Dom invited me to join him, Thomas Lee, Steve Foster, and Mary Jo Foley at a little get together at the Westin Bonaventure for coffee and a little breakfast. It wasn't really what I expected but I was actually quite surprised by Mary Jo Foley. She's not really like the other members of press that I've talked to before. She's really quite interesting, very knowledgeable and quite cool. I had the please of driving the lot of us from the Bonaventure to the LA Convention Center, luckily we're all still alive to enjoy this nice keynote that's mainly about MSR.
It really kicks ass, I really enjoyed this water demo we just had, the ripples, the reflections, refactions are so much nicer when they applied their extra little effects. As an example, they had it so that when you get lower or higher in height from the water level the intensity of the reflection changed accordingly. At the moment we're being shown new ways to think about contacts and people and the way we interact with them. And now there's some thing really awesome called Wallop. It's a new way to blog and to moblog from the looks of it. A way to really connect the blogs together and see the interactions between the people blogging. From the looks of it there's a much bigger push on images in their model. But the key thing I'm getting out all of this is that they really want all the information we know that's out there much much easier to navigate through. It's kind of like the best of MSR brought out at the PDC
. Just awesome.