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" By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data. "
Om Malik
Adapt
Data
Know
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" There are days when I look at my news feed, and it seems like a social fabric of fun - a video of the first steps of my friends' baby! My nephew's prom date! On other days, it feels like a NASCAR vehicle, plastered with news stories, promoted posts, lame Live videos, and random content. "
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Friends
Baby
Random
" The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant. "
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Connection
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" As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report and write every day.' That was my thing. "
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Newspaper
Every Day
Day
" People pay little attention to banner ads - in fact, everyone dislikes them - and that leads to infinitesimally small click-through rates that make marketers unhappy. "
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Fact
Attention
Unhappy
" Looking back, Google's success came from the fortuitous timing of being born at the cusp of the broadband age. But it also came about because of the new reality of the Internet: a lot of services were going to be algorithmic, and owning your own infrastructure would be a key advantage. "
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Success
Age
Key
" Unlike Facebook or Instagram, Twitter's core experience isn't about photos. It's a world of text, with occasional embedded photos, animated gifs, and short video clips. "
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Experience
Facebook
World
" I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog. "
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Shroud
Like
Silence
" If you're texting a friend about dinner, Google will give you restaurant reviews and directions automatically. "
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Restaurant
Google
Friend
" In the touch-based mobile device era, folks need to think of ways to have a single technology stack married to the ability to create unique experiences for different devices. "
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Technology
Unique
Need
" The funny thing is that I used to be a blogger, but it wasn't known as 'blogging' at that time. This was in the '99/2000 time frame. "
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Frame
Time
Funny
" Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new? "
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Past
Trying
Why
" Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes. "
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People
Birthday
Civilization
" I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about. "
Om Malik
Information
Me
Role Model
" From analog film cameras to digital cameras to iPhone cameras, it has become progressively easier to take and store photographs. Today, we don't even think twice about snapping a shot. "
Om Malik
Digital
iPhone
Think
" Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It's built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream. "
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System
Twitter
Stream
" Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner. "
Om Malik
Winner
Competition
Most
" If you look at something like Spotify, many record labels are investors in the company. So from that standpoint, the money is all going back into the labels. "
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Like
Money
You
" In 1947, Porsche began work on its 356. In many ways, it was like the original iPhone. It wasn't perfect. It was underpowered. But it was streamlined and aerodynamic. "
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iPhone
Like
Original
" Photography has always been about capturing light. "
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About
Photography
Always
" While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that. "
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Work
Growth
Connections
" Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad. "
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Like
Vinyl
Music
" Facebook needs to maintain its vise-like grip on our attention to become a conduit of not only advertising but also commerce, so that it can take a cut of everything. "
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Everything
Advertising
Attention
" On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors. "
Om Malik
Media
More
Adapt
" QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality. "
Om Malik
Reality
Technology
Kind
" I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library. "
Om Malik
Ethics
Life
My Life
" Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online. "
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Find
Easy
Age
" Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger. "
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Facebook
Apple
Building
" Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software. "
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Always
Apple
Will
" Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems. "
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Problems
Focus
Science
" The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business. "
Om Malik
View
Simple
Media