Month: July 1999

“To be clear — and this is no dig to Silicon Alley — the Digital Coast will be as big, or bigger, than the Alley within the next 24 months.”

Jason “Hollywood” Calacanis, damning his new hometown with faint praise (while neglecting to mention that both his media markets take a back seat to Silicon Valley), Digital Coast Weekly, 7 July 1999

“This openness issue is something we must improve. We want to start a dialog on that.”

Leonardo Chiariglione, executive director of the Secure Digital Music Initiative, defending the music industry’s decision to develop tech specs for an MP3 killer behind closed doors, Wired News, 8 July 1999

“I hate to think about Replay and Tivo. We kind of like the world the way it is now.”

MTV executive Tom Freston, describing the forward-looking technology strategy that will guide his company’s reaction to digital television recorders that can zap out ads instantly, The New York Times, 5 July 1999

“Windows is the past. In the future, AOL is the next Microsoft.”

America Online CEO Steve Case, on why he’s planning to stay very close friends with Joel Klein in the coming years, The New York Times, 4 July 1999

“The world is changing very fast…. Big will not beat small any more. It will be the fast beating the slow.”

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, who’s been getting remarkably jiggy with the Internet and other hipster accoutrements since wedding a former TV personality half his age, The Guardian, 2 July 1999