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Monday, June 8, 2009

Coming to a Web Site Near You (This One): The Entire D7 Interview and Demo Sessions

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Tomorrow, just two weeks after it took place, All Things Digital will start posting the full sessions of the recent seventh D: All Things Digital conference.

We could not accommodate everyone who wanted to come in person, so you have already lost the opportunity to annoy major tech and media moguls and my mother all in one place (although Mission Accomplished! for BoomTown), but will be able to see all the content onstage here, in its entirety, on ATD, in the exact order we put on the show at the conference.

As a primer, here’s News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and singer Jill Sobule opening the show.

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Off to D7: The More Things Change, the More They, Well, Are A-Changin’

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BoomTown will be driving the minivan–packed with my assistant Ed, my mom, two mannequins (don’t ask), a coffee machine and lots of coffee and some very nice outfits–down to the seventh D: All Things Digital conference today, so don’t expect much in the way of posts from me.

Thus, I hope Twitter doesn’t sell to [fill in the blank], Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer don’t agree to agree (until they are on the D stage next week) and Facebook’s valuation doesn’t ricochet up and down the blog-hyped scale once again.

But the rest of the well-oiled All Things Digital machine will be in full force covering tech and media news, even as we gear up for the big event next week, which will feature pretty much all the major players in the digital space.

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Monday, August 20, 2007

All D: All Things Digital, All the Time!

Now, in living color, the entire historic joint interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of Apple.
D: All Things Digital, the annual tech and media conference Walt Mossberg and I host, has been sold out with a long wait list every year we have put it on.
That has meant only a few hundred people [...]

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Friday, August 17, 2007

All of D5! In Living Color!

Starting Monday, we’ll be posting all of the interviews from D5 in their entirety. I will be posting and commenting on each interview here in this blog, but the videos will also reside in our video player.
While we have already posted the joint interview of Microsoft’s Bill Gates-Apple’s Steve Jobs, as well as a solo [...]

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Disney Tries to Waddle Its Way to Digital Success

After having just visited WeeWorld in London, an avatar-based site that allows mostly young people to create online personas for social networking and other activities around the Web, it was interesting to see Walt Disney last week forking over up to $700 million to own another popular social-networking site for “tweens” called Club Penguin.
As much [...]

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Friday, July 27, 2007

Martha Gets Wired

BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.
And we like her 25% more now, after seeing the new pictures she took for Wired’s latest issue, as well as a particularly sassy interview she did with the magazine.

The homemaking empress is on the cover of Wired, pictured here making a Wii-shaped cake. It looks [...]

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Kara and Walt Visit the Irish Countryside and Pretend We’re Lords of the Manor

Here is the fourth video about the possibility of launching an international version of our D: All Things Digital Conference.
After visiting Dublin Castle and then perusing fancy hotels in the city of Dublin and then strolling the streets, Walt Mossberg and I head out to the Wicklow Mountains to see a bit of the lovely [...]

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Kara and Walt Stroll the Techie Streets (and Pubs) of Dublin

Here is the third video about the possibility of launching an international version of our D: All Things Digital Conference.
After visiting Dublin Castle and then the fancy hotels in the city of Dublin, Walt Mossberg and I take to the streets of the city to check out the scene and also sample the local fare. [...]

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Kara and Walt Visit Fancy Dublin Hotels

In our laborious quest to consider sites for an international version of our D: All Things Digital Conference, Walt Mossberg and I move from the historic environs of Dublin Castle (our visit there is chronicled here in text and video) to the fancy hotels in the city of Dublin.
So we sucked it up and headed [...]

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Kara and Walt Visit Dublin Castle

So Walt Mossberg and I are here in Dublin, Ireland, and in my last post about our trip, I neglected to explain why:
Our D: All Things Digital conference might be going international.
We have had a lot of success with our annual flagship D, which just took place for the fifth time in late May [...]

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Digital Dublin

I am headed to Dublin, Ireland, right now to check out the digital scene there with my AllThingsD and D partner, Walt Mossberg, and so posts might come at weird times over the next week, as I am also traveling to London.

Hopefully, I will find a Web connection in my travels there to post really [...]

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Eric Schmidt: The Entire D5 Interview With Walt Mossberg

Here is the entire interview Eric Schmidt did with Walt Mossberg on May 31 at D5 in Carlsbad, Calif. The Google CEO’s appearance is also posted here on YouTube (big surprise!) by Google.
The talk focused a lot on copyright, since Schmidt went on right after my interview with Philippe Dauman (that post has both text [...]

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Steve Jobs: The Entire D5 Interview With Walt Mossberg

Here is the entire interview Steve Jobs did with Walt Mossberg on May 30 at D5 in Carlsbad, Calif. For those who have not seen the Apple CEO in action, this is a good opportunity.
Among the wide range of topics: the iPhone, of course, and Jobs talked a lot about it; Apple growth since the [...]

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The Giant iPhone of Palo Alto

Two years ago at the D5 conference in an interview onstage, I asked Steve Jobs when Apple was going to release a mobile device.
Jobs demurred, as you can see here in a snippet of this longish video of highlights below from the first four D events.
He then famously noted that he was not too [...]

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

John Is Getting Sleepy, Very Sleepy…

Today, in the week of the first coming of the iPhone from Apple, John Paczkowski gives us a glimpse of Steve Jobs’s awesome hypnotic power over the cellphone carriers the Apple CEO called “orifices” at our D conference two years ago in John’s Digital Daily video.
That Jobs got AT&T to bend to his enormous will [...]

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About Kara

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 »

Ethics Statement

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.

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