Today is the start of WWDC, Apple's developer conference. At Noon Central today -- that is 7am Hawaii, 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, 6pm London, 7pm Paris, 9pm Moscow and 2am (June 9) Tokyo -- Apple's Phil Schiller will give the keynote address, presumably with the help of other Apple employees. WWDC concerns both the Mac and the iPhone, but I have to believe that the focus will be on the iPhone, as evidenced by one of Apple's graphics for the event:
So in just a few hours, everything that we think we know about the iPhone will change. Come here on Tuesday and I'll give you my thoughts on the highlights. Today, there is no live video broadcast of the keynote address, but I expect Apple to post a recording via streaming video tonight or tomorrow. Nevertheless, there are lots of websites that you can follow to get live coverage of Apple's announcements. I suspect that these will be the best, and these links should bring you directly to the page with live coverage:
- Engadget
- GDGT
- Macworld
- The Mac Observer
- MacRumors
- Technologizer
- Gizmodo
- iLounge
- Ars Technica
- TUAW (I don't have a specific link yet)
- CNET
If you want to get your live updates via Twitter, consider following these people:
- @macjournals plans to have live tweets from John C. Welch
- @MacObserverLive will mirror the live event coverage on The Mac Observer website
- @MacRumors will mirror the live event coverage on MacRumors
- @iPTIB plans to have live tweets by Scott Kleinberg
UPDATE: Jalada posted this in the Comments and it is pretty neat. Go to http://www.twitterfall.com and click on WWDC in the list of trends on the left (or you can do a search for it if it isn't listed in trends) and you can see live tweets about WWDC fall down your screen. It is the same content you would get by running a search on the Twitter website, but in a neat graphical layout.
And finally, if you want to watch live video about the event, it is always fun to watch the streaming video from Leo Laporte at TWIT Live. I am sure that Leo will be scanning many of the websites I noted above and talking about the WWDC Keynote as it is happening, and I understand that he will be talking with the always entertaining Andy Ihnatko (who is attending the keynote) immediately after the address.
And finally, this morning as we wait for WWDC to start, if you are looking for something good to read that bridges the gap between the Palm Pre excitement of the last week to the iPhone excitement of this week, read this great article by Andy Ihnatko in the Chicago Sun Times. And if you want to read some possible spoilers instead of just waiting until Noon Central, John Gruber has posted his latest predictions at his Daring Fireball site, and Gruber often gets leaks from inside sources so perhaps he is correct and we'll be seeing an iPhone 3GS later today. We'll see.
