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Stratechery
The BuzzFeed Lesson
9 min read · · The lesson of BuzzFeed is that dominant Aggregators like Facebook have no incentive to act against their self interest and support suppliers. · Shared by 192, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Jochen Burkhard, #MuskOut (not parody), Taylor Pearson, Jan Firsching 🦦 @JFI@mastodon.social, Dominik Grolimund, Oscar MacDonald, Ricky Yean, Mathew Ingram, Simon Wüthrich, Jeremy Caplan, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, kp, Tom Connor, ThomNagy, fernand0, Gianluca Diegoli, Richard Joerges, Jane Friedman, hiten.eth
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chartable.com
Here's why we're entering the Golden Age of Podcasts (in 10 graphs)
9 min read · · 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… · Shared by 167, including Liv 😷, luis antónio santos, Mario Clemente, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, hiten.eth, Boris Baldinger, Fanzo 🧢 11.11.22, Chris Messina, Jan Firsching 🦦 @JFI@mastodon.social, Korben, Stefan Diepolder, Thomas Power, Ryan Hoover, Rand Fishkin, philipptemmel, Damien Van Achter, Ines Bieler, Nichole, Jeremy Caplan, Steve "ardalis" Smith
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The Atlantic
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs
3 min read · · How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class · Shared by 264, including Jeff Atwood, SUBSCRIBE TO MY SUBSTACK, Gianluca Diegoli, Brian Roemmele, Mari Smith, anildash, Scott McLeod, Lydia Polgreen, Mark Kaigwa, Guy Kawasaki, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Nick Lüthi, Contagious, Ryan Hoover, hiten.eth, Matt Navarra, Mike Davidson, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, Christopher Lauer
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The Atlantic
Incoming College Students Are Re-creating Facebook on Instagram
2 min read · · Class accounts are a way for incoming freshmen to make friends, find roommates, and suss out colleges before fall. · Shared by 122, including luis antónio santos, Mathew Ingram, Javi Cantón, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Balaji, Ines Bieler, Jan Firsching 🦦 @JFI@mastodon.social, Mark Kaigwa, Johannes Lenz, Damien Van Achter, Mari Smith, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Dominic Grzbielok, fernand0, SUBSCRIBE TO MY SUBSTACK, Liliane Ferrari ™, Bernhard Huessy, Matt Navarra, George M 🇪🇺
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The Atlantic
The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
6 min read · · The look made famous by the platform just doesn’t resonate anymore. · Shared by 222, including Builtvisible, Dominik Grolimund, Javi Cantón, Jörgen Camrath, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, hiten.eth, Shawn Venasse, Matt Navarra, Ste Davies, Marsha Collier, Oliver Reichenstein, Design Shack, Jan Firsching 🦦 @JFI@mastodon.social, Anthony Hamelle, Raphael Raue, Johannes Lenz, Christopher Lauer, fernand0, Thomas Pleil, SUBSCRIBE TO MY SUBSTACK
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OneZero
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
8 min read · · Why the dark forests of the internet — podcasts, newsletters, and other private channels — are growing, and why might that pose a problem · Shared by 216, including Tillmann Allmer, Azeem Azhar, Taylor Pearson, Ev, Tony Haile, Rhys Lindmark, Mark Kaigwa, Elad Gil, Mathew Ingram, Jay Acunzo, Korben, Simon Carless, Thomas Power, Kent Bye VoicesOfVR, M.G. Siegler, Johannes Lenz, Chris Messina, Gio Tiongson, Marko Saric, Howard Getson
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instagram-engineering.com
Making Instagram.com faster: Part 1
9 min read · · In recent years instagram.com has seen a lot of changes — we’ve launched stories, filters, creation tools, notifications, and direct… · Shared by 117, including Elena Neira, Yannick D., Dawid Ferenczy Rogozan 🦇🇪🇺🇨🇿, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Jan Firsching 🦦 @JFI@mastodon.social, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Marius Bleuer, Helmi also on 🐘, 瑞拿頭, Matt, Zain Fathoni, Joe Lencioni
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Gizmodo
Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly
~15 min read · · 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,… · Shared by 193, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Talkwalker, Harpreet Singh, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bas Grasmayer, Amy Jo Kim, Builtvisible, Andy Sporring 3️⃣2️⃣1️⃣🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢, Dominik Grolimund, Jan Firsching 🦦 @JFI@mastodon.social, Stephanie A Kowalski, Chris Messina, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Matt Navarra, Dr. Alec Couros, Jane, Thomas Power, Bjorn Larsen, Adam Tinworth ☕️, Mark Tabladillo PhD
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Facebook Newsroom
Introducing Our New Company Brand
· We’re updating our company branding to be clearer about the products that come from Facebook. · Shared by 173, including Mike Rundle, Jan Firsching 🦦 @JFI@mastodon.social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Katja Evertz, Matt Navarra, Thomas Fuchs ⎷ Official ⎷ Final ⎷ Final2 ⎷ V2.1, Rene Ritchie, #MuskOut (not parody), Auf der Isar gibt es keine Matrosen, nur Flößer., Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Chris Messina, Andrew Wilkinson, Smith @ mastodon.online/@smithographic, David Hellmann, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Jon Loomer, Michael Schär, Rami Ismail (رامي)
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The Correspondent
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
20+ min read · · 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… · Shared by 386, including zeldman, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rutger Bregman, Mathew Ingram, Tadhg Kelly, John Koetsier, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth, douglas rushkoff, Rob Markey, Nir Eyal, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, mastodon.social/@heydon, Horace Dediu, Eric Seufert, Contagious, Mark Kaigwa, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Mark Little, Scott Berkun, Douglas Burdett
