14 DAY TRIAL // Google is announcing that it has opened up registrations for the 2010 Google I/O developers conference. It is the third time Google will hold the conference aimed mostly at more technical subjects and it has used it to make some pretty big announcements in the past. Developers wanting to get in on the cheap have until April 16 to claim their tickets for the current price of $400.
"Our third annual developer conference will return to Moscone West in San Francisco on May 19-20, 2010. We expect thousands of web, mobile and enterprise developers to be in attendance," David Glazer, engineering director at Google wrote. "I/O 2010 will be focused on building the next generation of applications in the cloud and will feature the latest on Google products and technologies like Android, Google Chrome, App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, Google APIs and more."
Google says that the conference on three main topics, Enterprise, Chrome and Chrome OS, and Android. These are some of the biggest growth areas at Google at the moment and the markets where it focuses the most. On the Enterprise front, Google Apps continue to grow helped by a steady stream of new and updated products, and the company hopes that 2010 is the year when it can have a solid and viable alternative to those of its competitors, especially on the office front with the Google Docs suite.
With Chrome OS coming in late 2010, it's clear that, by May, Google should have some pretty juicy updates on the product, which should be a lot more fleshed out by then. Finally, the Android mobile platform is taking off with more and more products coming out using the mobile OS, including devices created by the company itself like the Nexus One.
Last year, Google used the conference to introduce Google Wave, one of its most eagerly anticipated products of 2009. While Wave is still in testing and hasn't lived up to the initial expectations, the product has a lot of potential which may reveal itself in 2010. "Today's registration opens with an early bird rate of $400, which applies through April 16 ($500 after April 16). Faculty and students can register at the discounted Academia rate of $100 (this discounted rate is limited and available on a first come, first serve basis)," Google added.