“February was a month of big milestones for us, possibly the most exciting of which was that you guys viewed Tumblr more than a BILLION times. That’s 36 million times a day, 25,000 times a minute, and more than 400 times a second!”
Tumblr CEO and professional adorablogger David Karp, on the amazing discovery that reinventing GeoCities and LiveJournal with a slightly more emo design can pay off, Tumblr Staff Blog, 8 March 2010
“What do news organizations need to do to survive? Will books become extinct? When will an audience pay for content? Can video bring television and the internet together? Will the iPad save us all? Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essential media coverage is scattered across numerous web sites at any given moment.”
Mediagazer editrix Megan McCarthy, on how her Techmeme-powered industry-news site might save journalism by allowing reporters to spend less time tracking their employers’ fortunes and more time actually doing their jobs, Mediagazer News, 8 March 2010
“We were in a pretty deep dark hole for a long time. But now it’s a pretty out-of-body experience.”
Pandora founder Tim Westergren, doing his best to scare away the investment bankers who might be interested in his Internet-music startup, New York Times, 8 March 2010
“We’re helping save the next generation of college grads that would have gone over to Morgan Stanley.”
Harvard MBA and Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon, who takes credit for a deal as readily as any investment banker, on porting Wall Street ethics over to the startup scene, New York Times, 7 March 2010
“Someone is already trying to make a dating site. But they made a mistake haha. They asked me to make it for them. So I’m like delaying it so it won’t be ready until after the Facebook thing comes out.”
An instant message purportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to cofounder Eduardo Saverin in December 2003 on his plans to sabotage a rival social-networking site, Business Insider, 5 March 2010
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