144 posts and columns on Om Malik
Imagine if Microsoft Had Made a SkypePhone
Today when Marc Andreessen talks about how software is eating the world, the companies he evokes are merely parroting the playbook of Skype, which did eat the phone companies and thus set the template for the notion that software is eating the world.
— Om Malik, writing on Skype’s 10th birthday
In Vogue
There’s a lot of attention and PR around Marissa, but their product lineup just kind of blows.
— Om Malik on Bloomberg TV, talking about Yahoo, the September issue of Vogue Magazine, and our overdependence on Google
Technical Sweetness
I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”
— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik
Question Everything
Facebook collects social information and uses it in the most unsocial way possible.
— Om Malik, speaking to @AaronCohen’s #nethistory class at NYU, as tweeted by Jackie Widmann
Jobs-Like
Not because Bezos has copied anything Jobs did, but because he has not. What he’s done that is Jobs-like is doggedly pursue, year after year, iteration after iteration, a vision unlike that of any other company — all in the name of making customers happy.
— John Gruber, in agreement with Om Malik that Jeff Bezos is the inheritor of Steve Jobs’s crown
Rafat Ali 2.0: Meet Skift, the Travel Industry’s Version of PaidContent
What do you do after you build and sell a pioneering digital media start-up? Take two years off, and start building another media star-tup.Forum
The “B” Word
Pundits and others are using the B word — bubble — more than ever. Is it time to stop, or will this gain even more traction in 2012?News Byte