14 DAY TRIAL // If you are a developer and you find yourself in San Francisco between 28-29 this month, you might want to add a very important event to your agenda. Google is going to hold its annual developers' meeting, where developers using Google's products are expected to arrive in large numbers. This year, the meeting will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
This upcoming edition is entitled I/O and, unlike in previous years, Google is going to charge the developers who want to attend. When registering, attendants will have to pay an attendance fee of $400, while the fee for students and teachers is of only $50. The 2-day meeting will give developers a chance to get more up close and personal with a number of Google products. This also goes for the ones who are new to any of Google's tools.
The first day is the longest, starting at 9:30 AM with a keynote from Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra, and ending with After Hours at Google I/O at 10 PM. A number of important speakers and topics have been announced, with most of them being included in geo-related sessions. This is to be expected, as Google has recently announced a number of new APIs for Google Maps including the Google Geo Search API, the Google Maps API for Flash, geo sitemaps, etc. The second day will start at 9 AM with a keynote from Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search and User Experience, and will end with a Code Labs session at 3 PM.
Tutorials for using KML for Google Earth are also to be expected, as well as new capabilities for developers using Google Earth. Google I/O sessions are differentiated by the level of knowledge of the attendants. For instance, the 101 sessions don't require users to have previous knowledge of a particular product or technology, but the other sessions will require they have at least a general know-how of a specific product.