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" Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger. "

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" My definition of media? 'Anything which owns attention.' This could be a game or, perhaps, a platform. Ironically, the media tends to associate media with publishing - digital or otherwise - which, in turn, is too narrow a way to consider not only the media but also the reality of the competitive landscape and media-focused innovation. "

" Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems. "

" 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. "

" Living a 24-hour news life has come at a personal cost. I still wake in middle of the night to check the stream to see if something is breaking, worrying whether I missed some news. "

" Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending. "

" 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. "

" For the longest time, computers have been associated with work. Mainframes were for the Army, government agencies, and then large companies. Workstations were for engineers and software programmers. PCs were initially for other white-collar jobs. "

" Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner. "

" Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies. "

" 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. "

" When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb. "

" Augmented reality is the 'boy who cried wolf' of the post-Internet world - it's long been promised but has rarely been delivered in a satisfying way. "

" Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person. "

" There's only one way to succeed: Show up, work hard, and do everything right. Regardless of who you might be or what kind of job you may have. "

" Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements. "

" In the digital realm, companies are free from the friction of producing physical goods, and as a result, we see companies like Google go from zero dollars in revenues to billions at a much faster rate. "

" Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed. "

" Some media companies that rely on advertising revenue are tying journalist compensation to the traffic their story generates. It doesn't work because it de-prioritizes writing. "

" The early entrants into the world of A.R., as with its cousin virtual reality, were disappointing: the phones were too weak, the networks were too slow, and the applications were too nerdy. But now the technological pieces are in place, and a whole generation - much of which is on Snapchat - has come to consider the camera almost a third arm. "

" Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new? "

" Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music. "

" 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. "

" I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil. "

" Sure, Google's and Apple's ecosystems look a little different, but they are meant to do pretty much the same thing. For the two companies, innovation on mobile essentially means catching up to the other's growing list of features. "

" Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. "

" Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched in 2007. Nokia thought that the iPhone used inferior technology; the camera makers thought that it took lousy pictures. Neither thought that they had anything to worry about. "

" Its definition can be a bit murky, but to me, native advertising is a sales pitch that fits right into the flow of the information being shown. It doesn't interrupt - native ads don't pop up or dance across the screen - and its content is actually valuable to the person viewing it. "

" Just as two people can have similar personalities, two companies can have a remarkably similar approach to business. "

" 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. "

" When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people. "