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Thursday, September 11, 2008

The Entire D6 Demo of DEKA Research’s Bionic Arm (3 of 3)

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know).

But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety in this column.

In the less contentious spirit of DEMOfall and TechCrunch50, two demo conferences taking place simultaneously this week, we’re happy to bring you all the demos we had onstage at the D6 conference.

Here’s part three of three videos of the most popular demo, by well-known inventor Dean Kamen, who showed off his latest creation, the “Luke Arm” prosthesis.

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Liveblogging From Yahoo’s “Open House”: Open Ads, Open Mobile, Open Open!

BoomTown is thinking of starting a drinking game wherein the group gathered at Yahoo’s “Open House” media event this morning, takes a shot of Cuervo every time an exec says “open.”

Except, everyone would be drunker than drunk if that was the case by now, as Yahoo lays out its strategies to open its platform and all its products to the whole wide world.

That would be developers, publishers, advertisers, content creators and my mother.

OK, not her, since she cannot turn on a computer. But definitely everyone else.

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The Entire D6 Demo of DEKA Research’s Bionic Arm (2 of 3)

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know).

But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety in this column.

In the less contentious spirit of DEMOfall and TechCrunch50, two demo conferences taking place simultaneously this week, we’re happy to bring you all the demos we had onstage at the D6 conference.

Here’s part two of three videos of the most popular demo, with well-known inventor Dean Kamen, who showed off his latest creation, the “Luke Arm” prosthesis.

Read More »

The Entire D6 Demo of DEKA Research’s Bionic Arm (1 of 3)

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know).

But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety in this column.

In the less contentious spirit of DEMOfall and TechCrunch50, two demo conferences taking place simultaneously this week, we’re happy to bring you all the demos we had onstage at the D6 conference.

Here’s part one of three videos of the most popular demo, with well-known inventor Dean Kamen, who showed off his latest creation, the “Luke Arm” prosthesis.

Read More »

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The Entire D6 Demo of evri

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know).

But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety in this column.

In the less contentious spirit of DEMOfall and TechCrunch50, two demo conferences taking place simultaneously this week, we’re happy to bring you all the demos we had onstage at the D6 conference.

Next up is evri, the semantic Web guide start-up, which is backed by billionaire techie Paul Allen and founded by former Amazon exec Neil Roseman.

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Kara (and Walt) Visit DEMOfall!

Walt Mossberg and BoomTown are in San Diego for DEMOfall, one of two big tech start-up demo conferences taking place this week (the other is TechCrunch50 in San Francisco).

At both conferences, a passel of start-ups come to show off their wares to an audience of press, venture capitalists and one other.

Walt and I also appeared here this afternoon onstage in what was called “Head-to-Head,” a feature which we hope to debut on this site soon.

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The Entire D6 Demo of 23andMe

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know).

But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety in this column.

In the less contentious spirit of DEMOfall and TechCrunch50, two demo conferences taking place simultaneously this week, we’re happy to bring you all the demos we had onstage at the D6 conference.

Next up is the demo for 23andMe, the Web-based, direct-to-consumer genome site, which showed off its new 23andWe service.

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Monday, September 8, 2008

The Entire D6 Demo of TransMedia’s Glide

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know).

But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety in this column.

In the less contentious spirit of DEMOfall and TechCrunch50, two demo conferences taking place simultaneously this week, we’re happy to bring you all the demos we had onstage at the D6 conference.

First up is TransMedia’s Glide, an operating system that cuts across all operating systems.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Memo to Don Graham: Thar He Blows…

volcano

Another day, another tech blog eruption featuring Michael “The Volcano” Arrington of TechCrunch and, this time, Wired’s Betsy “Ain’t-Backing-Down” Schiffman.

When last we checked in with Arrington, he was elegantly telling Chris Shipley that her longstanding tech conference might want to take a dirt nap. Specifically: “Demo needs to die.”

But that’s not all!

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Monday, May 5, 2008

All Things Don’t-Blink-or-You’ll-Miss-It!

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft (MSFT). News Corp.’s (NWS) Rupert Murdoch. Jeff Bewkes of Time Warner (TWX). Yahoo’s (YHOO) Jerry Yang.
All of them engaged in roiling Internet deal-making of late and all of them in just three weeks on the same stage–but not, thankfully, at the same time, or we’d need a professional [...]

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Memo to Chris Shipley: Luca Brasi Sleeps With the Fishes!

“Demo needs to die,” said TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington yesterday.
Oh, my. Oh, dear. Not more bloody tangoing!?!
The pugnacious tech blogger–who was last seen slapping around other tech bloggers who deigned to also raise money for their ventures, much as he has been doing–made this classy statement in an interview with Daniel Terdiman of CNET’s [...]

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Friday, September 7, 2007

I Love L.A.

I will be traveling south to Los Angeles Sunday afternoon to do a few days reporting there.
That will include visits to the offices of JibJab, Userplane, Disney’s Internet Group, as well as some catching up with newly minted investor Ross Levinsohn and Joost CEO Mike Volpi.
We’ll be headed that way again a week later to [...]

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

LiveScribe Smartpen: The Entire D5 Demo With Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher

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 [...]

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Monday, August 27, 2007

QiGO: The Entire D5 Demo With Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher

Sometimes, given that it still remains complex to figure out for some, wouldn’t it be nice if the Internet was as easy to use as turning a key in a lock?
Well, that is the simple, yet sensible, concept behind QiGO, a key-shaped USB device that links you instantly to a specific Web site when it [...]

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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.

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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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