User Generated Quotes

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.

When you come to Roblox, the player participates in things that are created by the community. You can hang out in a restaurant and try to survive a tornado. All of this is created by our creative community.

I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.

This is an age where you could put anything on YouTube; people can make films on their own.

The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

The things I'm good at are building communities, participatory media, places where people contribute things of their own making.

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.

GoPro lets people take other people along for the ride with them.

User-comments culture is not useful for creating original work, I think.

I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

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.

Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did.

We are starting to see more and more Roblox games that offer creation. An example would be Theme Park Tycoon, which lets anyone construct a theme park on any device. You get to build roller coasters and theme parks, your work is saved, and when you come back, you can keep working on your creation.

Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

We want to be like a YouTube for viral images.

YouTube is a whole ecosystem.

Roblox is not only free to play, but free to build.

'Minecraft' opens up a world of limitless possibilities, driven by the player and created by the fans who love it.

There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That's the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats.

There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere.

Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.

We think of ourselves as the best digital 'toy' around, and we are excited about the creativity, energy, and passion for success the Roblox platform continues to inspire in our builders.

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

Upload Radio is a new venture offering content creators and bedroom DJs the chance to get their own programmes on the air by buying time.