This is nothing short of a historic meetup - two icons of the World today (not just the tech world) Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The two met at the D5: All Things Digital - The Wall Street Journal Executive Conference and sat down with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. The conversation is simply engrossing, a must see for everybody!. I have been seeing the full videos over at Gizmodo, but I wanted to keep it here for reference also. Continue reading for all the 7 videos.
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Web Worker Daily talks about a Prentice report which talks about an interesting possibility for the future employee. The quality of life will become a greater aspect of how people approach employment and work. Using latest technologies, tele-commuting to work and working for less hours more productively - 20 hours per week. For a long time, people have been conjecturing about the benefits of working in your pajyamas in a virtual office and just getting things done. But, to put it in perspective of hours and minutes, I find it fascinating to know how HR will deal with possibly more number of workers putting in lesser hours but more productive ones.

On the worker side of things, the reality of living in a combined computing environment will make it harder (?) to draw the line between work and personal. This will mean more control for the average worker and that will necessitate further innovation. Networking, connectivity, data compatibility will be just a small percentage of business opportunities that should open up.

Microsoft’s launch yesterday of the multi-touch interface toting $10,000 Surface Computer is awesome. It features multiple cameras which identify the things you put on the table top, which is a beautiful screen, recognizing wi-fi devices and syncing or at least accessing on the fly. As you see in the video, you can arrange photos, videos, text etc in a very ‘natural paper-like’ fashion and then dump them into your pda or camera by dragging them towards it.

This is a consumer pipe dream and definitely a new paradigm in personal computing. Available only for retail or business customers ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 by the end of this year, the rest of us will have to wait. I do wonder how many of these does His Highness BG have in his tech paradise of a home.

Yuvi Panda, a 16 year old 12th grader in Chennai, India just did some fantastic site stats anaylsis for one of my favorite sites - Engadget.

Some really interesting stuff stood out:

25 comments in the first 3 months

2,900 = most # of  comments on one post which was not a giveaway

16,000 = most # of comments on one post for a giveaway

615,212 = total comments

24 posts a day on average

~ 28,000 total posts

You can get Yuvi to analyse your site traffic data and growth statistics for some really low $$$. He just got dugg, so I am sure he needs the extra bandwith from a new, more reliable host. Email him at yuvipanda@gmail.com.

Techcrunch just reported that CBS has acquired the awesome music community/social network - Last.fm for $280 million cash. That’s great but why CBS? They picked up Wallstreet and now this. Evidently, online media communities is a priority to this once-lumbering giant, but I wonder if they give a crap about communities. I am glad that at least they are leaving the team behind Last.fm in place to keep the good times rolling.