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Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of deep technical content, focused on building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more. Google I/O is... American. Google is manufacturing the Nexus Q in the U.S. Go red, white, and blue! That explains the pricey $299 tag. Google I/O is... Android Haven. Has this conference transformed the Avid Apple User into robots? Almost there, not quite. Although, I wouldn't mind an Android Pillow Pet!!! Google I/O is...Schwag. *Photos coming soon! Google I/O is Google+ Events -ful! *Photos coming soon! Google I/O is... a UX playground.

On Monday, June 18 th I attended Social Loco 2012, a conference discussing how social-location will be monetized and leveraged across industries and verticals. Big Brand Hack-a-thon kicked off the Social Loco 2012 extravaganza on June 16 th . This two-day hack-a-thon brought big brand companies like Kraft Foods, Home Depot and Nokia to judge and announce a winning product on June 17 th , the last day of the hack-a-thon. Home Depot awarded $8,000 to Nive Jayasekar, a 17-year-old high school student who will be attending Carnegie Mellon University this Fall. Her product also won the ‘Best Use of Social and Location Mashup’ for $2,500, totaling her winnings to $10,500! With a strong supportive family of female engineers, Nive has a bright future as a potential intern for Facebook this summer.  Nive says, “My mother and grandmother played a large role in making me who I am. My grandma, she only studied in India until eleventh grade. She really wanted my mother gain higher educatio