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5. Not only am I happy to announce a 3G iPhone, but everyone who bought the first generation will get a free upgrade.

4. Apple TV is a great device for watching amazing shows and starting right now you can stream live Apple events through your wireless network. This is the only way to watch Apple events live as they happen.

3. Last year I made a call to Starbucks live on stage when announcing the new iPhone. Today I’m happy to advance that call to the future with iCoffee: a service that not only delivers your coffee to you but has a cool Apple logo on the cup.

2. This past weekend I asked a group of developers to clone Twitter and we’re happy to launch right now: iTweet — A service that will never see downtime.

1. We’ve been hired by Microsoft to redesign their OS.

Two big announcements came yesterday out of Startup Weekend:

1. Andrew Hyde (founder) has announced that Startup Weekend is hiring a CEO. This is the first organization based around creating products in a short span of time (54 hours for SW attendees) to hire a CEO.
2. Startup Weekend 2.0 begins this weekend in Boulder for their second SW. Big changes include the following:

• Multiple Projects
  • As a group we are no longer working on just one company.  If a group of seven, one or 45 for that matter wants to tackle a project or start a company, fantastic.   The community will take charge here, but nothing will be decided until Friday night.  All equity decisions will be made at the event.
• Build on a Project
  • An existing company can recruit a few some brilliant tech minds to spend two hours with working to make their project stronger.
• No Company Required
  • Every project will be different, but there will be no requirement to incorporate a company

The second point comes as a big move as this has been a hotly contended issue in SW past. Other weekends have already taken steps to decrease team size and put more power in the hands of the attendees as to “What happens Next?” Whether the weekend is a success or not, each product launched has the choice to do as they wish.

This is a shift in mentality from a group coming together around a common product and working as a team to being more of a code fest. People are now able to get together, put together what they want, and do with it what they want.

It’ll be interesting to see how shares are distributed and ownership happens with these changes. If one project doesn’t want to go to the group — how will it impact the ownership of that product? According to the site, power still resides with the group, but this weekend will prove whether that’s really the case or not.

Good luck to Boulder! Looking forward to seeing which app(s?) come out of the weekend.

Blitzweekend is well underway up in Montreal. News has been a little slow coming out of the weekend as far as progress, but Mehdi (from Blitzweekend) has filled me in that they have about 50 people attending with 12-13 teams competing to be the best app of the weekend.

I’m looking forward to hearing what apps come out of the weekend and which earns the prize of being dubbed top app.

You can follow their progress at Montreal Tech Watch.

A few weeks ago Startup Weekend hosted their 15th weekend (yes, 15th) in Bloomington Feb 8 - 10. I held off on posting about the weekend in hopes of sharing a website with everyone, but nothing is posted on the weekend’s project: Eventherder.

The site had the goal of being an aggregator for events, similar to how Fandango is for movies. The weekend left with much to be done (a demo was presented in house for the attendees), but as we’ve noticed with any weekend application development event, the hard part is keeping things going post-weekend.

We’ll see how if anything happens with Eventherder. I’m hoping they come out with a beta in the least…but it was a mighty task to undertake in less than 72 hours.

Next Startup Weekend scheduled: Boulder II: March 21 - 23.

Seems like the there was a bit of a delay over at Weekend Apps with the final announcement. The latest information coming out is saying that 11 apps (as opposed to the first reported 6) were launched this past weekend.

Here’s the new run-down of the 11 apps:

• Matchtastic
  Dating and rating to find friends and meet new people
• ASPECTS
  ASPECTS shows the world the different aspects of your life, your skills and your interests. Flaunt it now!
• PikiPages
  Create your own free form page. Drag and drop your pictures, mp3, videos, etc. Share your pages with your friends or the entire world, event outside facebook.
• Send me an artist
  Send an artist to your friends and let him draw you a picture in 4 days.
• HitchHikers
  Hitchhiker takes you in a journey of a lifetime. Reach a destination anywhere in the world by hitchhiking with your friends. Meet new people and hook up with interesting folks along the way. Track the progress of your hitchhiking adventure and those of the folks you’ve helped.
• Deface a baby
  App for fun to deface a baby, in any way you want, and share it with your facebook friends!
• Spring Break
  Go on virtual tours and meet new people.
• Blogs I Read
  Display our favorite blogs on your profile, connect with bloggers, and discover new blogs.
• OH Snap!
  Choose your best pictures and display them on your profile
• Peace Quiz
  The purpose of Peace Quiz is to show you what would happen if we had world peace. The Quiz will show you some statements of what peace would lead to in and you get to guess whether or not the real affect would be higher or lower than our calculations.
• Ad Exchange
  An app to exchange ads among all the apps released in the weekend to cross-promote each other.

We’ll see how these apps turn out over the course of the next month. It seems to take a while in Facebook land for apps to spread, and with the most recent cries of application overload and the rumors of the peak of popularity, only time will tell how these 11 apps will fair in the land of the ever rising app.

Blitzweekend, one of the latest weekend startup events, is kicking off Saturday morning in Montreal. The group has assembled quite the team of experts and panel members to inform, assist, and advise throughout the 2 day affair. As of right now, they have almost 60 people registered with about 25 proposed projects.

The weekend aims to get people together in groups no greater than 8 large and build several apps in less than 48 hours. At Blitzweekend, some teams are pre-organized while others will organize on the spot.

The small team approach is similar to what we saw last weekend with Weekend Apps, but this will be on a much grander of scale.

We’ll see what comes out of Blitzweekend (both products and lessons learned) as they try to conquer the weekend application development world.