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Jamie Duncan Nesta — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:55:14 -0000

SlashGear.com covers the keynote and stays online too

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mathewi — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:52:05 -0000

Thanks, Robb.

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Robb Montgomery — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:42:29 -0000

Yeah, I was posting up live blogging sources for the keynote yesterday for Visual Editors when I saw all these live blogging attempts fail.

Matthew, I have more examples in the post. Macrumors has always been the best. For the past few years they have beaten everyone hands down with text and photos.

The qik.com live video crowd with their N95 camera phones were crunched down too as qik servers failed, often.

Twitter was worthless - again.

I did get to hear about the last 30 minutes of live audio from iJustine's qik feed. but her video bandwidth was wasted as she must have had the n95 on her lap and pointed to the roof. for fear, no doubt, of being detected. Wonder if they will ban n95s in future. Hmm.

More at http://www.visualeditors.com including the video that shows the Steve Jobs keynote in only 60 seconds.

Wired had the best write-up blow by blow.

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Emon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:53:40 -0000

I'd actually got live updates directly via MacRumorsLive without a hitch, photos and all.

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Daniel Shaw — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:27:53 -0000

@ian Maybe, but remember that the Twitter team is almost all ex-Googlers already. It don't think it would make sense to acquire them again.

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ianbetteridge — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:29:42 -0000

If by "cool", you mean "badly written"... yeah. Twitter is not great tech, unfortunately, and it simply won't scale much further - which is one of the reasons that Google didn't buy it.

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Robert — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:47:59 -0000

TUAW was barely able to handle the load, although I was able to see more updates from them then I was GeekbriefTV.

Funny You never hear about people lining up the night before at a Microsoft convention. . . . .

Good for you Steve I hope you break the internet next year too. . . . .

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gregory — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:26:15 -0000

but this is the future... more cool apps racing with bandwidth and server capacity and that is why the economist predicted that the web would slow down in 2008

get used to it

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lmjabreu — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:31:04 -0000

I'd love to see some graphs of all that, apple store, twitter, etc, must be really awesome haha.

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kp — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:33:48 -0000

MacRumorsLive.com rocked!! I was at a customer location on consulting engagement (wink wink)...I was up to speed...thanks to MacRumors!

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JeanHuguesRobert — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:48:20 -0000

Fun. Thanks.

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laza — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:06:51 -0000

Updates from macrumors via the "old school" internet technology IRC worked without a flaw. And fast.

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John Furrier — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:22:07 -0000

forgot my link

http://furrier.org/2008/01/15/steve-jobs-silenc...

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John Furrier — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:21:23 -0000

Web 2.0 is breaking...is this the beginning of the bubble pop..is cnn, nytime, cnbc laughing at us??

the tail can wag the dog! soon...

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Azhar — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:05:33 -0000

I was only at MacrumorsLive, they were awesome throughout the entire thing. Its quite stunning to read the system behind it (they've posted it somewhere). I'm sure it'll easily touch 220k plus just on MCLive's site.

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mathewi — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:39:01 -0000

Heh. Gizmodo actually wrote that into a post when Jobs' Flickr stream
didn't work -- said it wasn't them :-)

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mathewi — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:38:02 -0000

Thanks, Stu. Missed you lately :-)

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Stu — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:19:27 -0000

Internet worked great for me. Oh yeah, guess the blogosphere didn't realize that the vapid circle jerk known as twitter isn't actually the internet...

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allen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:15:14 -0000

hey mathew - maybe someone turned off twitter with a remote control?

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drBaher — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:11:24 -0000

Despite the high profile event, twitter guys were not ready... Maybe twitter is technically limited (rails anyone?), I think they own their community an explanation.

My post about it http://technozzle.com/?p=40