Today in downtown San Jose Google is hosting Google Developer Day 2007 at the San Jose Convention Center. They will be giving demonstrations all day on vertually every Google API under the sun as well as some free food and a few sneak peaks at what Google will be coding up. Regestration is open and free to anybody and comes complete with a free shirt and a trip to the Google campus. In all Google is throwing one hell of a party and I will try to bring you details on what is being discussed later.

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As more info on the going ons of this years All Things Digital 5, known as D5 this year, surface I will do my best to funnel them over this way. Unfortunately its very hard to keep up but this I just had to post. The folks over at D5 managed to get both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on the stage together for an interview and let me tell you this is one interview worth every minute of your time. These interview is full of great jokes and fun geek references. Below are all eight parts from introduction to Q&A so enjoy.

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The last couple days has had a number of big new things talked about and shown off at D5: All Things Digital. I am still catching up with it all but stay come back soon and I will hopefully have compiled a list of my top videos and announcements from D5.

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Microsoft has just announced a new technology that is poised to be the next big thing. The Apple iPhone may be taking the multi-touch screen to the mobile market in a new way but it appears that Microsoft is slated to do the same everywhere else with its new “Surface” . While this technology seems new it has actually been around for awhile. However, it wasn’t until Jeff Han’s demonstration at the TED conference in 2006 that people really got a chance to see what was typically reserved for science fiction become a reality. It would appear that the folks over at Microsoft got a hold of Jeff and the end product is what we expect to see with Surface. I personally am very excited about what this will do for the computer industry. I love what I am seeing and quite simply can’t wait to see more. Below is Jeff Han’s original demonstration of what his new multi touch technology is capable of and make sure to check out the Microsoft site that has some very fun videos demonstrating what they believe Surface will provide for them. And just because I will probably never live this post down, this post is dedicated to Andrew Venegas for first introducing this technology to me. And yes Drew, I wrote it off as a novelty just the first time you showed me and again about four days ago but now I believe in Jeff Han.

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Ever wonder what happens at Google when their developers get bored? Well… I think this video says it all. I present to you, Gmail Theater.

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For those of you already on the Google Analytics bandwagon you will have noticed that there has been an update to the interface. They have added some new features and made some already powerful ones easer to find and use. If you have your own domain and you are interested in keeping track of your sites states give Google Analytics a try its free and super legit. Check out there demo here.

I also have decided to give Google Reader a try. I went ahead and put all the feeds from my fellow bloggers in the reader and added a widget to my Google page. For those of you already using Gmail this Google application looks and works pretty much the same so the jump is easy. I seem to like it and its an easy way to keep track of my friends blogs. Well I am out of time…

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What is all the hubbub about you ask? Well its this…

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The c0 stands for Crime Zero

Yup… to the average viewer just a string of code but to the trained eye a line of hex numbers and with a bit of back ground information on there use they are way more then just numbers. Those simple numbers represent an exploit in the HD DVD DRM (digital rights management, and wow that was a lot of abbreviation’s) thus provide a way to illegally copy HD DVD’s (but only if your using linux). Not that big of a deal when you think about it given the fact that most DRM’s have been cracked in some way and if they aren’t already they will be eventually. What makes this really good is when it get political. (more…)

I had the pleasure earlier today to sit in on a the last in a series of guest speeches at SJSU put on by the Dean’s Speaker Series. This time Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen gave a talk about everything from how Adobe deals with pressure from competitors to its hiring policies. The best part about Bruce’s talk was just that, it was much more of an informal talk then a organized presentation or formal interview. This allowed Bruce to really get comfortable and give a very targeted talk to SJSU students. Among the highlights was a discussion that led to a open comment on his distaste for Microsoft and Stanford. Saying that “Stanford has an attitude that is hard to work with. They don’t need Adobe and we don’t need Stanford.” He also gave what was an almost jealous comment on how Google is making it hard to find good programmers in Silicon Valley because of there Segway’s and free meals, saying “they will have to grow up eventually.” In all it was a great time and I managed to snap a photo at the end. If you are looking for more coverage of today’s even be sure to check out The Soup Box Prophet and Kyle’s Comments as they will likely have a more journalistic approach to todays events.

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I am currently sitting in the Engineering auditorium looking at one of San Jose’s most important business figures, Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe. Today he will be speaking at SJSU as part of the Deans’ speaker series. I will be posting periodically as it happens so stay tuned.

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I know that this isn’t exactly new information but I thought I would talk about it because I find it interesting. So earlier this year Google announced a competition called the Google Summer of Code. The competition is slated to compete college and university students around the world against each other for a chance to get paid $4500 to work on the idea of there choice all summer. Of the 6200 applications 900 students were accepted covering some 300 different projects. For those of you doing the math, Google will be paying $4,050,000 in an effort to help fund student developers this summer. There are a number of projects including most notably Wordpress, the Mozilla Foundation, and a number of Linux distributions. I look forward to seeing what this kind of big name involvement on the small level will bring to the many coding communities Google has now invested in. For a complete list projects selected and the goals they aim to address over the summer check out the Google Summer of Code (SOC).

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