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Apr
13
Quote to remember
Filed Under Open source/IP/DRM, New models, Film, Quotes, Trends, Web/Tech, Media | Leave a Comment
It’s not about the money, it’s about ALL the money.
- description of the entertainment business in Wired article Myka: One Set-Top Box to Rule Them All?
Mar
20
Quote to remember
Filed Under New models, Communication, Social web, Business, Quotes | 2 Comments
Why does listening to your customers sound like a web 2.0 idea? It should be a business 1.0 necessity.
- Jeff Jarvis in Starbucks listens - at last
Feb
16
Quote to remember
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The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It’s what makes the Internet such an exciting place.
- Yahoo! and the future of the internet, The official Google blog. via Doc
Jan
21
Quote to remember
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Becoming a blog-friendly company by chattering on blogs is like becoming a cat person by clawing your own couch and crapping in a litter box. You have to give the bloggers something to chat about.
Don Marti in comment on Today’s re-reading assignment
via Doc
Dec
17
Quote to remember
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
- Gall’s Law via Tim Bray
Nov
28
Quote to remember
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UI is cute and all, but if the product doesn’t deliver, then what you’ve got left is Web 2.0.
- uncov in Songza: Beats The Shit Out Of Payin’
Nov
19
Quote to remember
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…we too easily default to framing our understanding of advertising in its own terms. We regard advertising as an independent variable: something ya gotta have. But in fact advertising is a dependent variable. The independent variable is the individual human being. As Chris Locke put it so perfectly nine years ago, we are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers. we are human beings and our reach exceeds your grasp. deal with it.
What we need is to equip demand with better ways of engaging supply. Not just better ways for supply to create and manipulate demand.
- Doc Searls in Facebook doesn’t need to be Adbook
Nov
14
Quote to remember
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The past year for Web 2.0 has been a marvelous ride. But the better news is that the next few years are going to be even better. Strip away the trivial and you’ll see that the concepts of the Social Web are fundamentally changing the way people work and play together. Pull back the face of Web 2.0 and you’ll see a new paradigm for computing: a highly distributed information architecture that distributes not just data, but also the power and authority to leverage it. It’s a highly distributed information architecture that requires substantial innovation in infrastructure, technology, security, and services to support it.
The legacy of Web 2.0 is the technologies, concepts, and ideology that defined and built the social Web. These live on as the foundation of the next great shift in computing.
But please, let’s not call it Web 3.0.
- Chris Shipley in Counting down to 2008: 8 Trends for next year
Oct
26
Quote to remember
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“I have a theory that ‘user generated content’ is a last-gasp of the regal outlook of silicon valley, where we’re all chumps or slaves.” (Before UGC we were just supposed to be eyeballs, consuming their shovelware, buying stuff we see in ads. They had to adjust their thinking when it became apparent that we were also interested in creating, though we’re positioned as generators not creators.)
- Dave Winer, The regal Silicon Valley
The rest of the post is equally worth noting! Or what the hell, here’s another important bit from Dave’s post:
“If you’re scared to hear what people really think you’re not prepared for the world you live in.” (I finally figured this one out. The reason so many people in SV say I can’t be trusted (it’s observable) is because I’m equally likely to say your product sucks as I am to say it’s great. This is a culture raised on Gee Whiz editorial coverage, the adulation of MSM. When blogs came along they had to hear that not everyone thinks they’re so wonderful all the time. Who would you hate most but the guy who pushed the tools that made everyone with an opinion so audible. And would you expect such a person to keep his opinion to himself? Heh.)
Oct
23
Quote to remember
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“Innovation happens elsewhere”… there are always more smart people outside a company than inside it. So the question is how to somehow harness the innovation that these other people are creating. Open source turns out to be an excellent way to do so.
- Bill Joy mentioned by Ron Goldman in Part Two of a Conversation With Sun Microsystems Laboratories’
Oct
8
The Net’s killer app
Filed Under Social web, Quotes, Web/Tech | 1 Comment
One of the best explanations of the internet ever:
Here’s the thing: the Net’s killer app has always been other people. There are side benefits, like access to all the world’s information. But the links that matter aren’t between pages but people, and they’re strong and rich and subtle. Multiply the infinite flavors in human relationships by a thickening bundle of means-to-connect; that product is what’s new and what’s good and what’s exciting. People who are looking for the Next Big Thing are mostly looking in the wrong places. And anyway, you don’t need to look, it’ll find you.
Read the whole thing. I agree with Tim Bray about Facebook.
What about Facebook? I don’t know; clearly, it’s just the thing for getting your college dorm or high-tech mixer set up. But for me, the value is in promoting intimacy, seeing what my friends are doing. And Twitter hits that 80/20 point, bringing me that news without all the Facebook bullshit and lame groups and dorky apps and stupid ads and data lock-in. So recently I don’t Facebook much.
And Techmeme…
I dunno, I go there and see the same stories about the RIAA and Paul Graham’s latest essay and what Apple might be doing, the same stories that are on Slashdot and Ars Technica and boring old ZDnet too. Plus a smattering of whatever Scoble & Winer & Arrington & Calcanis and their posses are up to. Plus all these vendors trying to convince everyone that they need “Rich” Internet Applications. (I think rich interaction is about people not animated vector graphics, but what do I know?) There’s nothing wrong with it. But also nothing I’m not getting already.
The real thing happens elsewhere. If what Techmeme and TechCrunch covers is the real thing for you, then you are part of the happenings and know what’s going on already. If you are not, then you have your own network and a sphere of influence, which is the real thing for you. The more you get involved in a project or network of your own, the less time you have to stay on top of the ever-growing stream of information. It is marvellous and you need it, of course, but it is not the beginning and end of all. Especially given that…
…when the next big thing comes along (and I love this business, because I know it will) you won’t have to rely on the professional noticers to tell you because it’ll touch your life directly.
Amen to that.
Oct
7
Quote to remember
Filed Under Quotes, Media | 2 Comments
The main reason I’m posting this is to pass along what the kid said after we did a scan from one end of the “dial” to the other.
“There’s nothing on”, he said. And walked away.
What would “something” be?
“Oh, you know. Like on YouTube”.
- Doc on his experience with TV
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