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- What Snap is asking with Spotlight, the company’s own take on short-form video, is whether you can build an engine for culture that benefits many thousands of people, rather than hundreds. The company’s idea is to replace public follower counts, likes, and comments with something that more closely resembles a lottery — and at least through the end ... See more
from Snapchat's million-dollar idea by Casey Newton
- Twitter is taking its user base, which no one publication could realistically reach or monetize on its own, and re-distributing their subscription fee across publications that no one user could ever support individually.
from Market-Making on the Internet by Ben Thompson
- complex things come from the most elegant primitives
from A Q&A with Eugene Wei: The Timeline is Evolving by Colossus
- I was surprised. One of the hallmarks of the difference between American capitalism and capitalism in many emerging markets has been American capitalism is defined by the rule of law, by the absence of randomly exercised discretion and by predictability. And none of this seems consistent with those values. It was also very unclear what the rational... See more
from Larry Summers on Trump’s ‘Tragic Precedent,’ TikTok and Regulation by Jessica Lessin
That is perhaps the most solid dating advice I have, by the way—show the inside of your head in public, so people can see if they would like to live in there.
from Looking for Alice by Henrik Karlsson
- Yes, but it has not become that popular. Why is that? I would argue a lot of it is because there is no central namespace. The user experience with Mastodon is the same with RSS. You cannot just go by cdixon on Mastodon, you are cdixon at a server. A lot of why Twitter won is that, opposed to RSS, they had a global namespace. The problem with RSS an... See more
from Chris Dixon Thinks Web3 Is the Future of the Internet — Is It? - The Verge by Nilay Patel
- If Apple were structured as a worker-owned cooperative, the ownership stake of each of its 150,000 workers would be worth over $15m. On top of that, each employee would receive an annual dividend of over $400k. Ownership creates wealth, and its concentration helps create wealth inequality.
from Ways to improve the ownership economy — Mirror by Austin Robey
- Furthermore, I think future generations are going to be ridiculously good at working with AI to create cool things. Just like anyone under ~35 is considered to be “internet native,” today’s kids will be considered “AI native.”
from DALL·E 2 and the Origin of Vibe Shifts by Every
- Former executives say that a major competitive challenged emerged in the form of Instagram, which introduced 15-second video clips in June 2013. “Instagram video was the beginning of the end,” one former executive told me. “[Vine] didn’t move fast enough to differentiate.” Instagram courted celebrities with longer videos, eventually bumping the lim... See more
from Why Vine died by The Verge