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.

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).

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















I dugg it. I NEED THAT APP!
Sweet! This is hilarious and would keep me entertained either way.
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.
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.
that’s a great start Joris! Looking forward to the beta version, will that one include a red button alert? ;-)
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).
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.
http://joris.kluivers.nl/Bingo/
Way to go, Joris!!!!
Great idea. Did anyone do it? I used this in my show on Mobuzz.tv
http://dailybuzz.mobuzz.tv/shows/metallica_and_michael_moore_free_on_the_internet
The closest game would be Buzzingo http://itunes.com/apps/buzzingo
The ability of this app to add your own words to the built in list and share those words with others playing over wifi would make this a great game for one of these events. Obviously missed this one but there are always more.