Quick post between meetings. Here’s a link to the gizmodo interview with Bill Gates…
In our third interview segment, we asked Bill what’s on his mind when he wakes up in the morning, and what he’s still worried about when he goes to bed at night. At first his answer was businesslike, about Microsoft’s goals. But then it took a turn for the personal. Yes, Gizmodo readers, Bill Gates is human!
Missed one of the last five episodes (or all five) of your favourite TV show? Perhaps you’re hanging out at CES looking at the differences between Blu-Ray and HD DVD, and you didn’t get back to your hotel on the strip to catch a live broadcast.
Well, Hulu.com is offering private beta invitations on a first-come first-serve basis to stream programmes to customers in the States.
As Errol Pierre-Louis of PC Magazine says…
“Although I’ve been TV-less for a while now, thanks to networks like NBC and ABC putting content online I can keep up with my favorite TV shows on my laptop. But why wade through a network’s Web site to find episodes you want to see when you can have those shows and others from a variety of networks available for viewing on one easily navigated Web site? Hulu.com, an online video service, brings you a wide variety of full-length episodes, popular video clips, and even a few full-length movies you can watch right from your browser—for free.”
Click here to sign up. As of this morning, there are 1,048 invites remaining.
You can also sign up on the Hulu home page where you will be placed on Hulu’s private beta waiting list.
CNET’s CES 2008 coverage in Las Vegas has an article covering today’s keynote. 
In it, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that in the future, the Internet will provide more than you get today, providing “the information you want, when you want it, how you want, wherever you are.”
“To illustrate this transformation [of using the Internet], Otellini preceded his speech by a video take-off of Video Killed the Radio Star. In Intel’s version, the Internet is hailed as killing off compact discs, film cameras, and numerous other technologies.
“However, such change will not happen unless four obstacles are overcome, Otellini cautioned. Silicon needs to become more powerful and energy efficient; broadband access needs to be ubiquitous; the Internet needs to be infused with a sense of context; and user interfaces need to be more natural. He exhorted the audience members to take on the challenge of overcoming those hurdles.”
Otellini also had a demo of the new Canmore chip, a SOC: that is, complete system on a chip, due out in late 2008, as noted at the Intel Developer Conference last fall, noted here on engadget.
In SOCs you see a marrying of the power and performance of a computer processor coupled with improved multimedia processing power. Targeted for use in consumer electronics such as personal media players, set-top boxes, televisions, the difference is that Canmore can support that it’s stronger/ better/ faster: it supports integrated 3D graphics with full 1080p video output video, and integrated 7.1 surround sound.
Tags: intel, CES 2008, CES, Paul Otellini.
A quick note: Thanks to Toby for sending over a link to this video clip from BillG’s keynote last night, with a look to the future: his last day at the office. (Friends on my concall right now should enjoy this one. 😉
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/#22538447
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates presents a self-deprecating farewell video during his keynote address at the CES 2008 in Las Vegas.
Bill Gates shows off 15 new ‘fashion computers’ with everything to custom cases and colours to one from Medion with enough bling worthy of any A-lister in tinsel town.
Of interest is the uniquely designed (totally tubular) 
Moneual Lab I*magine Ultimate media center PC. I recall seeing people play with such designs in the past in design competitions, but this is one of the first that smacks of an overgrown Roku device with the kind of screen worthy of a compact all-in-one for the living room or den.
Joining the new all-in-one models from Dell, HP and Gateway is the new Sony LT all-in-one with a 22″ widescreen, built-in video conferencing camera running a powerful Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 processor. This is an elegant looking PC with specs to match, and an integrated HD tuner that will also get the various digital channels that our local digital offerings.
Also see MSN’s list of 30 cool gadgets at CES