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John Battelle Biography

John Linwood Battelle (born November 4, 1965) is an entrepreneur, author and journalist. Best known for his work creating media properties, Battelle helped launch Wired in the 1990s and launched The Industry Standard during the dot-com boom. In 2005, he founded the online advertising network Federated Media Publishing. In January 2014, Battelle sold Federated Media Publishing's direct sales business to LIN Media and relaunched the company's programmatic advertising business from Lijit Networks to sovrn Holdings.

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Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

Industry, Rises, Stumbles

Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

Companies, Fun, Hope, Media, Who Cares

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

Fail, Failed, Failing, Google, Thing

The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.

Big, Factor, Like, Notebook, Phones, Smart

WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.

Advice, Easy, Site, Start

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

Closer, Dream, Google, Reality, Test

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

Become, Bills, Children, Poster, Saint, Tell

Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.

Inexpensive, Marketing, Provides, Search, Way

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

Increasingly, Marketing, Mechanism, Our World, Understand, World

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

1600S, Feudal, Feudal System, Play, Roles

The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens.

Garden, Internet, Old, Shrinking

It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.

Become, Given, Google, Ritual, Year End, Years