Digerati say the cutest things.
“Dual revenue streams got lost in the early days of the Internet.”
News Corp. digital media pooh-bah Jonathan Miller, previously best known for managing dual advertising and subscription revenue streams at AOL, on setting up walled gardens for old media to convalesce in, PaidContent, 10 March 2010
“Here’s something I could never say as Sun’s CEO. I prefer SmugMug.”
Ponytailed funemployment expert and former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, on holding a grudge over a $100 million patent settlement with Kodak, What I Couldn’t Say, 9 March 2010
“Newspapers could save a lot of money if the primary access to news was via the Internet.”
Google chief economist Hal Varian, on how print media can shrink itself into some kind of dystopic media future, TechCrunch, 9 March 2010
“It is a battle not just of mind but of heart as well. We are wanting to make an emotional connection – we are ploughing a different furrow here.”
Unbearably British Microsoft executive Ashley Highfield, on his company’s plans to lose even more money with a marketing campaign for its Bing search engine, Guardian.co.uk, 8 March 2010
“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
