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Speaking as a creator, the crucial ownership question in a social network is not whether I own my content (and can take it with me) nor whether I own my subscriber list and can take them somewhere else, but whether the network will give me more subscribers. That’s the value.

"AAA game’s marketing budget is ~75-100% of its development cost. In mobile, it’s not uncommon to ... set aside three to ten times the development budget for marketing..." Interesting to ponder how aligned incentives are changing marketing realities

Like mass media and mass commerce, the average university is on the brink of collapse. Its structure is a rotting legacy of the Industrial Age. For years, anybody who wanted to learn on their own lacked the means to do so. Now, anybody with an internet connection has access to information. Harvard and Stanford will be okay, but dark days are ahead ... See more

DuckDuckGo is a free, privacy-focused search engine which is one take on that and does 100M search queries daily and has roughly a 2% share in the search market in the US. It does also have a keyword-based ad model, but does not personalize or target search results or ads other than based on the search term.