John Paczkowski

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QOTD: A Touchscreen Phone? Feh.

“It was very early days, and no one really knew anything about the touchscreen’s potential. And it was an expensive device to produce, so there was more risk involved for Nokia. So, management did the usual. They killed it.”

Former Nokia employee Ari Hakkarainen on the fate of an iPhone-esque touchscreen phone the company prototyped in 2004


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The ultimate native ads are the glossy fashion ads in Vogue: in most cases, they’re better than the editorial, and as a result, readers spend as much time with the ads — if not more — as they do with the edit.

— Felix Salmon, writing about the potential of native advertising on the Web