Conference Bites

CM Summit June 7-8 New York, Part 2

"If you're not occasionally failing, you're not trying hard enough."
~ Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman/Publisher of The New York Times

"YouTube has given us a 'right brain' to go with the left brain focus of search (that has always been so strong at Google)."
~ Dennis Woodside, VP Americas Operations of Google

"Woman have 8% more Facebook friends than men. Seems obvious to me."
~ Deanna Brown, President & COO of Federated Media Publishing

"Open forum started as real live events… customers had more fun networking than from the content... that is what inspired us to move to the digital space with open forum."
~ John Hayes, CMO of American Express

"Without access to data, you pretty much can’t do anything."
~ Simon Khalaf, President & CEO of Flurry

"The internet has destroyed more business models than it has created—the pace is such that the market is always going to be churning."
~ CM Summit Data Panel

"Even as powerful as they are, Apple is not the web."
~ Adam Gerber, CMO of Quantcast

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CM Summit June 7-8 New York, Arianna Huffington Closing Keynote

Quotes from Closing keynote interview that John Battelle did with  Arianna Huffington, Co-founder & Editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post:

"We see the future as the linked economy.  You don't change human behavior with pay walls....we will always be free. Staying engaged, with complete transparency, is the way of the future."

"This (our current political situation) is really a teachable moment for leadership."

"Many well known people have sent op ed pieces to papers like the New York Times, because they want to, as you say 'sound off', not for the $150 payment."

On what Kissinger told her regarding her accent, "You are about to discover the value in the U.S. of complete and total incomprehensibility."

"Loopholes are like yeast...they are the only thing that makes legislation rise."

"Sleep your way to the top--literally, due to (the explosion of) sleep deprivation. Everyone is so exhausted, there is no time to connect with ourselves and our own wisdom, which is the most precious thing."

"Self-expression is the new entertainment."

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CM Summit June 7-8 New York, Part 1

"Everybody declares 'who I am' on the web now... Not just bloggers—everyone with a Facebook page."
~ John Battelle, Chairman & CEO of Federated Media

"The most important measure is to listen to our customers."
~ John Hayes, CMO of American Express

"Social media dashboards are nirvana to marketers."
~ Ann Lewnes, SVP Corporate Marketing and Communications of Adobe

"All of us are behind the times."
~ Tom Arrix, VP U.S. Sales of Facebook

"Two girls got trapped in a well—first thing they did wasn’t call 911—they updated their Facebook status."
~ Tom Arrix, VP U.S. Sales of Facebook

"Twitter.com has 190M uniques per month. 65M tweets per day. New sign ups up 10% from last month, just on twiter.com.  We are laying down track in front of the train as fast as we can—as it bears down on us."
~ Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter

"If the promoted tweet doesn’t have resonance it won’t be featured… it disappears."
~ Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter

"Analytics are like quantum mechanics. The more data you get—the more you know you don’t know."
~ Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter

"'Suggested users' was taken out to the woodshed and shot."
~ Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter

"We wanted to have a public policy instead of a privacy policy, but CA has a law about that, and they are 'not jokey'... and getting less jokey in Europe."

~ Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter


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ConnectivityWeek 2010 May 24-27 Santa Clara, Part 1

"If we are going to cook up something for consumers, we don't have the right cooks in the kitchen."
~ Glen Allmendinger, Harbor Research

"From the wall of the building in, we call it smart consumption rather than smart grid."
~ Christoph Vogel, Siemens

"I keep telling my wife... this time energy is REALLY going to matter (as opposed to past cycles).
~ John Petze, Cisco

"There is no green building w/o intelligent building."
~ John Petze, Cisco

"The home area network is the jewel."
~ Ken Devore, SoCal Edison

"The challenge: how to roll out smartgrid technology so that consumers will not vomit all over it."
~ Susan Cashen, Control4

"We want to nudge consumers, not shove them."
~ David Kolata, Illinois Citizens Util Board

"The smart in the smart grid is going to start with tiny bits of silicon."
~ George Goodman, Intel

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