CES 2008 Party List
For those who are going to the 2008 International CES in Las Vegas, here is a list of all the party during the event period. See you guys there.
SAT, JANUARY 5:
4:00 – 7:00 PM: CES Unveiled: Official Press Event – Sands/Venetian, Marco Polo Ballroom (Invite only)
6:00 PM: Storage Vision Awards – Flamingo Hilton, Sunset Ballroom (Invite only)
7:00PM-10PM: DTS Party – Nobu, Hard Rock Hotel (Invite only)
SUN, JANUARY 6:
6-10PM: Digital Experience – Ceasars Palace (Press Invite Only).
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8:30 PM – 10:30 PM: HD DVD – Wynn, Lafitte Ballroom (Invite only)
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Panasonic – Venetian, Bellini Room
MON, JANUARY 7:
7:30AM-10:00AM: IDC Content Breakfast – The Wynn (Invite only)
7:30AM-10:00AM: MusicIP Media Breakfast – Venetian, Casanova Ballroom (Invite only)
11:30-2:00PM: Lunch at Piero’s – Piero’s Restaurant across the street from the LVCC
RSVP: http://www.lunchat.com/mediaregistration.html (Media only)
5:00PM–6:00PM: KEF Press Cocktail Hour – Hilton, Suite 330
5:00PM-8:00PM: Saitek Reception – Bellagio Hotel (Invite only)
5:30PM-8:00PM: Tiger Direct Build Your Own PC Race for Charity – Wynn Las Vegas (Invite only)
6:00PM-10:00PM: Showstoppers – Wynn Las Vegas
RSVP: sl@showstoppers.com (Media only)
8:00PM-12:00AM: OCZ Technology Full Throttle – Bellagio Suites (Invite only)
8PM-1AM: Peerless Party – The Palms, Ghost Bar (Invite only)
8:30PM-10:30PM: HD DVD Promotion Group – The Wynn, Lafitte Ballroom (Invite only)
9:00PM-12:00AM: Laser TV Party – Palms (Invite only)
9:00 PM -11:00 PM: Corsair Reception – Wynn Hotel (Press Invite Only RSVP: Karen Thomas kthomas@thomas-pr.com)
TUES, JANUARY 8:
7:30AM-10:00AM: IDC Content Breakfast – The Wynn (Invite only)
8AM-10AM: NXT Breakfast Reception – Hilton Hotel, Suite 28102 (Invite only)
8:00AM – IFA/ShowStoppers/CEATEC Press Breakfast – LV Hilton, Conf Room 10 (Invite only)
8:00AM: JVC – Caesar’s (Invite only)
9:00PM: Monster Party – Paris Hotel (Invite only)
11:30-2:00PM: Lunch at Piero’s – Piero’s Restaurant across the street from the LVCC
RSVP: http://www.lunchat.com/mediaregistration.html (Media only)
5:00PM-10:00PM: “It Won’t Stay in Vegas†Blogger Party – Atomic Testing Museum, 755 E Flamingo Rd. (Invite only)
5:00PM-8:00PM: Saitek Reception – Bellagio Hotel (Invite only)
5:30PM-7:00PM: CEA Digital Imaging Reception – Renaissance Hotel, Ballroom I
6:30PM-9:30PM: Band & Olufsen Reception – Venetian (Invite only)
Monster Dealer Awards
Seating: 7:00PM Award Presentation: 9:00PM
Entertainment by Mary J. Blige, Paris Hotel: (Invite only)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM; Dell – Venetian, Madame Tussauds (Invite only)
9:00PM-12:00AM: Shuttle Press Party – Bellagio (Media only)
10:00 PM: Microsoft/Verizon – Palms, Kingpen Suite (Invite only)
(?) ContentNext CES mixer – Quarks Bar (RSVP at advertising AT contentnext.com)
(?) Bluetooth technology member appreciation party – Tao in the Venetian hotel
WED, JANUARY 9:
7:30AM-10:00AM: IDC Content Breakfast – The Wynn (Invite only)
5:00PM-8:00PM: Saitek Reception – Bellagio Hotel (Invite only)
6PM-9PM: TTZ Media Affiliate Dinner – TBA (Invited affiliates only)
7:00PM-10:00PM: AVS Forum Party – Sahara Hotel (Invite only)
9PM-1AM: Sony Online Entertainment Poker Party – Hard Rock Hotel (Invite only)
Clustrmaps
Just signed up for Clustrmaps, and testing out to see what kind of result I will get for one of my domains. Lets see if they are accurate in terms of visitors.
Introducing – Blogging 101
If writing is an art, then, blogging is one way of using words to come up with an art. This is because people who are into blogging are the ones who are artistic on their own sense, carefully choosing words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything.
Basically, blogs were first introduced as weblogs that refer to a “server’s log file.†It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, web logging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a viable source of greater information.
However, with web logging, you still need a web site and domain names, but with blogging, you do not need anything just an account with blog providers. In most cases, these kinds of blogs are free of charge.
With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journaling had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. However, not literally famous as this is not a case on being popular or well-known personality.
Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, sentiments, and whatever ideas they want to express online.
Nevertheless, with the advent of the online businesses, blogs had gradually taken the limelight in providing businesses a chance to boost their productivity online. This is where the business blogs have taken the limelight.
Business blogs are, basically, created to advertise the services or products of a certain web site or online business in order to increase online sales.
Moreover, business blogs are also one way of promoting the company so that the other readers will know that a certain company exists online. With blogs, entrepreneurs are able to establish a name in the virtual market through articles that can be very useful in the reader’s life.
From there, you can make money out of blogs by simply syndicating it to your business’ web site. This can be done through the RSS technology.
So, if you are thinking to create a blog, whether for business or for pleasure, you need to know some tips that could help you get through and make your blog one of the interesting blogs online.
Here’s how:
1. Consider your audience
Even if your blog is generally personal, still, it would be better to consider the minds of your readers. You have to think of something that would interest them.
After all, most of the reasons of people who write blogs are not at all confined to their own personal motives. Most of them would love to be “heard†(or read) and would love to be known, in some way or another, even for just a minute. Hence, it is very important to come with a write up that everybody can understand, not necessarily that these people can relate to it but they can understand it.
2. Pictures speaks a thousand words
To make your blogging worth the browsing effort of your readers, it would be extremely nice if you will put some pictures in it. It does not necessarily mean you have to place a picture of yourself. Any photographs will do as long as it does not pose danger or insult to anyone who will be reading your blog.
3. Make constructive and beneficial blogs
Even if you are free to write anything you wan to say to the world, still, it would be better to create some write-ups that would be beneficial to your readers.
After all, its information technology that you have there so better be inclined to provide information rather than sheer quirky entertainment.
4. Avoid making multifaceted and complicated blogs
In order to have an interesting blogs, try not to use some highly technical and highfalutin words. After all, it is not a science discourse or a debate that you are making, so better stick to simple facts and short blogs.
Bear in mind that most people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than scrutinizing each site word for word. Therefore, it would be better to come with blogs that will not bore your readers just because you have these lengthy articles.
5. Make it interactive
As much as possible and if your capacity will allow it, make your blog interactive. Yu can do this by placing some video or audio clips in your blog.
You can even place an area for comments or for some feedbacks. In this way, you can get some impressions or reactions of other people. Who knows, you might even gain some friends just by making them feel at home in your blog site.
Indeed, blogs are not created just for the mere fun of it. It also has its own purpose in the world of the Internet.
Therefore, for people who wish to harness their craft, as far as writing is concerned, blogs are the best way to do it.
As they say, blogging is the contemporary term of creative and commercial writing.
To your continual Success!
Andy Huang “Affiliate Expert”
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Andy Huang
5 Things You Must Have to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing
The idea of being mere passengers on a ship meant to sail to the farthest points does not appeal to people who like to put their destiny into their own hands. They have the desire of maneuvering the ships themselves, of being able to be the ones to take it anywhere they want to. Being aboard a ship on its way to a particularly great destination is something each and every one of them dreams of, and the knowledge that they have the capacity to steer it themselves is what makes them actually want to.Perhaps this is the reason why more and more people are succumbing to one of the most popular businesses around – affiliate marketing. It is because in this business, there are no bosses to order the employees around. There are no deadlines to meet and no clutter of work do to. One only needs to be equipped with the tools needed to succeed in a business such as this, and he is bound to get what his heart ultimately desires.
Just what are the things needed to be able to succeed in affiliate marketing? What must one have within himself to be able to do well in this industry? There is a lot of competition involved in affiliate marketing, and to be able to rise above the norm, one must be equipped with just the right stuff necessary to propel him forward. There are five things one must ultimately possess if he wants to achieve the glory he is yearning for in this business, and these five things are a must for him to possess to be able to stand out among the rest.
The very first quality one must possess if he wants to try his hand in affiliate marketing is the willingness to learn and be trained. Treading through unfamiliar territory is scary stuff if one is not properly equipped, and he might get lost amidst a jungle of the unknown. Learning the tricks of the trade is also an important aspect of the game, and one’s willingness to know it all will give him far better advantages in the business than he could ever imagine.
The second quality one must possess is the willingness to invest time and effort even if direct results do not seem at all apparent. Although several months may pass without good news, it is important for one who has his foot in the industry to hold on and wait. It is this quality which would save him from giving up after investing a lot of himself in the business.
The third quality one must possess is self-determination. If one wants to conquer the affiliate marketing world, he must have the ability to push himself ahead. Never having to say die is a quality each and every affiliate marketer should possess, and the ability to motivate oneself into scaling greater heights is an ability which would actually take an affiliate marketer there.
The fourth quality one must possess is discipline. If one knows how to teach himself to work everyday with all the energy he can muster, then he is close to achieving what he has set his heart to having in the first place.
The fifth and last quality one must possess is optimism. Negative attitudes and hearsays should not discourage an affiliate marketer from pursuing what he has to in order to make life better for himself and for everyone concerned. Neither should anyone influence his attitude toward the business, because once in it, it is a must for him to be the captain of his ship and the master of his soul.
The ingredients to success in a business such as affiliate marketing are diverse and manifold, but the most important thing one needs to be able to make it big lies in himself alone. It is he who has the capacity to do everything to be able to realize his prospects, and the desire which fuels his heart in doing so is the gasoline which should keep the engine going.
Affiliate marketing is all about putting one’s fate into his own hands. The right attitude is the key to being able to steer one’s ship into that part of the ocean where a certain kind of serenity can be found, one that permeates the atmosphere as the ship sails calmly on.
To your continual success!
Andy Huang “Affiliate expert”
Two Sides of Traffic Workshop in San Diego California
Embassy Suites Hotel at the Two Sides of Traffic Workshop in sunny San Diego, CA!
The Two Sides of Traffic Workshop is a collaboration of Simon Leung (Google Adwords) with Howie Schwartz (SEO). The objective of this event is understand the effective strategy of combine both Google’s organic listings with the paid search (the two sides of traffic).
Howie Schwartz and Simon presented together as well as individually, which included presentations, hot seats, Q&A sessions and live demonstrations.
Other VIP guests for the Two Sides of Traffic Workshop includes Dr. Mike Woo-Ming, Mark Widawer, Jason Moffatt, Rex Wisehart and Ryan Kaltman (from The Rich Jerk)
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This wraps up another great Internet Marketing Strategy Event from Sunny San Diego California.
Andy Huang
Google dominates more than 65% Of U.S. Searches
Health and medical had the highest share of traffic from search engines at 44.64%, while business and finance had the least at 17.04%, according to the latest Hitwise survey.
According to Information week, Google is accounted for more than 6 out of 10 of online searches in the month of Novemeber, which is more than 3 times the amount that its rival Yahoo.
To read more of this report, visit Information week here.
Andy Huang
SEO Expert
