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Podcast: Gates and Jobs, Google Gears, YouTube/Viacom and more..

This week on the Dan & David Show, we talk about the joint interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates that took place at the D: All Things Digital conference. It was mostly a reminiscence by the two industry legends (video/transcript), who paved the way for the personal computer revolution.Jobs...

Tags: YouTube, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Personal Technology, Microsoft, iPhone, General, Dan &, David Show, D5, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Video: The origins of YouTube

At the D conference, YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen showed a spoof video of how they came up with the idea for their video sharing service.

Tags: YouTube, General, D5

Blog posts 2007-06-01

D5: Google's mobile platform strategy--no phone, just apps

Every end user computer is becoming a phone with a modest-sized screen, 3G networks, a new generation of browsers, GPS and a camera, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "The sum is a whole new platform play," he said, epitomized by the forthcoming iPhone (Schmidt is on Apple's board). He...

Tags: Web Technology, Google, D5

Blog posts 2007-05-31

D5: Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells Viacom to wait for the tools

Following YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, and then Viacom CEO and President Phillipe Dauman, Google CEO and now leader of YouTube Eric Schmidt sat down with Walt Mossberg for an interview at the D conference.Schmidt added another dimension to the discussion regarding copyrights and Viacom's $1 billion suit...

Tags: Legal, Google, General, D5

Blog posts 2007-05-31

D5: YouTubers and Viacom CEO weigh in on copyrights

Before coming on stage at the D conference, a cute video about the making of YouTube was shown, where co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are talking about coming up with a business idea while they are eating huge burritos, and how they wish their friends could watch...

Tags: D5, General, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-31

D5 Live: No fight--Gates and Jobs ponder the past and the future

The highlight of the D: All Things Digital conference featured Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on stage together, with event co-hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher as referees.It was more like a Rock & Roll hall of fame induction honoring the two legends than a verbal battle over past...

Tags: Apple, D5, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Mahalo: A human-powered search directory

Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc. now part of AOL fame launched Mahalo at the D conference this afternoon, with the idea that human-generated search results for the most common queries can trump machine-generated results and not Mahalo will leave the vast majority, the long tail of queries to Google.It's the...

Tags: D5, General, Search

Blog posts 2007-05-30

D5: Steve Jobs evangelizes the iPhone and Apple TV

Steve Jobs took the stage following News Corp. President Peter Chernin for an interview with Walt Mossberg at the D conference. He was if full product evangelist, selling mode, describing the magic Apple's products. He attributed Apple's success to "software wrapped in really wonderful hardware. The software [on...

Tags: Apple, D5, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-30

D5: News Corp.'s Peter Chernin view on MySpace

News Corp. President Peter Chernin explained how MySpace provides a good example of how his company would be a good steward for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal if it were able to acquire the company. "We had to learn a completely different paradign," Chernin said, "where our job...

Tags: D5, MySpace, Social networking

Blog posts 2007-05-30

D5: Palm's Linux appliance for cell phones

Jeff Hawkins unveiled the Palm Foleo, a $499 Linux appliance with a full-sized keyboard, screen, no drives, 5-hour battery life, and a set of modest applications, minus a calendar, for reading email and attachments using DataViz software from cell phones, currently Palm OS and Windows Mobile OS. Rafe Needleman was...

Tags: D5, Linux, Mobile, Palm, Personal Technology, Telecommunications, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-05-30

D5: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the hot seat

For the opening session at the D conference this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that his company was a lot more nimble today than when it had 30 people. He was responding to a question from conference co-host Walt Mossberg how the company deals with huge scale of the...

Tags: D5, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-30

D5: Senator John McCain's league of extraordinary gentlemen

Presidential candidate Senator John McCain took fielded some tough questions from Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher in the opening interview at the D: All Things Digital conference. One of the more interesting exchanges during the interview, beyond McCain's positions on various campaign issues, was his call for the best...

Tags: D5, General

Blog posts 2007-05-30

D5: The schwag

The D conference is well known for its schwag...like the Oscars of the tech world, except no awards are given. You get the goods just for showing up. The bag and jackets are nice, but the top item is the YouTube tube socks. Completely useless. The cookbook from Time Warner,...

Tags: D5

Blog posts 2007-05-29

Coming up: D--All Things Digital conference

This week I'll be at the Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference at a balmy resort near San Diego. The advertised highlight is Steve Jobs and Bill Gates making a "historic" joint appearance on stage with hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. The two will "discuss the...

Tags: Apple, D5, General, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-27

Additional Resources

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Xilisoft ISO Maker, with high conversion speed and excellent output quality, helps you make ISO files from CD or DVD to ease your DVD backup on computer, portable hard disk, etc. Xilisoft ISO Maker works so fast that it only takes about 10-15 minutes to rip a whole D5...

Tags: ISO, Xilisoft, DVD, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-09-30

The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it already

The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it alreadyTalk about Polution!!There's is no form of transportation MORE polluting than an electric car. Why people are so thrilled with them....They use power which is produce primarily by COAL!!!The coal-fired electricity has to be transmitted which costs...

Tags: car, electric car

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Who should be thanked for the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple?

Who should be thanked for the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple?So far ahead...Two different experiences ... the first was going to MS campus in 1994 to view MSN dev tools for MSN, when asked "what about the Internet" the MS suits would say, that's nothing, we're after AOL and...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., BeOS, job

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

Video: Steve Jobs at D5

Video: Steve Jobs at D5Ironically, it's iTune and Quicktime that is the crapware on WindowsiTunes is horrible crapware for Windows. Quicktime is riddled with zero-day vulnerabilities on Windows. Perhaps Walt should ask Jobs some hard questions like these.Terrible judgementDo you consider crapware an application with 1 million downloads...

Tags: Digital music, Operating systems, Digital media, Steve Jobs, Microsoft Windows, Apple iTunes, Apple QuickTime, video

Discussion threads 2007-06-28

Video: Steve Jobs at D5

Video: As long as we are in the midst of Steve Jobs parting the sea with the iPhone this week, here is the 67-minute interview Steve Jobs did with Walt Mossberg at the D5 conference in Carlsbad, Calif. on May 30th. He evangelizes the iPhone, Apple TV and verbally...

Tags: Personal Technology, iPhone, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Apple's reality distortion field in action - iPhone feature comparison

Apple's reality distortion field in action - iPhone feature comparisonAlso note the conspicuous absenceNo HTC product to be found. Yeah, we wouldn't want to make the iDumbPhone look bad. :)Great blog Adrian. [b]RELEASE THE ZEALOTS[/b]!!! Here they come!No Replaceable Battery+No Choice of NetworksNot being able to replace the battery and...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Operating systems, reality Distortion Field, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2007-06-18