QOTD: Twitter CEO @ev says GFW will fall

The Internet is a tidal wave that you will not be able to keep out. Like in China, who knows how long those firewalls will hold up – but not forever. We’re just realizing the promise of the Internet. It’s about democratization of information.

At SXSW in Austin, Texas. Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams did a keynote Q&A with Umair Haque. He said that notorious censorship firewalls in countries such as China will give way to online innovations. He also has spoken about a new feature for Twitter. It's @anywhere platform and allows other websites to link to Twitter feeds.

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QOTD: The Return of Steve Jobs, and His Ice Cream

I probably need to gain about 30 pounds, but I feel really good. I’m eating like crazy. A lot of ice cream.
At the start of the event today Steve Jobs received a standing ovation from the assembled crowd, and took a moment to thank everybody for their support and encourage us all to be as generous as the organ donor who saved his life. People are glad to have him back, and asked him how he’s feeling these days — another question on everybody’s mind. he said.

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QOTD: Qin Gang, Foreign Ministry Spokesman

Stand your ground firmly. Your bottom decides where your brain is.
In response to a question by a journalist on what principles he follows when answering questions from Chinese and foreign media. He added that a spokesman "first must be loyal to the motherland and people, and second he needs to grasp policies comprehensively and with familiarity." With these two skills, there are "no difficult questions that cannot be answered."

Source: China Digital Times (GFWed)

 

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QOTD: Steve Jobs is Back at Work

Steve Jobs is back to work. He is at Apple a few days a week and working from home the other days, We're glad to have him back.
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said.

There have been lots of Steve Jobs sightings at Apple last week, but it's finally official that he's back at work. Jobs's return may do little to quell the tech community's obsession with his health and future role at the hip tech company. Bloggers and tech-news writers are asking many questions about Jobs' return, including: Would Apple be fine without its famous chief executive? What does Jobs' health mean for Apple stock? And why has Jobs' health been such a drooled-over story? Whatever, as an apple fans that was a good news.

Welcome back, Steve!

via CNN

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QOTD: Yahoo CEO Drops F-Bomb At D7

Are we leading up to ‘I’m both too old and too stupid to know what the Internet is?’ Cause by the way, Walt Mossberg is 61 and I’m only 60. So... fuck you.
Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz has already dropped an F-bomb on stage at the WSJ's D7 conference, In a discussion with Kara Swisher about whether Bartz is too old to understand the Internet, Bartz said

 

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QOTD: What Larry Page thinks about Twitter?

I have always thought we needed to index the web every second to allow real time search. At first, my team laughed and did not believe me. Now they know they have to do it. Not everybody needs sub-second indexing but people are getting pretty excited about realtime.

 

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QOTD: "Copy to China" Model

DOTCOMS in China have long been known for shamelessly stealing the business models—and sometimes the visual appearance—of popular American websites and simply recreating them in Chinese (known as the “copy to China” model). This approach has spawned copies of Facebook, YouTube, eBay and other well-known sites. But many Chinese sites do more than just copy, tweaking existing models to adapt them to local customs or values.

 

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