Google I.O. 2011

Many of you may have tried to sign up for Google I.O. 2011 but may have had trouble with the registration process. I like thousands of other people woke up that morning in hopes of purchasing my ticket for Google I.O. 2011 with ease. I did not expect that I would be struggling for an hour constantly hitting my refresh button trying to get through a bunch of error screens. It seems that I would complete one page of registration and as I hit submit I would get another error screen until I refreshed enough times that it took me to the next part of the registration process. Unfortunately due to the server crashing when my screen finally started working it showed that Google I.O. was now Sold Out. I was bummed all week that I didn't get a ticket. How did it sell out in an hour if it took 50 days to sell out last year? I tried to forget it about it until Valentines Day came along. I got a nice email from Google saying "OUR RECORDS SHOW YOU DIDN'T FINISH YOUR REGISTRATION WE HAVE RESERVED YOUR SPOT FOR YOU. WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONTINUE REGISTERING?". Heck Yeah! I would and I did so I will be going to Google I.O. 2011 after all. Am I the only one who got this email or did this happen to others as well? In addition I'm really looking forward to attending my first Google event and hope to learn much about the android platform and Android's new Honeycomb release. Plus if Google keeps up with its tradition of handing out gifts at its events maybe attendees will receive a nice piece of hardware to develop apps on this year. Considering Google did just hand out tablets more specifically Motorola Xoom's at a recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco its possible that Google I.O. attendees will get Xoom's too. Maybe they will give out a smartphone as well such as the "Pure Google" "Nexus S although it is a little behind in the game since companies are now releasing dual-core smartphones with quad-core chips for mobile devices set to come out later this year while the Nexus S was released with a singe-core processor. Don't get me wrong the Nexus S is a a great smartphone Google just needs to keep its developer phones up to date with the current market. Back to the the tablets, if Google is serious about entering the tablet market it should hand out tablets to its developer as an incentive for them to create applications for them and boost the value of Google's tablet OS (Honeycomb) and its tablet sales. I will post more details come event time and hopefully post pictures as well.