Wensing, M.

The public’s online appetite for weather cannot be overstated. According to a Scarborough Research study, 36.5% of adults went to the Internet for weather info in the past month, behind only e-mail (62.6%) and ahead of news (33.6%).

The key focus should be on exposing lots of the right people to your fantastic product experience.

Show me a site that has great visual appeal, and I’ll guarantee that they don’t A/B test.

Several of the critiques began with a user model that described users as superficial, impatient, and inefficient managers of information. What users are impatient about is low-content throughput and space-hogging admin debris, commercials, and lousy interface design.

Palm and RIM haven’t a hope. The only credible contender is Android. But Android is an orphan; Google doesn’t really care about it, not the way Apple cares about the iPhone. Apple cares about the iPhone the way Google cares about search.

I no longer see the point in debating the definition of journalism. I’m interested in building products that improve people’s lives via information. Whether somebody calls that “journalism” is utterly uninteresting.

It is imperative to understand ways in which a smaller private company can gain the upper hand on a large incumbent. One of the most successful ways to do this is to change the rules of the game in such a way that the incumbent would need to abandon or destroy its core business in order to lay chase to your strategy.

Building something users love to come back to is the best predictor of success.

What if we invested money and resources into improving the first user experience … ? Once you have an established product or service, it becomes incredibly hard to take that leap of faith. If you don’t solve this problem early, it may never be solved.

One of my tricks for scaling [mentor relationships] is to keep all the state on the client. E.g. I tell the startup “remember to tell me x next time we talk.