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" Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It's built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream. "

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" Ideally, Facebook would take all our clicks and information and would magically give us everything we want, without us even knowing we want it. "

Om Malik

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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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century. "

" The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times. "

" I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I'm on a declining scale of wanting things. "

" Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online. "

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

" 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. "

Om Malik

Advertising

Dance

" Facebook needs to maintain its vise-like grip on our attention to become a conduit of not only advertising but also commerce, so that it can take a cut of everything. "

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

Om Malik

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Music

" 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. "

" Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales. "

" 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. "

" In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down. "

" 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. "

" As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day. "

" 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. "

" A lot of what people are calling 'artificial intelligence' is really data analytics - in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking 'What is A.I., really?,' don't worry, you're not alone. "

" For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don't put one down, I can't put the next one down. "

Om Malik

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Down

" 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. "

" 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

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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. "

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