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With all the hullabaloo around some gaming convention this week, somehow the WWDC keynote slipped the minds of the folks over in HQ, well leave it to yours truly to remind them and step up to the plate to cover it for you all, faithful readers.

I’ve covered a bunch of these events before, and often I live blog them in some fashion, but not this time. This time I’m going to “live note take” and then report back when I’ve been able to process all the awesome, magical, coolness that his Royal Appness Steve Jobs has told us. Yeah, live blogs are awesome, but they also can be a little disjointed. Things like… “when will I be able to download GarageBand for iPad … ” and a moment later … “Oh, today”. In the end, live blogs can be fun to read during the event, but not so much afterwards.

Now as an added twist to this whole process, I’m also going to take notes in a new app that I learned about from the folks who make Scrivener. The app is called Twig and looks like a cross behind mindmapping, Evernote, and Yojimbo. I made a deal to make a screencast explaining Twig and I’ve found no better way to learn and app is to use the app in a real life and important situation. Yeah, no pressure.

Regardless, this WWDC has some pretty huge implications. Yeah, Lion will be cool, but it’s iCloud and iOS 5 that have the industry on the edges of their seats.

Google and (competitor) have cloud music services, as well as forms of cloud storage, but Apple could sucker punch them both back to the drawing boards if iCloud does what people think it could do.

Then there’s iOS 5 and jailbreaks.

We know that the notification system in iOS really sucks. We also know that a lot of people jailbreak their iOS devices to get more features and not just because they want to thumb their noses at Apple. Until the Personal Hotspot feature was added to iOS I was sorely tempted to jailbreak my iPhone so I go have this function … and now I don’t have to. Turns out that Apple is hip to this jive and snagged the author of MobileNotifier for the iOS team. Sounds like Apple wants to kill jailbreaking by just giving people fewer and fewer reasons to do it in the first place. Clever.

So, while there will be a lot of fanboy glee on Monday and you can bet that if I can buy Lion on Monday (or next week…heck you know I’m buying it) I will. Sign up for iCloud? Oh yeah. Drool for iOS 5? You bet.

As for the rest of the industry, they might be left scrambling. Just like after that event announcing the iPad…