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Kyle Chayka • 🟧 Aggregation theory
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Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
Dave smartly built a list of his most valued customers. You controlled it. That means Dave is no longer dependent on any third party service like Groupon, Google, or Facebook.
Frankie Fihn • Beyond the Agency Box
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The original version of Discover Weekly was supposed to include only songs that users had never listened to before. But in its first internal test at Spotify, a bug in the algorithm let through songs that users had already heard. “Everyone reported it as a bug, and we fixed it so that every single song was totally new,” Ogle told me.But after Ogle’... See more
Derek Thompson • The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything
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