Every single product announcement at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show includes a reference to Facebook.

This trend repeats what we noted about last year’s conference in Las Vegas: Announced innovations have some integration with social media, along with a Facebook page to promote the brand.

And this year CES’ exhibitor count hit a new record, roughly 3,100. Their mentions of Facebook seem all the more interesting when you consider that the show is supposed to be focued on electronic devices more than any applications.

That absence means those of us who aren’t attending the conference have to slog through media reports to find out what’s going on. What are you reading about CES and social media that’s got you most intrigued, readers?

Kodak may be exploring the idea of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but that hasn’t stopped the photography giant from integrating its products with Facebook.

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The Consumer Electronics Show is under way, but you don’t have to attend the Las Vegas conference to find out what’s going on there. Many of the exhibitors and other participants have Facebook pages that help you keep up with all of the announcements made at the event. Check out the list below, and be sure to add any other pages covering CES in the comments section.
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Literally hundreds of devices have Facebook capabilities on them and demonstrations of that are dominating the vendor exhibits at the Consumer Electronics Show. The typical demo includes logging onto the social network and sharing content created on a device, downloading something from the site for use on the handheld, or combinations thereof.
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This year you’ll be able to see some of what you’re missing if you’re not going to the Consumer Electronics Show: Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer’s keynote address will stream live on Facebook.
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Social media will feature prominently in Friday sessions during this year’s International Consumer Electronics Show happening in Las Vegas.
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We covered the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), exploring trends in social media as relate to Consumer Electronics (CE). CES is the largest trade show on the planet, with over 100,000 attendees, an unending stream of newsworthy announcements and an unrivaled event party scene in Las Vegas. When reflecting back upon the week, it jumps out at us that there is an amazing level of interest the consumer electronics industry about Facebook. Generally, we were impressed with the amount of widgets and social network feeds that now reach CE devices. Big names like Yahoo!, MySpace and Twitter were active with large CE brands.

Facebook, however, seems to be holding back. Chumby and AMD were the only companies we found who integrated applications with Facebook. However, they did so via open platform APIs and not explicit business and technical partnerships.
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