Republicans alienated whole professions. Lawyers now donate to Democratic Party over Republicans at 4-to-1 rates. Doctors, 2-to-1. Tech executives, 5-to-1. Investment bankers, 2-to-1. It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community. - Adam Rifkin
I've now been in Facebook Prison for 16 hours, with no contact from them. - Adam Rifkin
The worst part about Facebook Prison is that they deny you ever existed. You don't show up in searches and you're just flat-out removed from all your friends' lists. - Adam Rifkin
WTF??? too many messages? Did you contact the jerks and said you have 3 apps running with them? - Bibi
Ms. Robinovitz said her firm paid $200 a month to directly e-mail up to 50 people on LinkedIn. Often, it’s not the people she contacts who want the job, but rather friends of those contacts who end up getting job. - Adam Rifkin
10 percent of admissions officers surveyed at top-tier colleges admit to using social network profiles as an additional tool to evaluate applicants. Within that group, 38% say the kids' online profiles negatively affected their chances of getting in. - Adam Rifkin
Right now, there’s a CEO standing in front of his start-up at an all-hands meeting and he’s saying, “In the next 90 days, we need to do the impossible”. - Adam Rifkin
Windows Free marked a milestone: a light-weight, completely free, high usability, open-source, partly-Linux-based (of all things!), redistributable-by-anyone version of a Microsoft operating system that would serve as nothing but a window to the web - Adam Rifkin
If you want to give me a “gift” of some kind - like a butterfly, a pink striped thong, or an adorable panda - give it to me in real life. Yes, you heard me: give me a panda in real life. - Adam Rifkin
The way VCs think and act is very dangerous for the whole iPhone platform. My hopes are that the most successful developers that come out of this are truly independent developers and that the market does its best to support them. - Adam Rifkin
20% of traffic to news sites, 25% of shopping, 23% of entertainment, all flowing through Google's search engine — and all subject to the whims of Google's algorithm creators, who answer to no one but Larry and Sergey. It's hard to see how to stop Google. - Adam Rifkin
The paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait - Adam Rifkin
Late 2010 is the best time to buy a house. I’m sticking with that. If you want to buy a house, put the money you would pay for a mortgage payment (even with 30%+ drops, it’s still more money to own a house in most of CA than to rent) in a savings account. - Adam Rifkin
With Chrome, the web starts to look more like a nodal grid of documents, with cloud applications running on momentary instances, being run directly and indirectly by people and their agents. This is the browser caught up. - Adam Rifkin
The soon-to-be-shuttered Yahoo Mash is not Yahoo's first failed social network. It's also not its second, third, or fourth. It took one whole hand for us to count Big Purple's failed attempts to get social, either through mergers or in-house development. - Adam Rifkin
Ling’s departure must hurt the company to some degree. “If I could pick any three people in Silicon Valley to start a company,” one source says, “I’d pick Cohler, D’angelo and Ling.” - Adam Rifkin
In contrast, Facebook, which is open-sourcing its own platform for developers, has nearly 37,000 apps, which have been installed 715 million times. RockYou’s apps alone have been installed 124 million times on Facebook. - Adam Rifkin
The trio talked about how they define power, balance their families and career ("The key to marriage is negotiation," Cassidy said); whether there is a narrower acceptable range of behavior for powerful women than for men; - Adam Rifkin
WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before. - Adam Rifkin
You can look at any phenomenally successful company, and it's pretty obvious that their success was founded on building on something they personally wanted. - Adam Rifkin
