Ouriel Ohayon

"yeah. the wave also is a zionist plot. go away troll" - Ouriel Ohayon

"Reminds me something (hint: what we launched early this year at Appsfire https://cloudup.com/ckTJvW7aUc... )" - Ouriel Ohayon

"Can Homescreen go viral? let me try an answer: no. The longer answer is that beyond people like us very few care about homescreens and what app appear there. occasionally people care about what you use. but even that is not even to drive adoption at scale. How do i know? well...this is what we tried to launch years ago (and what many tried too without success including Max Levchin a few months ago) Jonathan can tell you more about it :)" - Ouriel Ohayon

"a few points. If Apple and Google have won what does that mean for Microsoft? Will they give up and just build "services" for the mobile web? Is the recent move on Office a step in that direction? I am not sure i follow your analysis on deep links. Google can with the right framework (already deployed partially) point search results to deep app sections. This is totally possible. the problem is that the default pattern on a smartphone is not access content from Google but from "bundles" (app or notifications or widgets). And that points to the next questions: what is an app tomorrow? is that still a piece of soft you "download" or will that change?" - Ouriel Ohayon

"Fred i am still failing in finding value in that. All my contacts are in Google. When i have a new device i add my google account and get all my contacts in sync everywhere. i am not sure what brewster does in addition to that?" - Ouriel Ohayon

"let me rephrase: i think you re spot on. Ad tech as is not that interesting and sustainable. But that does not mean it is not possible to build an interesting play in int. The problem is that too much of the ad tech companies out there (including those you probably see) are not that innovative. They all claim to have a magical algorithm or some sort of hack that does not sustain or is at risk (eg toolbars is a hack to search...) but very few are truly innovative precisely because the engineering resources are geared towards building more of the same "crap" vs truly innovating. The ad tech industry still leaves on banner ads that have been around for 20 years and the whole stack and ecosystem has been built around it, including the min guarantee and cat and mouse game you re describing above. Only 2 great companies have been a sustainable ad tech play: Google with search because they own the techno and the inventory and invented (sort of ) a new quality behavior. Facebook who owns a..." - Ouriel Ohayon

"Michael the problem is not that the ad tech industry is not worth. The problem is that precisely because serious engineers are not dedicating and controlling enough of the innovation that we re ending up with a loop of low added value chains. Precisely i would argue the opposite: more engineers should start new ad tech firms. There are enough examples of very successful ad tech firms out of israel to point that this is something possible. The problem is the lack of innovation: not the lack of interest for a potential trillion dollar industry" - Ouriel Ohayon

"Doesn't matter. Applies for any publication who wants an audience in 2014" - Ouriel Ohayon

"1. she does not write every post. she has editors 2. she does not have to read every comments. but have them moderated and occasionally participate 3. recode is more than 1 writer" - Ouriel Ohayon

"i have dealt with large audience blogs in my past lives (techcrunch being one of them). here is what i learned. dealing with comments is the most rewarding part of blogging. the second thing i learned: you get the comments you deserve. If you get spam it's because you re not cautious enough. if you get low quality comments: it s because your content is of low quality. If you get silence: it s because readers don t care. Comments are the reflection of the voice of the author. Ignoring them or dealing with them is killing the feedback look that makes great blogs great. like this one" - Ouriel Ohayon

"i don t like blogs who don t have comments. the only one i truly read with no comments is daring fireball because the insights are so amazing. But in my view recode is in a different situation: i think they removed comments because they did not have enough. Many times the comments are the most interesting part of a post. And removing them is the equivalent of a quality cost cutting by force. i am surprised that a professional editorial team like recode made that decision." - Ouriel Ohayon

""Companies like Airpush and Facebook are breaking new ground " ...." - Ouriel Ohayon

"Dashboard apps for example. Or widgets with recent ios8 or app discovery and I pass you the behind the scene many players in the music space have with apple to get their app approved. On Facebook remember zynga and cross promotion networks? Want example for google and search ? You know how many price comparison engines have been killed ?" - Ouriel Ohayon

"Correct. They are enablers as well as gatekeepers. remember to what happened to zynga? Also see the power that has amazon on manufacturers. the line between enablement and destruction is thin and gray because can change any time" - Ouriel Ohayon

"Fred, the internet has no monopolies but has gatekeepers than can make or break virtually any startup. Those are the new "monopolies" against which the tech ecosystem has little or no leverage. Apple or Google can decide which app gets out or in, or featured or not. Facebook and Google can tweak their algorithm or terms of services and ruin any business because they are at the source of so much traffic. This is the new David vs Goliath. The tension between platforms which have their own "rules" and the ecosystem of developers who depend on them. Platforms need developers but when the developers get to close to the sun they may get burnt (games, ad tech companies, apps, news business,...) Important to not remember in this debate of "internet justice"" - Ouriel Ohayon