Last night’s headliners at D7 | All Things Digital Conference at The Four Season Aviara were Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the founders of Twitter. The two answered some pretty hard-hitting questions from the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, but mostly they just said, “We need to do a lot of work on the business” over and over again in very clever, engaging ways.
Click here to watch a highlights video.
[Link: D7 | All Things Digitial]
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Carlsbadistan’s annual brush with digiratti stardom kicked off today at the Four Season’s Aviara as Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher host the Wall Street Journal’s D6: All Things Digital.
Today was golf day, but over the next three days (May 27-29, 2008) D6 will play host to the the biggest names in business. And they’ll all be right here in Carlsbad. See if any of these names ring a bell: Bill (and Melinda) Gates, Steve Ballmer, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, Howard Stringer, Jeff Bezos, Barry Diller, Jeff Bewkes, Kevin Martin, Tom Glocer, Jerry Yang and Sue Decker.
Tonight Walt and Kara will interview Bill Gates and Steve Balmer, but we’re not really into Microsoft so we’re going to skip it. But please stay tuned over the next couple days as we bring you some “unofficial coverage” of everything that’s going on at D6. And if we can get any of them to come surfing, we’ll let you know.
[Link: D6 All Things Digital]
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have not shared the same stage for 23 years. And tonight, at the Four Seasons Resort at Aviara they were together at the “special event” that directly followed dinner at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital Conference.
Sadly, we did not make it out. Thought we would, but didn’t feel like getting our “web worker” duds on and driving back out there again, even though, we’re guessing tonight is the big party. . . Click the link below for all the details on the evening. Blow, by blow, by blow.
[Link: All Things D]
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Carlsbad is laying claim to the technology world this week and company after company is using the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital Conference to launch new products. According to the blog Everythingtreo.com:
Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm, Inc., will announce a new mobile device tomorrow [May 30, 2007]. The device is founded on what Palm is calling a third “new” category of mobile device.
We’re seriously going to have to sneak into this thing. Anyone know any bellmen at Aviara who would loan us a uniform?
[Link: EverythingTreo]
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Guaranteed someone in your family will think this new promotion at Legoland California in Carlsbad is amazing, so you might want to swing by the old amusement complex and check it out. Apparently, Ninjago is 10 years old.
From August 13 to September 5, 2021 celebrate 10 years of LEGO® NINJAGO® with a limited time AR digital experience. Real and virtual worlds collide, as visitors have the chance to enter the world of NINJAGO and complete the challenges alongside their favorite characters.
Ok. Sounds fun. For all the official details, please follow the jump.
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Things about to get funky this week in Carlsbadistan’s Stage Coach Park as the funkidelic sounds of Ashville, North Carolina’s Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band bounce Jazz in the Park to it’s feet with some of the best dance music of the summer.
Purveyors of original funk since 2002,” Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band zoomed onto festival stages nationwide, fueled by a heady mix of powerful original compositions, triumphant horns, laid-back grooves, and heavy backbeats. . . Today they are ready to shake the world, one cheek at a time.”
Get it? Ass cheek. Booty? Follow the jump for more info.
[Link: Jazz In The Park] [click to continue…]
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Carlsbadistan police and firefighters are becoming famous nationwide in the debate over how much public employees should be making. While we’re perfectly happy with teachers, policemen, and fireman making six-figures it appears that many people, like Forbes.com blogger Rich Karlgaard, seem to think thank is a problem.
Who are America’s fastest-growing class of millionaires? They are police officers, firefighters, teachers and federal bureaucrats who, unless things change drastically, will be paid something near their full salaries every year–until death–after retiring in their mid-50s. That is equivalent to a retirement sum worth millions of dollars.
Hey, maybe California is finally doing something right. Karlgaard quoted a story in the North County Times on how much Carlsbadistan’s police and firefighters make. Truthfully, the best way to get the best people for the job is to pay them well. We really don’t want to be pulled over by police officers who have to work two jobs to make ends meet. Seriously.
[Link: Forbes.com]
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When the doors of the new Carlsbad Apple Store at The Forum opened for customers the first time this morning at 10 AM Elizabeth Jean DeBoer, of the Oceanside Mac User Group was the first person in the store.
“I’ve been here since 4:20 AM,” she said from her comfortable chair before the doors opened. “I’m going to upgrade my iPhone to 3G and I waited until this store opened because I didn’t want to go to Fashion Valley.”
DeBoer entered the store through a gauntlet of more than 40 enthusiastically screaming, clapping, carousing Apple retail employees all outfitted in their matching orange and turquoise T-shirts with the words “I know people” screened on the front of them.
It was a bit of a madhouse actually as each person was welcomed into the store as if they were a high school football player entering the field of a state championship. It was just a continuation of the welcome everyone in line got at 9:50 when all the employees charged out of the front doors of the store and ran down the line of some 200 customers high-fiving them all and yelling the whole way.
The commotion was distracting regular mall shoppers as they tried to find parking. One attractive woman in big glasses leaned out her window or her black Porsche Cayenne to ask was was going on. When someone told her they were waiting for free T-shirts she couldn’t believe it. “All these people are standing in line for a free T-shirt,” she replied with a look of shock. “I thought all the iPods were 10 percent off or something.”
The Carlsbad store is the newest member of the Apple family of more than 200 retail stores worldwide. And while the Carlsbad store’s General Manager Audrey Todd wouldn’t say exactly how many employees her store has (or how many of them are from Carlsbad) she was happy to say that “Apple is always hiring.”
Stores hours are 8 AM to to 9 PM (Sundays 9 AM to 6 PM) and like all Apple retail store it features The Genius Bar, One To One weekly training, Personal Shopping, Workshops and Youth Programs.
For all the details, and more photos follow the jump (click them to view full size).
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Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher don’t mess around each year when they bring their digital carnival to Carlsbadistan’s Four Seasons Aviara. They just round up the CEOs, walk them across the stage, ask them a few questions, and then shoo them off the other side leaving us feeling more like spectators at the National Western Stock Show. But people who attend All Things D are busy and apparently they want their days loaded with stampeding titans.
For example, today the following people were interviewed (and the day is far from over): Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision; Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman and CEO, Sony; Barry Diller, Chairman and CEO, IAC; Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell; Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker; Jeff Bewkes, President and CEO, Time Warner; and only moments ago former Microsoft Chief Strategist Nathan Myhrvold, Founder and CEO, Intellectual Ventures, took the stage.
It’s enough to make our heads spin. But tonight we’ll get it all straightened out.
[Link: D6: All Things D]
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Carlsbad is getting another influx of visiting tech knobs next week when Forrester Research brings it’s Technology Leadership Forum 2007 to the La Costa Resort and Spa September 25-26.
Each year, Technology Leadership Forum examines a critical issue at the intersection of business and information technology. This year’s theme, Design For People, Build For Change, takes aim at improving the success of all technology professionals, but its content will focus most closely on these roles: Chief information officer, Application development & program management professional, etc. . .
It’s like the whole resort overrun by our favorite people in the world: “IT professionals.” Watch out Carlsbad these nerds know how to party. . . (We just laughed while typing that. Sorry.)
[Link: Forrester Research]
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