Mike McCue
Mike McCue
Mike McCueis an American technology entrepreneur, who founded or co-founded such companies as Paper Software, Tellme Networks and Flipboard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
content created large magazine meant oriented presented social special topics
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.
interact people source
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.
decide packaging people
As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.
ball bigger crystal hopefully ready scaling starts ways
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.
across ads articles columns condensed experience good narrow pleasant text themselves
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.
known pages pointing time
The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.
games ipad publishers render screen size
I think the screen size chosen for the iPad is perfect for publishers to render content beautifully, for games to be played.
crawl interact links maybe web
Kind of like Google crawls the Web, we crawl the social networks. Where Google analyzes links and Web pages, we look at the same thing with people. So we can tell, for example, who you interact with more frequently. Or if it's not frequency, maybe it's consistency.
driving harder model page pieces pushed trying web
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.
basically click feature people
Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website.
category creating format happening ipad life news quite result time
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.
ad banner brand create dollars experience move run
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.
articles asking aspect gorgeous love magazines translate
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.
communication ipads today
Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created.