A FriendFeed + WWDC Live Experiment
I’m going to Apple’s WWDC event tomorrow and had been thinking for the past several days about an approach to take for how to cover it for VentureBeat. Sure, live-blogging is obvious, but a lot of other sites do that, and probably do it a lot faster than me as they have more experience (this will be my first Apple keynote).
Dean and I were just going to do what we do best – write articles – but something else popped into my head while surfing around FriendFeed today. Actually, it’s something that FriendFeed user and blogger Bwana McCall wrote about a few days ago: Why not use FriendFeed’s Rooms feature to create a WWDC live update center? Genius.
Others have created rooms around the event, but as far as I know, no one else actually going to be there covering it live has one. So I made one, and I plan to pipe in all the updates that I can there. I think it will just be such a great tool for something like this. I can quickly put in updates from Steve Jobs himself, and then a whole community can have a bit conversation around each of these. This seems like something FriendFeed was built for.
There are already well over 100 members of the VentureBeat WWDC Livestream FriendFeed room, and I suspect there will be a lot more come tomorrow. This should be an interesting test to see how well FriendFeed will work as a live communication tool. I have a feeling it will work great and that we’ll be seeing a lot of others use this same idea for future conferences of all types.
Also be sure to check out the comprehensive page Sean Percival made, piping in a whole slew of RSS updates from sites covering the event. Even if you can’t go to the event tomorrow, you’ll have plenty of ways to stay in the know.
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