I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.
From Mike McCue
I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links.
What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.
Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.
Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website.
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web.
Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.
Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.
Let's leverage the power of the Web - don't get rid of it, but make the Web beautiful again. We need to give the content room to breathe and give magazine-style advertisements the opportunity to flourish.
9 perspectives
7 perspectives
4 perspectives
1 perspectives