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360iDev 2013 – WWDC USBHunt Success

June 17, 2013 By 1 Comment

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Wow!

Not only did all 6 drives go to actual developers (One year we’re pretty sure a hobo got a hold of one) but each drive was only out in the wild about 10 minutes before being found. That’s incredible! We’re so glad folks were interested and enthusiastic about grabbing up the drives. I mean it was over $1000 worth of indie dev goodness, but still I thought I’d have to give more clues…

Next year I’ll hide them better :)

Thank you to all of our participants as well!! Without them, the drive wouldn’t be worth much, so much awesome software was made available.

If you didn’t find one of the drives, you should still check out this awesome list of apps and tools.

Vizzywig - Video Editor and Video Camera
Each of these devs freely gave promo codes for the drives, show ‘em some love!
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Community is important

June 5, 2013 By 4 Comments

There’s “being about the community” and there’s actually supporting it. We choose to do the latter whenever and where ever we can.

 

WWDC provides a lot of opportunities to support and help grow the iOS/Mac Community. This year we’re really happy to be supporting two great efforts that you should check out.

For the second year in a row we’re supporting #AltWWDC. The folks behind Appsterdam are some of our best friends. The things they’re doing there, are the single biggest reason moving overseas appeals to me. I dunno if I’ll ever get a chance to, but I want to and it’s 100% because of the hard work of the Appsterdam crew. On top of the awesome line up of speakers, it’s a great place to just be. Get out of the starbucks by Moscone and just hang out and be around the community. I’ll be there working most days during WWDC, as AltWWDC is my remote office for 360|iDev that week. I love having a place surrounded by friends where I can get work done during the day. If you weren’t planning on stopping in, you should. The free tickets are ‘sold out’ so now it’s first come first served, but stop in when you can and check it out. The talks are TOP NOTCH!

 

The other awesome thing we’re involved in this year is WWDC Girls. Women in technology or for that matter diversity in technology is a big deal. At every 360|iDev we encourage women to submit, every year we fail to meet the goals we set for ourselves. We keep trying because it’s a challenge that needs to be met. In addition to helping encourage women to submit topics to 360|iDev we try to support things outside the conference that help raise women in technology up. WWDC girls this year is hosting a happy hour to benefit App Camp for Girls. We’re happy to be a part of it and glad that they were able to make room to let us sponsor.

 

There’s a lot of community focused things happening the week of WWDC. The week is about so much more than sitting in Moscone. Night of Meat, the other three Nights of Meat that exist when the first fills up, Alt WWDC and things like it, and so much more.

 

360|iDev is one week a year, we try to make sure that event enables us to help the community all year long. Hope you’ll be able to make it in September!

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360iDev 2013 – WWDC USBHunt Update

June 4, 2013 By 8 Comments

Holy shit! Such awesome support for our 3rd WWDC USB  Scavenger hunt!! Below is a list of participants (to date. It’s not too late to get your app or game on the drives!)

These companies and developers are incredible awesome and generous! We can’t thank them enough for supporting the scavenger hunt with 6 promo codes for their apps/games and services. Take a look at the list, it’s impressive. These folks are awesome, I can’t say that enough!

Vizzywig – Video Editor and Video Camera
Appfigures Gift card
Closed Alpha NNW4
30 Minute iOS Coaching session (Phone or Skype)
iBook “Your First iOS App”
360|iDev NOM Pass
360|iDev 2013
Latin Beat
Update: I forgot two awesome apps! My bad!!
Update 2: Got a few more!
Next week, if you’re in San Francisco for WWDC make sure to keep an eye out for these handsome little guys. (We doubled up on Batman and Boba Fett!) If you don’t already follow @360idev now would be a good time to start! Set your twitter client of choice to follow the #wwdcusbhunt tag as well!
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And of course if you’re not able to come to San Francisco for WWDC you can nab a ticket to 360|iDev now, before they sell out. They’ve sold out the last 3 years!!  Get yours now!
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360iDev 2013 – WWDC Scavenger hunt, it’s on!

May 20, 2013 By 7 Comments

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WWDC is almost here! We hope you’re as excited as we are! If you’re going to be in San Francisco, we’ll be hanging out all week at Alt WWDC, drop in and say hi, check out some of the sessions they’ve got lined up!

As we’ve done the last few years (except last year!) we’re announcing the 360|iDev WWDC USB drive Scavenger hunt (#usbhuntWWDC)

If you’re not familiar with the USB Hunt, it’s a fun little scavenger hunt we organize in and around Moscone Center the week of WWDC. We load up 6 USB Drives (One is pictured right there to the right) with promo codes, fliers, helpful tools, and much more. Oh yeah also each drive has a free pass to 360|iDev 2013 and a free ticket to the 360|iDev Night Of Meat on it.

We stash the drives during the week and tweet clues about where we’ve hidden them. It’s always lots of fun to see the tweet from the person who found the drive.

 

Not only is this the announcement of the game, but also the invitation to participate. if you’ve got a game or app you want on the drive, or a tool or service, etc just let us know (you can use the contact us page) Each drive is 8gb so there’s lots of room for goodies. All are welcome as long as it’s something fun, cool or useful to the iOS community.

 

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360iDev 2013 – Call For Papers Closes 4-15

April 2, 2013 By 4 Comments

The title says it all. This is your fair warning, the Call For Papers, will be closing at noon on April 15th.

Not 1pm. Not End of Day. Not midnight or 11:59. 12 noon, Mountain time.

We’ve already got almost 100 submissions! We’re super stoked so many folks want to present at 360|iDev 2013!

If you haven’t submitted, don’t delay, 360|iDev is all about the community sharing what they know! It’s your turn!

 

See you in September

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360iDev 2013. Call For Papers…. OPEN

March 7, 2013 By 31 Comments

That’s right boys and girls! It’s that time! Got something to share? Something awesome, something that will blow everyone’s minds? Then that’s what you should submit for 360|iDev 2013.

360|iDev 2013 is gonna be great! Not only are we expecting to sell out again (and are already on our way to that goal) but we’re really going to try to raise the bar higher than ever. We want really technical talks, really experimental ideas, things no one else is doing or talking about.

360|iDev always has the best content from the best folks, let’s keep that trend going. Whether you want to present on business, development or design, go submit your topic RIGHT NOW. Don’t wait. Don’t send us an email after the CFP closes, don’t tweet about how sad you are you didn’t get to submit. Go submit something awesome, right now.

 

The Opening of the Call For Papers is always part of the worst part of the conference. Having to choose form hundreds of awesome submissions. If you’ve ever submitted to an event and not heard back, or gotten a form letter email, that’s not what we do. It’s time consuming and makes me really sad, but we email every submitter a person email telling them we couldn’t accept their submission. With as much heart and soul as people put into submissions, it’s the right thing to do, letting them know in a timely manner. So yeah the process begins today! Go submit something! Be Brave!

 

Oh and if you’re curious how the process works, in the interest of transparency and encouraging as much diversity as possible, we detailed the process here.

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360iDev min Session Recordings available

February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

It’s just like you were there, even though you weren’t!

Did you wish you could have been in Las Vegas with us at [360|iDev min]? See all the tweets and pics of the sessions, wondering why you didn’t go. Well even if you didn’t, you’re in luck :) We’ve finished the rendering of the session recordings and they’re available for purchase.

Each session recording is $3, and runs between 45 minutes to an hour. We also bundled all the sessions together at a discount for just $20. Ten hours of awesome content for $20 ain’t too shabby. As always the videos are 100% free of DRM, and you’re free to watch them where and whenever you please.

Enjoy

Click here to add your email copy and images.

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See You Next Week

January 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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This time next week, we’ll be in Las Vegas watching awesome speakers present new and exciting topics. We’re really happy to have a mix of new and returning speakers from the 360|iDev world with us.

We’ll start with a Night of Meat after some epic Sportsball watching. Then Monday morning everyone will spend 2 days learning new things, whether it’s business, design or development.

Don’t let the price tag fool you, you’re gonna leave with way more than $200-300 worth of new information, skills, and connections in the community. We just don’t like over charging people, and believe events should be an investment in your future, but shouldn’t require taking out a loan.

Did you see any of David Whatley’s Keynotes at 360|iDevs past? Did ya leave the room with your mind blown, ready to go change how you run your business whether it’s just your or an entire team? Well just imagine what he’s got in store for you this time :)

Did you hear how awesome Danielle Reubenstein’s session was at 360|iDev 2012? Guess what?

Wanna hear how Nick Arnott breaks things? We’re happy to have Nick presenting at [360|iDev min] and look forward to seeing him present more often!

Every speaker at [360|iDev min] was hand picked and invited so that we could provide a line up with a great mix of technical, business, and design.

With the help of Sponsors like Millennial Media, Shinobi Controls, Empirical Development and Omega Ortega and more, we’ve got great stuff lined up for everyone starting Sunday night all the way thru the last session on Tuesday! Make sure you thank the sponsors for being so awesome and supportive of the iOS developer community. They don’t just throw out give aways, they’re buying lunch, shirts, BEER! and more, and most importantly, want to talk to you, not sell to you.

Of course, it’s also Vegas! Come early spend the weekend enjoying all that Vegas has to offer, then spend two days getting 4 days worth of information flooded into your head.

Time’s running out; Vegas is a fun place to be, you’ll learn a ton, get a limited attendee only shirt, and who knows, maybe a special discount on 360|iDev 2013… Just saying, there’s lots of reasons to join us in Las Vegas next week. See you there!

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One of the best parts of 360iDev min

January 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment

IMG_7234You can get technical content most anywhere; the internet, books, podcasts, tutorials, etc. (though we’re pretty damn proud of the technical content lined up for [360|iDev min]… Just sayin’)

 

But what you can’t get online are experiences like this:

Sitting down to lunch over a burger, talking to the developer of several hugely successful sports apps.

chatting with the developer of several massively successful iOS games over snacks and beer after a day of mind blowing sessions.

Sitting next to the QA guy that broke the news that Simple and many other banking apps are crazy insecure while you watch one of the guys above present.

Trading design ideas with the gal that had one of the highest rated talks at 360|iDev 2012.

Laughing over breakfast with the guy who’s company gives indie developers the insight they need into how their apps are doing in the app store.

Trading horror stories with the guy who will be reviewing your next blockbuster game for TUAW over lunch at one of dozens of restaurants around the conference.

And more, many many more. Every speaker and attendee is an awesome unique experience waiting to happen while you attend [360|iDev min], and of course, then there’s the 12 sessions of actually great technical content.

 

There’s a few spots left! See you there!

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360iDev min is coming up fast!

January 15, 2013 By 1 Comment

logo-black-lettersSo yeah [360|iDev min] is a thing! It’s been a thing for a while and this post was sitting in draft, oops.

Why min? That’s easy. 360|iDev is one of the funnest things we do all year. But’s a big deal, we’ve tried doing 2  a year and it almost killed us physically and financially. Moving around a 4 day, 4 track conference is tricky, that’s why we don’t do it anymore. But there’s so many cool places we’d like to see, so many cool places attendees would like to see, and so many people we want to see more than once a year!

SO….

The very first (of more than one, we hope) [360|iDev min] will be in Las Vegas February 4-5.

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Why Vegas? Well if we had a buck for every time someone said “Do a conference in vegas” we wouldn’t need to do conferences… so.. there it is. First stop, Las Vegas! Plus we’ve got a really cool venue right above an Apple store, that’s perfect for something this size.

We’ve got 12 incredibly awesome speakers. Some have spoken at past 360|iDev events, some are new to us and we’re happy to have them with us. We’ve got awesome sponsors, who love the iOS community supporting us. Sponsorship is more than just giving raffle prizes, that’s easy and costs next to nothing

Also with min, we want to make the whole thing a no brainer! $90/night hotel, close enough to walk, but also with a shuttle that goes right to the conference, a venue with nearly 20 bars and restaurants around it for all the fun after session stuff :) $199 ticket price for 2 days, 12 sessions, lots of awesome. $279 if want a Night of meat…

A Night of Meat?!?! 

Damn straight! What iOS event doesn’t start with a night of meat! A tradition dating back to the dawn of man, the Night of Meat is a staple of being a part of the iOS Community. The Sunday before [360|iDev min] we’ll meet at the Texas De Brazil in the same complex as the conference to socialize with sponsors and speakers, enjoy a great meal (there’s an AWESOME salad bar for the non meat eaters) before the brain melting sessions begin. Start off on the right foot, with a full tummy!

 

See you there! Space is limited! Don’t miss out! There’s events about App Makers, then there’re events for App Makers… see you in vegas! Register now!

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