DevFest Manila 2008

DevFest (Developer's Festival) was held at the UP Diliman Social Welfare Building. The said event was hosted by Google and sponsored by Globe and Smart Telecommunications. The Google Friends (the guys behind the said event) travels from country to country to encourage programmers like us to develop web apps (mini application) that can be ported to social network (social website e.g. friendster , myspace ) and this is what they called "OpenSocial". Using the google API or I might say their own API you can develop your own OpenSocial Application that can be used by other users through Social Networks,

Pamela Fox who started the talking, explains about this so called OpenSocial, followed by some guys from the Globe, who announces that there will be a GlobeLabs Challenge open for all developers who wants to create programs for sms/mms protocols.

The next guy who caught my attention was from the android team, well, definetly he's not an android xp, I've got interested when I heard about a phone running under a LINUX OS, and that was the ANDROID.Seeing some of his programs and being able to access google maps through that phone was a brilliant idea, but do you think it is enjoyable to view a map from a phone?? a tiny view of the map from a phone?? Seriously I don't like using google maps from a phone BUT this ANDROID still rocks.

The Friendster people talks about the OpenSocial and discuss some ways on how you can port your own application to Friendster itself. Using their API's you can actually create your own application and start making money. In fact in order to promote this OpenSocial Phenomena there will be a contest that will choose 4 winners for every country including the Philippines for the best OpenSocial Application. Other presentor came in like the Drupal guy who uses Drupal to create web apps.Pamela Fox returns at the stage for some presentation and explanation about google map api's and other api's and the last guy who talks about the youtube api.

All in all the event was really fun specially watching the Google friends dance on the floor, and of course a bit excited cause the I.T. development are growing bigger and better making more and more opportunities for I.T. people.