Shawn Fanning Quotes

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

I like to compare 'Instagram' to the Library of Congress.

There's only a few platforms that really aggregate content well together, Facebook being one of the best, probably the most diverse of all of them.

Curation comes up when search stops working.

I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other filmmakers and writers.

I am going to pick on 'Huffington Post.' A lot of its content is great. They are doing a lot of original content now, but historically, a lot of what they did was aggregation. Newspapers don't want to become that, and yet 'Huffington Post' is incredibly popular. It's incredibly successful.

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

If you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app.

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.

Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner.

Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals.

People regard Yahoo as a platform for essential services, and it's had a profound impact on the way people obtain information, communicate, and their entertainment.

My company is in the business of content, delivering content, so whether you see it or taste it or hear it or smell it, that's what I do every day.

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

We believe content relationships are compelling draws even where paid-TV-provided guides are prevalent, such as here in the United States.

Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.

It seems everyone is converging on a simple set of facts: Our lives are digital, and we wish to share our lives. Pinterest came at it through images, artfully curated. Facebook came at it through friends, cunningly organized. Dropbox came to it via files, cleverly clouded.