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"As the industry debates when YouTube will become profitable, one thing needs to be kept in perspective. Without YouTube being sold to Google, it would be out of business. The only reason YouTube is even around in the market to have the chance to turn a profit is because Google has deep pockets and is willing to lose a lot of money on a long-term bet. But YouTube is not the one making that possible, Google is. So if anyone really deserves the credit, it's Google for allowing YouTube to burn some of their cash and giving them a shot." - ivanandersson

"Even after that, the sheer amount of generic user data that Google has on its hands is a huge competitive advantage against most other companies, a veritable gold mine." - ivanandersson

"Which is why I’m awaiting the next generation of iDead technology: the inevitable online necro-puppetry industry. Such a service would keep me, or the appearance of me, alive online in perpetuum." - ivanandersson

"data visualizers" - ivanandersson

Interesting tips on literature to read - ivanandersson

Automatic SMS Backup to Gmail - ivanandersson

"Isn't that after all the goal of advertising? To cause a transaction. So why not do away with the intermediate step of sending someone to a website for more information? Especially with the limited screen real estate on the phone, there isn't really room for the contextual text advertising that made Google its billions. Interstitial or popup ads are intrusive and unwelcome. But how much search activity on the phone is tied to commerce already? Find a restaurant nearby and make a reservation? Why not pay as well?" - ivanandersson

"Then Clay Shirky relayed the million-dollar question: Were these tasks that users actually wanted to do? Or were these highly usable aspects of the site going to remain unused because nobody wanted to use them? There was a gaping hole between usability and usefulness." - ivanandersson

"trends in “virality and the importance of the 'awed feeling'" - ivanandersson

They used two criteria for an awe-inspiring story: Its scale is large, and it requires “mental accommodation” by forcing the reader to view the world in a different way. “It involves the opening and broadening of the mind,” write Dr. Berger and Dr. Milkman, who is a behavioral economist at Wharton. “Seeing the Grand Canyon, standing in front of a beautiful piece of art, hearing a grand theory or listening to a beautiful symphony may all inspire awe. So may the revelation of something profound and important in something you may have once seen as ordinary or routine, or seeing a causal connection between important things and seemingly remote causes.” - ivanandersson

"Online dating may not be as complicated as the final season of “Lost,” but trying to decipher the clues and signals of a digital suitor can be just as tricky." - ivanandersson

"After spending five years at Apple struggling to navigate the maze of people and connections and types of expertise in order to get the information he needed, Warden decided to go independent and build a company that solved exactly that kind of problem. "I can't think of a better big company to work for, but it was still a big company," he says. "It was hard to find the right people to talk to, whether for particular expertise or for contacts at external companies." And so Warden left Apple to build a company that would use social graph analysis to solve problems like that. He called the company Mailana, a play on "mail analysis" since he was initially focused on email social graph analysis." - ivanandersson

"These days, it's all about who you don't know. That's the theory behind a group of very interesting software projects being built on top of the giant graph of friend/follower connection data that Twitter exposes about its users. " - ivanandersson

from Dr House. He is elated. He has just saved another patient from a sure death. He listens on this song when Vogler comes in to his office and confronts him. - ivanandersson

Heavy stuff - ivanandersson

Interesting views from Tim Berners-Lee. e.g. on the importants to keep things as data. - ivanandersson