Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website. Mike McCue More Quotes by Mike McCue More Quotes From Mike McCue TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web. Mike McCue web new news way Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize. Mike McCue you journalism support space Let's leverage the power of the Web - don't get rid of it, but make the Web beautiful again. We need to give the content room to breathe and give magazine-style advertisements the opportunity to flourish. Mike McCue need power opportunity beautiful There are a lot of problems with the Web, but there are a lot of great things about it, too. Mike McCue problems things great great-things The iPad is creating a new format for reading content. One of the things that's happening as a result is the world of personalized news aggregators, which is a category that's been around for quite some time, is getting new life. Mike McCue reading time life world Personalized news aggregators are geared around connecting you to news sources; we're about connecting you to your friends. To people you're inspired by. To people that you're following on Facebook and Twitter. Mike McCue you friends news people One of the things that Flipboard is great at is certainly looking at the news in a realtime format, which a lot of the personal news aggregators don't really focus on, so you can see things right up to the minute. Mike McCue looking great you focus I think the screen size chosen for the iPad is perfect for publishers to render content beautifully, for games to be played. Mike McCue think size games perfect The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages. Mike McCue web long-time time long Kind of like Google crawls the Web, we crawl the social networks. Where Google analyzes links and Web pages, we look at the same thing with people. So we can tell, for example, who you interact with more frequently. Or if it's not frequency, maybe it's consistency. Mike McCue look you consistency people Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that. Mike McCue day great you thanksgiving
