Very, very impressive - Thankyou. [Archive]

XIII

Jan 10, 2006, 02:25 PM

Hi there.

I just wanted to be the first to thank arn and the MR team for all the hard work that must have gone into today's live updates. Everything was executed perfectly, and I had a good, constant stream of updates. The 60 seconds then adding to the news, instead of full refresh worked very well, and the IRC was very fast.

I really feel it was perfectly done, and I think I will contribute now - to keep stuff like this happening, and to say thanks for how well done it was.

Thanks, and keep it up!

Lacero

Jan 10, 2006, 02:26 PM

Ditto.

This is the next best thing to actually being there or watching a streaming Keynote.

Thanks to all involved! The webcast went without a hitch, and it was very timely and detailed.

Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

BakedBeans

Jan 10, 2006, 02:27 PM

Hi there.

I just wanted to be the first to thank arn and the MR team for all the hard work that must have gone into today's live updates. Everything was executed perfectly, and I had a good, constant stream of updates. The 60 seconds then adding to the news, instead of full refresh worked very well, and the IRC was very fast.

I really feel it was perfectly done, and I think I will contribute now - to keep stuff like this happening, and to say thanks for how well done it was.

Thanks, and keep it up!

we went crazy man! all with the help of MR - good job guys

Veldek

Jan 10, 2006, 03:29 PM

Congratulations from me, too. It worked perfectly and was the most up-to-date from the news sites, I was watching. In fact, it was this much better, that I quit the other sites and watched only MR's. Thanks a lot!

Le Big Mac

Jan 10, 2006, 03:37 PM

Ditto.

This is the next best thing to actually being there or watching a streaming Keynote.

Thanks to all involved! The webcast went without a hitch, and it was very timely and detailed.

Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

Agree. Great work. Much better than the past--I just let the tab sit there! It was great!

Lord Blackadder

Jan 10, 2006, 04:37 PM

Thanks to all responsible. It was the most up-to-date Stevenote play by play on the web!

EGT

Jan 10, 2006, 05:01 PM

I intended to post a thank you post to Macrumors but haven't been able to get on until now! :p :eek:

Best Keynote coverage for the best keynote, ever! Well done Macrumors and thank you! :)

Glenn Wolsey

Jan 10, 2006, 05:16 PM

Thanks to the team! It was brilliant!

XIII

Jan 10, 2006, 05:22 PM

we went crazy man! all with the help of MR - good job guys

We sure did. :p Changed that sig yet? ;)

pknz

Jan 10, 2006, 06:37 PM

Yeah it worked a treat. Thanks arn and the moderators and everyone else involved.:cool:

zulgand04

Jan 10, 2006, 07:49 PM

Totally an amazing job, so easy and so simple. Bravo bravo!!!!! :cool:

rdowns

Jan 10, 2006, 07:54 PM

golf clap

war

Jan 10, 2006, 09:40 PM

By far the best mac keynote coverage I have ever seen. No constant page refreshing. No "page will update every three minutes" even though they never do. I just let the page update every minutes like it was supposed to. It was actually weird to get coverage without some sort of connection failure. Thanks so much.

MattG

Jan 10, 2006, 09:48 PM

Yes, it went very smoothly...you'd have never known that so many people were hitting the server at once. It refreshed on a timely basis with no errors for me. Thanks MR!

kretzy

Jan 10, 2006, 09:52 PM

Well done and thanks very much! I tried to stay up till 4am to get all the news live, but I was zonked and flaked it around 3. But it didn't matter, because it was all waiting for me on MR when I woke up. :)

Thanks again!

cjc343

Jan 10, 2006, 10:23 PM

I only read the transcript afterwards, followed by watching the keynote once it was online.

I knew I was not going to be able to be around a computer during the keynote, but I sooo wanted updates, which leads to my suggestion:

How about SMS updates? Is this at all feasible for 'next time'? I'd really like to be able to receive a bunch of text messages on my cell phone detailing what's happening during the keynote if I can't be at my computer to read about it...

nospleen

Jan 10, 2006, 10:26 PM

It was awesome!! My experience was absolutely perfect. Except when I counted down the full 60 seconds and then there was not an update. :eek: :D

mad jew

Jan 10, 2006, 10:28 PM

How about SMS updates? Is this at all feasible for 'next time'? I'd really like to be able to receive a bunch of text messages on my cell phone detailing what's happening during the keynote if I can't be at my computer to read about it...

Nice idea but how would they be funded?

arn

Jan 10, 2006, 10:29 PM

How about SMS updates? Is this at all feasible for 'next time'? I'd really like to be able to receive a bunch of text messages on my cell phone detailing what's happening during the keynote if I can't be at my computer to read about it...

We actually did provide SMS updates to contributors this time around.

arn

kretzy

Jan 10, 2006, 10:30 PM

We actually did provide SMS updates to contributors this time around.

arn
Wow, I didn't realise that was part of the package.

arn

Jan 10, 2006, 10:33 PM

Wow, I didn't realise that was part of the package.

It's not an advertised part of the package, but we had the capability this time, and thought it would be a nice perk for contributors.

The thing contributing does get you is removal of most ads on the front page and top of forums.

arn

me_94501

Jan 11, 2006, 01:32 AM

Echoing what everyone else is saying, you guys did an awesome job covering the keynote. :D

FlamDrag

Jan 11, 2006, 11:51 AM

This was the best coverage the MR has ever had in my experience, and I've been reading MR from almost the beginning. The improvements MR has made over the last several big Apple events are awesome.

Really great work Arn and Co. After much complaining by many around here, you've earned praise.

Applespider

Jan 11, 2006, 12:08 PM

It's not an advertised part of the package, but we had the capability this time, and thought it would be a nice perk for contributors.

And darned good it was too :D

I did also find that the reduced front page loaded very quickly on my phone too though.

michaelrjohnson

Jan 11, 2006, 12:08 PM

An obligatory "Thank You" and "Congratulations" for a job very well done.

Also, a little bump to arn's ego: I was also trying to follow the engadget "feed" but right as the keynote was about to begin, the page went down. Very down. It didn't come back for quite a while.

Great work!

mdavey

Jan 11, 2006, 12:13 PM

Hi there.

I just wanted to be the first to thank arn and the MR team for all the hard work that must have gone into [the] live updates.

Good call! I thanked arn and the team on IRC, but I would like to take the opportunity to thank the team again. Well done! It was especially nice to note that a couple of journalists picked up on your excellent coverage.

tamtam

Jan 11, 2006, 02:35 PM

Extremely impressed with the professional informational product produced by the MR team before, during and after the keynote speech. Not an easy task to plan and accomplish!!! It was a thrill for us who could not be there in person.:)

ebuc

Jan 11, 2006, 04:07 PM

Another strong congratulations!

A few friends of mine and I were huddled around a PowerBook watching the text come in every 60 seconds for the last 45 minutes of the keynote. It worked flawlessly.

Right after the "One more thing..." showed up a friend of mine managed to hit someone under the chin. It was that exciting (at least for him).

Cooknn

Jan 11, 2006, 04:18 PM

AGREED. Thank you very much. I hung out on #Macrumors and it went perfectly :)

redAPPLE

Jan 11, 2006, 05:27 PM

i would also like to express my agreement. that our! guys (the macrumors team) did a good job.

but.

i have one thing to add. some might see it as a criticism. it might be because, it was more fun listening and watching steve on stage, than writing, editing and then transmitting the information to all of us.

i found the live feed (albeit slow and manual refresh was needed) from engadget.com more "livelier". reading the information in macrumorslive.com was clear and straightforward.

but.

the engadget team made me feel closer to the action (quotes from steve, pictures etc.). i guess there was a price to pay for being "closer to the action", though. slow page refresh (i think it even crashed at one time).

Lacero

Jan 11, 2006, 05:36 PM

the engadget team made me feel closer to the action (quotes from steve, pictures etc.). i guess there was a price to pay for being "closer to the action", though. slow page refresh (i think it even crashed at one time).
I turned off their feed 20 minutes into the keynote. Their site was just way too slow. The pictures were a nice touch, but a tad too big and the comments at the bottom of the page was utterly annoying.

Worldofapple had a really clean layout, but they suffered from 'underload' of information. Way too sparse to have me continue reading from them, so I switched over exclusively to mrl.

I'd like to see thumbnail pictures in the next mrl feed and maybe some off-beat humorous side commentary, as well. But then I got all of that in the forums. :D The best non-streaming live keynote by far.

Here's to the Crazy Ones http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35452 (http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/movies/think-different.mov)

arn

Jan 11, 2006, 05:47 PM

Yep.. unfortunately, our feed was a bit spotty, so we didn't have time to embelish the content. I would have prefered more detailed updates, but it couldn't happen with the quality of our feed. Next time, hopefully it will be more solid.

That being said, I think adding pictures would be the next step... but doing well would require some more planning. Linking to a photo can be a very intensive thing with so many people watching.

I'm sure engadget had a large viewing audience, and I'm not sure what their hardware setup was... but our audience was very large. we'll run down the stats soon.

arn

Applespider

Jan 11, 2006, 06:05 PM

That being said, I think adding pictures would be the next step... but doing well would require some more planning. Linking to a photo can be a very intensive thing with so many people watching.

Can I be one of the first to say that I'd rather have frequent text updates of what's going on than risk the feed falling over to show a few pictures that I'll be able to see better, clearer versions of within hours...

Lau

Jan 11, 2006, 06:09 PM

Can I be one of the first to say that I'd rather have frequent text updates of what's going on than risk the feed falling over to show a few pictures that I'll be able to see better, clearer versions of within hours...

Agreed! Having said that, some amusing comments would be fun, but again, not to the detriment of reliable information.

m-dogg

Jan 11, 2006, 07:05 PM

As many others have said already, this was the best coverage I have seen - It was absolutely perfect! Well, except for my girlfriend making fun of me for being so excited about the keynote while I sat there at the computer (we both had the day off) - But that wasn't MR's fault! :D

m-dogg

Jan 11, 2006, 07:06 PM

Can I be one of the first to say that I'd rather have frequent text updates of what's going on than risk the feed falling over to show a few pictures that I'll be able to see better, clearer versions of within hours...

Yes, I second that.

macphisto

Jan 11, 2006, 09:34 PM

I will third that. This is one of the best, most consistant mac info sites on the web. And I am glad to be one of the members of this macrumors community! (Going on 4 years this summer)!

150hp

Jan 11, 2006, 11:25 PM

I was able to read it on the sly @ work. It really made my day. Text updates w/o photos were perfect. Just what I need @ my job as there is not a Mac in sight.

redAPPLE

Jan 12, 2006, 03:59 AM

thanks for giving your input on my comment, arn.

like i said, it is not being critical on my part. i am a follower of the church of jobs. and i am just really excited, when a special event like this happens.

al3000

Jan 12, 2006, 05:43 AM

The updates were excellent, thanks a lot!

FoxyKaye

Jan 12, 2006, 01:10 PM

My thanks is buried in another thread, so I'll re-iterate here: wonderful, fantastic, amazing job. Best. Keynote. Coverage. Experience. Ever. Plus the description of the technology and what was happening was a great read, too (especially during the iLife presentation).

I think that MR's coverage was better than Engaget's, too. Even though they had photos, their servers were completely overwhelmed, you had to manually reload, and at one point it cut off entirely.

neut

Jan 12, 2006, 02:48 PM

Yes, many thanks to MR and alll it's members! By far the best Mac community online. :)

Definately the smoothest of all Keynote coverages i've seen; Thank-you Arn and all those who helped feed our ever growing need for more Apple. :D

peace | neut

Paul Sutton

Jan 13, 2006, 10:14 AM

Hi There,

I wanted to say you did a first class job, of making me feel I was there at the Show. Your use of word in real time was spot on, I was viewing about 3 website at one time and your came up tops with just great informed discription of what was going on. Brilliant!!!

Brilliant, did I say that!

Keeping up the great work.

Paul