The executive used the keynote to address a wide range of issues, from anti-Semitism to LGBTQ rights — in many cases framing them in the context of corporate responsibility.
Although growing the tech industry was part of his economic platform, de Blasio's administration says this will be his "first major address to the tech community," and that he'll use the keynote to discuss his plans.
RIM has used the keynote of their BlackBerry Developer Conference to drop the good word on a fairly important topic: Carrier billing is coming to the BlackBerry App World in 2010.
Greg Dyke - the new BBC director-general - could not resist using the platform of the keynote MacTaggart Lecture to announce the BBC's intention to move its main news from 9pm to 10pm next autumn.
Microsoft has used the CES keynote stage in previous years to unveil products like the original Xbox and Avatar Kinect.
The same kind of language used in the keynote, for example, permeated a fireside chat with the Google+ platform team, where the argument against just opening up a full read/write API was based on the fact that Google doesn't want to "disturb something magical".
We'll be using the same liveblogging tool we used for the Bill Gates Keynote last week, which gives you live streaming blogs entries, as well as user commentary, photos, and tomorrow, live audio.
And, of course, Ellison was not one to retreat from the jab, using his keynote to express problems with, in particular, the security of Salesforce's architecture, saying, "You've got many customers and their data just coexist in the same database, and since there's no fault-isolation, a system failure brings down many customers".
This is something you can do quite handily on the iPad using Keynote and, in fact, I suspect Keynote users are well aware of the benefits of their superior platform.
If you are using Keynote 6 (blue icon), Keynote will be in your Applications folder.
