A Q&A with Eugene Wei: The Timeline is Evolving
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A Q&A with Eugene Wei: The Timeline is Evolving
- The answer, I believe, has significant implications for the future of cross-border tech competition, as well as for understanding how product developers achieve product-market-fit. The rise of TikTok updated my thinking. It turns out that in some categories, a machine learning algorithm significantly responsive and accurate can pierce the veil of c... See more
from TikTok and the Sorting Hat by eugenewei.com
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- I think it’s the same with social networks like Facebook and Instagram, everything. At the level of scale that they’re at now, the status game and the sense of progression is going to be way different than it was when they were just starting out.
from Status Games: Engineering Scarcity in a World of Abundance by Eugene Wei
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And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep — Remains of the Day
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- Facebook had a growth mantra of “7 friends in 10 days” that made the product sticky for new users, but TikTok doesn’t require any friends, followers, or even an account. The hyper-personalized algorithm recommends content based on thousands of objects and tags analyzed in each individual video, along with an individual user's view history, re-watch... See more
from The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance by Turner Novak
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- Innovating within an existing platform is always a challenge, because as media theorist Marshall McLuhan argued decades ago, ‘the medium is the message’. TikTok and Twitter/X have short-form content built into the design of the platform, which prevents depth. As I explore in The Bigger Picture, this also leads to what philosopher C. Thi Nguyen call... See more
from Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It by Alexander Beiner
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More generally across the next generation of social apps, the traditional social graph will continue to become less relevant as TikTok-like AI-powered algorithmic feeds determine what we see based on what we like. However, I am on the lookout for hybrid solutions that leverage both social graphs alongside AI-powered editing and curation.
from 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications by Scott Belsky
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- It's hard to get around that, but the way you can do it is if you build in utility. And I think that is largely because advertising was a hell of a drug for these companies for so long. That is why all these big internet advertising platforms were slow to become marketplaces, because it would have a temporary negative financial impact. Th... See more
from Security Error | Columbia Business School by Gavin Baker
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- I think there's this idealized version of modern interactions where, especially in the context of startups, where there's this idea that you'll make something, you'll drop it or release it, and then you'll distribute it to thousands and millions of people. And I think what's actual, and the thing that's much more effortful, but much more human too,... See more
from Plexus Voices
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