In a you-hurt-my-feelings post on his blog earlier this week, entrepreneur Marc Canter (pictured here) turned my one little quip to his bellowing question at the recent iLike party into a huge deal about why he was not invited to the D: All Things Digital conference that I co-produce with Walt Mossberg.
At the party, Canter [...]
Charles Simonyi was out of this world onstage, literally.
The early top Microsoft exec, who more recently founded Intentional Software, boldly went where few had gone before, by taking a ride into space. As one of the first space tourists, he spent 11 days on board the International Space Station earlier this year.
Oh, also, good friend [...]
Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers came to talk about consumers, a shift from a company better known for selling the plumbing of the Internet rather than its bells and whistles.
With a number of consumer-facing acquisitions of late and the Web 2.0 buzzword on his lips, we talked about a range of things for the [...]
Whatever his current chances to nab the Republican presidential nomination, you’ll want to see this video of our interview with Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
He talked a bit about tech, but the really riveting stuff is about Iraq and his controversial backing of keeping the U.S. presence there.
By way of background, D: All Things [...]
Have you ever wanted to save that dumb dog-skateboarding video airing on YouTube to your own computer? That’s the premise and promise of RealPlayer 11, which RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser demoed onstage.
Using the software, you can download online videos from Web sites with one click, organize them and burn them to DVD and CD. [...]
Sure, we’re not Laguna Beach and we’re not going to eat slimy bugs and we have no Tim Gunn and we’re definitely not going to do any ballroom dancing. (Well, maybe a waltz now and then.)
But I got such a good response to the movie I made about my home-based office for the AllThingsD.com site [...]
Les Moonves is getting into the Internet in a big way, it seems, if you watch this onstage interview with the CBS CEO.
While it used to be that big old-media companies, including the powerful television networks, always seemed to display disdain for the online space, but these days they are talking it up like [...]
Well, this video of the launch and demo of Palm’s Foleo should be a collector’s item, given that the company decided to junk the much-hyped “mobile companion”, created by Palm’s legendary inventor Jeff Hawkins, just yesterday.
Hawkins showed off the device, pictured here, which was supposed to go on sale this summer for $499, at D5 [...]
While the interview Walt and I did with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs took up a lot of the attention, don’t miss this very interesting interview Walt also did with Gates’s main man, Steve Ballmer. The hard-charging CEO does not disappoint here and also demos the new Surface table computer, too.
By way of [...]
Well, we meet again, Steve Case and I!
You might think after two books about the rise (book one) and fall (book two) of AOL, the iconic company Case helmed, that we’d both be flat out sick of each other.
Actually, not so and, in fact, illness was a big topic for this discussion onstage–many of Case’s [...]
Would you like a pen that remembers everything you write? This is the premise of LiveScribe, a computer device that records words and also finds those words in the recording by only tapping the handwritten version on a sheet of paper.
There have been a lot of bites at this particular apple, but LiveScribe is a [...]
Here is the parody video used to introduce YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen at D5.
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google (owner of YouTube).
While they might seem a tad laid back in this video, the founders of YouTube–Chad Hurley and Steve Chen–are definitely on the hot seat for sure this year.
While it is always nice to get a $1.6 billion payout for a company started only recently, as the explosive online video service did from Google, the future [...]
Nothing like getting the opportunity to verbally harass the new boss right before he turns out to be the new boss!
Here’s the interview I did with News Corp. No. 2, President and COO Peter Chernin. Of course, we discuss–well, I question the media giant’s ethics and Chernin defends them–the then-pending bid to buy Dow Jones [...]
Let’s start with the fact that right now, I can pretty much get, say, the entire and relatively recent “Cartman Sucks” episode (in several pieces) from “South Park” on YouTube anytime.
Also, I might add that these parody videos posted below–a mashup of the ribald animated series and the Apple ads and another with “Harry Potter”–are chock full of jacked material!
Oh yes, I just grabbed this fine picture of the “South Park” character right off the Web without a problem.
I await Viacom owner Sumner Redstone’s wrath and expect his legions of lawyers to come raining down on me asap.
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
D is unlike any other executive conference. Since its debut in 2003, D has brought to life the energy and excitement of the digital revolution in an unscripted, upfront and unparalleled way. Read more »
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