The big news at Macworld is the lack of news at Macworld
The highlight of the day gets filed under the "How not to pitch your product at a Mac user's conference" heading. And the answer is, by prefacing your answer with "If you're stuck using OS X Server..." Duly filed under "Don't let your engineers talk to potential customers - if you want their business." Ok, so I'm being a bit harsh, but you expect nothing less from me, right? The engineer in question was with MetaCommunications and the product he was demonstrating to Scott and I was their new Digital Storage Manager, which, despite the ill-advised comment (which we all laughed about at the time), looks like a promising enterprise-level intranet search and archive management solution. You can learn more about it at Meta-Comm's website.
Other than that? There's not much to tell. I ran into a few friends from NYC (why is it I see some people more when we're out of town, than when we're all in town?), enjoyed a few laughs at Andy Ihnatko's opening keynote and later at the MacBrainiac Challenge, and marveled at how the Starbucks across from the hotel can make an Iced Venti Skim Caramel Macchiato taste so much better than the ones I get every day at the Union Square Starbucks in NY.
After a very pleasant lunch with Scott, I retreated back to my hotel room to get some non-blog work done and post a few words here for you all to hang on. I would've gone back to the convention center and done this from the so-called Press Lounge, but it is a) not really a lounge and b) lacking in a sufficient number of IP addresses to dish out to folks like me who are trying to get online to post something! Scott had better luck than I did on that front. I spent 10 minutes trying to get on, and once I did, I encountered a snail's web.
Let's hope tonight's meetup is more exciting than the rest of my day has been!
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John Koetsier said 11:49PM on 7-18-2005
The tech guy wasn't very politic, but he was probably right ...
http://www.gilgamesh.ca/?p=347
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