You asked what the best party is at CES. We looked around, and while we may be biased, The Bloghaus topped our list. Good company and good bandwidth, what more could you want?
Full Transcript:
Danielle Calson: Hey Ben, What’s the best party at CES in Las Vegas?
Benjamin Higginbotham: That’s a great question Danielle and as you can see over my shoulder we’ve got the Paris, hotel and casino, and that, that’s not it. This is it, this is the Bellagio and right upstairs is Bloghaus. Let’s head up there now, alright. So, we are at the Bloghaus, we are about to go in, and they have absolutely no idea that I am gonna walk in, and basically surprise them and see if anyone who actually go on camera. Alright, this is one of the best parties in town, mostly because they have….
Speaker 1:This is *THE* party in town…
Benjamin Higginbotham: The party in town?
Speaker 1: This is The Party in Town.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Alright what makes this is The party in town?
Speaker 1: Everybody is here. You got all the bloggers, you got CEO’s, we have “Bill Watkins” from Seagate here tonight. This is where its happening. Great food, great entertainment, connectivity, fastest speeds in the city, where else can you go.
Benjamin Higginbotham: So if you had to be anywhere, you'd be here?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I’ve been here two days and it’s the only place I’d go.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Cool.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Alright, so hey right through the door thats the kind of crowd this is, they are just walking right in front of microphones, awesome!. Hey lets try this room. What you guys think best party in town? You guys like it, noise-no noise everyone is…
Speaker 2: everyone is blogging.
Benjamin Higginbotham:- Yeah here we go…awesome ! let’s keep walking around. See if we got anyone else who wants to say yes. Best party in town, best party would you go anywhere else, best party in town? You like it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, great just got here. So, it’s great, so far.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Where you here yesterday at all.
Speaker 3 : Yeah, I think so.
Benjamin Higginbotham: So, what you like about yesterday.
Speaker 3: There wasn’t party yesterday when I was here. I stepped when it started.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Alright.
Speaker 3: But, its great.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Oh we had really fast bandwidth.
Speaker 3: Bandwidth.
Benjamin Higginbotham: There are still really fast bandwidth over there.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Awesome!. Alright, cool keep going. Oh yeah you are on camera, now.
Speaker 4: I am on camera now.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Best party, would you go anywhere else. If you got a choice of anywhere in Las Vegas. Where would you be?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, no I will stay here.
Speaker 4: I would stay here. Listen, If you wanna good signal, you can upload/download converse, be with the people who matter, get on screen, get on blogs. People who aren’t here should be definitely checking into this site. Seagate did a tremendous job, They gave us the keys to open the kingdom. As you can see, we have beer, wine, free food, free Wi-fi, hey I wouldn’t go anywhere else. . Press rooms don’t have what it takes.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Oh no.
Speaker 4: I don’t know, What’s your criteria? I mean if you were to choose the best party, where would you go?
Benjamin Higginbotham: I would go here, mostly because, we have cool hard drives, we have tons of bandwidth. We have just like ultimate bloggers everywhere. I think its lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Its good crowd, don’t you think?
Benjamin Higginbotham: Alright, it’s a fun crowd.
Speaker 4: People are laid back, friendly everyone is having a good time.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Where else can you walk in and get delayed applause.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, well I hope that the people that are listening to this come back next year, because we gonna do it again. Bloggers deserve respect, they deserve a press room that accommodates them., corporate clients want to show them that they matter. Seagate, bravo… they put their money where their mouth is .
Benjamin Higginbotham: Awesome, cool thank you. Alright lets go, keep going this way. Who wants to be on camera, bloggers. Alright, best party in town, where would you go?
Speaker 5: Right here man.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Good answer, why would you be here?
Speaker 5: Why? Because, first of all CEO. John Ferry, one of the sexiest man in the business is here. I got Scooby here, you know Scooby, Scooby…
Benjamin Higginbotham: The Scobleizer we interview…
Speaker 5: The Scobleizer is here, you got Linda Ferry here, you got Valerie, you got Gabe ReVera. You got Seagate hard drives allover the place, we got T-1’s, what are the upload rates?
Speaker 6: 20 MgH up.
Benjamin Higginbotham: 20 MgH up. There is no way that is bigger than T-1.
Speaker 5: Well I don’t know, it’s a T something, but its God damn fast.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Yeah it is seriously fast.
Speaker 5: You got to see it, we got Gilmore, I mean what more do you want. What more…where would you go?
Benjamin Higginbotham: I don’t know, right here.
Speaker 5: So why are you asking me for? If you already know the answer.
Benjamin Higginbotham: One of our viewer asked us, they said “where is the best party in town”, we said right here.
Speaker 5: Right here Bellagio partech Bloghaus, sponsored by Seagate, A-list influencers Gabbera Vera…
Speaker 6: Rivera tech name. So, everyone who is in this week is in the top of tech name , tomorrow guaranteed gab, What Jerry read the algorithm , to make sure that everything is on top.
Benjamin Higginbotham: No place else to go, no place else that I would rather be.
Aaron, WE would be willing to strip for 20MB uploads.
1. Posted by: Aaron Landry on January 11, 2007 7:47 PM:
If you have 20MB upload speed, who needs strippers I guess?