Ditherati: See the Digerati Dither, Daily

TECHNOLOGY THING … YOU MAKE MY HEART SING

owenthomas — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:17:00 +0000

“Could you have a makeup artist and a fashion person and a thing that’s taking care of the technology to create opportunity for clients in a different way?”

Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel, exhibiting a very vague embrace of Silicon Valley creatures in his digital strategy, Fast Company, 18 March 2013

THE FIRST STEP IS ADMITTING YOU HAVE A PROBLEM

owenthomas — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:48:08 +0000

“The challenges are substantial, but the opportunity to make Google more collaborative and relevant to users wherever they are is enormous.”

The developers behind Google’s social network, openly admitting they have a problem with relevance, Google+ Developers, 20 March 2013

INBOX ZERO-ZERO-ZERO-ZERO-ZERO-ZERO-ZERO-ZERO

owenthomas — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:10:23 +0000

“We’re thrilled with the outcome, we’re thrilled for the team.”

Mailbox investor Saar Gur, on selling the email-app startup to Dropbox at a rumored price tag of $100 million, The Next Web, 15 March 2013

WE’RE HIRING FOR GOOGLE’S MINISTRY OF LOVE

owenthomas — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:54:07 +0000

“We’re getting closer to a world where technology takes care of the hard work—discovery, organization, communication—so that you can get on with what makes you happiest … living and loving.”

Google CEO Larry Page, on how he fired Andy Rubin as Android boss in the name of love, The Official Google Blog, 13 March 2013

MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE SPLURGED ON THE UPGRADE

owenthomas — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:31:09 +0000

“It’s like flying a plane, and you’re trying to find the right altitude and you’re doing it with a four-year-old company and four-year-old processes and four-year-old systems.”

Groupon co-CEO Eric Lefkofsky, offering a not-so-reassuring mix of metaphors for how he’s steering the daily-deals company, Fast Company, 13 March 2013

GOT MY MIND ON MY MONETIZATION AND MY MONETIZATION ON MY MIND

owenthomas — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:06:18 +0000

“They put so much monetization around grabbing people’s attention with sensationalist headlines and juicy tweets.”

Microsoft social-media researcher Danah Boyd, on the problem of journalists cyberbullying their audience into reading stories about cyberbullying, Poynter, 12 March 2013

THE GAME IS AFOOT IN MOUTH

owenthomas — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:33:48 +0000

“Zynga is often accused of copying games, which is mostly true.”

Zynga New York general manager and former OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter, on selling his Pictionary clone to the world’s foremost maker of Poker and Scrabble clones, Quartz, 8 March 2013

WE LOVE YOU, NOW PLEASE GO AWAY

owenthomas — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:24:01 +0000

“The startup and venture capital space is of major interest to all the creative industries that are at the core of the SXSW family of events.”

SXSW managing director Roland Swenson, on exiling the blue-shirts-and-khakis crowd to a spinoff event in Las Vegas, SXSW.com, 23 October 2012

TOO CUTE FOR CHARACTERS

owenthomas — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:37:19 +0000

“We call them VIT’s internally, Very Important Tweeters. It’s cute; we’re all about being adorable and cute.”

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, on how the company coddles celebrities who post messages on the information network, Bits, 25 July 2012

FAME IS TWEETING

owenthomas — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:38:00 +0000

“So when Gabriel joined the company, it was like ‘Your job: no dying birds on national magazine covers. See if you can clear that low bar.’”

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, on the easy job he’s handed new PR chief Gabriel Stricker, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2012