Thursday
Jan112007
Macworld Day 2
Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 12:59AM
Attended last nights recording of MacBreak Weekly at the 21st Brewery. Really small venue and with the number of people in the crowd it was pretty uncomfortably hot. Met a couple of ScreenCastsOnline viewers from Canada. Some great content though and I'd recommend downloading the show as it had some cool disclosures by David Pogue who is one of the few people outside of Apple to handle the iPhone.
Ended up having dinner with Adam Christianson of The Maccast and some of the guys and gals from the local Apple store.
Day 2
Rather than walk to the Convention center I tried hopping onto the local Bart transit system.
Started the day with a great session by David Pogue and then spent some time traipsing round the show floor.
Met up with Byron from TeachMac who showed off the new version of the Teachmac client. I've put some of the free shows onto Teachmac and have a ScreenCastsOnline library on there. Also met with Ken Ray of the MacOS Ken Podcast.
Andy Ihnatko gave a great session on "500 things to do with your Mac before you die" but only got to about 8 before his session finished - looking forward to the other 492 sometime.
I also met up with Chuck Joiner from MacNotables and MacVoices and sat in on his session on MUGs. I'm really envious of these people who can stand up and talk for 60 minutes without any prompting!
I don't think I'll be able to do a normal show this week so I'll probably just upload some video clips from Day 1 later today.
I'll do an extra special show next week - honest!
As an aside, I was sitting next to Apples Principal Research Scientist and Manager for Spoken language Technologies at Apple - Kim Silverman. He seemed really interested in ScreenCastsOnline and I may hook up with him after the show to explore doing some screencasts on the spoken language technologies in Tiger (and hopefully in Leopard when it's available)
More networking tonight as I've been invited to the Cirque de Mac event hosted by the Mac Geek Gab guys. Dave Hamilton was kind enough to give me a couple of tickets to the event which seems to be one of the hot tickets in town. There's a Mac band made up of various luminaries playing live. Should be cool!
Looking forward to tomorrow night as there is a Mac Podcaster Meetup at the Apple store and there is a veritable who's who of mac podcasters in attendance. It's open to everyone so if you're in the vicinity pop along!
Ended up having dinner with Adam Christianson of The Maccast and some of the guys and gals from the local Apple store.
Day 2
Rather than walk to the Convention center I tried hopping onto the local Bart transit system.
Started the day with a great session by David Pogue and then spent some time traipsing round the show floor.
Met up with Byron from TeachMac who showed off the new version of the Teachmac client. I've put some of the free shows onto Teachmac and have a ScreenCastsOnline library on there. Also met with Ken Ray of the MacOS Ken Podcast.
Andy Ihnatko gave a great session on "500 things to do with your Mac before you die" but only got to about 8 before his session finished - looking forward to the other 492 sometime.
I also met up with Chuck Joiner from MacNotables and MacVoices and sat in on his session on MUGs. I'm really envious of these people who can stand up and talk for 60 minutes without any prompting!
I don't think I'll be able to do a normal show this week so I'll probably just upload some video clips from Day 1 later today.
I'll do an extra special show next week - honest!
As an aside, I was sitting next to Apples Principal Research Scientist and Manager for Spoken language Technologies at Apple - Kim Silverman. He seemed really interested in ScreenCastsOnline and I may hook up with him after the show to explore doing some screencasts on the spoken language technologies in Tiger (and hopefully in Leopard when it's available)
More networking tonight as I've been invited to the Cirque de Mac event hosted by the Mac Geek Gab guys. Dave Hamilton was kind enough to give me a couple of tickets to the event which seems to be one of the hot tickets in town. There's a Mac band made up of various luminaries playing live. Should be cool!
Looking forward to tomorrow night as there is a Mac Podcaster Meetup at the Apple store and there is a veritable who's who of mac podcasters in attendance. It's open to everyone so if you're in the vicinity pop along!
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Macworld 2007, Apple, ScreenCastsOnline, iPhone
Reader Comments (1)
I'm happy this guy from Apple is interested in you :)
Describing all this cool stuff makes me more and more jealous to no be there!