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CES Day 2: Ballmer's pitch

January 12, 2009

15,000 queuing to get into Ballmer’s keynote that opens CES. Queue started at 16:30. Keynote was at 6:30. 3 enormous screens on the stage, stage silver spotlights hit the Chandeliers. And then – human beatboxing, flashing videos on all screens, it’s the full circus! (was wondering for a minute if accidnetally I stepped into a [...]

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CES Day 4: widgets time

January 12, 2009

ok, ok – this panel actualy tool place on day 3, a day which was mad, with not one minute to remember your login questions to all networks ‘forgotten password’ questions. So – widgets!! we all know widgets are pitched as a great and cool social media marketing tool. The challenge now is twofold: 1)    [...]

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CES Day 3: first day exhibition report given by non tech

January 9, 2009

It is 2am and though I am struggling to keep my eyes open (up 6am after 4 hours of sleep, listening, learning, networking, reviewing the exhibition) I am still all buzzed with excitement. Today was the grand formal opening of the exhibition: halls and halls of consumer electronic toys. But what was once the industry [...]

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CES Day 2: SMJ who are you? identity and the user

January 8, 2009

Who are those that use Social Media for Business? Jeremiah Owyang divides users of social media for business purposes into 6 groups: Creators – they have blogs, twitter, they are on every single network. Critics – Collectors – get all feeds and organize them Joiners – network is how I get business done Spectators – [...]

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CES Day 2: SMJ's Future of Social Media: Jello and Shish Kebab

January 8, 2009

Ok we all know Social Media is key. We all know Facebook is HOT (10m users added in past 3 weeks, so network now has a total of 150 million users). Where are we heading with this? To start with, Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester teleconferenced about ‘future of media in social era’ with a couple [...]

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CES Day 2 : Social Media Jungle

January 8, 2009

Venetian floors are buzzing with early morning excitement as people are starting to flock into the halls, registering and getting their badges. Today is Social Media Jungle day hosted by Jeff Pulver and offering no less then 16 speakers, each passionately speaking about different elements and aspects of Social Media, including: Trust Authenticity Reciprocity Social [...]

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CES Day 1: meeting Jeff Pulver

January 7, 2009

One case, one handbag with mobile, berry, laptop, ipod, keyphob, my beloved Canon, and chargers for all devices. 1 path ride, 2 trains, and another airtrain. People, aircrew, lots of big and small bags, passports, machines that work quickly to get you into a queue that is longer than the one for those who don’t [...]

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It's the most wonderful time of the year!

January 4, 2009

… it starts with a ‘C’ and ends with an ‘S’, no it’s not Christmas, it’s CES! CES is 3 days away and I am all excited. This year is probably not going to be as exciting and ‘life changing’ (i.e. iphone) as previous years. The economy is bad, Steve Jobs is not coming this [...]

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