Find out what happened at D5 by reviewing these posts, transcripts and video clips that were posted live during the conference.

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As if managing the development of Microsoft Word and Excel in the 1980s wasn’t a good enough item for his resume, Charles Simonyi has just made a trip to, uh, outer space. Yes, he is one of the first space tourists, having spent 11 days on board the International Space Station just last month. He [...]

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This is a key-shaped USB device that launches a specific Web site when plugged into a computer. It allows a user on a shared computer (i.e., at the office or in the home) to connect to a Web site and not have to worry about leaving any trace of activity. Think: no more annoying telltales [...]

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Along with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt has built Google into a colossus that not only continues to dominate search, but now also rules Web video and advertising. Since D4 ended, he has overseen Google’s acquisition of both the top video site, YouTube, and the best-known Web banner ad-placement company, DoubleClick. So, [...]

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Following is a transcript of the interview Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg conducted with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the D5 conference on May 30, 2007.

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Remember Harmony? It was a RealNetworks utility that Real hoped would enable it to infiltrate Apple’s music empire by allowing consumers to play songs purchased at Real’s download store on the iPod. And it got the company in a lot of trouble with Apple.
That episode, and Real’s penchant for developing tech that annoys the [...]

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According to Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, traffic to Viacom-owned sites has surged since the company asked YouTube to remove its content. “We found that when we sent out the take-down notice to YouTube … we found traffic increasing back to our own sites,” he said earlier this year at the Bear Stearns Media Conference. [...]

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Stephen Colbert’s terrific intro for Viacom President and CEO, Philippe “Dough Man” Dauman.
Earlier, we posted this video, then took it down and then put it back up. Confused?
Our fault and not Viacom’s at all.
We posted it first, because we thought Viacom had given us the rights to post it (and also Dauman said [...]

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When rumors of a YouTube acquisition began to circulate in 2006, conventional wisdom had it that the company was a bad case of buyer’s remorse waiting to happen, a start-up whose business model seemed to be built from the ground up on liabilities.

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The video used to introduce YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley.

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As Chairman and CEO of Time Inc., Ann Moore has been responsible for modernizing the iconic magazine publisher amid an ugly downturn in print advertising revenue and increasingly acute competition from the Internet. But that’s no easy task.The publisher is still playing catch-up in the digital arena.

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The video used to introduce Ann Moore, chairman and CEO, Time Inc.

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Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule performs onstage on the final day of D5 in Carlsbad, Calif.

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Photos from Wednesday night’s festivities following the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates joint interview.

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A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference.

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