PaidContent.org had a post about the SIIA Info Industry Summit. My two favorite sections:
“The most interesting platform isn’t the internet; it’s the cellphone.” (Interesting to me because that’s a focus for a lot of kids these days.)
“Yahoo is ‘intelligent design’; Google is ‘blind evolution.’
I had this backwards at first; thanks John and Jane for setting me
straight. I finally had time to listen to the audio so here’s a more
detailed version: ‘Google is blind evolution. They have this …
users-in-charge, bubble-up philosophy. Their employees can come up with
ideas. There’s this kind of Darwinian internal selection process. …
They have a very clear vision; they’re not quite north to the North
Pole. They’re going west, they’re going forward but they’re blind
evolution; they don’t really see where they’re going. Neither do we
… Yahoo, on the other hand, is intelligent design. They have the vision
of what they’re trying to build … . Two very, very different models.
The other thing that’s really different is Google sees communication as
a medium for the distribution of information. … whereas Yahoo, they see
information as a medium of communication among people. They get people.
They get communities and individuals in a way that Google really
doesn’t. Google is blindingly clever. … You have very, very different
models of the world. I like them both, and think they will both
persist.’” Exactly.
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