Alexis Ohanian Quotes

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.

Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

When I give my jewelry as a present, I feel like I'm giving protection to someone I care about... I've given pieces to my mom, my aunts, my friends. I've even made bracelets for my dad and my uncle.

I'm obsessed with Tumblr. I love looking at all the pictures!

What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.

Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.

When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia.

A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.

With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

My pictures are airbrushed.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.

I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.