Now, I’m writing & sitting on a red (my favourite color) relax couch with matching footstool in Google’s Singapore office. I have to say, the first thing I fell in love when I set my foot in the office, it’s their marvelous work spaces and environment. I can imagine myself running around the office screaming “Hellalujah!”, praying for some kindness (and improvements) for my current workspace.

I’ll be blogging (semi) live from The Goog. The Goog. Sounds like a really good title for a cult movie about The Goog(le). Watch this page for (lazy) updates.

1:30PM

Still waiting for the show to start. There’s roughly about 12 10 developers that has arrived. And it seems that I’m the only developer from KL. Met Justin Lee from e27, Budy from Indonesia. etc.

2:00PM

Vinoaj kicks off the hackathon with a kickstart session. He briefly (re)introduces the crowd to OpenSocial & its usage. In a note, 51.com contributes the largest amount of OpenSocial users from Asia, but they recently boycotting OpenSocial with several other socnets from China.

2:30PM

Vinoaj jumps around to give a glimpse of what we will be building (hacking) here today using the iGoogle sandbox.

2:50PM

Bjorn Lee (e27) arrives.

3:00PM

Vinoaj speaks about Shindig. Props to @ropu for his DevFest presentation on Shindig.

3:15pM

I’m getting sleeeeepy. Hardly slept last night. A good adventure this morning searching (and walking) for a hotel/motel.

3.20PM

Vinoaj wrapping first presentation. Now he is talking about “Socializing Apps”.

Pure social apps. Socialized apps.

3:30PM

Vinoaj wraps. Now it’s time for Widgeo.us. Whoops. e27 briefs everyone what they do. My comment: they actually bring students out from their “coconut shell”.

4:30PM

Brainstorming session. Good ideas surfaced.

5:00PM

Hacking starts. Now, who wants to team up with me? Isk isk…

6:30PM

Vinoaj orders dinner. PIZZA!

6:50PM

I’m pretty worked up on my OpenSocial idea. Will continue posting updates when dinner arrives! Hehehe.

9:00PM

All good things must come to an end. Thank you guys. Thank you Google. I’m tired and sleepy after a sleepless night & an early morning search for cheap hotels (I refused to stay at Hotel 81). I’ll write more about this, after I sleep.