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John Battelle is a renowned author and entrepreneur known for his profound insights into digital media and the internet. Born on November 4, 1965, he has written extensively on a variety of topics ranging from business strategy to technological trends.

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“The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.”

Way Want Feels Bigs Form Smart Size Phones Factors Right Way Notebook Nexus

Author:John Battelle

“Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.”

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“WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.”

Easy Advice Site Wordpress

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“The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.”

Internet Garden Replaced Shrinking

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“Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.”

Children I Can Bills Saint Gates Philanthropy Rebirth Posters Patron

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“Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.”

Care Fun Company Media Sells Who Cares

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“It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.”

Knows World Want Years Ends Given Complaining Ritual Google Shallow Publish Summary Year End

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“Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.”

World Marketing Our World Mechanism

Book:The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

Source: The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

“Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.”

Want Dream Reality Built Tests Google Infrastructure Rorschach Rorschach Test

Author:John Battelle

“Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.”

Way Method Marketing Decades Efficient Inexpensive

Book:The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

Source: The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

“The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.”

Book:The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

Source: The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

“We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.”

Play Roles Our Lives Corporations Theocracy Feudal System

Author:John Battelle

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Born: November 4, 1965
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