George Takei Quotes

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

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People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

People forget that YouTube is the second-largest search site on the Web. It just tells you the power of how many people live on YouTube.

I think Twitter is an incredible platform. I want to see it succeed.

As long as we continue to bring in more traffic, I'm much more concerned with building a good user experience and developing tools that will help grow the Imgur community of users.

YouTube's audience is very specific. They are ready for great content. But you have to engage with the audience in a very direct fashion.

I personally never got the gist of Facebook and Twitter.

As users flock to Vine, Snapchat and, previously, Instagram, the social platforms are challenged to continue to be the primary provider of these services to the growing army of smartphone users.

It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences.

Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

Content is often the reason users come to your site.

Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

In the beginning, YouTube content wasn't up to the same standard as traditional media. Now, people are using it as a launchpad.

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube.

The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

I was one of the key people responsible for building Facebook's News Feed. When we launched it in 2006, users hated it. There were 'I Hate Facebook' groups; random people organized protests. We even hired a security team.

In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's working about Snapchat.

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