Online Trends Quotes

In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of 'The Selfish Gene,' I did actually use the metaphor of a 'virus.' So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that.

One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are interested in, what people are doing and what people are looking for. I look at entertainment projects and storytelling, and I really try to think about what people want.

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.

I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that.

Now it's hard to pick up any copy of 'Wired' that doesn't mention YouTube.

OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.

I'm an online shopper, so that's what I do in my free time. A lot of online shopping, and I just like to see new styles and new people.

I think, as e-commerce grows as a category, most e-commerce companies are focused on women because they are the decision makers and the consumers. When you think of e-commerce, and fashion is a big part of that, women are much more in tune with what other women are looking for online.

There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed.

Let's be honest with ourselves, YouTubers click on the trending tab for one single reason... to analyze what is on the trending tab and then complain that it isn't what we think it should be.

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks that look like this # - were used to mark phrases or names, in order to make it easier to search for them among the zillions and zillions of tweets.

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.

I've seen people twitter in haiku only.

I think 4chan is going to stay the same.

I think it's really good to create pockets and events throughout the year that highlight certain things that are really popular on YouTube.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

I always thought of YouTube as this super-finite thing where trends ebb and flow.

Publicly, they claim to be thrilled to have the opportunity to engage directly with their customers; privately, they suspect, maybe even fervently hope, that Facebook and its spawn are fads.

More and more women are going online.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

The thing about the Internet is we take everything too far. Once something becomes 'popular' in our realm, it's everywhere, and I get sick of hearing about it quickly.