Quotes About Users

Even high-profile product and feature releases become routine by using dark launch techniques. Long before the launch date, we put all the required code for the feature into production, invisible to everyone except internal employees and small cohorts of real users, allowing us to test and evolve the feature until it achieves the desired business goal.

Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which was astounding. It showed us the power of the network effect.

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

Very strong imagery of conformity versus mold-breaking, concealing conformity disguised as mold-breaking. Ever wondered why Mac users are so glassy-eyed about their boxes?

Otro aspecto esencial del código abierto es que los usuarios pueden fabricar los productos por sí mismos, si quieren; no necesitan pagar por ello. Lo cual es magnífico para el 0,1 por ciento del usuario básico, que muchas veces es la mejor fuente de ideas e innovaciones en torno al producto. Pero la realidad es que el otro 99,9 por ciento de usuarios más bien pagarían para que alguien se los fabricase si les garantizan que funcionarán. Éste es el

One of the key lessons of the Web 2.0 era is this: Users add value. But only a small percentage of users will go to the trouble of adding value to your application via explicit means. Therefore, Web 2.0 companies set inclusive defaults for aggregating user data and building value as a side-effect of ordinary use of the application. As noted above, they build systems that get better the more people use them.

In the case of Apple, there is effectively a network of Macintosh users, which is in danger of falling below critical mass.

But Greg wasn't a Republican like a person who votes to the right. No, he was a Republican like I was Princess Leia. He was a Republican by profession. Because how many gay Republican drug users do you know? . . . Oh that's right, lots and lots. But Greg was really in on the ground floor of the whole gay Republican movement that's so prevalent in Washington today.

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

So the bioweapon narrative was easy to quash, at least if you were among the small minority of Miasma users who actually cared about logic and evidence.

Unlike in the past, there are now two kinds of people in the world: those who own and run the networks, and those who merely use them.

Microcomputer companies sold equipment as if it were corn, in large quantities; they spent most of their money making things and competed not by being polite but by being aggressive. Minicomputer companies split the differences more or less; they sold some machines and service to actual users, but spent most of their money on hardware and did a big business by selling machines in quantity to OEMs.

The lexis is a measure of shared experience, which comes from interconnectedness. The number of users of the language forms only the first part of the equation: jumping in four centuries from 5 million English speakers to a billion.

Evolving a widely reused resource also requires coordination because changes must be compatible with all existing systems or users. Such coordination can slow down innovation... Some digital companies have even begun to explicitly favor duplication because their business environment rewards economies of speed.

A new DAO is like a startup. It requires a product/market fit, business model realization, and a lot of users/customers.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

Huw backs away. She might actually be a communicant, he realizes in absolute horror. She might actually have a Facebook account! She's mad enough... These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

AOL's users were not called customers or subscribers; they were members.

the iMac sold well to first-time computer buyers and unhappy PC users, with an impressive 32 percent of the sales going to first-timers and another 12 percent to "switchers.

We built something, we get feedback, we try to figure out what make sense out of the suggestions, and then we do something about it and then we listen some more." That is a great description of how Internet software is typically built today, with what is now called a "build-measure-learn" cycle, in which the users of a minimally useful service teach its creators what they want from them.

didn't keep all the files in one place like existing online music sites. Instead they stored them on the hard drives of millions of users across the Internet. Andy Oram, one of the editors at my publishing company, made the point to me that the architectural implications of these programs were more important than their business implications. (This is a history that has repeated itself fifteen years later with bitcoin and the blockchain.)

When information is contextualized, it becomes knowledge. When knowledge compels convictions, it becomes wisdom. Yet the internet inundates users with the opinions of thousands, even millions, of other users, depriving them of the solitude required for sustained reflection that, historically, has led to the development of convictions.

You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to help, whether that's a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you're building.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.