This is a 50′ diagonal rear-projection screen. Which means that the image appears reversed (like in a mirror) to anyone looking at it from backstage, as I was. At a certain point while Marco (my boss) and Dan (Yahoo! COO) were onstage, Terry (Yahoo! CEO ) was walking around backstage near me and noticed that the text on the screen was reversed. He was kinda freaked out for a second until I reminded him that it was rear-projection and looked normal to the audience.
You can watch the whole keynote (properly oriented) here. And check out the Yahoo! Go suite of products that we launched at CES 2006 here. To those of you who don’t know what I do at Yahoo!, this is it – all of these products were created by my group, and I am proud to have been part of the team that helped launch them in such a spectacular way at CES 2006.