I guess it all boils down to the point that most initiatives are not willing to work on the plumbing of the web. Everyone wants to build the house and contain people within it. The irony of course is that if you build the plumbing smart you would be part of everything, instead of "owning" a small piece of the web trying to lock users in (And I thought my posts were long ;-) )
- Alexander van Elsas
"the price of freedom is eternal vigilance" very good and precise basic "Stein" for openness. Jefferson was a great Mensch!!
- Dan Romescu
"Let's make the point crystal clear: what Google did differently from any company before (or since) was to make people's choices about ads count economically."
- Eric Johnson
"Waging peace — makings ads less about force, and more about choice — is what made Google radical. And if today's entrepreneurs are clever enough to stop waging war on Google, and wage peace for people instead — the Google era will come to a swift end."
- Eric Johnson
"Actually, cancel that last sentence. Here's the real point: if today's boardrooms are smart enough to stop waging war on each other, and begin waging peace for people instead — by making everything less about force, and more about choice — the lame, brain-dead industrial era will, finally, come to a long overdue end."
- Eric Johnson