Hill+Knowlton Strategies

Web 2 Summit kicked off with heavyweight Eric Schmidt of Google. He jumped on the trending topic list in SF, proving my theory that tweets make the best sound bites. Here’s some that caught my eye.

That’s cool! Eric Schmidt on the Web 2.0 event shows next version of Android with pay ability. The phone will be a credit card.

Eric Schmidt: Chrome OS better for keyboard, Android better for touch based devices, all open

Schmidt at #w2s: “The way to get more revenue is to create new revenue sources.”

Battelle doing his usual hard-nosed interviewing job. Schmidt is dancing better than Bristol Palin.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt @ Web 2 Summit: “Forget search. Oh wait, we’re in the search business. I really shouldn’t say that.”

In the Twitter era: Lots of “that’s your personal view, pls don’t quote me” and “this is a joke, pls label it as such” from Schmidt.

Display will be the next big Google enterprise says Eric Schmidt

Television is a very big business for us (Google) — Eric Schmidt

Google CEO Eric Schmidt @ Web 2 Summit: “Clearly a line we should not cross – face recognition and no real time tracking.

Schmidt: idea that Google is losing talent massively is “poor writing” by journalists (live blog)

“we hire a couple hundred people a week” @ericschmidt at #w2s [doing its part to raise employment #s]

Google’s Schmidt: There are 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. Calls it “amazing and disturbing”

Google’s Schmidt dances around whether he’s developing a social network. Come onnnnn, Eric. Just spill.

Eric Schmidt says Gingerbread will be released in the next few weeks. C’mon people “gingerbread” didn’t give it away? #w2s #android

Worth checking some good media coverage as well.