The “back to reality” CES and MacWorld
Tweet2009 is the year of reality. It’s the year when hype goes away (except for hype about Twitter). When many of us get back to the basics: health, happiness, fitness, family. We might still believe...
View ArticleUseful gadgets of CES past
TweetI’m getting ready to go to CES right now. The big consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. A group of eight of us are driving a small bus down there and we’ll be reporting along the way. But one...
View ArticleSeagate avoids Scoble Blindness with new HD media sharing and storage device
TweetAlan Wolk made an important point for marketers: do not get blinded by “Scoble blindness.” What is “Scoble blindness?” Making products just for Scoble, or thinking that I, or my behaviors online,...
View ArticleLots of CES news — microblogged from last night’s events
TweetI have been posting a TON of stuff from the Consumer Electronics Show. How? iPhone and type a paragraph. It lets you see a lot of news very quickly. Here’s the ones I filmed tonight at Pepcom’s...
View ArticleExclusive CES video: Plug Pogoplug in and get your files anywhere
TweetThis is an example of a trend at CES I was talking about: that gadgets this year are getting very simple, even though they are doing pretty complex things. Here we have first video demo of...
View ArticleAre trade shows dead? My answer might surprise you
TweetHarry McCracken, who used to be the lead editor over at PC World, notes that CES is getting smaller. 22% smaller this year. I will predict it will be even smaller next year. Why? Because I know...
View ArticleWin a private jet flight to CES
This will probably start another conversation about being tone deaf in an increasingly tough economic climate, but my friend Steve Broback and team is doing a variety of things at the Consumer...
View ArticleAre bloggers & social networks killing the big shows?
I’ve noticed a trend lately (actually I noticed it back when I worked at Microsoft and my bosses kept refusing to buy booths at conferences, saying they didn’t return the ROI, but that trend has grown...
View ArticleWhy blogging comments suck
The other day, Gary Shapiro, the guy who runs the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, dropped by and left a comment here. There were a few problems: 1. My commenting system caught his comment in...
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