CES 2010 – Year of the Livestream, Virtual Launch and 3D?

As I tweeted this morning (@michaelterpin), the showfloor doesn’t even open until tomorrow and I’m already exhausted by CES activity. I wrote two years ago that CES 2008 was the Year of the Blogger (and sure enough, the new blogger lounge and Bloghaus made traditional media seem oh so passé), that CES 2009, for all of its recessionary pullbacks, was the Year of the Tweet, as Twitter usage grew so exponentially, particularly among journalists in the prior 12 months.

And while last year also showed a huge increase in live blogging (I remember being at a Motorola press conference and watching it both live and on livestream from my laptop simultaneously…), this year it seems like there will be more hours of live streaming that real-time hours that the show is taking place. CrunchGear, LiveStream, UStream, Watchitoo, Gizmodo and many more are livestreaming extensively from the show. And high among the “is it live or Memorex” moments are all of the big stories that are timed to CES but happening nowhere near the show, including the Google Nexus phone and daily speculation watch on the Apple tablet. And 3D is a buzzword in so many pre-show announcements, it’s bound to be quite the three-dimensional show.

We’ll be covering the show with old-fashioned print, but we’ll repost interesting live feeds we think are interesting, both here and on the CES Party List (www.cespartylist.com).

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