“I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.” WorldGivingBigsWantedCitiesInformationHappeningsFlowScreensBagsMapsPackagesTransfersBig Screen Author:Jack Dorsey
“I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.” LongSaidRealityCitiesLong TimeInstantFeedbackLong Time AgoTwitter And FacebookFoursquareAnnotation Author:Jack Dorsey
“I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.” PeopleIdeasIndividualActingKeysConceptsOrganizationFollowingTopicsTweet Author:Jack Dorsey
“It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I''m having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.” MatterThirdsCoffeeProvidingVersusInvitationsRailFoursquare Author:Jack Dorsey
“The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.” KnowsWantFirstsShareMissingStupidBrotherEatingDown AndUselessMy BrotherControlledLunchYou ChooseComplaintsUseless Things Author:Jack Dorsey
“The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.” PeopleWayEasyOffersPhonesEnginesGlancesTransparencyEasy WaySearch Engine Author:Jack Dorsey
“TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.” PeopleWorldEnjoyInterestingViewsInformationAmountMassiveClientsVery Interesting Author:Jack Dorsey
“Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.” PeopleWorldRealTodayFormAcceptingCommunicationHappeningsCreditCardsPocketsAllowingSquaresPaymentCredit CardVisualizingTimes Square Author:Jack Dorsey
“What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.” ThinkingAbleInterestingInspireToolsAccess Author:Jack Dorsey
