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
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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.
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Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website.
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I think the screen size chosen for the iPad is perfect for publishers to render content beautifully, for games to be played.
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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.
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Twitter can be incredibly valuable as an open communications mechanism, but if you close too many things down too quickly, if you think about it too short-sightedly, you could easily do a lot of damage to that ecosystem.
What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.
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Twitter was created as an open platform, an open communications ecosystem, and I hope it can stay that way. You have to be really careful not to let money get in the way of that.
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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.
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The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web.
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Personalized news aggregators are geared around connecting you to news sources; we're about connecting you to your friends. To people you're inspired by. To people that you're following on Facebook and Twitter.