D6 Conference Recap
Here are all of the highlights from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference, organized by day and speaker:
Day One
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
You would have loved Windows 1.0. Walt. You would have LOVED it.”
–Ballmer
Session post | Videos: One and Two
Day Two
Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com
People loved their horses, too. But you don’t keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.”
–Bezos on the difference between physical books and digital ones
Session post | Videos: One and Two
Bobby Kotick, Activision
The social element has really transformed the gaming experience.”
— Kotick on the impact of games like Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero IV Demo with Tony Hawk and Paula Abdul
Howard Stringer, Sony
If we were any more successful, we’d be bankrupt.”
–Stringer on the success of Sony’s LCD business
Barry Diller, IAC
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.”
Michael Dell, Dell
I could take him.”
–Dell on his chances of success in a brawl with Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Jerry Yang and Sue Decker, Yahoo
I will never be a CEO again.”
–Yang
Session post | Videos: One and Two
Jeff Bewkes, AOL
AOL is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Web. We don’t get no respect.”
Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures
We invest in the creation of ideas… It’s like Baby Mama, with me as the mama.”
Demo: G.ho.st Web Operating System
Lets users access their desktop from any computer with an Internet connection.
Tom Glocer, Thomson Reuters
We have one great advantage over bloggers: we write once, and sell many times to many different media outlets.”
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook
I won’t ever stop until you’re either the biggest thing around, or you’re dead.”
–Kara Swisher on her relentless coverage of Facebook
Session post | Videos: One and Two
Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation
I want to meet Obama. I want to know if he’s going to walk the walk.”
Session post | Full Session Videos: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six
Day Three
Demo: evri
An application that graphs the Web via grammatical information.
Demo: 23andMe
Web-based, direct-to-consumer genome services.
Melinda Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
All lives are equal.”
Session post | Videos: One and Two
Demo: TransMedia’s Glide
A mobile-operating system that cuts across all operating systems.
Tom Rogers, TiVo
The TV set and its primary position in the home isn’t going anywhere in the future.”
Session post | Videos: One and Two
Demo: Deka
The “Luke Arm” prosthesis, a state-of-the-art bionic arm.
Kevin Martin, FCC and Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless
You’re the chairman of the FCC. How did you allow this to happen?”
–Walt Mossberg grills Martin on the lousy broadband situation in the States
Session post | Videos: One and Two
