Presentation at the Guardian's Future of Journalism series: 10 questions we should be asking now - Matt McAlister

MySpace is actually streaming data to these sites, which allows for true integration between the services, not just a bolted-on social tool. - Matt McAlister

It was the second time the ambitious marathon took place at Alexandra Palace: however, last year the event was called Hack Day and had risen out of a format put together by Yahoo's Chad Dickerson. - Matt McAlister

We have RSS feeds for comments and news, and KML files for individual airports and personal airport lists - Matt McAlister

We talked about improving the accessibility of the web for a long time - let's not wait, let's make it happen. - Matt McAlister

We have become a society that expects and demands access to raw data — with really good software tools that let us manipulate that data — to give us the answers that we need. Don’t believe me? Don’t use Google for a week. - Matt McAlister

Every number tells a tale. But it tells it like the flat data it is. It’s dull. I admire it, but what’s the story? I love databases and information, and I think it’s important that more be made publicly available. - Matt McAlister

Actions speak more truthfully than words. - Matt McAlister

I am a bit jealous of friends who are finding and funding [things] that have the potential to address the serious problems facing the world. At times it seems that helping the web become more social, intelligent, mobile, and playful is not as impactful. - Matt McAlister

One of the principles of the site is No Original Research — every fact must have appeared somewhere reputable before it can be repeated. - Matt McAlister

Matt Cashmore wondered if the smooth organisation took a little of the edge away. It did, but I'm not sure I'd exchange it for haphazard organisation to get it back. - Matt McAlister

its kind of like saying that you stood on the beach at Cape Hatteras looked across the Atlantic with a spyglass and saw an oak tree, and by that determined that all trees in Europe are the same as those in North America. - Matt McAlister

The big question is whether the recession that has already hit some categories of advertising will hit the Web this year. - Matt McAlister

Google's service reminds me more of Alexa than anything else. And I don't think it's particularly accurate. - Matt McAlister

you see that the US is by far the largest ad market, and is worth more than the rest of the world combined. - Matt McAlister

Yahoo insiders confirmed on Thursday that three more senior executives, Qi Lu, Brad Garlinghouse, and Vish Makhijani, are leaving the company. All were responsible for critical areas of Yahoo’s business. - Matt McAlister