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MacRumors' Webcast Stats during the MWSF 2006 Keynote

Thanks MR.

Why have some people rated this negatively though? MR did an outstanding job.
 
Wow!:eek:

Thank God for AJAX! I had no idea that so many other people were on MacRumorslive at the same time I was.

Thank you Arn, and all the mods who help keep MacRumors so.....rockin'.
 
Wow, great job. I had no idea MacRumors was so big and professionally run.

Upset I missed it though. Had a flight that left LA at 10:30 so I didn't get to see anything live:mad: .

So what did the macrumorslive website look like? Got a screen shot or just a good description:eek: .
 
Excellent. I think that the crew running the site did well this time around... there was no downtime like last year and unlike certain sites that think secret this year. :cool:

I thought that AJAX was all about pretty flashy stuff that makes web apps easier to use. But now looking at how much bandwith was saved, it seems like a pretty strong tool for the web, just like switching to web standards saved some bandwith years ago.
 
Great job macrumors, this by far is my favorite site on the internet. It has everything I want to know about macs and great information, great interaction, and a clean simple look.

I can't belive there were 100,000+ users reading the text updates for the keynote. The site speed was great and AJAX is a great technology.
 
Irc

as one of the IRC listeners, i'd like to thank MacRumors for providing the IRC feed. it was really great - and fast.

that said, I can't wait until Apple figures out how to stream video LIVE OVER THE INTERNET. man, that will be awesome when that happens. :)
 
as one of the IRC listeners, i'd like to thank MacRumors for providing the IRC feed. it was really great - and fast.

that said, I can't wait until Apple figures out how to stream video LIVE OVER THE INTERNET. man, that will be awesome when that happens.
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If I remember correctly I think apple use to stream their keynotes live. Maybe 2-3 years ago was the last time.
 
netmonkey said:
...I thought that AJAX was all about pretty flashy stuff that makes web apps easier to use. But now looking at how much bandwith was saved, it seems like a pretty strong tool for the web...
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Totally. I always put off ajax as more flash than anything else. Now I know better. Oh, and I'm down for some schwag purchases to help offset the bandwidth (since I was, um, in IRC and had the ajax page open :eek: :D ) but it seems like Arn & the rest have it covered.
 
latest web technology..?

wheres the live VIDEO???
i found more joy in waiting 3 hours for Apple
to post the video then coming on here and spoiling it.

it was only 3 hours i had to wait then i could watch
the video and be surprised like how everyone eles there was.

by far the best way to learn about new apple stuff.!

i was a little upset cuz i heard thru macrumors that
apple wasnt doing a live cast but i thought i read somewhere on here
that mac rumors was gonna do it... so naturaly i came on here to
look and WAM! SPOILERS ALL OVER THE FRECKEN PLACE!

AHHHHHHH!!!:eek:
 
Good work guys! Wow, 103,000 unique viewers :eek:
There must be a lot of silent types on here, just for reading but not posting.

And I second the notion for Macrumors mugs. I would pay for one of them to support you guys ;)
(that, and i just broke my 9 year old south park mug an hour ago :(
 
the.snitch said:
Good work guys! Wow, 103,000 unique viewers :eek:
There must be a lot of silent types on here, just for reading but not posting.

And I second the notion for Macrumors mugs. I would pay for one of them to support you guys ;)
(that, and i just broke my 9 year old south park mug an hour ago :(
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aawww

I'm curious how MR makes its money to pay for all this...sounds very expensive for an enthusiast site. And get some shirts out already. But with newer MR logos(read- badass design) and I'll buy some. I'm sure many would also. I'm looking for the Apple version (black one) of the Intel Duo logo.
 
mad jew said:
Nice work. I was surprised how dead the forums were despite all those logged-on people though. Awe-inspired silence maybe?
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didn't get the "server busy" notices when you tried to post then?

of course, if it was up during the keynote there would be 10s of thousands of posts on the news stories.
 
yippy said:
Wow, great job. I had no idea MacRumors was so big and professionally run.

Upset I missed it though. Had a flight that left LA at 10:30 so I didn't get to see anything live:mad: .

So what did the macrumorslive website look like? Got a screen shot or just a good description:eek: .
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What we got was this...
https://www.macrumors.com/events/mwsf2006.html

Every minute the text would update with several new entries. It was similar to a chat-room, but only one person was posting.
 
The forum did bog down badly for several hours--probably creating the appearance of stunned silence when in fact people were trying to post and just bottlenecking eachother?

But I'd MUCH rather have live coverage than comments any day :)

BTW, if MR ever wants to use AJAX to accelerate the forum side of things, I'd be happy to supply a script. I'm thinking something that would automatically post so humans don't have to... just a random assortment of "no modem?," "no plasma TVs?," "ordered mine!" and " :eek: "

I think it would work. People wouldn't even realize the posts were automatic :)
 
Many thanks to all at MR. It was a great experience compared with previous feeds. The one minute countdown completely removes the irresistible urge to refresh :rolleyes:
 
I don't think that the bandwidth is going to be a problem. They had google ads, which will *easily* cover the (at most) $10 in bandwidth.
 
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