Dennis Crowley Quotes

Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences.

Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

Google likely never cared if Google+ 'won' as a competitor to Facebook (though if it did, that would have been a nice bonus). All that mattered, in the end, was whether Plus became the connective tissue between all of Google's formerly scattered services. And in a few short years, it's fair to say it has.

While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.

You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social service that makes your life better.

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that.

The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible.

Highlight just hasn't proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.

Twitter wasn't a big thing even on 'Inception;' it certainly wasn't on 'The Dark Knight.'

Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.

I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.

Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

This younger generation that's around, that's tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.

The problem with Myspace was always that it was never as strong a product as it needed to be. It left itself vulnerable to competition. It was only a matter of time before someone created something better.

You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.

I wouldn't single out Facebook as a concern, because we've got different local competitors around the world.