The Google Factory Tour, Wrap-up, We Will
Time to put coverage of today's Google Factory Tour to bed. But before I do, some housekeeping...

- Thanks to Google for inviting me out to the event, its nice to see blogs getting recognition as a legitimate new source.

- Congrats to all involved in putting this event together. The day was a great success and one that can have the "beta" tag safely removed. Although, Eric Schmidt told me (with tongue firmly in cheek), "we may just keep the 'beta' tag for 5 years, just to make a point."

- To all my journalist homies (although, I'm probably the red-headed step-child of the press contigent), it was great to catch up and even better to finally meet a lot of you for the first time.

- To the many Google employees who told me they enjoy reading my blog...I'm not worthy. ;-)

- A special shout out to "Anonymous 1" and "Anonymous 2". Two Google employees who told me they had been tracking my live blogging throughout the day. Why no real names? Something about not wanting their friends to know that they sleep in their "Google Dance" t-shirts. Your secret is safe with me. ;-)

- Did you miss the webcast? Never fear, you can watch the entire thing by clicking this link. Some great, stuff, but it goes down hill at around the 3 hour 27 minute mark (you'll see what I mean). ;-)

- Now, I'm off to catch the late-night screening of Star Wars with a bunch of Googlers. Yep, they've reserved an entire movie theater so they can catch the latest episode. Strong with the force, they are.

Hopefully, you'll forgive me for not posting much tomorrow. I'll be travelling across country and will be in the air pretty much all day. Saturday I head to Orlando, ahead of the Annual Catalog Conference being held next week.

Andy, out. (whoops, too much American Idol).
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