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I shook Steve Jobs hand.
Never use pages for personal brand!
I'm so tired of the privacy advocates.
Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader.
I do not see Windows Phones anywhere in the world except Seattle.
The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.
The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.
Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.
My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course.
It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.
I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early.
I want Facebook to pick the best 20 items to show me every single time I refresh that screen.
Link to your competitors and say nice things about them. Remember, you're part of an industry.
I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.
Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.
I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!
Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.
I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company.
Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only.
Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.
But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.
My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible.
This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.
I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.
Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing.
It's amazing when I walk through an expo hall and can't figure out what a company does just by walking past its booth.
People thought I was an idiot, but I saw social networks were going to be more important, and it turned out to be true.
We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.
I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed.
Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.
If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere.
I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'
Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do.
Make sure you like, comment and share other people's items. That teaches Facebook what kinds of things you like to see in your feed.
I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise.
It's amazing that about 10% of startups couldn't be found on Facebook because they had common names or names that weren't searchable.
Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.
A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule
With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity.
Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you're writing a blog about it.
The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.
I've seen this over and over again: people love it if you step up their experience. No one turns down an upgrade to business class in a plane.
Everyone is on Facebook. It is very rare that I can't find a startup. Out of the 72 Y Combinator startups, almost all of them were on Facebook.
There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information.
Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.
At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology.
Facebook is teachable. If you hide items, you'll see fewer of those kinds of items in the future. Like more items, and you'll see more of those in the future.
Never change the URL of your blog. I've done it once, and I lost much of my readership. It took several months to build up the same reader patterns and trust.
Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can.
I counted how many seconds it takes to get my smartphone out of my pocket, open it up, find the camera app, wait for it to load, and then take a photo. Six to 12 seconds.