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1. When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps — native apps and HTML5 web-based apps.
2. 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.
3. Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!
4. By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data.
5. Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.
6. In the touch-based mobile device era, folks need to think of ways to have a single technology stack married to the ability to create unique experiences for different devices.
7. In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers.
8. Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera.
9. Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.
10. A platform is essentially a business model that thrives because of the participation and value added from third parties with only incremental effort from the owner of the platform.
11. Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software.
12. Photography has always been about capturing light.
13. 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.
14. In the digital realm, companies are free from the friction of producing physical goods, and as a result, we see companies like Google go from zero dollars in revenues to billions at a much faster rate.
15. Everybody’s trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?
16. Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don’t have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger.
20. 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.