People are learning the wrong lessons from the Facebook Papers
Recent Facebook leaks have prompted an avalanche of suggestions for fixing social media ’s negative effects on society.
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How to Fix Social Media
Around two o’clock in the afternoon on October 30, 1973, a disc jockey at the New York City radio station WBAI played a track called “Filthy Words” from…
Super apps – The platform for the post-app era
The world’s largest social media companies could evolve into super apps over the next few years. They will be able to facilitate a greater number of…
A Five-Minute Guide to Clubhouse
Not many know about Clubhouse , which is an invitation-only audio-based chat app. The app is an iOS app based on voice and allows people worldwide to chat…
The two sides of the Clubhouse coin: does exclusivity equal elitism?
In the era of social media, it naturally invokes a lot of excitement when a new platform takes off and starts shaping our common online space.
Proximity Chat
During the pandemic we’ve gotten used to a primarily virtual social and work life. Meetings take place on platforms like Zoom or Jitsi and are working…
WhatsApp will let you shop directly from chats | Engadget
Facebook is extending WhatsApp with shopping features. While WhatsApp has had cataloge features in the past, they appear to be limited to that what…
Daring Fireball: Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy
John Gruber from Daring Fireball gives a very good description of how online ad tracking would work in the physical world: Imagine if you were out…
iOS 14 privacy settings will tank ad targeting business, Facebook warns | Ars Technica
cache hit 1167:single/related:d5f16d9fcf20b60755becc1a3f964ce4 emp The imminent changes of the privacy settings of the iOS 14 will severely limit…
On the potential Impact of banning Political Ads on Social Media
Worth reading: this Wired article that discusses the potential impact of banning political ads on social media.