Let’s rock with Apple’s Stevenote Bingo, the iPhone app

Written on September 7, 2008 – 1:24 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

So far, I haven’t reported about the whole Nano buzz. Kevin Rose’s guesses, the sneering reactions from the blogosphere, the “Let’s Rock” invitation from Apple and the leaked photos: it’s all one big joke to me. And although a lot of Apple fanboys seem to think about it as matter of life and death, there are actually some who seem to agree with me. Like Lonnie Lazar from Cult of Mac. He created a Keynote bingo card to keep all the attendees at the Yerba Buena Center entertained. Cool move! After all, it was a success with Leah Culver at Supernova. So here’s my plan of action.

Let’s vote Lazar’s post to Digg’s frontpage (click) to get it under the attention of all the fanboys out there.
Let one of these fanboys create an bingo app (that actually generates different cards)
Install this thing en masse, and start touching away during the Stevenote.

Here’s the iPhone app Stevenote Bingo mock-up

It took me way too long to design this, but hey, I gotta give you a good idea of the app I have in my mind.

Stevenote Bingo iPhone mock-up

Ok, so the phrases are displayed as phone keys. Click one and it transforms into a light-blue button. If you want to join a world-wide competition, type in your username and click “join”. The app can be used for every Stevenote to come, but this obviously is the one for the “Let’s Rock” edition. If you and your friends are bored, you can always choose the first iPhone keynote and watch it on the Apple website. After the click you can see what happens when you have bingo (nothing much actually).

Stevenote Bingo iPhone mock-up BINGO!

So start digging and stumbling away to find an iPhone developer who can actually make this before Tuesday!

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About the author: Ernst-Jan is blogger and co-organizer of BLOG08, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five. Follow him on Twitter or read his personal blog Dutchproblogger.com .

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By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Sep 7, 2008

I dugg it. I NEED THAT APP!

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By Corvida on Sep 7, 2008

Sweet! This is hilarious and would keep me entertained either way.

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By iPhoneclub.nl on Sep 7, 2008

Looks excellent! Would be fun with some kind of global system where the first to send their Bingo to the server wins a prize or smth.

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By Michiel on Sep 8, 2008

Ipod Touch 2G?? Ipod Nano 4G?? Hang on.. the IPhone 3G is just a couple of months old. But according to the top bingocard the touch will get the old Iphone 2G-technology? And the Nano will get an even newer mobile 4G-technology? Don’t think so.

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By Joris Kluivers on Sep 8, 2008

Hmm, nice idea. I started working on a web based version (click my name to see a first alpha). Not completed yet, got to get some sleep now, but will finish the app next thing tomorrow morning (although without the central server).

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By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on September 8th, 2008:
that’s a great start Joris! Looking forward to the beta version, will that one include a red button alert? ;-)

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By Lonnie Lazar on Sep 8, 2008

Thanks for taking this to the next level, Ernst. May there one day be an iPhone app to play bingo for all the upcoming Apple “big events”!

@Michel, I think the “G” in this case refers to iPod Touch 2nd generation and iPod Nano 4th generation, not to the same “G” as in 3G mobile voice technology.

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By mike on Sep 8, 2008

http://joris.kluivers.nl/Bingo/

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By Mathys on Sep 8, 2008

Way to go, Joris!!!!

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By Gabemac on Sep 11, 2008

Great idea. Did anyone do it? I used this in my show on Mobuzz.tv

http://dailybuzz.mobuzz.tv/sho.....e_internet

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