“Even today this spoiled brat [instant messenger] doesn’t interoperate properly leaving its users on their little Bubble 1.0 branded islands.

“Those of you who think you are creating online content, take note: your success will be directly dependent on your ability to create excuses for people to talk to one another. The real measure of content’s quality is its ability to serve as a medium.

“‘Objects of sociability’ are the future of marketing.

“Me.dium transforms solitary web surfing into a social activity. I can see what sites my friends are on in real time, click over to that page, open a chat box with that friend, and start a IM conversation.

“..we should seriously consider public infrastructure as the backbone for social networking. Just as we have funded roads and airports, we need to provide safe and open platforms for online community forming.

“Web 2.0 is the messy way that the Semantic Web is actually happening.

“Zawinski’s law for the web: Every website expands until it becomes a social network. Websites that cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

“I would actually be more willing to type in my bank account password [into a facebook page] than my Google account password.

“Nihilism says, `Extreme positions are self-refuting.’