It also always features an awesome bag of schwag, which this year seems to be bigger than ever.

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When you received your schwag bag at D9 , it included one of my newly introduced products: Pogoplug Video.

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After all, we have social media to arrange gatherings of any size you want, with none of the costs of room rental, airfares, hotels, and schwag bags.

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