January 14, 2008

Macworld Expo Keynote Live On TechCrunch Tomorrow

Duncan Riley

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Tune in to TechCrunch tomorrow for Steve Job’s keynote live blogged from the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.

There is no shortage of rumors of floating about, but definitely expect to see an announcement about movie rentals on iTunes, possibly a new iPhone (either with increased memory, 3G or both) and a number of other hardware and software announcements. You can read the fake running sheet for the keynote here.

As of this afternoon the exhibitors and venue were still being set up for the big day tomorrow, with attendees already queuing to register today to beat the rush tomorrow (although some parts of the Expo were open today). Queues for general admission into the Keynote are expected to be in place from midnight with most major Mac blogs suggesting that general pass holders (ie not platinum or press) should look to queue from around 4-5 am for reasonable seats.

For a different take the team from CrunchGear will also be live blogging the event here.

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Hope to hear something more interesting beside those ‘rumous’.

 

I hope CrunchGear does a better job of writing down the keynote this time.

Engadget was much, much better at telling us wtf was happening during the last keynote. Time to step it up GC!

 

Genius
cant talk for CG but here at TC you’ll be getting a full ball-by-ball play in a similar text and pic style to Engadget, similar to what I did for TC40…presuming my net access holds out.

 

Why did Microsoft insist on conducting their MicrosoftWorld conference at the same time as MacWorld 2008? They even “borrowed” MacWorld’s slogan and tried to hide it by changing it slightly. They aren’t fooling anyone! http://moourl.com/msworld

 

Let’s see what Apple has in mind for 2008. Microsoft should simply broadcast Steve Job’s keynote under the slogan: “Here’s what we are copying now!”

 

Oh, I’m sure the streaming audio we have setup will do the trick.

 

It’s kind of hard to liveblog Bill Gates hanging out with Bono for an hour. Tomorrow’s keynote is our Prom Night. Peter Ha has been limbering up for weeks.

 

Do we need TechCrunch and CrunchGear both? I like what CrunchGear did with the CES keynote, even if the keynote itself was uneventful. But why not have duncan help with CG instead of both sites? Too much to check already!

 

Mac fan boys are the most annoying lifeless people on earth.

 

I think every blog will have a wrap up on MacWorld, it’s only natural.

 
 

I think these guys are right:
http://spil.kathart.dk/stevenote

Steve Jobs will give us a new subnotebook, updated iPhone, iTunes movie rental and updates to pro software.

 

There’s something WEIRD in the air around the Moscone.

http://cheeseheadtech.blogspot.....n-air.html

 

Can’t wait to see what gets released this year in the Stevenote :) Here is hoping for drawing tablet built into a dual screen laptop or something :)

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I am very excited about the macworld expo this year. After a great 2007 for the apple family, I’m expecting new great innovations for this year. I am always impressed by how Steve Jobs presents himself with his infamous keynote speeches during macworld expos. I really do hope to get a chance to work for apple in the near future. Apple really does provide a lot help of for artists such as me. I hope that apple would still continue to innovate stuff for the creative community. More power to Steve and his fruit!

 

The Keynote will be live (video) on Ustream.tv also today

 

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Duncan,

It’s good to hear that TC is doing it this year. Please, please, please take a look the coverage between CrunchGear and Engadget from the 2007 Keynote.

CG’s coverage looks like it came from a 10 year old. While Engadget’s is professional, polished and extremely informative.

http://crunchgear.com/2007/01/.....e-keynote/

http://engadget.com/2007/01/09.....s-keynote/

Whoever does it for TC, please do a better job. We need details! Not, quotes like this:

Two greatest companies on the web, sez Jobs. Yahoo and Google on the same stage? Strange.

When you compare that to what Engadget said, you can see that there is no comparison:

10:31am - “From google what we have on the phone is google search built right into the browser and google maps. We’ve been working closely with them.. it’s my pleaseure now to introduce Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO.”

10:32am - Eric: “I’ve had the privilege of joining the board and there’s a lot of relationships… if we merge the companies we can call it Applegoo — but I’m not a marketing guy. You can actually merge without merging. Each company should do the absolutely best thing they can do every time, and he’s shown it today.” Huge applause, again.

10:33am - “We can take the enormous brain trust of the Apple team and the open protocols of companies like google and put them in an environment for end users. From a gooogle perspective we’ve pushed very hard to partner with Apple and working with many many different data service, — Steve showed a little bit. It comes together seamlessly. This is the first of a whole new generation…”

“Steve, my congratulations to you, this product is going to be HOT.”

 

Your a flaming ass! It just a fanclub.

 

See live updates via iPhone on webchattr.com.

http://webchattr.com/stevenote/

 

“Macworld Keynote Live on Tech-Crunch”

Why?

 

If you are a twitter user, follow @hashtags and use the word “#macworld” in your post and it will appear in a river of news on http://macworld.hashtags.org

 

@Macbook Air

A fanclub of what? You don’t even know what it is yet…. ass flamer.

 

Duncan at TC40 using the wi fi was not reliable due to being slammed.

We used Verizon EVDO for our demoPit presentation and fortunately had no issues … no need to run the site locally.

I’d suggest EVDO if you don’t already have it!

 
 

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