Liveblogging the IDF 09 Day 1 Keynotes

By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on September 22, 2009 at 8:04 am

Most of our team is down in San Francisco for IDF 09. I'm here at our orbiting headquarters (OK, not orbiting, but in Oregon :-) watching the real time coverage from all the usual places (Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.). I'll be updating this post over the course of the keynote with links to people and updates that I think are interesting and relevant.

First of all, a few of our team members are in the keynote room right now, waiting for our CEO Paul Otellini's keynote, livetweeting interesting stuff. There one announcement he's going to make that has special relevance to our team. :-) Make sure you're paying attention to @billpearson, @intelsoftware, @amybarton, and @mungara on Twitter. Oh, and I'll be retweeting cool stuff as @jabancroft, too.

Here's a link to a Twitter search I'm using to watch real time chatter about IDF - intel OR idf OR idf09. That stream moves pretty quickly, but the interesting stuff should bubble up.

I'll update this post as the keynotes progress, with links to news and more information. Stay tuned, developers! :-)

First up, Paul Otellini takes the stage, and talks about the continuum of personal computing - the spectrum of devices that we all use. Mentions the importance of online community, social networks (yes, even Twitter :-). And the "cameras go wild" as Paul holds up working 22nm silicon.

Software is what binds the continuum together, and software is changing. Today it's all about multiple clients and multiple clouds. Intel is the 3rd largest ISV community in the world, with 136,000 students and 2,000 professors trained on parallel programming. There are over 14 million developers on Intel platforms in the world.

Steve "Chippy" Paine is also doing some liveblogging of the keynotes, with photos, over at MidMoves.com. As is Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins over at Silicon Angle.

Here's another Twitter search that's a little more focused: updates from the folks on our team (and a few others) who are tweeting from the keynotes. That other general IDF search feed is generating WAY too much flow for even me to keep up with. :-)

Now Paul's talking about the software environment for Atom. It's complex. How can we make it more unique? Paul says the key value proposition is "port of choice". Netbooks are taking off. And so, we introduce the Intel Atom Developer Program (this is the big announcement our team has been waiting for! :-). A common runtime is key. Adobe and Microsoft have announced support, for Moblin and Windows runtime environments. The Intel Atom Developer Program will allow developers to create and sell apps for netbooks. Developers can join the program at http://appdeveloper.intel.com. Paul is showing off a video announcing support from Dell, Acer, and Asus. Our very own Ajay Mungara will be the community manager for the new program.

Now Paul's talking about Atom-based auto infotainment, with BMW and Mercedes already on board. And he's showing off the Moblin 2.1 user interface on a Moorestown-based MID. Moblin 2.1 will include shortcuts to your social media apps and contacts. I can't wait to check it out, and neither can Bob Duffy and Josh Hilliker. :-)

Looks like that's it for Paul Oteilini's keynote this morning. There will be lots more info for developers tomorrow in Renee James' keynote, and I'll do the liveblogging thing again to cover all the news. Thanks for reading, and if you feel like it, drop a comment below and let me know if you found this useful/interesting! :-)

Update: Looks like the video of Paul's keynote is now available at the Intel Press Room site. Check it out for yourself, and see how well I did (or didn't!) with my liveblogging. :-)