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" 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. "
Om Malik
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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See
" 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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" When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps - native apps and HTML5 web-based apps. "
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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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" 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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Original
" 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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Birthday
Civilization
" Ideally, Facebook would take all our clicks and information and would magically give us everything we want, without us even knowing we want it. "
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Knowing
Information
" It is becoming harder for us to stay on top of the onslaught - e-mails, messages, appointments, alerts. Augmented intelligence offers the possibility of winnowing an increasing number of inputs and options in a way that humans can't manage without a helping hand. "
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Us
Top
" 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. "
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Face
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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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Army
Work
" 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. "
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End
Human
" Just as two people can have similar personalities, two companies can have a remarkably similar approach to business. "
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Two
People
" Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales. "
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DNA
" Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success. "
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More
Society
Success
" 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
" 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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" 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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Next
Down
" I know I am not alone in struggling with Facebook and how we experience it through its news feed. "
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" 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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Facebook
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" 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. "
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" Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted. "
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" Uber, like Google, is taking a highly disorganized business - in its case, private transportation such as taxicabs and private limousines - and ordering it neatly. "
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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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" 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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" Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living! "
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