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" I know I am not alone in struggling with Facebook and how we experience it through its news feed. "
Om Malik
I Am
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" Apple continues to make ever-thinner devices with a superlative build and a luxurious feel. What the company has achieved beneath the surface is worth even more praise. "
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Company
" 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. "
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World
Story
" When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people. "
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Movement
Doing
" 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. "
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Job
Kind
Succeed
" 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. "
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Story
Media
Writing
" Everybody has a different interpretation of immigration problems, and it's a highly personal experience. If anyone tells you there is a uniform solution to it, there isn't. As far as I'm concerned, it worked for me. And I don't know how to fix the problem. "
Om Malik
Problems
Know
Problem
" 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
" 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. "
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Living
Life
See
" 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. "
Om Malik
Innovation
Reality
Media
" Pokemon Go, which involves trying to 'catch' Pikachu or Squirtle or other creatures with your smartphone, is an inherently social experience. You need to be walking around - on the streets, in public places - to catch the Pokemon. "
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Walking
Trying
Need
" 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
" Before we had the Internet, we would either call or write to our friends, one at a time, and keep up with their lives. It was a slow process and took a lot of effort and time to learn about each other. "
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Internet
Process
Time
" QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality. "
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Reality
Technology
Kind
" Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales. "
Om Malik
Support
Company
DNA
" 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
" 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. "
Om Malik
Technology
Unique
Need
" 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
" If you're texting a friend about dinner, Google will give you restaurant reviews and directions automatically. "
Om Malik
Restaurant
Google
Friend
" 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
" For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don't put one down, I can't put the next one down. "
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Lego
Next
Down
" Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed. "
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Now
Time
Data
" I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog. "
Om Malik
Shroud
Like
Silence
" I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil. "
Om Malik
Paper
See
Apple
" 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. "
Om Malik
Work
Growth
Connections
" 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. "
Om Malik
Like
Money
You
" The possibilities that come with thinking about the camera as a portal into the realm of information and services are attractive not only to Snap but also to every other big player in the tech world. Facebook, for instance, has slowly been enhancing the visual capabilities of its Messenger. "
Om Malik
Camera
Information
Thinking
" 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
" 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
" Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner. "
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Winner
Competition
Most
" A platform is essentially a business model that thrives because of the participation and value added from third parties with only incremental effort from the owner of the platform. "
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Effort
Business
Value