“Facebook used to be who your friends are, now it’s everyone.”
Cryptokleptomaniac Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, explaining why his friend-finding service won’t be crushed by Facebook, Business Insider, 10 March 2010
Month: March 2010
A DUAL TO THE DEATH
“Dual revenue streams got lost in the early days of the Internet.”
News Corp. digital media pooh-bah Jonathan Miller, previously best known for managing dual advertising and subscription revenue streams at AOL, on setting up walled gardens for old media to convalesce in, PaidContent, 10 March 2010
GOOD ARTISTS COPY, LOUSY ARTISTS WHINE
“Here’s something I could never say as Sun’s CEO. I prefer SmugMug.”
Ponytailed funemployment expert and former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, on holding a grudge over a $100 million patent settlement with Kodak, What I Couldn’t Say, 9 March 2010
INFORMATION WANTS TO BE CHEAPER
“Newspapers could save a lot of money if the primary access to news was via the Internet.”
Google chief economist Hal Varian, on how print media can shrink itself into some kind of dystopic media future, TechCrunch, 9 March 2010
WITH FURROWED BROWSERS
“It is a battle not just of mind but of heart as well. We are wanting to make an emotional connection – we are ploughing a different furrow here.”
Unbearably British Microsoft executive Ashley Highfield, on his company’s plans to lose even more money with a marketing campaign for its Bing search engine, Guardian.co.uk, 8 March 2010
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