I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
'Dependent web' platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Yahoo are where people go to discover and share new content. Independent sites… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The largest issue with search is that we learned about it when the web was young, when the universe was 'complete' -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
When you use Facebook, you're always logged in, and your identity and relationships - to others, to content, to apps and services… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Google likely never cared if Google+ 'won' as a competitor to Facebook (though if it did, that would have been a nice… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I have done a pretty good job of partitioning my life digitally, posting utterances and stories that I'm happy to share with… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
It seems everyone is converging on a simple set of facts: Our lives are digital, and we wish to share our lives.… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Facebook's data trove is enviable, and its moves into nearly every aspect of our lives - from payment to media, will create… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it. — John Battelle Copy Share Image
You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products - appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn't you rather… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains from spectacular unicorn exits. When it happens,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a great idea.… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
'Dependent web' platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Yahoo are where people go to discover and share new content. Independent sites are the… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
