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

March 12, 2013

“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

March 11, 2013

“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

October 23, 2012

“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

July 26, 2012

“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

July 11, 2012

“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


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