“Long.”
Automattic CEO and Meebo investor Toni Schneider, recommending the Web-IM service without disclosing his conflict of interest, Wallstrip, 3 August 2007
Author: owenthomas
NO LAUGHING-GAS MATTER
“We are reaching for the stars, and it is not easy. Accidents happen. Good people die. And we move on.”
Space Frontier Foundation cofounder Rick Tumlinson, on a nitrous-oxide accident that killed three at Scaled Composites’ facility at the Mojave airport, Wired.com, 2 August 2007
HEY, MR. DJ, PLUG YOUR IPOD IN, I WANT TO DANCE WITH MY BABY
“One thing I learned from open source is the power of the Internet. You can see it changing far more than just software. Even the DJ industry is being dramatically changed through the Internet.”
JBoss founder Marc Fleury, on how the Internet is making every aspect of life a bit more boring, CNET Blogs, 1 August 2007
CONFIRM THIS UPGRADE? SKIP THIS STEP
“This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today…. The result [of the bug] was that an isolated group of users could see some pages that were not intended for them.”
Facebook spokesprofile Brandee Barker, explaining why what her company’s website described as an “upgrade” was in fact, debugging an error that allowed people to see users’ private data, The New York Times, 31 July 2007
I’M FEELING UBIQUITOUS
“Right now, the Internet is not available in too many places.”
Chris Sacca, Google’s head of special initiatives, on why he’s occupying space at the Googleplex pursuing harebrained wireless schemes, News.com, 30 July 2007
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