The Best Places for Macworld 2008 Coverage

Today is the one day in every Apple fanatic’s calendar year that anything can happen. Steve Jobs himself, will be kicking off the Macworld keynote in San Francisco today. Last year, he unveiled the iPhone and this year, the rumors are high for an Apple ultra-portable (Macook Air?), an AppleTV update, or even a Mac based tablet. The keynote kicks off at 9AM PST / 12PM EST with Steve Jobs taking the stage in the Moscone Center. If you aren’t fortunate enough to see the iCEO in the flesh, there are many sites covering the keynote. Here are some of my favorites.

Video
Looking for video coverage of Macworld is not going to be easy. Very few sites can handle the bandwidth and the load of streaming video from the keynote. However, this year, Cunning.tv, a new Internet tech channel that I helped create, will be getting video of Steve Jobs live out of the keynote. Be sure to arrive to the website early on though, because the video requires a lot of bandwidth, and may be only accessible to a limited number of people. If you are not going to be at your computer during the keynote, you can have live updates of all the cool products Steve launches sent directly to your phone via SMS. Subscribe to Cunning.tv’s twitter feed for live SMS updates of all of the new Apple goodness.

Pictures
If you want to feel the joy of clicking refresh multiple times, while looking at high-quality images of his Steveness and the new Apple swag, Engadget’s Macworld 2008 page is the place to go. They have, undoubtedly, the best photos each year. Here, you will find a series of bloggers who are committed to writing up articles as fast as the products are being released. If you only go one place to check what’s happened at Macworld, Engadget is the place with the most coverage.

Text
If you are the old-fashioned type, and just want plain old text, Macrumors Live is the place to go. They are always updating the facts as soon as they are announced, and even have an auto-refresh system in place, so you don’t have to constantly site there hitting F5 or Cmd-R. Macrumors also has a twitter feed to subscribe to for announcements if you are on a cell phone. While you won’t be getting an images on Macrumors, they update much faster, and get the facts to you faster.

This year’s Macworld is sure to be packed with new Apple products, and Cunning.tv, Engadget, and Macrumors Live are the best, and fastest way to get that information. After the keynote is over, you can, of course, watch Apple’s recording over at their dedicated Apple Events page. Happy Macworld to everyone!

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