Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.
We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.
A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.
Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.
My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
Like a spider web; the threads of her life had been woven since she was young, but she had no part in the loom's process.
If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting.
I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.
My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.
My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.
It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.
I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.
I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete, as there are more ways of interacting on the Web with low barriers to entry for people to engage and participate.
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?
There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.
But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.
Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.
In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
The kids all literally think I'm Spider-Man, and they ask me how I shoot my webs. It's flattering and crazy, but it's Spider-Man they're in awe of, not Jake Epstein.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
