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" 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. "
Om Malik
Story
Media
Writing
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger. "
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" Whether it is through stock-market trading or the sale of hotel rooms, the Internet has a way of bringing deflationary forces to all businesses that were hitherto inefficient and involved many middlemen. "
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" Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending. "
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" 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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" We are splintering what was the 'camera' and its functionality - lens, sensors, and processing - into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and shutters, software and algorithms are becoming the driving force. "
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" Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone - from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you. "
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" 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. "
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" Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living! "
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" Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things. "
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" 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. "
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" Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music. "
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" There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?' "
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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. "
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" 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 is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices. "
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