Live from Google I/O: Waving Wednesday’s Keynote

May 19, 2010

Google kicks off its annual two-day developerfest Google I/O today in San Francisco, and no doubt there are goodies in store during the opening keynote this morning from 9 until 10:30am Pacific Time. Google TV? Google Storage? Android 2.2? A better Buzz, Wave, or Chrome? You can watch the live video stream on YouTube as it happens. I'll be in a seat in the audience at the Moscone Center, live-typing commentary in the wave embedded below, along with Adam Pash from Lifehacker, Leo Laporte from TWiT, and former Googler Kevin Marks of Ribbit. Open up a couple of side-by-side windows--one with the video stream, and one with the embedded wave--and come on in to follow along.

This wave will also appear on Lifehacker and at Fast Company, which means we're a simultaneously live-writing on (at least) three web sites at the same time--a first in my web-writing career. If that idea doesn't blow your blogger brain to bits just a little bit, you're dead inside. Enjoy the keynote!

Should we set up a wave to wave about this wave?

That would be meta.

tuckerbrennan [+3]
May 19 10 at 6:40 am

It’s a neat concept, especially that you can post it in several places at once. The live updates are better than “liveblogs”, and it’s fun to watch you type.

The embedded wave format needs some work though. I couldn’t skip to next unread by hitting spacebar, nor did the button at the bottom to do that work. I had to either scroll up to the top of the very tall view and click that button, or just look myself to see if anything new was posted.

It also doesn’t scroll down automatically with new blips, which is kind of annoying.

Adam Stegman
May 19 10 at 8:21 am

That’s my biggest problem with wave it really stinks on the mobile application