“Amazing - success has nothing to do with Ajax, or cool stuff. It has everything to do with simplicity and giving users what they want.”

Om Malik on the market share of photo-sharing sites.

More wise words from Seth:

Great marketing pleases everyone on the team, sooner or later. But at the beginning, great marketing pleases almost no one. At the beginning, great marketing is counter-intuitive, non-obvious, challenging and apparently risky. Of course your friends, shareholders, stakeholders and bosses won’t like it. But they’re not doing the marketing, you are.