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!
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.
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.
