Macworld San Francisco 2008 Concludes
Macworld San Francisco 2008 has come to a close. The 5 day conference and expo started on Monday, January 14th and ran until Friday January 18th. MacRumors.com was there for our traditional keynote coverage as well as extended floor coverage.
Our latest expo stories
NeatReceipts - a personal receipt scanner solution originally on Windows only.
Intuit - complete Quicken rewrite, and demo of Turbo Tax
H&R Block - demos 2008 TaxCut
Poll: Did you buy a MacBook Air?
Live Keynote Coverage
Keynote coverage on Tuesday, January 15th went remarkably well, though there were some issues behind the scenes. In particular, live keynote SMS updates were not sent due to technical problems at Twitter and Spoiler free emails were inadvertently delayed a number of hours. Despite these problems, we successfully updated our MacRumorsLive site which garnered universally positive reviews: JoshBancroft.com, ForWheelers.net, Sauria.com, ImRoot.com, MathewIngram.com, MacNoob, and Scobelizer.com:
Due to the overwhelming traffic, we are still processing log files to generate proper stats. We did, however, serve a record 535,000 unique visitors during the 90 minute keynote.
An archive of the keynote transcript is now available. Macworld 2009 takes place from January 5th-9th, 2009.
Our latest expo stories
NeatReceipts - a personal receipt scanner solution originally on Windows only.
Intuit - complete Quicken rewrite, and demo of Turbo Tax
H&R Block - demos 2008 TaxCut
Poll: Did you buy a MacBook Air?
Live Keynote Coverage
Keynote coverage on Tuesday, January 15th went remarkably well, though there were some issues behind the scenes. In particular, live keynote SMS updates were not sent due to technical problems at Twitter and Spoiler free emails were inadvertently delayed a number of hours. Despite these problems, we successfully updated our MacRumorsLive site which garnered universally positive reviews: JoshBancroft.com, ForWheelers.net, Sauria.com, ImRoot.com, MathewIngram.com, MacNoob, and Scobelizer.com:
For watching a live keynote, my son and I agree, Mac Rumors Live was -- by far -- the best place to watch the keynote. You didnt need to refresh the page. Everything just came to you live.
Due to the overwhelming traffic, we are still processing log files to generate proper stats. We did, however, serve a record 535,000 unique visitors during the 90 minute keynote.
An archive of the keynote transcript is now available. Macworld 2009 takes place from January 5th-9th, 2009.
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53 months ago
Macworld 2009 takes place from January 5th-9th, 2009.
And you can expect us all to be present for the webcast. Sincere kudos for this year's great coverage.
53 months ago
I absolutely love the spoiler-free quicktime links; they have made all Apple events much more fun and interesting to me. I guess I just really like being surprised.
53 months ago
I can't wait 'till next year. IMO it was a little less this year, paying for apps on touch?? i know this is business, but this should be free. Macbook air looks very nice, but not a thing for me.. itunes rentals isn't at this moment in European countries, and will al big companies go like they did in America, renting their films via itunes in Europa?? Apple tv seems very nice! maybe this will be bought in our house.
53 months ago
I loved the Ajax page updating, it's a great improvement for users and probably easier on the servers as well. Inline images might not be a bad idea, sometimes they were out of sync with the text updates. Good job!
53 months ago
Very happy with your excellent coverage. Looking forward to coverage of other events from Apple this year like WWDC.
53 months ago
The excellent coverage is really appreciated. I can't think of any other time when watching text updates on a screen is that exciting!
Mac news and music/production info is my porn and for the Mac related stuff, there's no better pimp than macrumors.com! :D (No really, it's a compliment!)
Mac news and music/production info is my porn and for the Mac related stuff, there's no better pimp than macrumors.com! :D (No really, it's a compliment!)
53 months ago
Thank you very much for the excellent job done at Macworld. I started following the keynote with three sites open and ended up with in short order with only MacRumors.
53 months ago
i totally forgot about the keynote that morning, and when i went to macrumors i saw images of some guy at a piano with big crazy hair... but if i had remembered i would have been reading the live feed from macrumors, so i guess you can count my unique visit as well ;)
53 months ago
One question.. Are you guys going to also cover WWDC?? it would be very nice, but from what i heard the tickets are much more expensive..
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