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Last Call for Google I/O </span><br>
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of you who were quick to register, we thank you for
continuing to support our developer initiatives--this year's
I/O is slated to be one of our best yet. For the rest of our
developers, we weren’t kidding when we told you we <3 our
developers.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
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Wednesday, March 16, we will be launching </span><span
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for Google I/O</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;
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10 developer challenges and 100 chances to win tickets to
attend the now-sold-out Google I/O 2011.</span><br>
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how it works. We will announce a new challenge on the </span><a
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baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">contest site</span></a><span
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select dates at either 9am or 4pm PDT, that will last for 24
hours each. There will be 10 days of challenges with 10
winners on each day, spanning the following developer
products:</span><br>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
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normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; border-collapse: collapse;">March 16
- Android, 9:00 am </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; border-collapse: collapse;">March 17
- Chrome, 9:00 am </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
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- App Engine, 9:00 am</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;
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- YouTube APIs, 9:00 am</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
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- Game Developers, 9:00 am </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
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- Google Maps / Geo, 4:00 pm</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
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- Commerce, 9:00 am</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; border-collapse: collapse;">March 25
- Developer Tools / GWT, 9:00 am</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;
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- Accessibility, 4:00 pm</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
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- Google Apps / Enterprise, 4:00 pm</span><br>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
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the challenges will focus on one of our developer products
and has two rounds. Plan to be in front of your computers
for the first half-hour that the challenge starts to
complete a series of questions for Round I, which will
qualify you for the main coding challenge in Round II. You
will have a little over 20hrs to complete Round II.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
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to make sure that we provide the opportunity to attend
Google I/O to as many developers as possible and hope you’re
feeling up to the task. The contest is valid in the 50
United States and the District of Columbia with winners
being announced on April 4. And don’t forget that we will be
livestreaming the keynotes and taping sessions during Google
I/O. Stay tuned!</span><br>
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