John Battelle Quotes
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Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.
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Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.
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We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.
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The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.
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The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.
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The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.
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WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.
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Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.
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Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.
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It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.
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Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.
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Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.
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