Google I/O 2013 dates set for May 15-17

This year's edition of wildly popular developer conference sold out in 20 minutes

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Google I/O, which runs neck-and-neck with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference for hottest tech industry confab these days, will be held next year on May 15-17 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco.

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Google has issued a heads up to developers about Google I/O 2013 via Twitter:

Google Developers
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@googledevs
Save the date! Google I/O ‘13 will be 5/15-17. Reg info coming in early ‘13. Meanwhile, revisit the magic: google.com/io #io13
4 Dec 12

Google I/O 2012 sold out in about 20 minutes, angering those left out. About 5,500 attended the event.

Google says registration details for next year's event will be released in February.

This past year's Google I/O brought you the Nexus 7 tablet and Nexus Q, a social streaming media player.

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Bob Brown is the former news editor for Network World.