Just like Andrew, I’m flying to Amsterdam via KLM, so I’d like to do this Internet Check-In stuff as well. Unfortunately, I’m flying thursday morning and Internet check-ins aren’t available until 30 hours before departure, so I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see if my ticket is eligible. On the other hand, I don’t have a printer at home, so I’d have to ask my wife to print the boarding pass for me at the office. All in all, I’m not sure it’s worth it.
Update: I was able to check-in for my outbound MXP-AMS flight (and also to choose a nice seat, thanks to SeatGuru) but not for the trip back from Amsterdam. God knows!
Published by ugo on October 4, 2005
in web.
I’m currently tuned in to the McNealy-Schmidt webcast, waiting for it to begin. In a minute or so we’ll see what all the excitement’s about.
10:35 — There it goes … a bit more than a minute later ;).
10:44 — The real meat is just coming out now … McNealy talking about Java and the Google Toolbar. WTF?
10:46 — Google is going to become a Sun customer. Really?
10:48 — Andy Bechtolsheim coming onstage.
10:49 — Now it’s Eric’s turn to speak. He’s extolling the virtues of Java. I always thought that Google’s usage of Java was pretty marginal. (Lost most of his speech, as my daughter was requiring attention. At some time, also Jonathan Schwartz came onstage).
10:55 — Lava lamp? Is that the big innovation? 
Time for questions from the audience. I have the sensation I lost most of the really important things that were announced … too much confusion here.
11:09 — Lost the rest of the webcast. I guess you cannot be 100% a geek when you have a family, but that’s alright.
Later: Apologies, but I haven’t done a very good job of transcripting the highlights of the webcast. If you want to know more, I suggest starting from here and downloading the webcast replay when it’s available. Of course, the whole blogosphere is probably abuzz now with comments and wild guesses. In my opinion, what we heard is much less than what most commentators expected: just a distribution deal, whereas many were speculating wildly about a possible web-based implementation of some OpenOffice features on the web, using Google’s infrastructure and programming skills. But maybe this is just the beginning of what we’ll see in the future.
