Update on 7-1-2011: "Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook (Arctic White)" Previous estimated arrival date: August 03 2011 - August 10 2011 New estimated arrival date: July 07 2011 Update on 6-29-2011: I received an e-mail from Amazon.com about the delivery date as the following; We now have delivery date(s) for the order you placed on June 24 2011 (Order# xxx-yyyyy-zzzzzzz): "Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook (Arctic White)" Estimated arrival date: August 03 2011 - August 10 2011 Go and redeem your Arctic White Samsung Chromebook Series 5 (3G). You will get an Amazon coupon to enter from Google IO web site and order your free Chromebook from Amazon. That's it! Right now it says, delivery date: unknown. I will update the post, when I have one :) Note: If you codes to claim your chromebook and free 2 day shipping do not show up immediately, just wait a while, they will come to your page.(it took around 30 minutes for me)

Online payments; $300 billion in the US, $8 trillion in the world. Shopping cart can be created with javascript. There are Checkout API, Cart API, and Merchant Calculations API. PROs : Removes the need of SSL certificate requirement. Custom shipping can be added in addition to google checkout shipping. 3 clicks to complete checkout. 4 minutes(can be set) to complete checkout. Specific mobile interface for the checkout process. Very easy to setup. Separation between Donate (non profit) and Support (no need to be non profit) buttons. Special charge back flow (devs do not need to care about that workflow) Fraud protection. Supports micro payments. CONs : US&UK only! No split payment option. No promotion code entry for mobile devices. No inventory buffer.(when multiple people add same items into their carts and before/just after they complete the checkout one of the items is sold out.) You have to sign up with your google account.

I have been to Google IO first time this year and I really enjoyed the fun there. Location of the conference is easy to find and very close to Market/Powell street which you can travel via multiple public transportation options. I choose cable car to go to Moscone Center. Cable car is a little slow but as a tourist it is fun to travel with. Registration is easy and fast(for 5k people), I spend 5-6 minutes to get my badge. Once you register, thousands of people are gearing up (with Google T-shirts) and moving to breakfast. After breakfast, everybody goes to keynote room and Vic announces a new tablet will be given to all attendees. With our new tablets, we attend multiple sessions all day long. There is a party at the end of first day, and you can see&play with the new electronic toys from multiple teams(e.g. GM, MIT) Second day, Vic announces new chromebook will be given to all attendees around June 15th. I like this announcement more than the previous one personall...

UPDATE : Instructions to claim your Chromebook will be send next week to the e-mail that you registered with. UPDATE: Google decided to give Samsung Galaxy Tab(not released to public device ~1 month) and Chromebook(will be shipped on June 15) to all the attendees ! The ones, who are lucky and be able to register for Google IO 2011, may start to think about what will be the gift or welcome kit for this year? Why do I care? I am planning to buy a tablet in the beginning of March, what will I do with two identical tablets if they give away tablets this year! In my opinion; strong possibility is a tablet give away but Google TV option is also slightly possible. Most probably(and I hope), there will not be another Android phone gift with this year's event. We all have Android phones and already building on top of those. What do you think? Which one you want to have? (may be Google can look at here to decide;) (a) Any tablet which runs Honeycomb (b) Any Google TV with it...

Yes you are right, the event tickets are sold out in an hour! If you tried to register Google IO but could not register because of 503 errors, don't worry you can still register via specifying your registration id. How to find your registration id? Open up your browser's history and find the URL like the following; https://www.google-io.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=reg.Conf&PK=**** **** specifies your registration id. Try to browse that site and hopefully it will work. If not then you will wait for the next Google IO. If you cleared the cash of your browser, may be you can start to wish there was a recycle bin for those... Bear in mind, you need to receive 2 e-mails from Google IO; One for Invoice and one for the Registration Confirmation. Once you received these, you are ready to book your flight!