TabletPc2.com started to post its 6th annual List for Santa: Holiday Gift Guide. With over 160 products, items will be added to the list over the next several days. Tablet PCs, Entertainment PCs, Mini-Notebooks are already up and Fun & Entertainment and Digital Cameras are going up soon.

During the two blogger panels at WIPTE I showed many sites that are useful for finding information about Tablet and Touch technologies. Here is a list of those sites Jim & I mentioned, as well as a few more that you might find useful:

• Craig Pringle's blog 
• Frank LaVigne's blog
• GottaBeMobile
• Incremental Blogger
• JKontheRun
• Mobile PC Wiki
• Mobility Matters
• Nice Creations
• Student Tablet PC (new name Endless Scholar)
• Sumocat's Scribbles
• TabletPc2.com
• Tablet PC Buzz
• Tablet PC Corner (French)
• Tablet PC Education Blog 
• TabletPCReview
• Tablet PC Talk
• Teaching, Learning, & Technology in Higher Education - Jim Vanides
• Teaching and Learning Economics with Technology
• Teaching with Tablet PCs
• Technology Questions education forum
• TheTabletPC.net
• UltraMobilePC Tips
• UMPC Portal

Aggregators, search engines, & social networking sites:

• Thredr.com
• Alltop
• Friendfeed
• Google blog search
• Technorati
• Techmeme
• Twitter

Keep in mind that when you rely on search engines that you need to use a variety of keywords to find content related to Tablet PCs and education. People may refer to handwriting recognition, ink, touch, specific model numbers as "notebooks" or "laptops" that are convertible, or mis-spell Tablet PC as tabletpc.

In the last few weeks, I've received several inquiries about the annual CES Tablet PC & UMPC Gathering. Correct, it'll still be actually at CES in January and it's only September. However, the feedback continues to be so positive and long lasting that people are already looking forward to the event! I'm pleased that it's continued to be so successful.

The industry is advancing and I want to make sure that the product interests represented are forward looking. Yes, I'm sure there will be plenty of Windows 7 chatter and hardware comparisons. A couple years ago we expanded the gathering to include mini-Tablet PCs more commonly known as UMPCs. Last year people interested in MIDs attended. My observation is that the common connection is an interest in natural input. Do you agree?

Following that logic, what do you think if Surface is included? What about... yep, I'll ask (gulp) -- iPhone? (Of course, Macworld may overlap, as the gathering has most recently been on the 3rd day of CES. So, it might just be like '08 where people are welcome to pull out their iPhones.)

And yes, then the gathering will need a new name...suggestions?

Previous sponsors of the annual Tablet PC Gathering include (in no particular order): Microsoft Tablet PC & UMPC teams, Microsoft DPE Channel 9 (compliments of Robert Scoble), Motion Computing, TabletKiosk, HP, Lenovo, Fujitsu, VIA, Mobile Demand, OQO, abletFactory, Etymotic, OtterBox, TechSmith, CaseLogic, Diskeeper, JKontheRun, TabletPC2, GottaBeMobile, TabletLawyer, Chris Pirillo Show, ActiveWords, ProvoLabs, and of course TuxReports & all the Microsoft Tablet PC MVPs.

(Steve at Boston Pocket PC posted photos from the 2008 gathering, if you'd like to take a peek at all that was given away.)

Einstein Technologies is now offering TEO 3.0 for free download. TEO is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 that turns Outlook into a fully pen-enabled app. You can use it on your Tablet PC or UMPC running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP2 or Windows Vista.

Thanks for the update, Josh.

Update: The TEO listing on TabletPCPost.com has been updated to reflect the change from 15-day trial to Free.