Om Malik Quotes
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Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.
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Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It's built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream.
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Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.
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Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story.
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If you're texting a friend about dinner, Google will give you restaurant reviews and directions automatically.
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Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
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I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.
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Everybody has a different interpretation of immigration problems, and it's a highly personal experience. If anyone tells you there is a uniform solution to it, there isn't. As far as I'm concerned, it worked for me. And I don't know how to fix the problem.
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Cameras can look down from on high and predict crop yields, traffic in Walmart parking lots, and travel patterns on Labor Day weekend. On the ground, they form the foundation of autonomous-driving systems.
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We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.
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I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.
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When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps - native apps and HTML5 web-based apps.
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If you look at something like Spotify, many record labels are investors in the company. So from that standpoint, the money is all going back into the labels.
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It is becoming harder for us to stay on top of the onslaught - e-mails, messages, appointments, alerts. Augmented intelligence offers the possibility of winnowing an increasing number of inputs and options in a way that humans can't manage without a helping hand.
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Its definition can be a bit murky, but to me, native advertising is a sales pitch that fits right into the flow of the information being shown. It doesn't interrupt - native ads don't pop up or dance across the screen - and its content is actually valuable to the person viewing it.
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Some media companies that rely on advertising revenue are tying journalist compensation to the traffic their story generates. It doesn't work because it de-prioritizes writing.
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From analog film cameras to digital cameras to iPhone cameras, it has become progressively easier to take and store photographs. Today, we don't even think twice about snapping a shot.
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The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called 'contextual computing.' We have become data-spewing factories, and the only way to make sense of it all is through context.
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Uber, like Google, is taking a highly disorganized business - in its case, private transportation such as taxicabs and private limousines - and ordering it neatly.
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Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone.
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In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things.
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In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers.
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As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.
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Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!