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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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 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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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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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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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.
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Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.
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Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.
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What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.
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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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The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.