May 29-31 Rancho Palos Verdes, California
“I want there to be another U.S.-manufactured Apple product”
~ Tim Cook, Apple
"There are things that we can do (to bring consumer electronics assembly back into the U.S.), and that’s what we’re working on doing, and you can bet that we will use the whole of our influence to do it.”
~ Tim Cook, Apple
“Ad information, and targeting to serve the right ad at right time, makes a difference.”
~ Susan Wojcicki, Google
"The goal for skype is to be on every major platform."
~ Tony Bates, CEO skype
"Why couldn't we have a pervasive way to communicate through video on cellular devices?"
~ Tony Bates, CEO skype
"A windows phone, or skype phone is ultimately about the experience you deliver."
~ Tony Bates, CEO skype
Conference Link: All Things Digital
May 29-31 Rancho Palos Verdes, California
"Steve Jobs obsessed about problems until he had an insanely great solution."
~ Larry Ellison, Oracle
"Steve Jobs would translate good ideas into finished products unlike anyone in our history."
~ Larry Ellison, Oracle
"Mobile traffic is now up to 10% of ALL Internet traffic, up from only 1% in 2009 and 4% in 2010."
~ Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
"Mobile is going to monetize, but it is going to take some time….the data in japan proves that the users can be monetized."
~ Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
“I’m less interested in the difference between good and bad, than I am in the difference between good and great.”
~ Aaron Sorkin
"1.4 BILLION minutes of voice traffic/day on Skype, or 25% of ALL long distance in the world!"
~ Tony Bates, CEO skype
"40 percent of the Fortune 500 were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants."
~ Jeff Weiner, Linkedin
" It is stunning how many things are being reinvented."
~ Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
Conference Link: All Things Digital
May 29-31 Rancho Palos Verdes, California
"Fact: More people use their iPad than their computer"
~ Tim Cook, Apple
"I learned from Steve focus is key. You can only do some things great all else should be cast aside."
~ Tim Cook, Apple
"He also taught me that the joy is in the journey, which was a revelation for me. And that life is fragile."
~ Tim Cook, Apple (on Steve Jobs)
"It takes courage to change and say you were wrong & take a new position, Steve Jobs had that courage."
~ Tim Cook, Apple
"In the US, there are 100,000's of people making mobile apps. This WHOLE industry did not exist 5 years ago."
~ Tim Cook, Apple
"“Stock price is not a good goal for companies, because focus on that won't make better products.”
~ Tim Cook, Apple
"If you look at Apple's business, the majority is outside the US. owning something just in the US would have little value."
~ Tim Cook, Apple
"I spend my day working with the smartest and most creative people on earth. I love every minute. It's my oxygen."
~ Tim Cook, Apple
“Steve was a genius & a visionary, I’ve never really viewed that my role was to replace him – he was irreplaceable.”
~ Tim Cook, Apple
"“I think Siri has proven to us that people want to relate to the phone in a different way...This is something that people dreamed of for years, I think, and it is here. Yes, it can be broader and so forth, but we see unbelievable potential here...We’re doubling down on it."
~ Tim Cook, Apple
Conference Link: All Things Digital
May 23, 2012 New York
“It takes ten years to make great software, and we are about eight and half in, so I guess we have a year and a half left.”
~ Matt Mullenweg, Automattic (founder of Wordpress)
“I’m still really unhappy with wordpress today because there are still 6.99 billion people in the world not publishing and who do not have a voice online.”
~ Matt Mullenweg, Automattic (founder of Wordpress)
“Blogging has been declared dead at least five times.”
~ Matt Mullenweg, Automattic (founder of Wordpress)
“There is no other device in the history of consumer electronics that has penetrated a third of the population in such a short period of time.”
~ James McQuivey, Forrester
“The future will not be made only of tablets.”
~ James McQuivey, Forrester
“Apple has been 70 times more successful with the iPad than the iPod.”
~ James McQuivey, Forrester
“Rapidly converging technology accelerates the delivery of consumer benefits.”
~ James McQuivey, Forrester
“I’ve definitely picked up on a sentiment in the tech industry, that somehow we have to be more engaged.” (in regards to SOPA act)
~ Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
“There are plenty of examples when technology and traditional media have come together to do great things but I think, at large, it is true that the two industries see the world differently.”
~ Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
“In the analog world, scarcity is a great business model but in the digital world scarcity doesn’t work because it can not be enforced.”
~ Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
Conference Link: Paid Content: At the Crossroads
May 23, 2012 New York
"If content is going to remain king, we have got to innovate."
~ Bob Sauerberg, Conde Nast
"30% of ads sold this year were with no human intervention."
~ John Paxton, Wordpress
"Saying blogging is dead is like saying creativity and personal expression is dead."
~ Matt Mullenweg, Automattic
"One thing I have been working on is a radical simplification of the wordpress interface."
~ Matt Mullenweg, Automattic (founder of Wordpress)
"Data is the new plastic and Chartbeat is the Bloomberg terminal for newsrooms."
~ John Borthwick, Betaworks
"If people pay for ringtones, they'll pay for everything."
~ Rob Grimshaw, FT.com
"It's not just a tablet world or iPad world, but an everything world."
~ James McQuivey, Forrester
“If we’ve demonstrated anything, it’s the power of a brand."
~ Charlie Redmayne, Pottermore
Conference Link: Paid Content: At the Crossroads
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