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This is great news for Google fans. Google DevFest is coming to KL!

What?
DevFest is an event organized by Google, your favourite search engine, to learn more about Google technologies and developer products. The events also give you a chance to meet developer advocates and engineers who work on those products and ask them any questions you might have. Entrance is free, but registration is required.

Who?
This event is for mainly targeted towards developers, but it is beneficial for public in general and also helpful to students of the Computer Science.

The speakers are the Google people directly from USA!

Daniels Lee (SFO)
Daniels joined the Developer Relations team at Google over 3 years ago. He dedicated most of his time supporting and building up the community around the Google Gadgets API for iGoogle. After spending over two years on the product, he shifted focus onto supporting the Google Maps APIs.

Patrick Chanezon (MTV)
Patrick Chanezon manages the Client and Cloud Advocacy team at Google, making the web better as a development platform with open web standards, GWT, Google Appengine and a lot of coffee. He has been a Developer Advocate at Google since 2005, building and growing developer ecosystems for OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API.

Timothy Jordan (MTV)
Timothy is a Developer Advocate at Google working on the social web. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering, a Theater Arts graduate degree, and an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from UC Santa Cruz.

Bob Aman (MTV)
Bob works on the Developer Relations team at Google in Mountain View. He loves contributing to open source, open web standards, and generally making the web a friendlier, more useful place for everybody.

When?
DevFest 2010 Kuala Lumpur is happening on Friday July 16, 2010

8:30am – 9:30am – Registration
9:30am – 10:00am – Introduction
10:00am – 10:45am – Maps
10:45am – 11:00am – Break
11:00am – 11:45am – Chrome
11:45am – 12:00pm – Demos
12:00pm – 2:30pm – Lunch & Google Office Hours
2:30pm – 3:30pm – Social
3:30pm – 4:30pm – Apps
4:30pm – 6:00pm – Hackathon

Where?
It’s gonna happen in
Technology Park Malaysia
Ground Floor, Enterprise 4
Bukit Jalil, 57000 KL

How?
Register here to secure your valuable seat. It’s FREE!
Appear on time for fun and out of your normal ‘Googling’.
Bring along your laptop if you would like to join in some hackathon fun. I heard there are prizes and swags.

More information:
Google DevFest KL Official Page
GTUG KL Blog – A Pictorial of Google DevFest in Singapore

Yes, I will be there. See you!

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If you have not heard about the iPhone 4G,please do a search on iPhone 4G now.

The leaked story of iPhone 4G was first brought to open by Gizmodo, one of the popular technology or gadget website.

It was said that one of Apple’s employee who had the iPhone 4 prototype lost it one night, and was then picked up by someone else who later sold to Gizmodo for $5000.

$5000 is more than worth for the more than 14 million visits to the Gizmodo’s website since 19th April 2010 – when the first story of iPhone 4G was released.

The average of visits per day before that was around 3 million.

This is Apple’s Next iPhone, is the killer story that also brings about legal issues to Gizmodo.

Currently, Gizmodo is being investigated and comments are not allowed in the related blogposts of this particular issue.

Even then, it brought more traffic than ever, and we can see that there was another spike when the house of Jason Chen(the editor of Gizmodo) was raided and a list of items were seized.

Sometimes, it pays to have a scandal. What say you?

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So I made a visit to Google’s office in Atlanta on 27th April 2010.

It was GTUG Atlanta’s second meetup, hosted by Chris Ramsdale.

This time around I brought a friend, actually it’s a colleague who tagged along and it was his first time attending a GTUG meetup.
Nice to meet GTUG ATL!

Google Atlanta is located on the 6th floor at 10, 10th Street Midtown.

Are you feeling lucky?

Visitors would need to sign up and print a sticker badge prior to attending events in the office.

This is Charlie Colin, the founder of GTUG Atlanta.
Beer and pizzas are served in the meetup.

Rick Thomas spoke about Google Wave and introduced briefly about it.
When he found out that most attending have been using Wave and some developing with it, he shared about how the inner messages are sent between servers (especially for multi party updating the same document). Very informative!

Rick also talked about some of the new features from Robots API v2 which was released a month ago especially about the Active API where robots can now run actions without having to wait for users interaction.

David Chandler who blogs at http://turbomanage.wordpress.com/ demonstrated his GWT project, RememberOneAnother and spoke about The 90-Day Startup with Google AppEngine: A Case Study (with GWT). David is really a fan of GWT and AppEngine, talking about the concept and advantages of GWT, admiring the AppEngine administrative console ,and promoting GWT over creating your own site and writing your own javascript.
If you are not using GWT, you will get very excited with GWT hearing about it from David.

Given the limited time allocated, Robert Cooper gave a short lightning talk about his personal project on developing his crossword puzzle Android app, Shortyz. I downloaded there and then and found that it has over 5k downloads already.
This is a great crossword puzzle app, as it can downloads puzzles automatically from a list of sites and even save it.
What you don’t see from his site is “Cooper” has made a Wave version for Shortyz using the same code! With minimal changes and customization on the presentation layer, he ported it over to Google Wave as a gadget (supports multiplayer, how cool is that?)

Their presentations are uber cool, I hope I can have a copy of their presentation slides.

Oh by the way, there seems to be a few asking if I’m working for Google.
The answer is here in this photo:

If I am one, you won’t see that I need a Google Visitor badge.
GTUG is something that is run by individuals who are using Google Technologies, just like Charlie who founded GTUG Atlanta and Nazrul of GTUG KL.
If you’re interested, just find a GTUG community within your locality and join their meetups.
Usually fun for developers or geeks.

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