Google I/O 2012

I wish they'd take a small number of tickets (10? 100?) and auction them off, with the surplus over retail price going to charity.<p>In general I think all sold out/exclusive events should do this kind of thing; it raises hype, makes the people who get a ticket for normal price feel like they got a deal, and helps the charity. Anyone willing to spend e.g. $10k of their own or a company's money to attend is likely to have some value at the event as well (investor? lawyer?).<p>You don't want to do this for all the tickets, or even a large number of tickets, because having all 5k people be from Fortune 500 companies willing to spend $5k/ticket makes it a lot less interesting than an event with mostly independent developers, but 100 out of 5000 isn't going to change things much, either.

Looks like no preregistration for past attendees like previous years:<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/111395306401981598462/posts/Ty3M5UDdtVZ" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/111395306401981598462/posts/Ty3M5UDd...</a><p><i>Ruben Orduz - +Google Developers No pre-registration for past attendees? Also confirmation about no test for registration would be much appreciated.</i><p><i>Google Developers - Just to confirm, registration will be first come, first served on March 27th. We spent a lot of time thinking about this and decided that first come, first served is the fastest and fairest way to give everyone interested a chance to attend.</i>

Academic price:<p>2010 $100<p>2011 $150<p>2012 $300<p>I mean, hey, I'm not complaining but wow. Take a look at that inflation. I only mention it because when I was forced to sign up for Google Wallet they presented me a list of my transaction history. And there it was staring me in the face in all its inflationary glory. Maybe they will mandate that people must wear only Googly colors or use their gmail emails to sign up... Oh, right.

might be nothing but i found traces of "vipcode" on the javascript of the building game here:<p><a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/</a><p>code here:<p><a href="https://developers.google.com/js/script_foot.js" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/js/script_foot.js</a><p>search for "vipcode"

Anyone have a guess as to why they use a jpg sprite instead of an animated gif for the bouncing orb? Is it just a color space thing?

Think about this... Google charges you $900 to attend a conference that they will "teach you" how to build apps that work on their systems which benefit them way more than you.<p>I know Apple charges a developer fee as well.<p>Amazing how this hacker/developer world works - pay for access to their app stores, pay for conferences to learn how to make apps for their app stores, etc.

Good to know I can fax them if I have any questions. <a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/register" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/events/io/register</a>

PS: if you are complaining about the price, it's time to show your entreprenerial spirit and organize a free unconference at the same time and nearby. Don't complain, do something!

Thats the thing that sucks about such events; $900 is very expensive.<p>If anyone wants to sponsor a fellow HNer, I'll give you a bunch of digital Karma :)

Double the price of last year.

A bit annoying they force you to sign up for both Google+ and Google Wallet to attend.

This was going to be my first year at IO until I saw the ticket price. $900!!!

I'm trying out the demo chrome experiment on the page. It seems there's a bug that the "Keep trying" pop up just won't go away after the tutorial. Or is it just me? I'm using Chrome 17.0.963.65.

$900 is not that much, I'm actually surprised it's so low.<p>A GDC All Access pass is $1,950, and a GDC Main Conference pass (typical) is $1,350.

MVP?<p><a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/ahNzfmdvb2dsZS1kZXZlbG9wZXJzcg0LEgVCb2FyZBik8zUM" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/ahNzfmd...</a><p>edit: looks like you might need to open up in incognito to go straight to the machine I built (2 parts)

Does anyone know if high school students qualify for academic pricing? I'm assuming they don't, as most places that offer a education discount only offer it for university students, but maybe I'll get lucky.

<a href="https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/ahNzfmdvb2dsZS1kZXZlbG9wZXJzcg0LEgVCb2FyZBjsgC8M" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/events/io/input-output/ahNzfmd...</a>

Anybody notice how the io machines are completely resolution based? i.e if you don't run it at the same resolution it was created, it won't work?

Google tax! Hail to our new Google overlords.

So much for a coding challenge to get tickets. "Registration will be first-come, first-served so make sure you're online promptly at 7AM PDT on March 27."