Wanted to get in on Google I/O? Couldn’t buy a ticket before they were all sold out in just 59 minutes? Google’s got something to tell you: they’ve been holding on to 100 more and they want to give them away. Vic Gundotra just posted on their blog about a contest they’re holding that’ll see 100 lucky coders heading to Google I/O.
The contest starts March 16th and goes on for 10 days with a chance to win one of 10 tickets each day. Two rounds will be oversought: a preliminary question answering round, and a coding challenge for those who make it through. The challenges will be themed by day. Here’s a list of the dates, times, and different categories you can take a crack at:
- March 16 – Android, 9:00 am
- March 17 – Chrome, 9:00 am
- March 18 – App Engine, 9:00 am
- March 21 – YouTube APIs, 9:00 am
- March 22 – Game Developers, 9:00 am
- March 23 – Google Maps / Geo, 4:00 pm
- March 24 – Commerce, 9:00 am
- March 25 – Developer Tools / GWT, 9:00 am
- March 28 – Accessibility, 4:00 pm
- March 29 – Google Apps / Enterprise, 4:00 pm
Take a look at their contest site for the full details. The contest is open to everyone in the 50 United States of America. [Google]
Patient Invalid, Prior Art, Obvious Use, and Technically Incorrect.
I am the owner of YES Telecom. I have been manufacturing multi-line caller id units for computers since 1993. What Cequint has patented, aside from being technically incorrect, I was doing back in 1993. I developed so many database applications using caller id technology before Cequint ever existed. If any knows Christopher Chenoweth, let him know I will put his product back on the market, take all the legal risk, and get 100% of the proceds to him! P.S. If you read the patent they refer to ANI rather than Caller ID. They are not the same ANI is the billing location’s phone number. Only Caller ID is the caller’s location.