I spent a few days at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada and had a geeky fabulous time. The conference was huge, and there was just so much to see! And three days was not enough time to see everything.

Most of my time was spent in the 3 major halls, hoping to cover all the latest in technology for you! Here’s an overview of products that I really enjoyed at the show.

• EnTourage Edge a ebook reader/tablet hybrid
• Lenevo Ideapad Hybrid – new laptop and tablet in one!
• Nokia Booklet 3g is Nokia’s new netbook
• Cocoon Innovations has some nice and stylish bags for all your gadgets. These bags also come with GRID-IT! organization system that I really like. New bags are not on the website yet.
• Case Mate – launched a new line called “I make My Case” where you can design your own case from famous artist’s artwork.
• (*)Speck launched some lines of iPhone/iPod Touch cases — Fitted ArstProjekt, Fitted, and Satin Skin.
• Gelaskins has some beautiful artwork for your devices.
• Tru Protection – has some very nice anti-glare screen protectors for various mobile devices.
• ZipCar is a similar to a rent-a-car service, but no attendants are needed. You just pick up the car at your reserved time and go. They now have an iPhone app where you can reserve the cars.
• AlgebraPrep is a series of new iPhone/iPod Touch apps to help students prepare for Algebra math classes.
• Parrot AR.Drone is a wifi helicopter with 2 cameras on it. You can play it with augmented reality games on your iPhone / iPod Touch!
• OnStar iPhone App – launched last at CES that lets you control your Chevy volt with your iPhone.
• Lego Universe is a new massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) coming out that uses Lego people!
• NVIDIA 3D Vision allows gaming in 3d. Supercool. More..

I’ll be doing blog posts for the individual products later this week. You can read them over at my blog and iProng Magazine.

Neal Campbell – Daynah – Cali Lewis – Photo by Albertech.net

Another Blog World Expo has come and gone. This is actually my first Blog World Expo event, and I greatly enjoyed it. There were just so many amazing sessions taking place that it was very hard to choose which to go to. In addition to the panels, I met a lot of amazing people who are changing our world through social media and online tools.

I took a lot of notes that I need to review before writing a full article, so come back later for that! Here is a list of the panels and events that I attended:

Thursday

• Online Locally, Acting Globally – how social media lets us affect and organize the planet
• Chris Brogan’s Closing Keynote
• TechSet & Blogworld Afterhours Party

Friday

• State of the Blogosphere Address by Richard Jalichandra
• Keynote: The Death and Rebirth of Journalism
• Exhibit Hall
• The State of Technology and the Real Time Web
• Affiliate Marketing Blogging Secrets
• Making and Marketing an iPhone App
• Leo Laporte’s Closing Keynote
• The Beatles Love
• Blog World Opening Night Party

Saturday

• Keynote Address (The New Celebrity)
• Exhibit Hall
• Flash Animation
• Video Production Tips & Tricks
• Lunch & Fat Burger XXX Challenges

I can’t wait to attend next year’s event! Many thanks to iProng Magazine for sponsoring me for Blog World and New Media Expo!

Here are a few photos that have been uploaded:

• Blog World Expo – Day 1
• Blog World Expo – Day 2

I’m heading out to San Diego tonight for Comic-Con! I’m so excited and I can’t wait! The 3 panels I plan not to miss are The Guild, The Big Bang Theory, and Totally Rad Show! And of course, scoping out the exhibit floor is a ton of fun.

Are you going to Comic-Con? What are you excited to see? Let me know what I should not miss! If you have an iPhone, be sure to download the Official Comic-Con App and Syfy Comic-Con 2009. They’re both free, and you can use the floor map and session info. Hope to run into you there!

And if you can’t make it this year, feel free to follow my tweets for pictures and live video from the conference!

Note: Pictured above is what I was doing last year at Comic-Con. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. Pika.. pika, chu!

I had such a great time at the Anime Expo with my siblings and my friend Steve. We went to the Morning Musume (a Jpop music group) live concert. This was their first concert in the United States.. and I got the chance to see/hear it. They’re very upbeat and happy! I loved it. My favorite songs so far are Aruiteru and Love Machine.

After the concert, I wandered into the exhibit hall and I was determined to bring back some manga home. I ended up getting Kana de Manga and The Manga Cookbook which are very adorable. I also got the Morning Musume cd. :)

We left the expo at 5:30pm and had dinner in Little Tokyo. It’s now a tradition to have dinner at Teishokuya of Tokyo after the Anime Expo every year. :)

I’m thinking about heading back tomorrow just to take photos of all the great costumes. But that’ll depend on my family engagements.

More photos from AX 2009:

Photo taken by Albertech.net / @@dragonal

WordCamp SF was the first WordCamp event that I attended physically. I attended PodCamp+WordCamp Hawaii virtually last year. I have to say that I had the best time ever. I knew I would the moment I found out the date and registered. There were more than 700+ attendees… doubling the size from last year! There were so many great people attending too. I didn’t get the chance to meet and talk to everyone that I wanted to, but there’s always next year, and WordCamp LA is coming up as well!

WordPress means A LOT to me since I was using it from the very beginning. It’s the essence of my internet existence. When @photomatt gave the State of the Word, it brought back so many nostalgic memories. I remember helping Michel V (the original coder of b2) beta test his software about 9 years ago. I use to constantly hack b2 every way I could. And I also remember when WordPress was born, as well as all the other blog software there were competing with WP at the time. It was a nice walk down my internet memory lane, and I shall not forget it.

One of my favorite moments at WordCamp SF was when Matt Mullenweg said hello to me. I’ve admired his work with WordPress for many years, and this was the first time we’ve ever met. He’s very sweet and full of personality!

Another favorite moment was when my cousin’s (@NctrnlBst / Ed Morita) WordPress tattoo appeared in Matt’s presentation! Yes, the tattoo is very real. He designed it himself and got it shortly after attending WordCamp Hawaii since he loved the software so much! Matt joked about not being able to change the WordPress logo again since someone has it permanently tattooed on their body. lol

I really enjoyed myself at WordCamp SF. And I’m really looking forward to returning next year as well as attending WordCamp LA in Sept. Won’t you join me? :) If you missed any of this year’s WordCamps, please visit WordPress.tv for videos!

The WordCamp SF Party at Pier 38 was a lot of fun as well. I loved seeing the WordPress CupCakes! The freshly made crepes were yummy as well. WordCamp SF sure know how to throw a party! The music was a bit too loud though. I was losing my voice by the end of the night trying to talk to people. heh

My trip to San Francisco finally came to an end, and it was sad indeed. I hope to visit again sometime soon.. :)

Photos taken by @dragonal / Albertech.net

WordCamp SF Flickr Photo Set

Related Links:

• @daynah’s live twittering at WordCamp SF
• WordCamp SF
• The Blog of Matt Mullenweg
• WordCamp SF Flickr Photo Set
• WordCamp Info and Notes
• The Whuffie Factor by Tara Hunt
• WordPress.tv

Day 2 at the Google I/O Conference started earlier. When I got to the keynote, there were Lego all over the chairs. Could this be our next surprise? I do love Lego, but I can’t possibly love it more than this G2 phone. ;)

Then the announcement of Google Wave came! I’m sure Vic loves giving out all the great news. ;)

After the demo of Google Wave, I couldn’t wait to start using it! It’s like forums + email + IM + Google Docs + rsvp forms + all communication tools rolled into one! Very amazing! I think it’ll be a product that will revolutionize the internet.. Attendees of the conference will be getting accounts to test out the new product. I can’t wait!

After the Keynote, I was jumping in and out of sessions. There’s just so many that it’s hard to decide which to go to.

By 5pm, I felt really sad that Google I/O was over. But there’s always next year to look forward to!

Day 1 at the Google I/O Conference will always be very memorable to me. I shall never forget it. I arrived at Moscone Center West with my friends and a huge Google Map pin awaited us outside the front steps. How super geeky and cool. :)

Registration was super fast. We got our spiffy Google I/O badge that was all decked out with a QR code with all of our contact info on it. They keynote started a little after 9am and everyone rushed to the third floor.

Many things were said in the keynote about new products, but the most exciting part was when Vic Gundotra said we’d each get a box with a URL in it. In addition to that box, we’d also get a Google phone. The crowd of 4.000+ attendees went wild at this point!

Demos of HTML 5 were quite impressive and quite exciting. I can’t wait to start implementing with this. The rest of the afternoon, I went to sessions about all sorts of stuff, from Map APIs to HTML 5, to App Engine and GWT. See my Tweets from Google I/O!

Now, the Afterhours Playground was AMAZING. After a long day of information overload, we got to relax at a wild party thrown by google. Wild as in your geekiest dreams! There were video arcade games in the center of the room, robot wars further in, and Lego robots, funky bikes to ride, the Google Maps trike, buffet food on both sides, ice cream, open bar, and so much more.

Photographs from the today’s event were in the slideshow on huge screens in the back. And Mike Relm was dj-ing the night away. It was just a wild and geeky party, I loved it!

And that’s a recap of Day 1 at Google I/O. Can’t wait to hear what surprises Google has for us tomorrow..

You can also see more photos from Google I/O here.

Ever since I got back from vacation, I’ve been working many long hours, playing catch up! And we’ve been planning all year for the Southern California Innovative Users Group (SCIUG) conference, and the day finally came. I was responsible for running one of the registration desks (A-M) this year and to take photos. The registration script I wrote for the conference sorts out all people who registered by who paid, and who didn’t, and splits them into A-M and N-z. Yup, very organized. heh

Looks like I’ll be doing the National IUG conference Local Arrangements website as well. Should be fun! It’ll be in Anaheim next May and I’m sure there will be an overload of Disneyland tips!