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" 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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" 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

" I think the emotional appeal of a platform is what works. I think the old-media entities still have not figured out that part of the game plan. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Om Malik

Technology

Thought

" Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices. "

" 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

Money

You

" 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. "

Om Malik

Digital

Free

" 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. "

" Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story. "

" 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. "

" Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living! "

" 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. "

" For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race. "

" 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. "

" In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers. "

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

Om Malik

Faults

Music

" 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

Adapt

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

" 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. "

" Photography has always been about capturing light. "

" 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. "

" Uber, like Google, is taking a highly disorganized business - in its case, private transportation such as taxicabs and private limousines - and ordering it neatly. "

" 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. "

" QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality. "

" 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. "

" I know I am not alone in struggling with Facebook and how we experience it through its news feed. "

" Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad. "

Om Malik

Vinyl

Music

" 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. "