If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.

I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod.

If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.

Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.

The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.

I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.

Food is the new health care.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?

Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.

For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

Obviously, New York and Boston and Los Angeles have pretty vibrant entrepreneurial scenes.

I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.

I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.

Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

I learned from my past.

CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.

Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.

After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'

To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.

If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.