Daily Archives: January 4th, 2006

Bill Gates keynote at CES (that playtable rocks)

You can watch along. I’m sitting in the Bellagio with a bunch of geeks watching on a video feed. Updates to come. Oh, Engadget did a point-by-point of the keynote too (with pictures!) But, Memeorandum is the best place to go to see all the reaction from around the world.
I heard he won’t use any [...]

Gadget for CES

If you’re coming to CES, the Microsoft Gadget folks (hi Sanaz and team) worked with the Comdex folks to build a little CES Gadget for Live.com. That’s one of more than 140 Gadgets available for you to play with.
Update: I just loaded the gadget and it lets you look up booth numbers for the companies [...]

Windows Vista recording session

Robert Fripp, famous guitarist, was on Microsoft’s campus a few weeks ago recording the sounds for Windows Vista. Charles Torre got an invite into the studio to record and watch.

The big thing in 2006 to be communication?

Don Dodge, former exec at AltaVista and Napster, tells us what the next big thing in 2006 will be. YouTube is something that’s just gotten on my radar screen. I’ve seen lots of blogs lately saying “I love YouTube.” Video is big this year. I got my video camera here at CES. Will have to [...]

MSN’er adds to China discussion

Michael Connolly, a product unit manager on MSN Spaces, adds onto the China discussion with a post titled “Running a Service in China.” Here’s a quote from his post: “In China, there is a unique issue for our entire industry: there are certain aspects of speech in China that are regulated by the government. We’ve [...]

CES coverage should be interesting on gadget sites

I was talking with Jason Calacanis (founder of Weblogsinc.com) yesterday and he told me that AOL was sending a bunch of bloggers to CES to cover that, particularly on their Engadget site. The next few days on Engadget and its competitors, Gizmodo, and Gear Live, should be darn interesting.