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Facebook's Little Red Book Remastered.pdf
drive.google.comIn June 2012, Facebook launched FBX, an ad exchange that allowed advertisers to buy retargeted desktop ads using third-party tools like Criteo and AppNexus. The idea was to revolutionize online marketing and a chance to compete with google , which earns $10 billion from the Americas alone.
Sriram Krishnan • Andrew Bosworth on FB ads
And finally, adding the personalized Newsfeed was the killer app that FB needed to truly become endemic. This transformed the platform into the perfect dopamine storm; users logged in and experienced the optimal confluence of a social inbox + voyeurism + curated news + validation
Chris Rempel • PART 1: THE INTERNET IS HAVING A KODAK MOMENT
located two Facebook datasets, one small and one large (and, no, they didn’t get either of them from Cambridge Analytica . . . both are publicly available), and downloaded a large sample of Twitter traffic (if you know how to do this, it is easy to do and, because Twitter is publicly accessible, it is perfectly legal).
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Messaging apps, in contrast, tend to allow users themselves to form the subgroups most relevant to them. Facebook Groups is a more flexible architecture than News Feed. Humans contain multitudes, and social apps should flex to their various communication privacy needs.
Eugene Wei • And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
These algorithms gave every user a unique version of Facebook; so while there was only one version of CBS Evening News in 1962, there were a billion versions of Facebook in 2012.
Eshita Nandini • Audio-First: Becoming the Next Player in Social Media
"Facebook did not actually build all the pieces necessary to make it possible for you to post to their app. Instead, they use free, public code, made available on the Internet by volunteers for anybody to use."
Ford Foundation • The unseen labor begind our digital infrastructure
Facebook Book
v1.benbarry.com
Forecast, a new project from Facebook’s internal R&D group, NPE Team, is launching today to build a community around predictions. The iOS app will allow users to ask questions and then use in-app points to make predictions about what might happen in the future. Users can also create, discuss and view these crowdsourced predictions.