Ryan Block » CES

New year’s resolution: do more live coverage

Ryan Block — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:44:35 +0000

Listeners of our show heard it first, but on the latest gdgt weekly we announced gdgt live, which is where we’ll be doing live coverage of the big press events. The page is up now if you want to get the schedule for next week’s Apple, Microsoft, and Palm keynotes!

As for the rest of gdgt’s launch, we’re still working long hours behind the scenes, but we mentioned on the show that we’ll be trying to get it out in Q1. I wish we could be more exact, but as we close in on things we’ll have a little better idea of when that’s going to be. Happy new year!

Judging at CEA’s new i-stage event

Ryan Block — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:14:23 +0000

One of the things I’m most looking forward to being involved in this year is judging the CEA’s new event, i-stage. Think of it as American Idol, but for gadgets; the winner gets a turnkey exhibit at CES and $50k, but I’d say more importantly they’ll get some much needed attention and feedback before the real CES onslaught begins in January. It goes down on October 20th in Vegas, maybe I’ll see you there!

Also, for those in the Bay Area, I’ll also be speaking on a panel about mobile computing (I think?) at Om Malik’s Mobilize conference. That one’s September 18th.

CES and Macworld: done, finally

Ryan Block — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:27:00 +0000

Not that we’re out of the woods just quite yet, but there’s a certain sense of relief when everyone gets to go home, recover and tend to their wounds, and officially say we’ve made it over the CES / Macworld hump — by far the hardest two weeks of the year.

Of course, it wasn’t all grins of pride. Despite a stellar CES performance and an equally stellar Macworld run-up, we had some major hiccups on the site today. Post-mortem on that coming ASAP — don’t worry, it’ll be the detailed-as-I-can-give kind which I’ll try not to vet with our lawyers first. It’s still nice to know that even despite having major outages throughout the busiest two hours of the entire year, we could best our closest competition on the order of millions of pages. (Not that pages are really any metric to go by anymore, but you know.)

Thanks again to everyone who stuck by us during the insanity today, and for dealing with our overly-obsessive wall to wall coverage over the past couple of weeks in general. But more than anything, I again have to thank the team, who make and re-make Engadget every single day of the week, rain or shine, uptime or downtime, without fail. Everything good about Engadget I owe to them, as does every reader of the site.

P.S. -Just for further blog-record-keeping of this crap, keep an eye out for appearances on TWiT, CNN.com, Xbox Insider (on the 360 Dashboard), G4, and Irish Newstalk Radio. (Am I missing any?)

Back from CES, at Macworld tomorrow!

Ryan Block — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:44:34 +0000

What a crazy fun couple of weeks. Back from CES with the same illness I had before shipping out (isn’t that always the way?); the team was a sight to behold, absolutely a well-oiled machine. I really can’t thank this crew enough for making Engadget possible. Such amazing people, unbelievable.

Be sure to check us all in action tomorrow with our live coverage tomorrow from the Stevenote — not to be missed!

A week from CES eve

Ryan Block — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:34:05 +0000

Looking over our CES wrapup posts from 2005, 2006, and 2007 has me so excited. Last year we finally broke threshold of news vs. coverage capacity (and how!), but this year’s going to be completely off the chain (and not just because Veronica‘s doing our video). So yeah, if I sound a little less stressed, that’s because I am.