The BuzzFeed Lesson
Stratechery
9 min read · 186 saves · 2019-01-28 · Ben Thompson · The lesson of BuzzFeed is that dominant Aggregators like Facebook have no incentive to act against their self interest and support suppliers.
Here's why we're entering the Golden Age of Podcasts (in 10 graphs)
chartable.com
9 min read · 153 saves · 2019-02-20 · 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…
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs
The Atlantic
3 min read · 257 saves · 2019-03-14 · How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class
Incoming College Students Are Re-creating Facebook on Instagram
The Atlantic
1 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.
The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
The Atlantic
5 min read · 211 saves · 2019-04-23 · The look made famous by the platform just doesn’t resonate anymore.
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
OneZero
7 min read · 207 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
Making Instagram.com faster: Part 1
instagram-engineering.com
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…
Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly
Gizmodo
~14 min read · 191 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,…
Introducing Our New Company Brand
Facebook Newsroom
172 saves · 2019-11-04 · We’re updating our company branding to be clearer about the products that come from Facebook.
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
The Correspondent
20+ min read · 347 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…
