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“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.”

Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

One of Web 2.0’s most crucial lessons is that extractive business models cannot be masked by marketing for very long. This is doubly true when the community itself is part of what people are paying for. Users will quickly turn on network operators if they sense hypocrisy or are given no voice in the development of the service. I am least optimistic... See more

Toby Shorin • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

One lesson learned building Behance to a community of 35M+ highly opinionated creative people: you don’t own a network, you are the steward of a network.

Scott Belsky • 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications

The Walk and Talk: Everything We Know

Craig Mod craigmod.com

A social network like Path attempted to limit your social graph size to the Dunbar number, capping your social capital accumulation potential and capping the distribution of your posts. The exchange, they hoped, was some greater transparency, more genuine self-expression. The anti-Facebook. Unfortunately, as social capital theory might predict,... See more

Remains of the Day • Status as a Service

Status as a Service

Remains of the Day eugenewei.com

In the Web2 era, platforms like Twitter and Facebook ran powerful but temporary versions of the “commoditize the complement” strategy early in their growth phase. By giving away their products and APIs for free, the platforms were able to attract invaluable social graphs and user data, which in turn helped attract an ecosystem of third-party... See more

Jesse Walden • Product vs. Protocol: Finding a Balance in Web3 – Variant

The Overedge Catalog: The Future of Research Organizations

arbesman.net

Brian Eno observes, “I had a large house once. Effectively it had infinite cheap storage. I’ve never been so miserable as when I found myself living among the unselected heaps of crap that I’d accumulated. I favor savage selection, but everyone making their own. That way you get a myriad of perspectives instead of one and instead of an