Live Streaming Bill Gates Keynote At Advance08

Bill Gates Keynote At Advance08 

Another Gates Keynote? Is there no one else in the tech world doing something interesting? Gates is yesterday, he should stick to giving his money away.

Half of the links on the live search store don’t work

http://search.msn.com/cashback.....mp;form=CM

Shop Direct At These Stores, click any link under that

Sorry about the lag, hopefully it will catch up shortly.

I can only watch these Qik streams for like 1 min…the quality is just so poor.

When will the US get good networks like Europe and Japan!! Agghh!!

All I see is a white screen. This sux.

I’m getting a rerun of the Munsters.

Blame it on Cain, don’t blame it on Mike.

Good effort, would like to see the video once fully uploaded- embedded unto google video and replacing the qik

Hey Michael,
thanks for the effort but the service really cuts out a lot.Since you invest the time to attend a lot of events, why not get a leg up above everyone else in terms of mobile web broadcasting with a little investment into this http://www.groundcontrol.com/prod_ig2500_001.htm

You can have your TC RV parked outside any event and provide a superb service to your readers.

Peter
do you follow me @ http://twitter.com/peterurban

I agree with Peter. How much can it cost to get us high quality, no latency live streams? News media have been doing this for years. The equipment has become much smaller and cheaper as well.

Thank you Michael,

you would have done better with live blogging this event, instead of broadcasting this sad jerky video.

Innovation in business model is exactly the way Microsoft needs to go.

Jay Nisenbaum

Grrrr. Autoplaying video? Please turn it off. Users can press play if they’re interested.

(There’s nothing like an early morning force-feeding of Microsoft kool-aid to get you off on the wrong foot)

Thanks 

Turn off Video - takes too much bandwidth - let at least uncorrupted sound to come through.

Wow, Techcrunch is so slow!!!! All that for uncle Bill?

Who’s filming??

I feel like I’m watching The Blair Witch Project

Ease up you guys… can’t you recognize the miracle of technology when you see it?

What was Bill Gates trying to explain? I didn’t understand it.

Live search engine sux…MS needs to take some urgent action to survive with Yahoo and Google services

Wow, Bill was just lucky there were no eggs!

What do y’all think of the Live Search Cash Back idea? I think it sounds kind of complicating (i.e., waiting 60 days for rebate) to really take off in a big way.

This is not miracle technology. I can’t believe they are using such a corrupt service such as PayPal. Another way for paypal to make money on interest off of other people’s money. Great!

I bet they shut half of these accounts down on “accident”

Affiliate marketing from MS..? sounds incredibly cheap…MS should focus on whatever they do best (OS, Office)..they shoud not waste their enery into Search or June or some other hardware stuff (keyboard, mice etc)

Microsoft is a great company. They are forgetting that Google runs on Microsoft (most people access Google from Windows OS !!).

“2008 is the year, he says, that people will look back and say that search got competitive.”

I’m sure what Bill meant to say is that 2008 is the year of. The year of. The year of the Linux desktop.

Kiss Jay Leno on the big screen goodbye Bill buddy.

hmmmm, that’s interesting

“2008 is the year, he says, that people will look back and say that search got competitive.”

I’m sure what Bill meant to say is that 2008 is the year of. The year of. The year of the Linux desktop.

Kiss Jay Leno on the big screen goodbye Bill buddy.

2025, Year of the MS search….

Suggestion 

Michael, PLEASE consider Dan’s eloquent, plaintive video @15.

You and your superbly competent staff have made TC “Required Daily Reading” for me and for multiple thousands more around the globe.

There are doubtless dozens of “extenuating circumstances” with which you can legitimately justify the recent “Sarah” and “Bill” video debacles.

But Mike, YOU GUYS ARE TECH CRUNCH! PLEASE FIX THIS. Thanks.

“I agree with Peter. How much can it cost to get us high quality, no latency live streams? News media have been doing this for years.”

I also like the guy that wants us to have a “TC RV parked outside any event and provide a superb service to your readers.”

Perhaps I should have a makeup and hair person with me at all times, too, for those impromptu satellite tv spots?

This is a blog, people. And I believe I was the only person livestreaming even audio from the event - Microsoft was having tech difficulties and couldn’t show it live.

This is so cool. Good work TC.

@ Michael Arrington (31), if you can’t figure out a way to do it I’m going to have to revoke your geek card. Its not a hard problem, and your audio stream excuse is lame. The whole stream was choppy and impossible to follow, as hilariously pointed out by Dan in post 15. There are multiple technologies available that aren’t expensive and don’t require your own news van. Picking on the most technologically advanced suggestions given by your users and calling them absurd doesn’t mean that you don’t have a serious problem. You do.

As I’ve mentioned above I appreciate the effort and I don’t suggest a polished TV type broadcast. Where I was heading was that if you already make the effort to be there and bring your camera (ahem phone…) why not wow everybody with an acceptable quality broadcast. Based on the size and impact of your TC network, the relatively small investment in a bit of extra tech might make sense to make everyone go over to TC to watch a stream that one can actually understand (not to mention the extra traffic that would come with that reputation). And imagine the surprise on Microsoft’s side…

And Michael, I don’t care about your makeup

Peter
do you follow me @ http://twitter.com/peterurban

Hmm, I didn’t see this live, doesn’t even need to be live, just a little more decent quality.

Peter - a better camera is great. But how do you propose I live stream it? The problem with the streaming wasn’t Qik, it was the fact that the wifi and cell networks were clogged. Not sure I can get around that. Oh wait, I am sure. I can’t.

Imagine this: there’s Option A, where this post never happened. Option B is the low quality video and lag time. There is no Option C, unless everyone was willing to wait hours for me to get somewhere where there was good bandwidth and upload higher quality video then. As it was, even with the lag, the full video was up 20 minutes after the end of the talk.

What you guys should be criticizing me for is sleeping until the last possible second, so I had a terrible seat in the back. If I’d been there early the video quality would have been perfectly acceptable. Nothing I could do about the lag though.

surely the quality of what you have to say has the edge in importance over the quality of your video picture?

What’s with that iTunes commercial going on in the background?

Mike: we’re so glad you didn’t have to go to the bathroom in spite of your food poisioning.