A 360|Conferences event
App Stars 2 is officially open! What’s that mean? It means that if you’ve got an app you’re getting ready to release, this contest is for you.
Head over and check out the rules, and submission guidelines.
The winner will be announced during our Monday keynote!
Hurry up, the window to submit your app closes the 26th! (That’s this friday!)
We’re proud to announce, our participation in the second edition of the Appsfire App Star awards!
We’re thrilled to be able to partner with appsfire, as well as the great list of buzz and media partners!
The Jury is an incredible line up ! Including our own Tom Ortega!
If you’re an app or game developer getting ready to release your wares into the app store, this contest might be the thing for you! Check it out! Last years’s contest was a huge success, we’re really excited to be a part of this one!
We’ll be announcing the winners during the Monday keynote!
360|iDev, since it’s beginning has attracted an awesome mix of people.
The first conference in 2009, had several sessions, including a sunday Hands-On about Jailbreaking, and what you can do in the jailbroken environment. We also had tons of people who had just put 1 or 2 apps in the store, we had a few folks who had already gone full time, whether as indie developers for hire, or running their own agency, building iPhone apps for companies big and small. We had authors and more in attendance. Mike Lee talked about the Apple community, and why it’s so awesome. We had sessions on how to market your app, what you need to watch out for legally and more.
Then in Denver, we noticed a shift, seeing more indie game developers in attendance. Keith and Natalia keynoted, David Whatley, an awesome late addition talked about being successful in the iPhone game space. Matt Drance formerly of Apple kicked off the conference, with an incredible keynote. We had developers talking about game design and development, being successful in the app store, making a living. We had developers talking about integrating push, getting crazy with OpenGL ES, Core Data, Core Animation, and more. We also saw the first Game Jam take place, developers spent the night churning out games. Presenting them on Wednesday. Several are in the app store now.
Were seeing the same thing as we plan for San Jose 2010 (You should register). We’re seeing tons more successful developers talking about how to succeed, how to rock the app store, even how to rock the app store with out being a “Smash hit”. We’ve got sessions that are sure to blow your mind, and be worth more than the price of admission, just for those 80 minutes. The Game Jam is back, sponsored by Touch Arcade, Aurora Feint is holding a Game Bar, to highlight games using Open Feint and talk about the added coolness of using OF in your games. We’ve got sessions, on marketing, running your business, advertising, and more.
360|iDev has proven to be an incredible mix of technical sessions, unlike any you’ll see at other events, and business and design sessions that will inform and inspire.
So to answer the question, who attends 360|iDev? Everyone.
The short answer is, the people who attend 360|iDev…
Want to make a nice living in the App Store. (Originally it was “Want to get rich on the App Store”, but I toned it down)
Want to get hired by Apple.
:)
Do yourself and your career a favor, be in San Jose April 11-14th for 360|iDev! Register now!
I posted about what you do and don’t get, and we’ve done more posts than I can count on the overall vibe, and the parties etc. So I wanted to take a minute to just post some pictures of the past 360|iDev events. I grabbed these off of flickr. The technical content you get at 360|iDev is beyond compare, truly, feel free to ask anyone who’s attended, but that’s just part of the story. The rest is the community of iPhone developers geeking out, sharing stories, code, forming companies, finding work, etc.
I don’t even know where to begin, trying to wrap up the conference. David does a really great job of capturing why we do what we do, read it. It’s worth the read, but here’s a few of the many gems of why I love doing what I do.
We’ve raved on this blog about the speakers already, so I’ll wrap that up with, EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS AWESOME! That’s really all there is to say. Special thanks to David Whatley, not only did he agree to speak at the last minute, but also stepped up to moderate a frakkin’ awesome lunch time panel on “The App Store” that inspired us to make sure panels are a bigger priority in future schedules.
We had a really great time, Tom and I both agree, the 4 days of actual conference make up for the 5 months of looking for sponsors, selling tickets, dealing with hotels, etc. It’s so amazing to be with such an incredible brain trust, exchanging ideas, talking opening about troubles and successes in iPhone development.
So much cool stuff happened too, that the mind wobbles, whether it’s every attendee getting a Mobile Sketchbook, courtesy of Apress and Dean Kaplan, or Aurora Feint Releasing Open Feint 2.1.
Our official sponsor, Apress provided 30 some odd books for our raffle, and Ebags (Local Denver Company!) provided 5 backpacks as well. The raffle is our way of encouraging attendees to participate in session surveys, and it works. We had a ton of submissions and since each submission is an entry in the raffle, those who submitted for each session they attended had awesome odds, and it showed.
We also got to experience what will now be a full fledged feature of the conference. The Game Jam. Mad props to Noel for throwing it together. I admit I was little unsure whether 1 night was enough to roll out a game, even a rough one. Turns out it’s enough time to turn out several.
Many people dream of visiting the mothership, Apple HQ in Cupertino. A relative few make it into the sacred walls to actually find work there. To work at Apple, you have to be good great at what you do. All the products we know and love are a testament to that fact.
If you’re in the iPhone development scene, access to those that have or are inside the sacred walls is truly priceless. It’s the reason that WWDC sold out. Now, we’re not claiming that chatting with these two fellas at 360|iDev beats chatting with entire teams at WWDC. It’s close though! LOL
Now, don’t get us wrong. We’re making a pretty big deal about these guys, but they’re not all the show has to offer. We have 40+ sessions led by the best of the best in indie developers, biz dev folks, etc. They are definitely the substance of the show. @drance and @bmf are just the lipstick and the eyeshadow (we’ll let them fight over which is wihich!)
However, even the speakers themselves realize how special it is to hang with these two. Aside from their knowledge of iPhone dev, mac dev, objective-c, startups, etc., these two are just nice guys that you’d want to hang with and share some good times with.
We just announced yesterday that prices will steadily be going up after 8/31. So hurry up and buy your tickets now while it’s still just $499.
Matt Drance, a former iPhone and Mac Evangelist, has agreed to kick off the show at Monday’s keynote. Matt recently left the mothership, i.e. Apple HQ. When asked why he did so, he had a pretty obvious response: to become part of the amazing community.
What better place to engage the iPhone community than at 360|iDev, the premiere iPhone developers conference . Quite literally, minutes after the twitterverse got wind of Matt’s departure, we reached out to him. John and I do these shows so the members of the iPhone community (new and old) can come together meet and learn from one another. We knew that Matt would be the perfect candidate to get our “party” started.
It took a little while to work out the details, i.e. having Matt’s people call our people. (Just kidding, neither sides has “people” LOL) However, yesterday stars and planets aligned. We finally hooked up and solidified the deal.
We and Matt are stoked to be announcing this. Mike Lee kicked off the show last time and he, to quote our friend @chews, “was on like Donkey Kong.” People loved his keynote as it was just oozing with goodness. The best part was the closing, “Now, I’m off to the mothership to become a full-time employee.” Now, it’ll be interesting to hear what Matt has to say coming from the other direction. (Speaking of Mike Lee…the title of this post is Amazing Announcement Part 1. Could there be a part 2? Stay tuned!)
With little more than a month left ’til Matt’s keynote begins, you’d better figure out someway to get yourself there. First step, register for the show. The worst thing you want is to get all excited and then have the show sell-out from under you. Act fast as I’m sure you won’t regret it.
