I asked dozens of people “what did you see at CES that you’d spend your own money on?” I also asked “what was the coolest thing you saw?”

Yahoo may have had Ellen and Tom Cruise, but Google trumped that with a cameo appearance from funny-man Robin Williams.

Well kind of live. Engadget is “Barry Schwartzing”* Terry Semel’s keynote speach.

Google’s not the only search company with something to announce at CES today.

Come over to Lora Heiny’s monster geek/tablet/blogger meetup at the Aladdin Desert Passage shopping area at 4 p.m.

The keynote by Google co-founder Larry Page at CES 2006 will unveil video purchase options and a new downloadable software pack from the company.

John Furrier continues to rock and roll the podcasting world.

I’m tired. I haven’t done a mega show in years and CES is at least twice as big as when I attended in the late 80s (and it was big then).

Ahh, those hour-long taxi lines are so fun! And that was at midnight last night.

If you’re coming to CES, the Microsoft Gadget folks (hi Sanaz and team) worked with the Comdex folks to build a little CES Gadget for Live.com.

I was talking with Jason Calacanis (founder of Weblogsinc.com) yesterday and he told me that AOL was sending a bunch of bloggers to CES to cover that, particularly on their Engadget site.

You can watch along. I’m sitting in the Bellagio with a bunch of geeks watching on a video feed. Updates to come.

At the Consumer Electronics Show, an event where the big technology companies show off their upcoming wares, Bill Gates was there to deliver the first keynote speech and highlight future Microsoft products.

Infinium Labs will demonstrate its Phantom Game Service in the Microsoft booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.