“The top-level goal for most people is to convince others they are the individuals they want to be, whether that includes being happy, attractive, smart, fun or anything else.”
Mark Hendrickson on social networks | The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast
The Gmail Logo Was Designed the Night Before Gmail Launched
“I had never noticed before how the G of Gmail was such a different style than the rest of the logo, but now that I’ve focused on it, that G is always going to stick out, the serif-laden man among his serif-less friends.”
“If Amazon is able to get studios and content producers on board with a standalone streaming service, it could spell trouble for Netflix. Amazon may have started out as a humble online bookseller, but it has become one of the most powerful purveyors of digital content.”
Who’s Using Pinterest? Yup, It’s Mostly Ladies
Or, as Gizmodo calls it: “Tumblr for ladies”
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“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I’ve taken the red pill, and I’ve seen Wonderland.”
“The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and YouTube is generational. It’s people who grew up on the Web versus people who still don’t use it. In Washington, they simply don’t see the way that the Web has completely reconfigured society across classes, education and race. The Internet isn’t real to them yet.”
Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter | The Danger of an Attack on Piracy Online - NYTimes.com
“An economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country… we should support everyone who’s willing to work; and every risk-taker and entrepreneur who aspires to become the next Steve Jobs.”
“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.”
“The problem with Twitter in Germany is that just one word will eat up most of your 140 characters.”
From the comments | DLD 2012 – @Jack Dorsey: “Twitter Has A Business Model That Works” | TechCrunch
“Facebook’s Smart Lists and Google+ Circles have popularized the idea that we need the ability to share different things with different audiences. That lets us have fun with some people and be boring with others without having to maintain two profiles. But neither of those networks offer much control for the person on the receiving end…. Pinterest Is the reverse of Circles.”
“The idea of challenging the status quo isn’t marketable enough, so we continue to cater to the middle of the road.”
“The shocking lack of interest in doing things that are truly innovative is a direct byproduct of an educational system that’s aiming toward passable standardized test scores instead of something much greater.”
