FLMUG (aka MUGOO)

Datamation has a story about the estimated iPads pre-sold on the first day. Many more are also estimating numbers based on various factors. The numbers range from 20,000 to 50,000.

Link: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/mowi/article.php/3870471/Apple-iPad-Hits-Market-With-Smooth-Launch-Day.htm

Update: 10:40 am EST, retail store links now include iPad reservations.   You can pick your store, reserve your iPad and pick it up on April 3rd.  Payment is due at pickup.  Orlando-area residents have 3 stores to choose from: Florida Mall, Millenia Mall, and Altamonte Mall.

As of 9:00 am EST,  you can pre-order your iPad on http://store.apple.com

This order method will have it shipped to you.  I could not find an option for picking it up at a retail store yet.  Those sites still show forms to leave your email to be informed.

7:30 am this morning, this was the online Apple Store:

March 11, 2010,
Networking and Setup: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Presentations: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

First Congregational Church of Winter Park
225 South Interlachen Avenue
Winter Park, FL 32789-4411
(407) 647-2416
http://www.fccwp.org/

The map below is zoomed way out for reference to Winter Park and the I-4.  Use the + button to zoom in or click the link at the bottom for a new page with more detail.

View FLMUG Main Meeting in a larger map

Lookout Bill Gates.  Apple’s market cap hits $200 Billion and may soon overtake MicroSoft.

Story on SeekingAlpha: http://seekingalpha.com/article/193045-apple-s-market-cap-shoots-past-200-billion-closes-in-on-microsoft?source=email

From Google Finance:  http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chdet=1268341200000&chddm=98141&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=NASDAQ:AAPL;NASDAQ:MSFT&cmptdms=0;0&q=NASDAQ:GOOG&ntsp=0

From WikiInvest.com, Apple’s 1-year stock price

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Greenville, SC entered the fray with their “We’re Feeling Lucky”  compaign.  This will culminate with a “human Google chain” involving a large number of light sticks.

Orlando has begun organizing for Google Fiber.  Find out how you can help at the website: http://getgoogling.com/

The story is covered by the Orlando Sentinel: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-google-superfast-internet-20100309,0,1940980.story

And Fox 35:  http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/central_florida/031010-Google

And WDBO: http://wdbo.com/localnews/2010/03/orlando-tries-to-lure-google-t.html

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer kicks off the campaign:

Shipping April 3rd.

(iPhone, iPod Touch readers, click the video to see it in the YouTube Player.)

A blog on CNN Money is reporting on Steve Jobs attending the oscars for Pixar’s “UP” being nominated for best animated movie. And the new iPad ad aired twice during the show.

Links:  CNN Blog

The competition for infrastructure continues.

• Palm Bay, Florida, city officials are gathering information to make a bid for Google Fiber. They are going to hold 2 public forums for gathering their citizens’ ideas on the matter.
• Mayor Kiss of Burlington, Mermont, has been on the news discussing it.
• Flint, in Genesse County, Michigan, is beginning a campaign.
• A group in Baltimore has built a website in which technology company executives are interviewed on video expressing interest and citizens are marking their interest with pins on a map (probably a Google map). They also use a Google Group to coordinate efforts.
• The mayor of Duluth, MN staged an event where he jumped into Lake Superior in a t-shirt and shorts (in that state’s cold weather), as well as being involved in a spoof video on YouTube.
• Topeka, Kansas temporarily renamed itself Google, Kansas.
• Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids,