I am one of the lucky people who managed to snatch a ticket to Google I/O this year. The event was sold in a record time – 58 minutes. The servers crashed instantly during the registration process and it was quite nerv wrecking. In fact I could only register after 2 hours the registration started when the servers have finally came up using a link from the cache of my browser which included session ID, where my ticket was already saved for me just before the servers crashed.

Anyway, I just wanted to put the Google I/O live badge so here it is:

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Today, at the annual PDC10 conference, Microsoft is showing love for its developers and promoting its coming Windows Phone 7 by giving all the attendees a free Windows Phone 7. This follows in the steps of similar giveaways by Google at Google/IO 2009 and Goole/IO 2010, Motorola and Adobe giveaway at Adobe Max 2010. With many companies following Google’s example, Google so far is by far the leading company on these giveaways.

Microsoft is expected to spend more than 400 millions on the promotion of its Windows Phone 7 . Here’s hoping that registered and published developers will get a free phone or at least discounted phones since as of now, it is quite hard to get your hands on a a phone and this is obviously crucial to testing the apps in real live scenarios, on real hardware.

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3. Google Buzz a step forward to Google Wave?

Today many people that will open their gmail will be faced with the dialog about Google buzz. This is a new service from Google that in a sense makes your gmail inbox into twitter like account. But it is more than twitter like account. It includes conversations and embeddings from other sites like Picasa, Flickr, Youtube etc…

The interesting question marks that raised in my head are:

1. Is Google trying to compete with huge success of Twitter? (They are not trying to compete per se, they want the realtime information that’s available on Twitter and is not (yet???) available to Google.
2. Is this a step forward to Google Wave?

Maybe it’s actually both 1 and 2 and something else that we can not yet see in the big picture

Google Buzz is also available on Mobile:

And here’s the announcement of Google Buzz on the official Google blog

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