Stratechery
The BuzzFeed Lesson
9 min read · 187 saves · From 2019 · Ben Thompson · The lesson of BuzzFeed is that dominant Aggregators like Facebook have no incentive to act against their self interest and support suppliers.
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chartable.com
Here's why we're entering the Golden Age of Podcasts (in 10 graphs)
9 min read · 153 saves · From 2019 · Spotify's acquisition of Gimlet Media and Anchor signals the beginning of the Golden Age of Podcasts. It's the culmination of many trends: More listeners, more content, more kinds of content, more…
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The Atlantic
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs
3 min read · 258 saves · 2019-03-14 · How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class
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The Atlantic
Incoming College Students Are Re-creating Facebook on Instagram
2 min read · 117 saves · 2019-04-08 · Class accounts are a way for incoming freshmen to make friends, find roommates, and suss out colleges before fall.
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The Atlantic
The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
6 min read · 212 saves · 2019-04-23 · The look made famous by the platform just doesn’t resonate anymore.
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OneZero
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
8 min read · 211 saves · 2019-05-20 · Yancey Strickler · Why the dark forests of the internet — podcasts, newsletters, and other private channels — are growing, and why might that pose a problem
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instagram-engineering.com
Making Instagram.com faster: Part 1
9 min read · 115 saves · 2019-08-01 · Glenn Conner · In recent years instagram.com has seen a lot of changes — we’ve launched stories, filters, creation tools, notifications, and direct…
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Gizmodo
Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly
~15 min read · 192 saves · 2019-08-19 · Whitney Kimball · Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity, down a road paved with corporate blunders, littered with yesterday’s top 8 friends,…
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Facebook Newsroom
Introducing Our New Company Brand
172 saves · 2019-11-04 · We’re updating our company branding to be clearer about the products that come from Facebook.
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The Correspondent
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
20+ min read · 356 saves · 2019-11-06 · In 2018 $273bn was spent on digital ads globally. We delve into the world of clicks, banners and keywords to find out if any of it is real. What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital…
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