They're going to do 40 minutes of technical demos for devs now, it seems. I think I should leave the keynote and recharge my laptop now. 

I really think that Google should pay more attention to selecting keynote speakers who are good speakers. I mean, Devs deserve to be engaged and entertained, too, right?

Anyone try twitter for iPhone yet? 

President and CEO of VMware is on stage. They're doing something with Google. I feel okay about not paying a lot of attention to this because it has nothing to do with phones. I mean, I'm not "The Virtualization Dog," right?

Twitter is officially failing. They said so on their blog.

Now there's a guy onstage wearing a hockey jersey. On the back his name is HTML and his number is 5.

BTW, the WiFi here in the keynote hall is bad. And Twitter is balking at me. Maybe I SHOULD be using Wave?

Now they're talking about Google Wave.  I still don't know what it is.

"Wave is about getting work done."

okay.

Wave is now part of Google Apps.

okay.

SI editor was EASILY the most engaging speaker thus far.  Notable considering that this is not really a publishing - or, I'm guessing, hardcore sports - crowd.

SI digital version includes upsell opps so you can buy the same camera that the SI photographer used to take his photo of Shaq. Which no doubt is way better than any photo you'll ever take with that same camera.

Sports Illustrated digital version for Chrome Store doesn't look all that WOW, but ... Every time this guy refers to "strong journalism" I get excited. Could use some of that in the geekier parts of the Web.

Sports Illustrated digital version being previewed for Google's Chrome Store. I'd love to know the business dealings behind this.

Editor from Sports Illustrated Group just took the stage. This guy knows how to speak to a room full of people.

HTML5 version of TweetDeck, and some games, being shown off

Engadget points out that Intel was not listed amongst Google's hardware partners when they announced the WebM format today.

Google launches open WebM web video format based on VP8 (update: hardware partners) 

Lynch showing off a CSS animation tool for Dreamweaver. They really shouldn't let him speak, except to geeks. But when he said, "Isn't that cool???" even the geeks only gave him a very mild smattering of applause.

Kevin Lynch's demo of a dynamic clock was conceptually pretty cool, but the final product was a visual mess.  LOL.

Dreamweaver's Multiscreen preview looks pretty nifty for developers. But I'm not a developer, so I really have no idea.

Adobe: HTML5 is Great!

Adobe's Kevin Lynch is showing off "Multi Screen Preview" for HTML5 development that's coming in Dreamweaver/CS 5.

Aha!  Here comes Adobe's Kevin Lynch.

Someone smarter than me just offered a theory:

The lack of mentions of Adobe and Flash isn't so much a backhanded way of saying, "We don't support you" as it is a very forward way of telling developers: "Use all of these APIs in HTML5 and develop for the Web. Circumvent App Stores." It's a united front against Apple.

The CTO of Opera might be the worst keynote speaker ever

Opera is onstage now talking about WebM video, Web fonts and SVG.  

Clearly the consumer whiz bang stuff comes tomorrow. I get it, I get it. I'm just sleepy and grumpy about it.

Someone smarter than me needs to explain to me if the entire lack of Adobe Flash mentions in this keynote, including the talk of "Open Video," means that Google actually doesn't support Flash and Flash video. I'm confused.

Mozilla dude onstage talking about how important "open video" is.  Sorry, Flash video, what?  Oh right, not being mentioned.

Maybe Google's strategy here is to build buzz on Day 1 so by Day 2 everyone is all, "ooh, what's coming???"  I hate it.

Lots of mentions of HTML5 during keynote. NO mentions of Flash.  Adobe much?

Reporter next to me: "Clicker looked A LOT like boxee"

now there's a guy from Clicker.TV on stage.  This keynote is a joke. This stuff is cool, sure, but not worthy of a Day 1 Keynote that press are invited to.  This is stuff that you show on the show floor.

MUGTUG Darkroom looks pretty cool. Web-based image editor using HTML5.

A guy from MUGTUG is on stage. MUGTUG might be the worse name of anything ever. I bet it's cool, tho.

Demo of HTML5 Web notifications -- Gmail Web app triggers pop-up notifications via HTML5 APIs

Demo of drag and drop attachment management in HTML5-enabled GMail.

HTML5 is growing in mobile browsers and outpacing non-HTML5 enabled Web browsers.

History of HTML5 in browsers. Expecting that by the end of 2010, "All major APIs will be supported by all major browsers."  Graphic shows that IE is lacking. Big geeky dig at Microsoft there.  Yuk yuk.

Opening remarks over, VP of Product Management comes on stage to talk about HTML 5.  They've teased that TOMORROW'S keynote will be the big one. And it starts at 8:30 instead of 9. I officially hate Google, what a joke.

Hello!

Talking about how HTML5 is making Web apps more powerful.