“We are the first and only company to focus 100 percent on spam.”
Sunil Paul, CEO of spam prevention startup Bright Light Technologies, sounding curiously like renowned spammer Sanford Wallace of the now-defunct Cyber Promotions junk email factory, Internet World, 27 July 1998
“It bothers me to run into someone who’s unempowered or avoiding me because they’re punching the time clock.”
Mike Homer, executive vice president and general micromanager of Netscape’s Web site division, on empowering the little people, The Industry Standard, 27 July 1998
“For us, the peaks are when there is sexy technology news.”
Jai Singh, editor-in-chief of CNET’s News.com, on the tech news site’s intimate relationship with its readers, The New York Times, 27 July 1998
“In the new world of the Internet, it matters less if you are large or small…. If you have a good idea, you can reach an audience of millions.”
Former Microsoft executive and CEO of RealNetworks Rob Glaser, testifying before Congress on his erstwhile employer’s moves to quash innovation in streaming media, News.com, 23 July 1998
“In the attention economy, there are two philosophies: You can either act as a colonial power who treats the users’ time as an exploitable resource that should be strip mined, or you can treat it as the ultimate … resource … to be conserved.”
Usability consultant Jakob Nielsen, railing against the evils of portals (probably because he’s mad he didn’t come up with the idea first), Wired News, 23 July 1998
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