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bringing together creators and audiences

Development framework: One of the most basic requirements for any platform is that it must allow third-party developers to leverage the platform’s capabilities to create software products for platform users.

After the current display of consumption-as-resilience subsides, we’ll see less emphasis on artifacts — goods, clothes, and consumables.

Unlike its previous shoes, the company says Cyclon is 100% recyclable, made largely with a bio-polymer derived from castor beans. Also unlike its previous shoes, you won’t be able to buy Cyclon — you can only subscribe to them as a $30 monthly service.

Humans are special animals when it comes to information, because unlike other species, we have developed an enormous ability to encode large volumes of information outside our bodies. Naively, we can think of this information as the information we encode in books, sheet music, audio recordings, and video. Yet for longer than we have been able to... See more

This chart also gets to the heart of the challenges of being a content publisher: publishing content is expensive, requiring a significant investment in people (journalists, videographers, artists, etc.) or a significant payout to content creators. This leads to lower margins for content publishers relative to content platforms. The New York Times... See more