"On April 9, 2012, Web 2.0 lost its mantle as the most important Internet paradigm. We are now starting the Age of Mobile. Google and Facebook’s Internet dominance is no longer guaranteed. They face a threat from below and an army of smartphone-touting masses that sees little distinction between the piece of hardware in their hands and the Internet world it opens up."
#Facebook
#digital culture
#internet
#inspirations
#mobile
#smartphones
#tech
"Pixar is a creative company with an engineering process and Apple is an engineering company with a creative process"
Horace Dediu (Creator of asymco.com)
This Quote is from Episode 34 of The Critical Path Podcast.
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"While technology can help strengthen relationships with people you barely know, it can damage relationships with the people that are close to you, like family."
Nathan Gilmore of Team Gantt
#internet
#inspirations
#Nathan Gilmore
#social media
#social networking
#tech
"Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them."
Seth’s Blog: If you think that’s what we want, why don’t you give it to us? (via slantback)
#inspirations
#Seth Godin
#internet marketing
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A Tumblr friend of mine, Tricia Wang, gave a talk about trust in online social networks at the Lift 12 conference in Geneva. Tricia is really great at stripping out industry and academic jargon and getting straight to the point. There are great points in this talk; give it your attention.
Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain »
- I got money in the morning from the ATM.
- I bought gas from an automated pump.
- I bought groceries at BJ’s (a warehouse club) using an extremely well-designed self-service check out line.
- I bought some stuff for the house at Home Depot using their not-as-well-designed-as-BJ’s self-service check out line.
- I bought my food at McDonald’s at the kiosk, as described above.
All of these systems are very easy-to-use from a customer standpoint, they are fast, and they lower the cost of doing business and should therefore lead to lower prices. All of that is good, so these automated systems will proliferate rapidly.
Related articles:
- Warehouse Robots at Work
- How Computers Are Creating a Second Economy Without Workers
- What will the economy of the future look like? (THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL by Martin Ford)
- Introduce yourself with Jason Silva, “the fast-talking, media-savvy “performance philosopher” who wants you to love the ecstatic future of your mind.”
The above image is a Honda ad from the back cover of Smithsonian magazine, January 2003.
"Many women in the tech world bitch about the challenges – people don’t take you as seriously, it’s harder to climb the corporate ladder, etc. You can look at these negatives, or you can look at the advantages –it’s far easier for me to get meetings with men, who are 90% of the business. They’ll go out of their way to suggest meetings, for whatever reason. I don’t ask what the reasons are because it’s beneficial for my business. You can say it’s harder to climb the corporate ladder as a woman, that’s true. Or you can start at the top and build smart people underneath you who will push you up and you’ll never be climbing the ladder. There are benefits and advantages for everyone who starts a business. I dislike when people complain about their lot in life versus just dealing with it. I like figuring out the counterintuitive model. I’ve never sat there and bitched that somebody doesn’t take me seriously because I’m a chick. I’ll be like, “I take that and do ‘x’ with it”. It doesn’t benefit anyone to whine about your lot in life."
Maren Kate, the founder of Zirtual, while responding to the question: “What are some of the advantages and challenges as a woman entrepreneur?”
#entrepreneurship
#inspirations
#Maren Kate
#startups
#tech
#women in tech
#Zirtual
"Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves."
Amber Case (via inthenoosphere)
#Amber Case
#inspirations
#memories
#psychology
#technology
#tech
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. And we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together. To build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking. And it’s greatest failures by NOT talking. It doesn’t have to be like this! Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
Stephen W. Hawking
#communication
#inspirations
#Stephen W. Hawking
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
#Charles Babbage
#inspirations
#tech
"It seemed that very few American businesses actually did anything any more. Many companies were calling me to help them communicate their brand values more “transparently” to consumers — but transparency would mean opening the companies to observation and participation. This is plainly impossible for companies that don’t actually do anything."
#Douglas Rushkoff
#inspirations
#branding
#communication
#business
