The web in its current state is like a city without public spaces. People can only interact in places owned by someone else, and a small group of landlords captures an oversized share of all economic activity.
Alongside high profile successes — such as best-selling cookbooks, as well as partnerships with major American retail giants [Walmart] and [Macy’s] — BuzzFeed is also helping to design products for other companies. It’s an approach that some UK publishers — like [Hearst UK], [Jungle Creations] and [Highsnobiety] — are [also pursuing]. In BuzzFeed’s... See more
the game of social media is to keep us creating assets that depreciate in hours. If they took months to depreciate, we wouldn’t use the platform as much. But because it’s hours, we “need” to spend more and more and more and more of our time on the platform for it to work for us.