Originally Posted by RawAlex

I haven't been to a show in a couple of years, but I can tell you exactly what you are missing in Miami:

Nothing.

It use to be that programs and companies geared their releases to the show circuit. There was 3 or 4 shows a year that were major, and everyone pretty much set themselves up that way. The best way to get huge exposure was to do it through the shows.

Not anymore. There are now a dozen or more shows and events each year, and those events are more and more social and decidedly less trade show oriented. The show floor gets smaller and smaller as fewer and fewer companies have major business to discuss or new projects to reveal, and most just come onto boards like this and announce new things as they happen, not waiting for shows to release new stuff.

So if you are like me, you are missing not meeting up with the friends in the business you don't see very often, but from a business standpoint, you are probably just as up to date surfing here as you are being at the show.