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Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it’s not a pleasant experience to ‘curl up’ with a good website.
Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers’ content and get people to click over to that content on the website.
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
As an entrepreneur, in many ways it’s like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges – scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.
I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links.
Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don’t think it should ever go, where it’s trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.
My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to try to help at home. I had started doing some technology consulting.
That’s why we created Flipboard as a social magazine meant for an iPad, meant for a large touch-screen device. That idea of content presented beautifully, oriented around communities and special topics of interest, is really powerful.
You don’t feel like you have to interact with a whole bunch of people when you get on Flipboard. It’s not a source of social anxiety.
The Web as we’ve known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.
The iPad is creating a new format for reading content. One of the things that’s happening as a result is the world of personalized news aggregators, which is a category that’s been around for quite some time, is getting new life.
I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don’t translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.
If you’re Burberry or Gucci, you’re not going to run a banner ad. To get brand ad dollars to move to digital, you need to create a beautiful experience.
TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web.
There are a lot of problems with the Web, but there are a lot of great things about it, too.