Just back from my third visit to the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (I spoke there in 2006 as part of my Darknet book tour and attended last year.) Here’s my Flickr photo set of 79 photos taken at the conference, which just about doubled in attendance this year to 110,000 attendees. Photo at top: Soccer superstar Mia … Continue reading
Check out this video for a summary of day two at Le Web. The video focuses on Le Web’s main subject matter, the real-time Web, plus includes some critiques about how the show was handled. Continue reading
At the Le Web conference in Paris, I spoke with Richard Binhammer, better known as @RichardATDell on Twitter. Three years ago Richard, who was and still is working in public affairs, was told by his boss to start getting engaged in blogger relations. It appears that Binhammer’s move into social media was one of the many responses to the 2005 … Continue reading
Go to dinner with the geeks and you’ll get lots of photos taken Let me set the scene for you. More than a dozen geeks have traveled to Paris for a weeklong tech odyssey culminating with coverage from France’s premier Web 2.0 conference, Le Web. I’m having a hard time trying to determine what the difference is between “Le Web” … Continue reading
Every five or ten years, myself and my colleagues reflect on how much we used to pay for technology and how we’re able to do things we couldn’t do before because it was cost prohibitive. • It used to be too costly to produce a video, then we got non-linear editing on the desktop. • It used to be too … Continue reading
I just finished up my second day of reporting at ad:tech in New York for ad:tech, a conference about the digital side of the advertising industry. The event happens ten times a year all over the world and I last reported on the event for ad:tech in San Francisco. At this year’s New York conference I saw many of the … Continue reading
