Here’s a nice chat with John Chambers, Cisco’s CEO — he talks a little bit about what his keynote later today will discuss, Cisco’s moves in IPTV and HDTV, among other things. We also talk about social media:

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The BlogHaus at CES has been a runaway success. Tonight Newsweek and the New York Times showed up and stayed for a couple of hours. Hey, how did the non bloggers sneak in? Heheh.

I remember when we first thought about doing something at CES we thought we’d be lucky to get 30 or 40 bloggers each evening. Hundreds have visited already.

Thomas Hawk has some of his usually great photos.

Thomas is overly kind when he says “The best thing about CES 2007 so far? Without question Podtech’s bloghaus” but he isn’t alone as I see looking over blog search.

Here’s a goofy video the PodTech video crew shot from inside the BlogHaus:

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I think the coolest thing that many of the bloggers in the BlogHaus saw was the water show in front of the Bellagio tonight. Paul Mooney recorded it. It isn’t your standard Bellagio water show. It was a one-of-a-kind show done for Microsoft. It was a video projection done into the water show. Long Zheng has more.

I’m trying to get my own cool stuff up. I interviewed John Chambers, CEO of Cisco and the “Retrevo Gang” met with me and showed me the coolest stuff they found at CES (the staff of Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, will meet with me everyday for the next couple of days to tell me what they found that was interesting at CES). Those videos will come up shortly.

What’s the coolest thing you have seen from CES?

Oh, and answering “the stuff Steve Jobs is showing off later today” isn’t a good answer.

UPDATE: I’m not the only one at PodTech getting interesting interviews, Jeremiah Owyang is interviewing Michael Dell tomorrow.

UPDATE 2: Notebooks.com has a killer video of a DJ that is using a new DVD-mixer to create dance videos. I think that’s the coolest thing I’ve seen come through Google Reader so far.