpenGL ES ? — http://www.khronos.org/opengles/

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Sessions I attend

The following three are from the Bootcamp which is one day before the io. I was fast enough to register for the event, that I can enter. This was like a warm up for the actual thing.(Bootcamp Schedule — https://sites.google.com/site/iobootcamp/schedule)

• Introduction to Google App Engine

• Mapping in 3D: Tips and tricks for Google Earth API and KML

• The Big Picture and How to Get Started

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And these are from the session in io:

• Ignite Google I/O (http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/ignite-google-io.html) — the ones I like the most are,

• • Matt Harding (Where The Hell Is Matt?
  • Bradley Vickers – How to Row across the North Atlantic, Ration Food and Not Have Your Teammates Eat You

• Casting a wide net: how to target all Android devices (http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/casting-wide-net-android-devices.html) — way to technical for me, I am not an Android developer (yet). Also next room, there was another session of Paul Graham, it was full next time pg

• Architecting GWT applications for production at Google (http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/architecting-production-gwt.html) — Presentation smells like enterprise which I am far from interested. Also, I am not sure about all these code generation stuff for DTOs (Spring Roo), also Vmware&spring is not my favorite source of inspiration (although I play with Grails lately)

• HTML5 status update (http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/html5-status-chrome.html) — Last session of the i/o 2010. Two product managers of Chrome made a good summary of HTML 5 features and their perspective on the spec.

Keynotes that I can not attend since I was sleeping at that time

• Day 1 — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a46hJYtsP-8&feature=player_embedded#!

• Day 2 — they haven’t put a full version yet…

Day One After Party
This was a real nerdvana. a 8 leg giant spider that you can literally drive, pac man, food (like a lot), beer (free as in a lot free), huge screens with geeky videos, a toy like thing that you can control it with your mind and try to fly a ball by focusing sth sexy!, robots that play football, Tesla (sexy electric car), beer, remote control robot that try to demolish balloon with its tail, red wine…

Toys, Food, Drinks, T-shirts

Nexus One, HTC EVO, t-shirts, lots of Pepsi, Starbucks Coffee

Before mentioning the meetups and the people (SF Bay Groovy and Grails Meetup Group, SF New Tech, SFDUG – San Francisco Drupal Users group, The San Francisco Java User Group, WebMapSocial Silicon Valley Meetup Group, Web 2.0 Expo, Google I/O, and some other), I briefly want to talk about my thought on the community around bay area (actually mostly around San Francisco (sf)).

There are many (many) things (meet-ups, breakfasts, book clubs, expos, ignites…) that can consume all your time easily.  I wonder how people focus on anything around here. (The best way can be disconnect from internet so that you don’t see invitation emails that rain all day.)

the people. They are very very welcoming, and really interested in your story if you can explain it in 15-20 seconds. Really, if it exceeds this threshold, they start to think something else (probably because they are bored) in their mind, and try not to show it to you. But you can see it on their face

Another thing is you can instantly tell whether the person in front of you is a technical guy or a marketing guy, or a guy with money and time (these are the categories I come up  so far). Tech guys mostly either very geeky and friendly (like the one in TBBT) or very tense like the ones mentioned in Rework in the chapter about burn outs. Marketing guys seems to be really talkative even if you stop listening them, they keep talking. The guys w/ money seems to be very relaxed and cool (this is the nice way of saying high ego).

For the time being, this post will be a prologue.

At the end of May, I will turn back to Turkey, and hopefully I will have more time to write about my observations.

If you are reading this far, let me advertise my latest project to you.  An usability testing tool which creates click analysis tests; REMOTESPOTS. See the 4 minutes video to see what it is about.

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