Recommended: Marissa Mayer quote from "In the Plex" by Steven Levy

"If you look at the arc and growth of content over time ... In 1995 there were 3 million web pages on the web and they could be hand categorized into categories. Which was Yahoo.  At some point the content just begins to explode which means the directory model has to fall by the wayside because you can't categorize everything, all the way, all the time and that is what really gave rise to search. ... When content gets large you need to search.   But now the web  is so vast you need different organizing tools in addition to search in order to see different aspects of it.  I think that social is something really important there.   What content have my  friends written? Or people I know and respect, what have they written? What have they liked? What have they read themselves?  Those pieces help to make sense of this vast sea of information that is the web."

Sent from my iPad 2

"The Difference Between the Janitor and the Vice President" ☛ Steve Jobs

Interesting view from Jobs in todays "Inside Apple" from Fortune...

Jobs imageines his garbage regularly not being emptied in his office, and when he asks the janitor why, he gets and excuse: The locks have been changed, and the janitor doesn't have a key.  This is an acceptable excuse coming from someone who empties trash bins for a living.  The janitor gets to explain why something went wrong.  Senior people do not.  "When you're the janitor," Jobs has repeatedly told incomping VPs, "reasons matter."  He continues:  "Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop  mattering."  That "Rubicon," he as said, "is crossed when you become a VP."

via Inside Apple -- Fortune

Apple vs. Google ads: What are they selling? | TiPb

Apple’s latest ad wants you to buy a $500+ tablet computer that runs App Store apps. Apple wants to sell you shiny things to make money.

Google’s latest ad wants you to store personal details about your child’s life, from birth, on their servers. Google wants your data so they can sell it (aggregated and anonymized, of course) to others to make money.

Taken in that context, Apple’s ad might be obnoxious and highly commercial, but Google’s is downright creepy.

via tipb.com

Found this through Daring Fireball...