TechZulu Is Heading To CES...You Come Too!

We are bringing all the awesome CES coverage to you 'Live' from Las Vegas! The calvary has been called in and we are sending three teams out.  TechZulu is Teaming up with GadgetReview so that we do not skip a beat while we are up there.  Each team will be covering a different part of CES. Everything from Mainstream consumer electronics, Big honking TV's, gadgets, Audio equipment, Video, you name it we are covering it.  So from Jan. 7 to Jan. 11 if you have anything you would like to see just @TechZulu and @GadgetReview via Twitter or drop us an email at info [at] techzulu [dot] com and we will make sure to capture it all for you.

The Men Behind Guitar Hero World Tour

After the release of Guitar Hero World Tour TechZulu caches up with some of the creators of the game.  Alan Flores the lead designer and Travis Chen the designer of the Music Studio for the game.  The Music Studio portion of the game is a huge add on not only to the Guitar Hero series but to all the music games out there.  Allowing gamers to create their own music and share that music with other Guitar Hero Fans.  Since it creation it now has over 100K of user created music.  Surely that this has now happened the next installment of Rock Band is almost guaranteed to come with its own version of the Music Studio.

Creating a new generation of musicians they hope to inspire some of these gamers to actually want to create some of their own real music and start laying down some tracks in a real recording studio.  Knowing tons of musicians myself, picking up a guitar shaped controller and picking up an actual guitar are two totally separate experiences.  At lease we will know why there is a sudden spike in guitar lessons.

Who is that EIC again?

First, I hope your new year is going well. By now, that throbbing headache from your NYE hangover should be gone. Now that its 2009 and I have been at TechZulu for awhile, I thought I would spend a few minutes and re-introduce my-techno-self.

What's In Store For 2009

Guest Post by Enrique Gutierrez of Aten Studios

I’m excited for what 2009 brings to my spirits, but with a firm grasp on reality, I feel it’s important to also understand what’s really in store for 2009. I’ll break it down as I see it quarter-by-quarter and hope for the best along the way. Without further adieu:

Quarter 1

This will usher in a new president, Barrack Obama, which will captivate Americans for about a week, that’s the majority attention span. He’ll hit the ground running and we’ll all be pleased, except for those that fear for the worst no matter how much good is happening. The market will continue to shake up, oil prices will finally flatten out, and gas prices will continue to hover in and around the $2.00 per gallon mark. The retail fallout of the 2008 season will slowly creep into the concerns of the market and the housing crash will continue to decrease sales, weakening the economy to the point of depression rates as unemployment increases, and tensions rise.

In World news, our allies will lean on the United States for aid in times of need as Israel and the Middle East swarm into an even larger mess than they already have. Their concern for our holidays and new president won’t do much to change their course of action, but how the new administration fields those situations will make for an interesting:

Heres to Ringing out 2008

2008 will go down as a year of great activity, not only for the election and the economy but for the evolution of community and culture online. In short, a lot happened this year. Here at TechZulu, we too are reflective about the year that is about to pass but also really excited about the future ahead.

The New Age of SpaceX

Southern California is home to the world's highest concentration of air and space technology, from the Spruce Goose to the International Space Station (ISS). The area's scientists and engineers are adjacent to the endless Hollywood gossip scene. Guys like Howard Hughes would even cross between these worlds. Now, in this same backyard, a baby company (in aerospace standards-both in age and size), SpaceX formed in 2002 by founder Elon Musk of PayPal fame, is now on the brink of launching a new space age.

Best of 2008 TZ style!

With the clock ticking down the end of 2008, we wanted to give a huge thanks to everyone who has helped make TechZulu possible. We are doing it the best way we know how!  A video, music and some rockin' photos provided by our very own Wm. Marc Salsberry. TechZulu has had an awesome 2008 and we will make it an even better 2009 for all of our TZ fans out there.

2009 holds a whole new year of great content from all of the amazing organizers we have grown to know and love, along with some amazing new TechZulu original content (keep your eye out early '09).  Our next big event will be CES 2009.  We will be there for all of its entirety from Jan. 7th to the 11th and going 'Live' all 4 days.  Don't forget to check out our events calendar to find out all the great events, conferences, and panels happening in Los Angeles. Now without further ado I give you the best of 2008 TZ style.

End of Year Digital Cleanup

2009 is coming. Are your folders and digital archives prepared? Many remember to do end of year clean up, but what about the computers? Here are 5 things on what you can do to get organized before the new year arrives:

Get your New Years Resolutions Randomized

Have you ever found it hard to make a meaningful New Years Resolution. How about getting the randomized? Now you can with a cool little app from Pop. Once you have entered a user name you can just spin the wheel and you instantly have some new years resolutions that you won’t live up to.Have fun!

Try your own http://resolutionrandomizer.pop.us/ecard.aspx... I'd love to hear what you get!

How to Motivate Developers With Jason Mauer

In this interview TechZulu's Amanda Coolong interviews Jason Mauer about what it takes to keep developers motivated in todays current Environment. Jason a seasoned developer that is now a Microsoft developer evangelist breaks down how Microsoft does this in several unique and interesting ways. Things like hiring smart people to work along side with so that not only do developers learn on the job but the also make life long contacts for future work. You can also let developers move between teams so that if they don't find what they are currently doing interesting they can move on to the next team. All this and more on TechZulu.com.

Jason’s Blog - http://www.jasonmauer.com/