Rovner, who at one point cheekily identified himself as the “12th largest MSO,” said that the key contrast between cable companies and these new video device purveyors is the ability to benefit from social media. “Social media will be bigger than search, because it will impact discovery. That’s what we’re all doing. When people watch videos, it’s mostly from Facebook and Twitter, and that will be the same for how people find premium content.
— Digital Home: Boxee’s Ronen: People Don’t Want To ‘Surf’ Their TVs | paidContent
I don’t know what the hell is going on. Neither do you, and neither does any one else, really. We’re all lost and making things up as we go. We are making things before we know what they do and breaking stuff before we know what replaces it. We’re all just here tinkering, speculating and listening to see if our shovels hit something hard while we’re digging. I suppose that’s what world- building is, though, so let’s get used to it. We need to learn to tolerate ambiguity.
— Frank Chimero
What makes Steve’s methodology different from everyone else’s is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do – but the things that you decide not to do. He’s a minimalist.
— John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac
Past studies have showed various types of berries may possess cancer-fighting effects. Now new research, presented yesterday at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, shows eating blueberries, strawberries and acai berries might be able to slow the brain’s natural aging process.
— Scope - medical blog - Stanford University School of Medicine
the future of technology is designing intelligent filters for search engines — Google on steroids. So that no matter how many things are out there in the world you can look at them through a filter that only shows you the four or five you ought to care about. So it’s as if there only are four or five. The other ones will just be invisible. They’ve already done the job of making every imaginable piece of information accessible. Now the trick is to help you manage all of that information, including hiding a lot of it.
— An Interview on ‘The Paradox of Choice’ with Barry Schwartz - Open Spaces Magazine
Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall.
There is no need to do a search,” McCue says. “We almost view it as a bug if we have the user search for something.
— Google: The search party is over - Fortune Tech
Years from inception to $1 billion in revenue
O’Brien said the biggest thing that held him back from both writing and performing was a fear of being criticized because he’s incredibly sensitive. He punched a big hole in one of the biggest clichés in fame—that you just have to develop a thick skin. He says he’s still just as sensitive and criticism still hurts just as much. The secret is to just keep going anyway, because you will get criticized no matter how brilliant you are.
— Conan O’Brien’s Love/Hate Relationship with the Internet
The largest of these companies is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn. The company has grown at an astounding rate, first in Taiwan and later in China. Its revenue last year was $62 billion, larger than Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc. or Intel. Foxconn employs more than 800,000 people, more than the combined worldwide head count of Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel and Sony Corp.
— How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late: Andy Grove - Bloomberg
June 14, 2010 at 11:53am
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Not every new site is a hit. One called Pandaganda, which collected images of pandas looking comically evil and sinister, fizzled after a few weeks, so Mr. Huh pulled the plug. “We kill about 20 percent of all the sites we start,” he said. The idea of quickly tailoring a blog network to satisfy the fickle tastes of a Web-savvy audience, generating new sites to capitalize on a viral sensation and dropping the ones that don’t catch on, is what convinced Geoff Entress, a noted angel investor in the Seattle area, to help Mr. Huh purchase the original company. “Being flexible and able to change as the environment changes is a huge asset to a consumer Web site,” said Mr. Entress, who has backed more than 35 local start-ups, including an online community for booklovers called Shelfari that was eventually bought by Amazon.
— I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire - NYTimes.com
May 15, 2010 at 12:19pm
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Thanks to the liberating forces of globalisation and Googlisation, innovation is no longer the preserve of technocratic elites in ivory towers. It is increasingly an open, networked and democratic endeavour.
— Innovation in history: Getting better all the time | The Economist
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