tag:,2008:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5253- 2008-08-22T19:03:02Z Comments for CES Web Tech News Wrap-up Movable Type 4.1 tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5253 2007-01-09T22:52:36Z 2007-12-16T23:16:42Z CES Web Tech News Wrap-up With two conferences to keep track of (CES and Macworld), it's easy to get lost in all the website coverage. One blog though is doing an outstanding job of covering both events - Engadget. I'm also enjoying the CNET CES coverage for down and dirty details on the products. Today I've been scanning through the... Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com With two conferences to keep track of (CES and Macworld), it's easy to get lost in all the website coverage. One blog though is doing an outstanding job of covering both events - Engadget. I'm also enjoying the CNET CES coverage for down and dirty details on the products.

Today I've been scanning through the latest CES news, to try and find Web Tech highlights. Here's what I found, accompanied by some random Flickr photos...

- Gary Shapiro's and Ed Zander's CES keynote; a keynote from Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association, and Ed Zander, CEO of Motorola. Shapiro says that CES is about "New Convergence" this year: convergence of content, services, and products. You can also read Shapiro's opening remarks via this PDF. Highlight:

"Ten years ago when we first talked about convergence, we debated whether the TV or PC would dominate. Today that battle is over with nanotechnology, sensing devices, biometrics, optoelectronics and robotics part of the new convergence. They will combine with existing technologies and allow benefits, just as audio, photo, calendar, contacts, GPS, and even telephone and email connectivity are meshing into products. IPv6 will be a feature in every product allowing seamless Internet connectivity and making the world safer, more connected and more attuned to our preferences and desire for efficiency."

]]> - At the Yahoo press conference, the focus was mobile Internet. See Read/WriteWeb's coverage of Yahoo's announcements at CES. Nothing new to report from the press conference. ScientificAmerican.com has a good write-up though, ending with this comment:

"Yahoo thinks that the "phone will be the new PC." They rightly point out that many people will have their first internet experience via a phone (though I imagine most of that will be in the developing world, and I have trouble seeing their advertising-based revenue model working there)."

- In the Cisco John Chambers keynote, Chambers says that Cisco aims to enable "all forms of communication in IT". Their current focus is networked, the latest in the evolution from analog to digital to networked. The term 'human network' is being used by Cisco - where "your content follows you wherever you go". They also note that collaboration is the next wave of productivity.

Nice soundbite: "By 2010, only 20 homes networked together will have more traffic load between them than the entire internet had in 1997."

Robert Scoble has a video chat with John Chambers up.

- WSJ covered the keynote address of Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger, where a new disney.com website was unveiled. The new site will be "heavy on widgets, video, personalization and a feature called XD, or 'xtreme digital.'" It will also (of course) feature social networking elements. 

Steve Rubel, a former Disney employee, likes the sound of this - but rightly points out the missed opportunity for Disney to release their great store of content onto other parts of the Web, like MySpace or enabling people to do music mashups.

- In Microsoft news from CES, Windows Home Server is getting the most buzz. Here's how ZDNet described it:

"The Windows Home Server is for households that want to share storage among multiple PCs or Xboxes game consoles. It will provide automatic backup, easier storage expansion and connectivity among different devices, including Zune media players"

Ars Technica also has a nice write-up.

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]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5253-comment:41919 Comment from Bob Denny on 2007-01-09 Bob Denny Brief reactions:

* Postage stamp screens suck. No matter what, after people use something (a phone, video iPod, etc.) for a while, they'll gravitate back to someting that has at least as much resolution as the TV that came on the scene 60 years ago. Trendy is right. Trends end.

* You're so right in your reaction to "peoples' first PC will be a phone" !!! Yahoo! is smoking sherms. All this is driven by ad-based (brainwashing-rich) content. Developing countries' people might not be as ignorofant as the techno-VCs think. The target audience might just reject all that glitz (s**t). Consider the reaction to middle-easterners to western glitz and values. This all may open up a huge hole for someone who really understands.

]]> 2007-01-10T00:06:55Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5253-comment:41920 Comment from Bob Denny on 2007-01-09 Bob Denny Damn it, I edited those typos, but somehow they ended up in my post anyway. I hate browser based editing and write-only posting.

]]> 2007-01-10T00:08:45Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5253-comment:41921 Comment from Please Eat My Pies on 2007-01-09 Please Eat My Pies http://www.teesmybody.com Geez, that guy in the pic looks tre tre serious.

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