Google reaches out to South African Developers

Google reaches out to South African Developers

9 Comments 26 August 2009

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In an attempt to strengthen Google’s presence locally, they have decided to reach out to South African developers.

Dear Developers in South Africa
Google South Africa want to know you, and is in the process of building a database of local developers. What’s it for? Google want to keep in touch with you, invite you to events and tech talks that may be of interest to you. If you are interested, please complete this form ASAP:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFdibV9FeXRLdW53YzVLNmRYMktUT0E6MA
Of course, this information will be kept confidential and will not be shared with any third party, we too hate spam!

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http://www.charlvn.com/ Charl van Niekerk
Thanks very much for the heads-up. I am a big App engine fan so filled out the form immediately.
http://twitter.com/nickjackson Nick
Can we get some more proof that this is official? Big lack of branding or anything on that spreadsheet.
snarktjones
Is this legit?
seems like a scam like to me, or maybe i’m just overly paranoid….
http://www.newmedialabs.co.za Paul Cartmel
Hi Yasser,
Please change the radio buttons to check boxes so we can actually select 3 technologies we are interested in.
regards,
Paul
anon
Perhaps you could put a link to the original source of this?
I’d really like to be notified of local Google developer events, but this is just a link to a spreadsheet form that *anyone* can create.
Nice way for a recruitment agency to build up a contact list
Someone
Where did you get this info from? This looks like a scam by spammers to harvest email addresses.
http://www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Phillips
I’ve just checked with Google South Africa and it is an official marketing exercise.
http://twitter.com/nickjackson Nick
Got a blog post or *anything* from them you can link to?
http://www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Phillips
this s it for now, as soon as we know more we’ll share