MacRumors' Webcast Stats during the MWSF 2006 Keynote

[arn]

For reference, Apple's 2002 Quicktime Live Stream of MWSF attracted 81,000 simultaneous viewers.

No official stats available from the 2003 Quicktime Stream (which was the last quicktime stream made available Live), but they mention that it had reached 150,000 streams during the keynote.

 

[mobility3]

good work!!

It's nice to be on the other side of the planet from MWSF and keep up pretty much in real time on IRC. Great work guys!

I also noticed a huge amount of internet news media coverage after the event, as much, if not more than the CES keynotes in Vegas...

 

[SiliconAddict]

i tried to make a torrent, it should be here now, but i am still the only sharing one, so download please (it will maybe take a lot of time)

Not to get too personal but how's your pipe?

I'm willing to download and share as long as it doesn't take 6 months to download.

 

[Superhob]

I wanted to commend MacRumors on the fantastic coverage of the Macworld keynote. You simply had the best coverage with no interruptions or failed page refreshes. I simultaneously watched on several of the "other" sites that claimed to have live coverage but they were bogged down and never recovered until well after the end of the keynote.

Good Job Macrumors!!!!!

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

That's really impressive numbers. I actually had Conversation running to follow the IRC channel in case the live page became sluggish, but I was very impressed with the new live page. Now after hearing the number of visitors I'm even more so...

Very, very nice work!

So next year maybe a little upgrade on the forums, too... in an hour or two after the keynote I barely managed to get a post or two submitted in all the "Server to busy" messages...

 

[doogle]

it's amazing how fast those minutes kept ticking over, even at 4.00AM in Australia.

Great job MR!
The guy who was typing the comments is to be commended - he/she was direct, short and sharp- no stupid comments, it would be so tempting to put your own spin on the info and he/she resisted commendably. Well done.

 

[winmacguy]

it's amazing how fast those minutes kept ticking over, even at 4.00AM in Australia.

Great job MR!
The guy who was typing the comments is to be commended - he/she was direct, short and sharp- no stupid comments, it would be so tempting to put your own spin on the info and he/she resisted commendably. Well done.

I am assuming by the way the post was written that the poster is a guy. I have noticed that some of the females (my assumption) on this forum such as Applespider(Demi-goddess is a bit of a giveaway ), summerbreeze, vniow and Lacero are females by the way they word their posts. Females tend to write somewhat differently than guys.

Edit: I have noticed that my MR number seems to be going through the Intel chip number models a bit lately. Hopefully something significant or Demi-god like is going to pop up shortly...

 

[Dicx]

I am assuming by the way the post was written that the poster is a guy. I have noticed that some of the females (my assumption) on this forum such as Applespider(Demi-goddess is a bit of a giveaway ), summerbreeze, vinow and Lacero are females by the way they word their posts. Females tend to write somewhat differently than guys.

Yes I am a guy

Thanks for the comments. I had thought about putting something special in the comments, but I got about as far as "Applause"

Later,

Rob

 

[doogle]

Yes I am a guy

Thanks for the comments. I had thought about putting something special in the comments, but I got about as far as "Applause"

Later,

Rob

Was there any discussion between the gods about how you should type the comments...I mean did you go in with a plan that simple and direct was best?

Perhaps the pressure and speed of the keynote just did not give you the luxury to be too creative?

Did you feel any pressure that some thousands of people were hanging off your every word?

 

[Doctor Q]

Was there any discussion between the gods about how you should type the comments...I mean did you go in with a plan that simple and direct was best?

It's clear that members want whatever we can provide, particularly a blow-by-blow report of announcements as they are made. Since details and analysis can't be provided live, that information is posted in the form of news stories once we switch from live coverage back to the regular news page.

 

[Dicx]

Was there any discussion between the gods about how you should type the comments...I mean did you go in with a plan that simple and direct was best?

Perhaps the pressure and speed of the keynote just did not give you the luxury to be too creative?

Did you feel any pressure that some thousands of people were hanging off your every word?

To tell you the truth, I never even thought about it. I am a bad typer (as arn can attest to) and he was in a group with my co-workers on iChat. I typed the way I knew my co-workers would understand. I did embellish some but arn cut that out as right he should have. Especially when Steve was on his "one more thing.." intro.

I had no idea that so many people would be watching, I did know that other rumor sites had the same deal going on but not that arn's would be the best. I was just helping out. Hell, I never even logged on at the keynote until 3 min before Steve came on, I wasn't sure how my battery would hold up.

 

[arn]

I had no idea that so many people would be watching, I did know that other rumor sites had the same deal going on but not that arn's would be the best. I was just helping out. Hell, I never even logged on at the keynote until 3 min before Steve came on, I wasn't sure how my battery would hold up.

Getting a live feed from Macworld was a bit of a touch and go proposition this year. We had a few different sources... as it turned out RMassung gave us the best feed this year, and it was greatly appreciated.

I never go into too many details about how the feeds are actually gotten, as I don't want to draw an undue attention to the feeds from Apple/IDG or whatnot... but a couple of our primary feeds didn't work out, and we ended up relying almost entirely on rmassung's typed feeds. We had two typed feeds coming it at one point, but lost one mid way due to connectivity issues.



arn

 

[doogle]

Getting a live feed from Macworld was a bit of a touch and go proposition this year. We had a few different sources... as it turned out RMassung gave us the best feed this year, and it was greatly appreciated.

I never go into too many details about how the feeds are actually gotten, as I don't want to draw an undue attention to the feeds from Apple/IDG or whatnot... but a couple of our primary feeds didn't work out, and we ended up relying almost entirely on rmassung's typed feeds. We had two typed feeds coming it at one point, but lost one mid way due to connectivity issues.



arn

Fascinating stuff, thanks guys.

 

[Subliving]

I'd just like to say a huge thank you to MacRumors. Fantastic coverage and not one glitch!

Thank you!

Subliving