Om Malik Quotes

Om Malik

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 29, 1966

Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.

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Looking back, Google's success came from the fortuitous timing of being born at the cusp of the broadband age. But it also came about because of the new reality of the Internet: a lot of services were going to be algorithmic, and owning your own infrastructure would be a key advantage.

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I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.

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The funny thing is that I used to be a blogger, but it wasn't known as 'blogging' at that time. This was in the '99/2000 time frame.

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As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report and write every day.' That was my thing.

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Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!

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Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.

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Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.

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Living a 24-hour news life has come at a personal cost. I still wake in middle of the night to check the stream to see if something is breaking, worrying whether I missed some news.

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When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.

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When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people.

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For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.

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I think the emotional appeal of a platform is what works. I think the old-media entities still have not figured out that part of the game plan.

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When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps - native apps and HTML5 web-based apps.

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Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices.

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In the touch-based mobile device era, folks need to think of ways to have a single technology stack married to the ability to create unique experiences for different devices.

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Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.

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In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers.

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The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.

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Everybody has a different interpretation of immigration problems, and it's a highly personal experience. If anyone tells you there is a uniform solution to it, there isn't. As far as I'm concerned, it worked for me. And I don't know how to fix the problem.

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