Their was a queue it was very long many people jumped, got a close seat only to be bedazzled by the very odd Java interpretive dance troup.

Their was a lot of Java Blah Blah and will spare you it.

I am a bit unsure as whether to just drop in my sketchy notes or just clue you up on some of the best bits.

I was a bit suprised at the violence that errupted from the Java Geeks when free tshirts were litteraly sling shot across the room. Some of the people in front ended up on the floor. One Japanese girl went and stood in front of the slingers dodging back and forth in front of him till he passed her a tshirt.

Next we had a group of VP’s tell us how they had attached RFID chips to us and had sensors sensing power usage co2 emissions and a host of other fairly privacy encroaching technologies, so they could create a pretty graph in javafx. Which by the way looks promising as a technology.

Next they tried to sell that anyone not using a service architecture would end up going bust. he VP of software came up with a lovely quote. “A competitive enviroment for your eyeballs”

Amazon showed off kindle not impressed, felt like a step backward esspecialy with a keypad that came straight out of the 90’s

Sony Ericson claimed Java was at the core of its strategy.

Then I saw the javafx demo, and watched as a lady dragged a facebook widget onto her desktop as though it was a window to an aplication, she then closed the browser and the damn thing kept running. It should apparently run on everything from computers to tvs to mobile (incl android) to blueray. It comes in built with video playback and 3d stuff. It felt very much like apples efforts with its “core” products.

Next was photo flockr, If I didn’t know any better I would say they ripped off mine and ribots idea that we pitched to the bbc about a year ago. Even the name was the same sans photo.

Sun has 4 fundimental activities.

1. reach more devices linux/windows mac embedded sonsumer sensors, appliances.
2. Ubiquitous not good enough, they want speed performance. EMotive design.
3. Give developers tools to measure use of their applications.
4. All for free. (its all about the licensees mwahahahaha)

Then Neil Young stood up and went on about blueray and his albums.

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