Month: May 2010

NO COMPARISON

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“We’ve been compared a lot to Google over the past year and we think we’re really different than Google and Google has a great spot in consumer’s minds and so does Yahoo, and so we were trying to make sure that people understood that we know we’re really different and we think we’re really different and the comparison is a juxtaposition. It doesn’t really make a lot of sense.”

Yahoo chief marketing officer Elisa Steele, summing up her company’s advertising strategy in a single sentence, PaidContent.org, 7 May 2010 via usb geeks

HOOKED ON THE WEB

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“I like to think that we have the capability to fish with worms when necessary, but in general, we’re farmers, not fishermen, and strawberries go over just fine.”

O’Reilly Media pundit-in-chief Tim O’Reilly, freely mixing metaphors on his way to Web 4.0, Inc., May 2010

WHO KNEW RUPERT MURDOCH WAS A PROGRESSIVE?

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“Clearly, MySpace is a work in progress.”

News Corp. COO Chase Carey, explaining poor results at his company’s Internet division, PaidContent.org, 4 May 2010

GENERALLY, THEY’RE BEATING US, AND SPECIFICALLY, THEY’RE BEATING US

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“I think both in general and in the specific, Apple’s done a great job.”

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, grudgingly conceding that Apple might be succeeding in more than just digital music, Fox Business News via TechFlash, 3 May 2010