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Glam Media launching revenue-sharing video platform

CARLSBAD, Calif.--Glam Media is launching a new platform for content distribution, the GlamTV Platform. It will allow the video assets in its woman-focused network of sites to be shared to new destinations, and more importantly, everyone in the value chain of the distribution will collect a piece of the advertising revenue. Videos on the Brightcove platform will also work on GlamTV.

"It's a rights-managed platform end to end," Glam Media CEO Samir Arora told me at the D6 conference here. An example he provided: Let's say the editor of SheFinds, an independent site, saw … Read more

Zuckerberg: The end goal isn't to sell the company or IPO

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his new COO Sheryl Sandberg fielded questions from Kara Swisher at the D6 conference. The pair stayed on message. Zuckerberg has learned to simply state the company goals in answer to almost any question. It shows focus and the savvy of a budding politician. Sandberg brought serious chops to the monetization and marketing discussion.

Kara asked Zuckerberg why he chose to be the CEO, even as the company has grown to 550 people. He sidestepped the question and talked about the company goals--helping people share information, building products, and creating teams.

Zuckerberg offered up that … Read more

Video: Yahoo's Yang on the hot seat

CARLSBAD, Calif.--While all big CEOs are under scrutiny, the attention focused on Jerry Yang has been particularly intense. That intensity was on evidence during Wednesday's appearance at the D:All Things Digital conference here.

Colleague Dan Farber offered his thoughts about how they did, while Webware's Rafe Needleman posted a live blog. But I think the video itself is worth checking out to give a full view of what things look like on that very warm chair.

Here's part one:

And here's part two:

Click here for full coverage of the D: All Things Digital conference.… Read more

Reuters CEO: Microsoft, Yahoo need each other

CARLSBAD, Calif.--Microhoo remained the topic of the day here, with the latest to offer his opinion being Thomson Reuters CEO Thomas Glocer.

"I don't think Jerry needs my advice," he said, but then went on to say, "I think they need each other. I think it makes a lot of sense. One way or another, I'd be surprised if there wasn't some way to make that happen."

That said, he pointed out that the media tends to make things all about one company, in this case Google. But he said, even … Read more

Nathan Myhrvold at D6: Don't call me a patent troll

Nathan Myhrvold was chief technology officer of Microsoft, but since 2000 has been building a portfolio of inventions (patents) at Intellectual Ventures. He's also a talented chef, photographer, and paleontologist. He was interviewed Wednesday at D6 by Walt Mossberg.

Mossberg dived into the controversy around Myhrvold's venture, which has been called an institutionalized "patent troll." Myhrvold says, "We invest in ideas, not the realization of it." He says, "We recruit inventors before they have an invention."

"And then you own it?" Mossberg asks. "Yes, but we pay the inventor.&… Read more

News.com Daily Podcast: The shape of Windows to come

Microsoft's touching OS news; new congressional Internet row over China; live and in color--it's Mars! Listen now: Download today's podcast

CNET News.com's Ina Fried is at The Wall Street Journal's D6 conference in Carlsbad, Calif., this week where she caught Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's sneak peek at the next incarnation of Windows with a multitouch interface--and that's triggered keen interest in the blogosphere.

News.com's Declan McCullagh has the latest on a looming political confrontation over setting rules of the road for Silicon Valley's dealing with restrictive regimes.

Now … Read more

Time Warner CEO gets a grilling at 'D'

Updated at 3:47 p.m. PDT to include questions from audience.

CARLSBAD, Calif.--Yahoo's Jerry Yang and Sue Decker may have gotten a tough time from Walt Mossberg, but perhaps they should consider themselves lucky.

Next up at the D6 conference here was Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes. A humorous video poked plenty of fun at the executive culminating in a discussion of whether D host Kara Swisher would cut off Bewkes' genitalia.

Clearly prepared, Bewkes came onstage covering his crotch.

Probably a good idea. In the first 30 seconds, Swisher fired off questions on everything from The … Read more

Jerry Yang and Sue Decker defend Yahoo's honor

Yahoo's top two executives came out of their serial and secretive negotiations with Microsoft and Google to shed light on the cloudy future of the company. In an interview Wednesday at D6 with Walt Mossberg, CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker did little to shed light on the negotiations or possible outcomes.

Of course, it wasn't expected that the pair would say anything revealing about the negotiations with Microsoft other than the stock answers Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer gave during their D6 interview Tuesday night.

Yang mostly reiterated what has been said in the … Read more

Myhrvold on Microhoo and his new cookbook

CARLSBAD, Calif.--Over lunch, I had the chance to catch up with former Microsoftie Nathan Myhrvold, who's due to speak this afternoon.

We had a throughly interesting discussion on such topics as the global food shortage and his travels to photograph glaciers and penguins as well as his forthcoming high-tech cookbook (more in a minute on that). With the grudging indulgence of the others at the table, I ham-handedly shifted the table's conversation over to Microhoo.

Myrhrvold said that he can see both the potential and potential pitfalls of a deal.

"I think it would be a … Read more