MIX 2010 Day 2 Keynote Live Blog
Welcome to the live blog for the Day 2 Keynote from MIX 2010 where we expect to hear lots about IE 9 and more!
MIX 2010 Day 1 Recap: Got Windows Phone 7 Series?
Greetings Readers!
I'm sure that by now, most of you have heard at least something that has come out of Microsoft's MIX 2010 today, probably from our keynote live blog, but there is a lot of newsworthy information that hasn't been talked about too much so I am going to share a bit of a recap of all of the juicy information I found out today.
The day started off with the keynote which was quite interesting or at least it was if you have the least bit of interest in Windows Phone 7 Series. There were plenty of demos on how to write applications to ready to demo applications from Seesmic and even Netflix. I wasn't too shocked to see applications from Seesmic or Shazam or anything but the Netflix steaming app really surprised me considering there is still no Netflix app for the iPhone.
The experience on the phone seems to be very smooth and is obviously very dependent on having a network to connect to. Between notifications and the fact that the phone pulls most of its information from the cloud, if you have no network connection, the phone seems pretty crippled as to what it can do. I'm not a huge cloud fan for this reason but I will hold off until everything is ready to ship to say just how bad of an idea this is.
The capabilities of the phone are very impressive. Thanks to the high, minimum hardware specs such as 256MB of ram, 8GB flash drive, 5MP camera, DirectX 9 acceleration and much more. They demonstrated the whole idea of playing a 3D Xbox Live arcade game on the phone, Windows and the 360. I wasn't as impressed by that since XNA which the phone uses has been doing this for a while, but I was impressed by the power of the phone. The game it was playing looked to be as good if not better a quality as many of my PSP games. In the mobile gaming market, it has the potential to be a major player. That said, I am slight annoyed that they aren't saying what graphics chip the phone is using although I suspect that it is nVidia's Tegra 2.
There was also some interesting talk in terms of what you can do for business models. We found out that ads can show up over your content like a pop-up ad which is extremely annoying. We were being shown an AP News app when suddenly the bottom 1/3 or so of the screen had a Ford Focus driving on it for several seconds. As a hater of ads that get in the way of the content and experience, this makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Luckily, there are more ways to monetize your app but not as many as there should be. You will be able to sell apps as normal and even let people try apps before they buy them which is awesome. One of the things that I noticed that was not mentioned, but I love is the fact that at least with the apps, there are no Microsoft points, just an actual dollar amount. Whether that is the case with the Zune Marketplace on the phone, I have yet to find that out but I am glad to see that they appear to be moving away from the whole points nonsense. One way you won't be able to monetize your app, at least initially, is with downloadable content. At launch, there will be no in-app purchases. If you want to have downloadable for your games or whatever, you will want to hold off a while. The last thing to note about purchases is that you can use a credit card or whatever or you can have it billed to your phone bill.
After they keynote and intro to Windows Phone 7 Series, there wasn't too much of note although I did have some great conversations with some people from Internet Explorer, XNA and others. I will share those conversations on the next Global Geek News Podcast because I am too tired to write separate posts for those.
I hope to have the chance to record the podcast tomorrow since I didn't have time today and there is a huge surprise for you all with the new show as the new Intro is finally done and ready to go! I can't wait to hear what you guys think about it. Anyway, stay tuned for the live blog of day two's keynote where we will learn about IE 9 and who knows what else. More MIX 2010 coverage to come!
MIX 2010 Keynote Day 1 Live Blog
Welcome to the day 1 keynote from Microsoft's MIX 2010 conference. They live blog is below!
Next Week on Global Geek News: MIX 2010
Greetings fellow geeks!
As I mentioned on this week's podcast, I will be traveling to Vegas to attend Microsoft's MIX 2010 c0nference. There will be a ton of MIX coverage right here on the Blog and I am even going to try to do a podcast live from the event with whatever special guests I can grab from the conference to join me on the show.
What kind of coverage will we have? Myself and my fellow Student Insiders will be doing a live blog of the keynotes on both day one and two (Monday and Tuesday) and I will be doing a number of interviews with various people of great influence that will be posted here as soon as I can get them posted (I'm not sure what bandwidth is going to be like). I expect there to be announcements regarding Internet Explorer 9, Silverlight and what I am most looking forward to, Windows Phone 7 Series. I plan to focus most of the coverage around Windows Phone 7 Series but I will have to wait and see what the big announcements are to know for sure where the focus will be.
Bandwidth permitting, I will be posting lots of pictures and videos from the event and blogging most of the time as well. If you want to make sure you catch all of the conference coverage, make sure to subscribe with the great big button above!
The first keynote kicks off at 9AM PST on Monday morning, so make sure to be here for the live blog!
If there is anything specific you would like to see me cover or somebody you want me to interview, leave it in the comments and I will do my best to satisfy your request!
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Amazon terminates Colorado based associates over new taxes
Greetings readers!
Like any Monday morning, I woke up with a feeling of dread about the day and I didn't even have to be awake 5 minutes to know why. When I checked my e-mail this morning, I found that I had received an e-mail from Amazon regarding my affiliate account. As of today, my Amazon affiliate account has been terminated as well as every other Amazon affiliate based in Colorado. Why have our accounts been terminated? The idiots in our state legislature just passed a law for taxing online sales. Our governor can't ride a bike without nearly getting himself killed, how in the world did we think he was smart enough to run the state?! Anyway, below is the full statement I received from Amazon in my e-mail this morning.
Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate:
We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. The regulations are burdensome and no other state has similar rules. The new regulations do not require online retailers to collect sales tax. Instead, they are clearly intended to increase the compliance burden to a point where online retailers will be induced to "voluntarily" collect Colorado sales tax -- a course we won't take.
We and many others strongly opposed this legislation, known as HB 10-1193, but it was enacted anyway. Regrettably, as a result of the new law, we have decided to stop advertising through Associates based in Colorado. We plan to continue to sell to Colorado residents, however, and will advertise through other channels, including through Associates based in other states.
There is a right way for Colorado to pursue its revenue goals, but this new law is a wrong way. As we repeatedly communicated to Colorado legislators, including those who sponsored and supported the new law, we are not opposed to collecting sales tax within a constitutionally-permissible system applied even-handedly. The US Supreme Court has defined what would be constitutional, and if Colorado would repeal the current law or follow the constitutional approach to collection, we would welcome the opportunity to reinstate Colorado-based Associates.
You may express your views of Colorado's new law to members of the General Assembly and to Governor Ritter, who signed the bill.
Your Associates account has been closed as of March 8, 2010, and we will no longer pay advertising fees for customers you refer to Amazon.com after that date. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned prior to March 8, 2010, will be processed and paid in accordance with our regular payment schedule. Based on your account closure date of March 8, any final payments will be paid by May 31, 2010.
We have enjoyed working with you and other Colorado-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program, and wish you all the best in your future.
Best Regards,The Amazon Associates Team
If you live in Colorado, please contact the elected morons that pushed this through and tell them to repeal it!
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A new idea for the podcast and your feedback is needed!
Greetings readers and listeners!
Earlier today, I had an idea for a change to the Global Geek News Podcast that I thought I would run by you guys before I acted on it. What is this wonderful idea?
I would like to start doing interviews with various influential people in the MET (media, entertainment and technology) space such as journalists, podcasters, bloggers, CEOs or whoever I think would be interesting to talk to and make it as part of the podcast. I'm thinking that I would like to dedicate at least 10-15 minutes of every show to talking with different people about themselves and a major topic from the week. Would this be something you guys would be interested in?
What I am also unsure of is how best to do it. There are two different ways that I am considering, either cut down on the number of stories we cover so that the show will still be right around an hour, or tack the interview on at the end of a regular show so that the show would then run around an hour and 15 minutes or so. Just to make sure there is no confusion, this won't change how we handle guests on the show. We will still have an occasional guest on the main part of the show, this would basically be just me and whoever I am talking with as a one-on-one conversation.
What do you guys think? Should I do it? Which format would you prefer? Should I just make this idea into something separate from the show but still apart of Global Geek News? I need your feedback!
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Microsoft Student Insider Training Day 1: Travel
Greetings everybody!
Sorry for my recent absence from the blog. Between my trip to Microsoft that I am about to tell you about, finals, my grandmother's cancer and a few other things, my life has been all kinds of crazy lately. Hopefully, starting today, I can get back to blogging regularly like I vowed at the first of the year. Anyway, lets talk my trip to Microsoft!
Since technically, the first day of the trip was the travel day, I will talk about the travel day in this post and then the extra exciting stuff will start in the next post. As of right now, I expect to do a series of at least 4 posts about this trip which will likely have a few other posts sprinkled in and some major news about the Global Geek News Podcast to wrap everything up before we get back to your regularly scheduled blog. Anyway, lets talk the travel day!
Wednesday morning I woke up far earlier than should be allowable by law to make sure I made it to the airport in Colorado Springs with plenty of time to go through the theater that is the TSA and wait at my gate for a couple of hours. Normally the only part of this that I would hate would be the TSA experience but having a bad case of the runs did not make things pleasant. Luckily, I had probably the easiest experience with the TSA that I have ever had. I did have to remove my Kindle from my bag but that was to be expected since they have had issues seeing through it before. Apparently listening to the TSA's guide on how to pack your bag that is posted on their site is quite helpful if you want to have an easy time getting through their checkpoint. The flights from Colorado Springs to Denver and from Denver to Seattle were nice flights but I was rather annoyed that there was no TV in the headrests of the planes which has always been the case on every Frontier flight I have flown in the past. I am still rather irritated about this but now I know to be a bit more picky about what planes I fly on. Other than this, the only scary part of the flight was when we were over Seattle, getting close to landing when suddenly we hit a bad pocket of air or something and the plane went 45 degrees to the left and then 45 degrees to the right before we leveled back out. I am sure we had a decent drop in altitude with it as well.
After the flight, it took me longer than expected to meet up with my driver that was supposed to pick me up and go to the hotel. After waiting around for a while with no sign of anybody holding a Microsoft Student Insider sign, I finally received a call from the driver wondering where I was and where to meet me. Turns out, he was apparently on the other end of the baggage claim area that was no short distance away, but luckily we met in the middle and headed to the car. At this point, I had the pleasure of meeting up with two of the other insiders, Tom Ziegmann (Twitter) and Joe Osborne (Twitter), a couple of great guys that I felt right at home with.
After a decent drive to the hotel which was the Mariot hotel in the Redmond Town Center, we checked in to our rooms and received a backpack full of goodies like an MSDN cup and some spending money for food and whatever else on our travel days. We then decided to kill some time and go walking around the Redmond Town Center to see what the area had to offer. I was quite impressed with how nice the area was and just what kind of stores where there. They had all kinds of restaurants, and stores ranging from a board game store to a Victoria's Secret. Yes, there was even a Starbucks. After walking around for a while, we decided to go our separate ways for the night. I went and had dinner with a couple of my cousins at a restaurant in the town center while they went into Seattle to have dinner at Anthony's. My food was good, but I think they got to eat a lot better than I did that night.
After that, I went to the board game store with my cousins and then called it a night. Having woken up at 4:30am that morning, I was quite tired. That was the end of the travel day and the best was yet to come. Check back tomorrow for day 2, my first day at Microsoft!
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Microsoft’s CES Keynote was a major snooze
Greetings Readers!
As I am sure many of you are aware, last night was Microsoft's CES 2010 keynote and if you watched it, you know that the most exciting thing that came out of the keynote was the power failure that delayed it close to 30 minutes (We live blogged it here). As I stated last night, I would give my thoughts, both good and bad right here (Disclosure: I am a Microsoft Student Insider), so here we go.
I was rather surprised at the lack of announcements coming out of the keynote compared to years past. For those hoping for a big announcement regarding the rumored new features behind Ford's Sync, you are out of luck. Those are apparently being saved until Ford's keynote. Hoping for a major announcement about the Zune HD? Nope, nothing here either. Windows 8? Wishful thinking. A portable version of the Xbox? This will remain every gamers fantasy. What was announced? Ballmer really didn't announce much. He gave some lines about Windows 7 being the fastest selling OS of all time and some analyst speculation that PC sales will increase considerably this year but I don't really call those announcements. Steve announced that the HTC HD 2 running Windows Mobile will be coming to T-mobile but I am not sure anybody cares since we are talking Windows Mobile after all and T-mobile doesn't help either. Steve said they would talk more about the future of Windows Mobile at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona next month. Ballmer did show off some prototype "Slate PCs" that will hopefully combat anything Apple announces later this month. The one he really demonstrated was an HP prototype that was running Windows 7 and the Kindle PC software to demonstrate how good of an e-book reader it could be and it looked to be about the same size as the Kindle 2. Sounds nice and I will definitely buy one, but if you are going to try to compete with Apple, you need to show something that will come out a little sooner rather than some prototype. Wait, you really wanted to know what was announced? Ok.
As far as REAL announcements go, there are a couple fairly minor announcements. Bing is now going to be the default home page and search engine for all HP computers. Excited yet? They also demonstrated what a Cable Card and a pc in your tv could do and said that with it, you can record 4 HD channels simultaneously which was probably the most impressive thing from they keynote. They talked a bit about Media Room and some partnership with AT&T's U-verse that I still don't understand and finally they had a couple interesting Xbox announcements. Besides all of the interesting number like units sold and games sold, Robby Bach announced that Project Natal will ship as an attachment to existing Xbox 360 systems in time for Christmas 2010. No price although I would expect that around E3. There was also no demo which was kind of disappointing. They also teased a new Halo game only to have it turn out to be a trailer for Halo Reach which was announced back at E3. I was rather disappointed but the audience seemed to love it since they could see the trailer and everybody watching the stream could not. The big Xbox 360 announcement was Game Room.
What is Game Room? Game Room seems to be a virtual space similar to the PS3's Home where you can run around a giant arcade as your avatar and buy and play old arcade games that look like the arcade units you would spend tons of quarters on in years gone by. Over 1000 games are planned for the next year that will be released in weekly batches that you will have to purchase. The coolest part is that this will be not only for the Xbox 360 but for PCs too! How much are these games going to cost you ask? If you want to play an arcade game on both platforms, you will be paying 400 Microsoft points aka $5. To get it on one platform, it is 240 points or $3. If you really want the old school experience, you can pay 40 points or $.50 and get two quarters worth of playing time on the old machines. The games can be played with other people, in 1080p and there are cross-platform leaderboards and achievements. This is coming in the Spring update to Xbox Live. Personally, I am really looking forward to this because lately I have had the urge to start buying old arcade machines and turning my basement into a small arcade but now I will be able to do it virtually instead of having to completely redo the basement. This was the only real announcement with any cool factor to it other than the HD recording. If you would like to see the demo that the people watching the live stream couldn't watch, you can check it out here.
That was pretty much about it. It was a very boring keynote and ended kind of out of nowhere. It certainly doesn't make me super excited about Microsoft this year but hopefully that will change. What did you think about the Microsoft CES 2010 keynote? Good? Bad? Boring? Exciting? Let us know!
Xbox Live Game Room Trailer
Hey Readers!
I don't know what the issue was earlier tonight at the Microsoft CES Keynote about having the stream blocked when the Halo Reach and Game Room trailers were shown but for those that wanted to check out Game Room which looks to be really awesome, I have found the video for you and here it is. If, for some reason, the video does not load, here is the official link:
Microsoft CES Keynote Live Blog
- 7:55 PM globalgeeknews - Hello everybody! Are you ready for the Microsoft CES Keynote?
- 7:57 PM globalgeeknews - Here we go!
- 7:57 PM globalgeeknews - Somebody is kicking things off but the audio is so low that I didn't get it turned up in time to hear the name.
- 7:58 PM globalgeeknews - Whoever this guy is, he says that CES is a turning point that will spur the economy.
- 7:58 PM globalgeeknews - He is now talking about the record number of exhibitors at CES this year
- 7:59 PM globalgeeknews - Steve Ballmer has just been introduced but he hasn't come out yet.
- 8:00 PM globalgeeknews - They are running down Ballmer's resume
- 8:01 PM globalgeeknews - Here comes Steve!
- 8:01 PM globalgeeknews - Steve is wearing a very red sweater.
- 8:02 PM globalgeeknews - He is showing a video now
- 8:03 PM globalgeeknews - The video seems to be about how technology has changed our lives
- 8:04 PM globalgeeknews - I missed the name but the guy in the video I believe is from Saturday Night Live.
- 8:04 PM globalgeeknews - The video is supposed to be funny...
- 8:05 PM globalgeeknews - Could whoever is in charge of the audio stream crank up the volume a couple dozen notches? I can barely here it!
- 8:05 PM globalgeeknews - Back to Ballmer
- 8:06 PM globalgeeknews - We are going to be talking about the changing computer, tv and cloud services
- 8:07 PM globalgeeknews - Bing! Bing! Bing! I think we have a new meme
- 8:08 PM globalgeeknews - Steve is talking a bit about how technology is reaching people all over the world. There are about 1 billion people online today and it will be 4 billion in the fairly near future
- 8:08 PM globalgeeknews - It looks like it is time to talk Xbox
- 8:09 PM globalgeeknews - Don't forget to tell your friends and family about this live blog if they would be interested in this event!
- 8:09 PM globalgeeknews - He is talking about some of the things that have come to Xbox and have been announced in the past year
- 8:09 PM globalgeeknews - There are 39 million Xbox 360s that have been sold and over 500 million games sold.
- 8:10 PM globalgeeknews - Time to talk a bit about Bing and its growth
- 8:11 PM globalgeeknews - Talking a bit about Bing Maps and how silverlight contributes to it
- 8:12 PM globalgeeknews - Bing will be the default search engine and home page of HP machines in the future
- 8:12 PM globalgeeknews - Ford Sync will have a new look which we will hear about more at the Ford keynote tomorrow
- 8:13 PM globalgeeknews - Now talking a little bit about various other things they are doing in the auto industry.
- 8:13 PM globalgeeknews - Now time to talk Zune HD
- 8:13 PM globalgeeknews - Steve says it is getting rave reviews and the Zune Marketplace is now available in 18 countries
- 8:14 PM globalgeeknews - Now to talk mobile
- 8:15 PM globalgeeknews - He is now showing the new HD 2 phone available on T-mobile in the near future but they will be saving any Windows Mobile stuff for the World Mobile Congress month.
- 8:15 PM globalgeeknews - Now time to talk Windows 7...
- 8:15 PM globalgeeknews - He is talking about the goals of Win 7 as far as user experience and things like battery life
- 8:16 PM globalgeeknews - Windows 7 involved 3,000 engineers, 50,000 partners and 8 million beta testers.
- 8:17 PM globalgeeknews - NPD says windows pc sales jumped nearly 50% the week it launched.
- 8:17 PM globalgeeknews - Crap, audio dropped out!
- 8:17 PM globalgeeknews - Now its back
- 8:17 PM globalgeeknews - Windows 7 is the fastest selling OS in history which is how he measures success.
- 8:18 PM globalgeeknews - 94% of new users are satisfied with Win 7 according to a "recent survey"
- 8:18 PM globalgeeknews - 3 million PCs shipped in 2009.
- 8:18 PM globalgeeknews - PC sales are expected to jump by 12% in 2010
- 8:18 PM globalgeeknews - audio dropped out again
- 8:19 PM globalgeeknews - and it is back
- 8:19 PM globalgeeknews - Now Steve is talking a little about how there is a Windows 7 PC for everybody
- 8:20 PM globalgeeknews - Developers are using the new technologies in Windows 7 to improve existing products or create new ones.
- 8:20 PM globalgeeknews - Finally, the audio has been turned up! Now if only it was in more than just the right channel...
- 8:21 PM globalgeeknews - Sounds like it is demo time!
- 8:21 PM globalgeeknews - A windows team member that goes by the name Ryan is now on stage to demo some hardware and software with Win 7
- 8:22 PM globalgeeknews - To begin, we are talking about all-in-one PCs
- 8:22 PM globalgeeknews - I hope this will pick up soon, I am about to fall asleep
- 8:23 PM globalgeeknews - Showing off Dell's Adamo. Wow, it is fast on sleep wakeup!
- 8:24 PM globalgeeknews - They are showing off some gaming machines. They have my full attention now.
- 8:24 PM globalgeeknews - Direct X 11 coming to laptop in the next couple weeks
- 8:25 PM globalgeeknews - They are showing off a new ASUS laptop that does 3D gaming. Glasses required.
- 8:26 PM globalgeeknews - The audio is fixed. Yay!
- 8:27 PM globalgeeknews - They had a pc in a tv to show off but when the power failed, it blew the tube. TVs still use tubes?!
- 8:27 PM globalgeeknews - Time to show how student life is improved by Windows 7
- 8:28 PM globalgeeknews - Showing off some Bleeo e-book reading software that looks really nice.
- 8:28 PM globalgeeknews - The software can do interactive ebooks which is great for education
- 8:28 PM globalgeeknews - Video can be played inside of the e-books
- 8:29 PM globalgeeknews - There is also speech to text
- 8:29 PM globalgeeknews - Now time to talk students using presentations and what tools are available to them.
- 8:30 PM globalgeeknews - Showing off some collaborative features of Windows Live and Office 2010.
- 8:30 PM globalgeeknews - They are working on the same presentation at the same time. I wish I had this stuff in school
- 8:31 PM globalgeeknews - Ballmer says he is slow at typing.
- 8:31 PM globalgeeknews - Apparently although they are working on the same document, the changes are not real time and it will ask you to sync with the other person when changes have been made.
- 8:33 PM globalgeeknews - Showing an interesting tie between video and Bing Maps. Seems interesting although I am not sure I really understand it
- 8:33 PM globalgeeknews - Wow, weather effects on Bing's version of Street View
- 8:34 PM globalgeeknews - I can't say I really care if it appears to be snowing when I am looking at street view...
- 8:35 PM globalgeeknews - With CableCard, they have something that will allow you to record 4 HD tv shows at the same time. I have just crapped myself.
- 8:36 PM globalgeeknews - Now they are showing that running a PC on tv that you can use all of Windows 7 on a TV
- 8:36 PM globalgeeknews - We are now going inside Windows Media Center
- 8:37 PM globalgeeknews - Developers and content providers can create their own awesome experience in Windows Media Center
- 8:38 PM globalgeeknews - Showing some other videos in WMC
- 8:39 PM globalgeeknews - Time to talk about Microsoft Media Room, something I have never heard of
- 8:39 PM globalgeeknews - Apparently it is software that has a paid tv service.
- 8:40 PM globalgeeknews - I really need to look into this Media Room thing. Apparently many companies use or offer it.
- 8:40 PM globalgeeknews - AT&T is going to be bringing Media Room features to Xbox Live for U-Verse subscribers.
- 8:41 PM globalgeeknews - Talking a little bit more about Media Room.
- 8:42 PM globalgeeknews - They are showing a movie store with it. I am not sure I grasp how this works.
- 8:43 PM globalgeeknews - Now Ballmer seems to have taken back over to talk some more
- 8:44 PM globalgeeknews - They are now showing off some "slate" PCs (aka tablets)
- 8:44 PM globalgeeknews - They are touch centric devices that look to be about the size of a Kindle or a little bigger.
- 8:45 PM globalgeeknews - They are showing a prototype of an HP slate pc coming later this year
- 8:45 PM globalgeeknews - They are now showing a promo video for it.
- 8:46 PM globalgeeknews - It is running the Kindle software to show how well it works as an e-book reader. I want. No mention of a price.
- 8:47 PM globalgeeknews - Showing another SNL type video like at the beginning of the keynote. Time to take a nap...
- 8:48 PM globalgeeknews - Still playing the video...
- 8:49 PM globalgeeknews - Robby Bock is now on stage
- 8:49 PM globalgeeknews - Ballmer is gone at least for now
- 8:49 PM globalgeeknews - He is here to talk about entertainment as a whole
- 8:50 PM globalgeeknews - So far he is saying nothing really important
- 8:50 PM globalgeeknews - It looks like we are going to talk Xbox first
- 8:52 PM globalgeeknews - 2010 is going to be a landmark year for Xbox customers because of Xbox exclusive games like Mass Effect 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, and Modern Warfare 2 expansion packs
- 8:52 PM globalgeeknews - More games are being listed like Fable 3 and Crackdown 2
- 8:53 PM globalgeeknews - They are going to introduce a new type of game this year, the psychological adventure thriller
- 8:53 PM globalgeeknews - Talking a bit about the Alan Wake game which will be told in downloadable episodes.
- 8:53 PM globalgeeknews - HALO!
- 8:54 PM globalgeeknews - Waiting to hear what the Halo announcement is...
- 8:54 PM globalgeeknews - Nevermind, it is just Halo Reach that was announced at E3 last year.
- 8:55 PM globalgeeknews - WTF! The streaming has been suspended to respect the intellectual property being demonstrated on stage. This SUCKS!
- 8:56 PM globalgeeknews - I don't know who had the bright idea to do this suspension of streaming for Halo Reach IP reasons or whatever, but they need to be fired immediately.
- 8:56 PM globalgeeknews - Waiting for the stream to return...
- 8:56 PM globalgeeknews - Listening to some elevator music...
- 8:57 PM globalgeeknews - And now we are back. Everybody sounds really excited but I have no idea what they are so excited about.
- 8:58 PM globalgeeknews - I will be blogging my thoughts on this event tomorrow and Microsoft will be getting MAJOR flak for that. Now back to Xbox Live...
- 8:58 PM globalgeeknews - 20 million Xbox Live members. Last week a new member was added every second.
- 8:59 PM globalgeeknews - They are now talking about the Twitter and Facebook integration on Xbox Live.
- 8:59 PM globalgeeknews - 20,000 friendships are make on Facebook through Xbox Live every day. Impressive.
- 9:00 PM globalgeeknews - Showing the instant streaming on Xbox Live.
- 9:00 PM globalgeeknews - I want to thank everybody who has joined us so far for the live blog.
- 9:00 PM globalgeeknews - Talking about Zune on Xbox Live
- 9:01 PM globalgeeknews - If you buy a video on the Zune portion of Xbox Live, you can play the video on your PC or Zune HD.
- 9:02 PM globalgeeknews - They are talking about some new thing called Game Room. Starting this spring, you can play over 30 classic arcade games from atari and many others. I love this!
- 9:03 PM globalgeeknews - More intellectual property streaming suspension BS for a demo of the Game Room feature.
- 9:03 PM globalgeeknews - A new set of arcade games will be released every week with over 1000 games coming by the end of the year. Wow!
- 9:03 PM globalgeeknews - we are back btw
- 9:04 PM globalgeeknews - I will be at Microsoft in a couple weeks and I will give them major crap for the streaming suspension crap and talk to them more about announcements they are making today.
- 9:04 PM globalgeeknews - Now he is talking about a natural user interface.
- 9:05 PM globalgeeknews - Talking a bit about how R&D works at MS
- 9:05 PM globalgeeknews - Time to talk Project Natal
- 9:06 PM globalgeeknews - We are now seeing a video from the Project Natal team.
- 9:07 PM globalgeeknews - Nothing really new in the video, just a little history about Natal and a little about how it works
- 9:08 PM globalgeeknews - The video is ending...
- 9:09 PM globalgeeknews - Project Natal will ship by this holiday! Christmas season 2010!
- 9:09 PM globalgeeknews - It will work with an existing Xbox 360
- 9:10 PM globalgeeknews - It sounds like we are wrapping up the entertainment portion of the keynote
- 9:11 PM globalgeeknews - Robby is leaving the stage...
- 9:11 PM globalgeeknews - Don't forget to check out the latest episode of the Global Geek News Podcast at www.globalgeeknews.com
- 9:11 PM globalgeeknews - Waiting for the next person to come on stage
- 9:12 PM globalgeeknews - um, was that it? I think the Keynote might be over. Looking for confirmation...
- 9:12 PM globalgeeknews - Ok, the keynote is over
- 9:13 PM globalgeeknews - Thanks everybody for tuning in to our live blog tonight and we hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to check back for more coverage tomorrow and make sure to listen to and subscribe to the Global Geek News Podcast at www.globalgeeknews.com
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