Party at CES
January 6, 2007
30 Days of Innovation
Companies Pay Dearly for Tech Trade Show
The event, known in the industry as C.E.S., provides more than $80 million in revenue for the Consumer Electronics Association, an industry trade group and lobbyist. It has thrived even as Comdex, the computer industry show that once held sway here, went bust. And it is a windfall for a booming city. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority estimates that 140,000 attendees and 2,700 exhibiting companies will pump about $230 million into the city economy this year, 40 percent more than the show generated in 2001.I’m here in Las Vegas, the playground for people who don’t know how to make their own fun. The convention business is booming here as no other American city has the economic advantage of scores of undocumented workers living in the depths of their basements. Gambling is a sideshow now; this town is about Hotel rooms, big shows and food.
I expect the unexpected at CES, with thousands of companies from all around the world exhibiting new products and making countless announcements there is bound to be a few new things to get very excited about.
Let’s get this party started…..
News
January 5, 2007
A New Daylife
Jeff Jarvis is excited to report that Daylife, the news startup he has bee working on, has launched. Take the tour here
It’s a start — a beta — with much more to come. And so please make generous use of the feedback button on the site.
To me it looks more like TV then a newspaper, but with a community of intelligent web savvy people contributing content everyday this could grow to be something truly amazing.
Vista’s Trajectory
January 4, 2007
Hardware is Evolving
The Intuitive Life Business Blog
Hardware is evolving Windows Vista’s trajectory is correct, it’s about the next generation of personal computers. Dave Taylor should have read my blog posts, this entire screw-up was the dirty work of Edelman, they clotheslined Microsoft and left them out to dry.
Many of those bloggers who received laptops were associated with other Edelman campaigns and clients. Steve Rubel has been obfuscating and hiding under a rock all week. Dave’s figure of $150,000 didn’t include Edelman’s fee and the good will it bought them with a few bloggers who may be called upon in another Edelman campaigns..
The big winner of this entire episode has been Apple Computers, everyone has forgotten about the investigations and Steve Jobs now has something funny to say at his Keynote next week
NOT Blogger Ethics
January 2, 2007
Ethics 101
Why bash Microsoft and not Nokia?
I worked in Rock’en Roll Radio for eight years and I don’t think there is a DJ today who has the freedom I had back in the day. I used to get taken out to dinner by record reps and I got into every club in New Orleans to listen to d’music, but I never played a song that I didn’t want to hear and people listened to my show because they liked what I played.
Another day has passed without a word from Edelman PR about their crude attempt to control the blogosphere, this is not about blogger ethics.
We all know that if you blog Bill Gates’s pants fell down you will have more page views and trackbacks then anyone who blogs a solution to a technological problem.
The unethical bloggers are easy to spot, they’re the ones who blog about how ethical they are and how much money they make. The best analogy I can think of is 15 year old boys talking about all the woman they have had.
The root problem here is the Windows Vista Team was so insular they didn’t know who their friends were so they had to hire a PR firm to find some.
