Here’s an interesting Q&A with Piper Jaffray’s lead Internet analyst Safa Rashtchy in which he talks about why Google is the most important company in the user revolution. This is because Google puts users at the center of everything and makes it possible for them to manage information the way they want. This is distinct from portals, which assumed a lower level of user knowledge and so organized everything for them.

He also talks about how kids communicate differently from adults. Sharing photos and videos is fun for them and they multitask when they communicate. I noticed this on a plane the other day. I was surrounded by teenagers and all of them were engaged with some kind of electronic device all the time. Yet they were chatting with each other without removing the earphones from their ears. Kids today are incredibly nimble in the way they manage technology. There is a huge difference between them and their parents in this respect.