Stratechery
The BuzzFeed Lesson
9 min read · From 2019 · 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 · 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 · From 2019 · How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class
Reader View · Shared by 264, including Jeff Atwood, Taylor Lorenz @ VidCon, Gianluca Diegoli, Chris Messina, 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, Brian Roemmele, Christopher Lauer
The Atlantic
Incoming College Students Are Re-creating Facebook on Instagram
2 min read · From 2019 · 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 · From 2019 · The look made famous by the platform just doesn’t resonate anymore.
Reader View · Shared by 220, including Builtvisible, Ste Davies, Thomas Pleil, Jörgen Camrath, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, hiten.eth, Shawn Venasse, Matt Navarra, Raphael Raue, Marsha Collier, Oliver Reichenstein, Design Shack, Jan Firsching 🦦™️, Anthony Hamelle, Dominik Grolimund, Johannes Lenz, Christopher Lauer, fernand0, Javi Cantón, Taylor Lorenz @ VidCon
OneZero
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
8 min read · From 2019 · 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 · From 2019 · In recent years instagram.com has seen a lot of changes — we’ve launched stories, filters, creation tools, notifications, and direct…
Reader View · Shared by 117, including Elena Neira, Yannick D., Dawid Ferenczy Rogozan 🦇🇪🇺🇨🇿, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Jan Firsching 🦦™️, Chris Heilmann, Marius Bleuer, Helmi, 瑞拿頭, Matt, Zain Fathoni, Joe Lencioni
Gizmodo
Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly
~15 min read · From 2019 · 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,…
Reader View · Shared by 194, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Talkwalker, Harpreet Singh, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bas Grasmayer, Amy Jo Kim, Builtvisible, Andy Sporring 1️⃣6️⃣8️⃣ 🚢🚢🚢, Dominik Grolimund, Bjorn Larsen, Stephanie A Kowalski, Chris Messina, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Matt Navarra, Dr. Alec Couros, Jane, Thomas Power, Jan Firsching 🦦™️, Adam Tinworth, Mark Tabladillo PhD
Facebook Newsroom
Introducing Our New Company Brand
From 2019 · 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 · From 2019 · 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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