At All Things Digital, our crack Web staff–go, Adam!–wants you to have total access to all the video clips you want to see, so here is a handy-dandy list of quick links to all of that and more from our interview event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Friday.

We did sessions with Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Google Android guru Andy Rubin.

And, yes, Rubinstein did say, “Actually, I’ve never used one..it’s the truth,” about Apple’s iPhone mobile phenom–to which I expressed complete disbelief.

Here’s that video snippet for you to decide, and more!

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Although BoomTown completely enjoyed having dinner with Hollywood agency overlord Ari Emanuel last week at the Consumer Electronics Show, I have little interest in the money and scheduling machinations that broke out last week over NBC Universal’s late-night television talk shows.

But I do love the roundelay of online videos this Tinseltown mess has created.

Here is a selection, as well as my D7 interview with NBC head Jeff Zucker, in which he talked about the changes to the lineup that are now being changed back.

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As luck would have it, BoomTown was at a dinner at the Consumer Electronics Show where both Yahoo’s Jimmy Pitaro, who heads its Vertical Audiences Experience, and SVP of North American Revenue Joanne Bradford were also in attendance.

Thus, I took the opportunity to talk to both of them about the premium content deal, unveiled last night, with former NBC entertainment head Ben Silverman’s new Electus studio.

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BoomTown is in Vegas, shuttling up and down the Strip from one tech-related event to the next on the first night of the Consumer Electronics Show.

Continuing in Las Vegas for the next several days, the massive confab pretty much takes over the hotels, clubs and restaurants of the city, as well as its convention facilities.

Here’s a video I did last night, with a visit to see some gadgets and also Walt Mossberg, as well as some other shots.

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As much as BoomTown likes a good computer tablet faceoff, sources with knowledge of the situation said that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will not be whipping out the secret slate PC called “Courier,” which the company has been noodling on, in his keynote speech opening the Consumer Electronics Show tonight.

Last night, the New York Times reported, in a blog post titled “Microsoft and H.P. to Reveal Slate PC Ahead of Apple,” that the software giant’s boss would do so.

Except he will not.

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BoomTown will be Southwesting to Las Vegas today for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, being held there over the next several days.

CES has certainly lost some of its immediacy over the last several years, but it is still the place to see a lot of different kinds of tech treats in one spot and try to discern the tech tea leaves.

This year, Walt Mossberg and I are trying to up the ante a bit by throwing a substantive interview event with top tech execs, which All Things Digital will be live-streaming on Friday.

So, what happens in Vegas, stays right here.

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One good thing about taking a break between Christmas and New Year’s is getting to miss all the 2010 prediction stories out there about the tech world.

Oh, BoomTown will admit that I used to do them years ago.

But they were mostly off-base in some significant way or, if by some chance I got one right, it was definitely a very lucky guess.

So, last year, I made a resolution I am keeping this year: No predictions.

That doesn’t mean I will not make some promises.

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D: All Things Digital is packing up our wagon and taking it on the road right after the holiday, with a special “mini” session at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Organized by The Wall Street Journal, the interview event will take place Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, at the Venetian hotel. Because space is limited, we will be live-streaming the entire thing on the site, starting 3:30 pm PT and ending at 5:30 pm.

On the ATD red-hot seats:

Reed Hastings, CEO, president and chairman of Netflix, to be queried by MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka; Jon Rubinstein, chairman and CEO of Palm, talking to BoomTown; and Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin, who will be interviewed by Walt Mossberg.

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While attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, BoomTown moderated what turned out to be a fascinating panel discourse of what was to come in the tech sector.

No, it was not akin to a gathering of Trekkies.

The SuperSession panel, titled: “What Will They Think of Next? Consumer Technology in 2025,” was less Spock than a logical analysis of where gadgetry is headed by looking at both the past and the present.

Here’s a video with the panelists giving their predictions.

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As BoomTown did last year, I took to the much-less-crowded floor of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with tech review kingpin Walt Mossberg and Mossberg Solution columnist Katherine Boehret to get their take on the scene.

Of interest to Walt was the Palm Pre launch and the Yahoo Connected TV initiative. For Katie, it was a $2,000 cellphone.

Here’s the video of their ruminations.

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BoomTown did a video interview with Palm’s sugar daddy investor Roger McNamee at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, after the debut of its Pre smartphone.

Via Elevation Partners, McNamee has invested a total of $425 million in Palm, aimed at reviving the company that pioneered the smartphone market, but lost its step to competitors.

Thus, Palm and the private equity firm have banked a lot on its new product, so McNamee was out in full force at CES in Las Vegas, talking up the Pre.

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Here is BoomTown’s first video from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which kicked off last night with a keynote speech by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

So far, it’s been a definitely thinner crowd, a reflection of the weaker economy.

But CES is still a reliably noisy, often pointless, gadget cavalcade–with introduction of a new smartphone from Palm, called Pre, as the highlight so far.

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BoomTown, MediaMemo, Personal Technology Godfather Walt Mossberg and Mossberg Solution columnist Katie Boehret traveled to Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show. They’re navigating the crowds in order to bring you the most important, the most interesting, and the most entertaining moments of the CES melee. They’ll probably have some interesting tidbits about boring stuff as well. All of our CES coverage will be centralized and updated in one place for the sake of convenience.

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With Macworld out of the way, a chunk of the crack All Things Digital squad is now winging its way both east and west to the annual gadgetopocalypse in Las Vegas, a.k.a. the Consumer Electronics Show.

Despite the fact that the show is feeling the pinch of the economy and that there are really no big products to speak of, CES is still one of the biggest and most important gatherings of the tech year.

Las Vegas turns into a geek moshpit every year, as legions of vendors, buyers, press and others converge to be overwhelmed for days by noise, long lines for cabs, keynotes, demos and more (like the Pussycat Dolls).

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BoomTown is not saying it’s going to be like watching grass grow.

But 2009 is not exactly getting off to a rousing start this week–with two underwhelming blockbuster tech events taking place that already have more of an air of whimper than of bang to them.

That would be the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual egregious gadgetfest in Las Vegas, and the final appearance by Apple at Macworld.

Of course, while CES tries to fend off the spate of no-one-is-going-to-CES stories–well, I am!–the absence of his digital Holiness and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at Macworld has really generated most of the glumness.

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