Consumer Social
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Consumer Social
Add it all up, and the social web is changing in three crucial ways: It’s going from public to private; it’s shifting from growth and engagement, which broadly involves building good products that people like, to increasing revenue no matter the tradeoff; and it’s turning into an entertainment business. It turns out there’s no money in connecting... See more
David Pierce • So Where Are We All Supposed to Go Now?
How The Snapchat Redesign Could Affect The Stock [Originally published Dec 4th, 2017]
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Critical Q for consumer social founders: are you building a content or context network?
The answer should drive your choice of KPIs, growth strategy, and resource allocation. Here's why 👇
The Value of a Velvet Rope: Effects of Hype and Exclusivity on Launch Strategies
Gaby Goldbergfemstreet.substack.com
Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)
youtube.comLunch Club
lunchclub.ai
pretty clear that collecting cultural ephemera is a new consumer behavior that’s going to become a core part of life on the internet
Liked Tweetstwitter.comOne thing that complicates people’s willingness to devote their energy to vibrancy is context collapse, a term that Alice Marwick and I coined long ago. When a social media site grows slow and steady, it starts out for each user as a coherent context. Things get dicy over time as people struggle to figure out how to navigate divergent networks. But... See more