I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - the Internet has been built on two cornerstones: sex and hate. You’ll have griefers anywhere there’s a group of people, and if there’s anywhere that creativity’s encouraged, folks will use that creativity to come up with new ways to talk about, view, or engage in virtual sex.
Mashable on Sex
10 July 2008
9 July 2008
But the idea of a physical place that we “must be” doesn’t have the same impact anymore. Right now, I can engage in a debate with friends in Australia, China, Japan, India, Israel, Italy, France, England, NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago at the same time. Or we can post our thoughts to each other (and the world) over the course of a day, a week, or a month, and share our passions with each other and learn from each other. Our Cafe de Flore is Techmeme or Tech Newsjunk or Twitter or FriendFeed or Tumblr or Flickr or something else.
A VC on the Internet
3 July 2008
The Internet today, is a lot like mail delivery in the 1800’s. Surprisingly, web services don’t have “flags”. Rather, applications are forced to “ping” Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, etc. every few minutes and ask “have any of our users done anything new?” These applications are literally checking to see if each virtual mailbox is empty/full every couple of minutes.
Redeye VC on Internet Applications
1 July 2008
The concern, in short, is that the Internet will kill the goose that lays the golden egg. But this is unlikely. If online viewers want the level of news and opinion that print reporters generate, the Internet news services will hire reporters, defraying the cost out of their online advertising revenues, which will be greater for an Internet news service that attracts additional viewers by offering them richer, newspaper-type fare. Indeed, long after newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post have ceased print publication, their Web sites may be among the leading Internet news services.
Richard Posner on Newspapers
20 June 2008
There are days when the phrase “professional Internet surfer” sums up my job description nicely. And while I did, in fact go to an accredited university, I can’t help but think that if I had pursued a degree that was closer to that description, rather than spending countless hours in creative writing and literature courses, perhaps I’d be bringing in a touch more money at the end of the day.
AppScout on Internet Surfing
16 May 2008
The Internet/Web/Search engines have flattened information flow – it’s now very unlikely that a meaningful problem remains hidden from sight for any significant time. Even a “stealth” mode company doesn’t get much of a break – after all, while what they are doing remains hidden, the problems they are going after are in plain sight!
Soaring on Ridgelift on Problems
13 May 2008
For all the reach the Internet is supposed to deliver, when local issues are at stake, the old techniques, it seems, are still the most effective…I’ve raised more awareness with a bumper sticker than with a blog.
Chris Shipley on Internet Reach
26 April 2008
This is a truth of the Internet: When traffic comes to your site without focused intent, it bounces.
Seth Godin on Traffic
17 April 2008
What this means - especially in this climate - is that at least $1B of what’s spent on online advertising is completely wasted and is unsustainable. Advertisers are going to eventually wake up and recognize that unless it’s a highly visible placement, banners get you largely nowhere.
Micro Persuasion on Advertising
14 April 2008
It’s crazy how much we owe to the people who buy the stuff they see on internet ads. I literally cannot imagine seeing a big flashing sign for “Increase You’re Companies Marketing Skills By A Hundred %% $$$$” and thinking “hmm, sounds like a good business proposition”. Nor can I imagine anyone I know making that click. And yet a good chunk of people apparently do, and we have that select group of internet patrons to thank for Google and Youtube.
Dr. Zeuss on Internet Ads