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Stratechery
The BuzzFeed Lesson
9 min · · 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 ™, #MuskOut (not parody), Oscar MacDonald, Taylor Pearson, Jan Firsching 🆒, Dominik Grolimund, Tom Connor, Ricky Yean, Mathew Ingram, Simon Wüthrich, Jeremy Caplan, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, kp, Jochen Burkhard, 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 · · 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 232, including Liv 😷, luis antónio santos, Mario Clemente, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, hiten.eth, Boris Baldinger, Fanzo, Chris Messina, Jan Firsching 🆒, 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 · · How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class · Shared by 267, including Jeff Atwood, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Gianluca Diegoli, Brian Roemmele, Mari Smith, anildash.com, Scott McLeod, Lydia Polgreen, Mark Kaigwa, Guy Kawasaki, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Luca Hammer, 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 · · 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 @javicanton@mas.to, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Balaji, Ines Bieler, Jan Firsching 🆒, Mark Kaigwa, Johannes Lenz, Damien Van Achter, Mari Smith, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Dominic Grzbielok, fernand0, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Liliane Ferrari ™, Bernhard Huessy, Matt Navarra, George M 🇪🇺
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The Atlantic
The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
6 min · · The look made famous by the platform just doesn’t resonate anymore. · Shared by 223, including Builtvisible, Dominik Grolimund, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Jörgen Camrath, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, hiten.eth, Shawn Venasse, Matt Navarra, Ste Davies, Marsha Collier, Oliver Reichenstein, Design Shack, Jan Firsching 🆒, Anthony Hamelle, Raphael Raue, Johannes Lenz, Christopher Lauer™, fernand0, Thomas Pleil, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com
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OneZero
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
8 min · · Why the dark forests of the internet — podcasts, newsletters, and other private channels — are growing, and why might that pose a problem · Shared by 219, including Tillmann Allmer, Azeem Azhar, Taylor Pearson, Ev, Tony Haile, Rhys, Mark Kaigwa, Chris Messina, Mathew Ingram, Jay Acunzo, Korben, Simon Carless, Thomas Power, Kent Bye (Voices of VR), M.G. Siegler, Johannes Lenz, Elad Gil, Gio Tiongson, Marko Saric, Howard Getson
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instagram-engineering.com
Making Instagram.com faster: Part 1
9 min · · 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 Jan Firsching 🆒, Yannick D., Dawid Ferenczy Rogozan 🦇🇪🇺🇨🇿, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Elena Neira, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Marius Bleuer, Helmi, 瑞拿頭, Matt, Zain Fathoni, Joe Lencioni
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Gizmodo
Why These Social Networks Failed So Badly
15+ min · · 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 336, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Talkwalker, Harpreet Singh, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Bas Grasmayer, Amy Jo Kim, Builtvisible, Andy Sporring - 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Essays, Dominik Grolimund, Jan Firsching 🆒, Stephanie A Kowalski, Chris Messina, Adam Tinworth, Matt Navarra, Dr. Alec Couros, Jane, Thomas Power, Bjorn Larsen, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, 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 172, including Mike Rundle, Jan Firsching 🆒, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz, Matt Navarra, Thomas Fuchs , Rene Ritchie, #MuskOut (not parody), Auf der Isar gibt es keine Matrosen, nur Flößer., Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Chris Messina, Rami Ismail (رامي), Smithographic℠, David Hellmann, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Jon Loomer, Michael Schär, Andrew Wilkinson
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The Correspondent
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
20+ min · · 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 397, including zeldman, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rutger Bregman, Chris Gledhill, Michael Bench-Capon, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Mathew Ingram, douglas rushkoff, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Nir Eyal, John Koetsier, front-end.social/@heydon, Contagious, Scott Berkun, Mark Little, Horace Dediu, Tadhg Kelly (also tiedtiger on BSky and Threads), Rob Markey, Douglas Burdett📚🎙️, Eric Seufert