While traversing the giant spaces of CES, it's always nice to run into familiar faces. At the Microsoft booth, our friends at Office Live Small Business were happy to show me a new feature: Ad Manager. This lets you enter in possible keywords that pertain to your business' search engine results, and then shows you how much that keyword would cost across various search engines such as MSN and Google.

I also ran into Bill Rasmussen, who was featured in both our magazine and our website. He's the founder of ESPN and a serial entrepreneur, his latest venture being CollegeFanz.com. He was nice enough to show me his site's new facelift and revamps that were being launched in conjunction with CES.--James Park

In October, we told you about Intuit's "Just Start" campaign offering a grand prize of $50,000 to one lucky entrepreneur. The semi-finalists have been selected from a batch of more than 1,500 entries, and now it's America's turn to vote on who deserves to take home the grand prize. Go to IWillJustStart.com by January 31 to select who you think deserves to fulfill their entrepreneurial dream. The five semifinalists include:

• Carmin David--Daycare for kids with special needs;
• Alissa and Noah DeRouchie--Café-style restaurant with kid-friendly environment;
• Daniel and Tina Garrido--Asian-inspired dog treats;
• Joy LaFrance--Doggie daycare; and  
• Suzanne Sprague--Personalized children's music.

My CNBC debut yesterday afternoon went great--though, I have yet to see the final product. I went on air with Donny Deutsch to announce to tech gadget startup Bug Labs that we'd like to feature the company in an upcoming issue of Entrepreneur, something the founder, Peter Semmelhack, had been long wishing for. So watch for the article in a future issue. In the meantime, check out the entrepreneur and me on The Big Idea tonight at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. PST on CNBC.

Night number four turned out to be the most fun so far. We attended Klipsch Audio's party at Body English Nightclub inside the Hard Rock Hotel. The speaker giant kicked off the party with an unveiling by the Orange County Chopper crew of their costume Klipsch bike. And then The Robert Cray Band took the stage for an amazing hour-plus set.

Today, our last day of CES, we played with Microsoft's Surface technology, the coffee table-like, touch screen computer launched in May; scoped out Samsung's latest offerings for consumers (and you mobile entrepreneurs); and got industry perspectives on what we'll see in wireless technology (watch for improved connectivity in devices like cameras, MP3 players and GPS systems).

We spent lunch with Kensington reps, checking out the latest brilliance of their engineers. Their innovative and versatile gadgets, accessories and peripherals will be joined by more cool stuff this year. But you'll have to get the details from them.--Lindsay Holloway