Let’s Rock: The Smoking Apples Live Chat

by Milind Alvares
Tuesday September 9, 2008

Let’s Rock: The Smoking Apples Live Chat

by Milind Alvares on September 9, 2008

The 9th of September cannot arrive soon enough. It’s that time of the year when days just seem to drag and every one of them seems like another one backward. An Apple Special Event is more anticipated, at least by a seasoned Macboy (keep reading Smoking Apples and you’ll get there too), than even Christmas.

It has been a tradition for the past year that we get together, gather a few folks from outside, and organise an IM conference during these events. But this time round we will take it one step ahead. Join us in our Live Chat right on this blog using just your browser. It will be a very personal chat and everyone’s voice will be heard. You may, of course, follow up on any live-blog of your choosing while the event is live, whilst chatting with us about the various announcements as they happen.

(Download iCal event)

So be it iTunes 8, iPod Touch 2G, a new slimmer iPod nano, or, heck, even a shiny new MacBook pro, we here at Smoking Apples will be lively and chatty. Enter your email address in the form below to be notified right when the Live Chat begins, or download the iCal event on the right to get alerted by your PIM (not necessarily iChat). The event starts at 10:30 PM IST and the chat kicks off an hour in advance.

Tagged as: cover it live, Events, ical, iPod, iTunes, keynote, let's rock, live, live chat, live-blog, special event, Steve Jobs

Reader Comments

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Reader Comments

Azeem September 8, 2008 at 12:38 pm: Man this site is awesome!! Will follow Let’s Rock on smokingapples and my favorite from last time Gizmodo. Its better to follow 2 great site than to follow dozen and get all confused, and this time around I’ve got my bandwidth problem too. Looking for a great time tomorrow night…
Manan September 8, 2008 at 1:17 pm beingmanan.com: WTF! Yahoo man! This thing is a resource hog, it’s already messing my machine with it’s refresh thing. Ah whatever!
Aayush Arya September 8, 2008 at 3:52 pm aayush.me: If we did it on Yahoo!, it would be restricted only to people with Yahoo! IDs. Furthermore, only the invited attendees would be able to participate. We want this to be open to all.

This is the fist time we’re doing it. If it doesn’t work, we’ll switch to something else for Macworld Expo.

And how’s it a resource hog? At least on my machine, it’s working just fine. But then again, I have a Mac, so… :p
Manan September 8, 2008 at 6:12 pm beingmanan.com: WTH! I’m gonna be there. On my hackintosh now that you talk about it. Better do a test run tonight or something if you guys haven’t.
Ashwin Ravindran September 8, 2008 at 6:18 pm ashwinr.com: Manan -
This isn’t resource hog. The frame thing is similar to that of YouTube frame. You might have a low speed net connection forcing this to take more time to load. You’ll notice substantial improvement in the loading time after the first visit.

Like Aayush said, with this in place more people can take part.

Please join us in this live chat. We should’ve loads of fun.

P.S: Milind has done the testing and says: “Freakin easy shit.”
Manan September 8, 2008 at 8:09 pm beingmanan.com: Well, the thing was apparently reloading the frame or something, not the page but I could see it waiting for request after the whole page loaded.

However, rest assured I will be here. No friggin’ chance I’m gonna miss it if unless the LHC is fired first and world is gobbled.
shadowknight September 8, 2008 at 8:28 pm: Nice going. I’ll be there.

I hope Jobs is going to take the stage though. If not it won’t be an Apple keynote for me.
Azeem September 8, 2008 at 8:38 pm: Oh c’mn Manan, I am on the slowest internet on the planet, BSNL’s UL750 and I can assure you smokingapples is smoking fast
Abtom September 8, 2008 at 9:47 pm: Shiny MacBook Pro sounds exciting.I’m gonna be there!
barry September 9, 2008 at 2:23 am: Count me in guys. I might not participate that much though, but I’ll be listening.
krazzy September 9, 2008 at 1:22 pm thekrazzyblog.blogspot.com: Nice. Hopefully will be there tonight.
Tarun (aka Hellknight) September 9, 2008 at 3:05 pm: Hey.. thanx for the invitation.. i’ll be there.. added an evant to my iCal.. lets see..
Manan September 9, 2008 at 8:42 pm beingmanan.com: Well, here I am. Now that we aren’t on Yahoo! will have to be all good and all, throughout. Ah crap!
Aayush Arya September 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm aayush.me: Thanks for being here. Everything is set and the live chat will kick off right on time.

If you’re in that state, think about us. We gotta be really politically correct and listen to you bash Apple without so much as raising a finger. :p
Mehul Gohil September 9, 2008 at 9:26 pm -: You wanted me, here i am! Kicking my chat off in Batman ishtyle!

what are the updates?? all set?
bhatnaturally September 9, 2008 at 9:29 pm lbhat.com: Awesome news! Great to follow the event on a desi site!
Manan September 9, 2008 at 11:14 pm beingmanan.com: I warned you guys. By the way, game demos going on. Soccer looks CRAP on the iPhone.