Pinboard: public bookmarks for iankennedy

The company’s lip-service defense of free speech is in practice a choice to collapse the distinction between disinformation and news-analysis. The right-wing narrative of social-media censorship is dishonest, but it has also been incredibly effective in pressuring platforms into accepting lies as opinion.

Facebook
10 weeks ago

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When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot For Humans?
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10 weeks ago

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Masayoshi Son’s secret to running his $100 billion fund: Telling start-ups to treat each other like family

Son holds dinners every few months with the CEOs of his investments to encourage them to partner with other companies he has invested in and conduct status checks on their businesses.

MasayoshiSon Softbank VC
10 weeks ago

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The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen

“What’s this?” Tim asked.
“This,” I said, “is the greatest sales deck I have ever seen.”

sales presentation
10 weeks ago

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Week in Review Leadership Comms | Lara Hogan
productivity productmanagement
11 weeks ago

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“I Was Devastated”: Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets | Vanity Fair
timbernerslee
july 2018

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AI at Google: our principles

google AI ethics
june 2018

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Mobile ad mediation’s new era: SDK bidding

Summary of mobile app ad tech stack today as it evolves towards true RTB.

adtech
june 2018

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Credit score ratings: Is artificial intelligence scoring more fair? — Quartz
AI machinelearning bias ethics discrimination credit
may 2018

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Thread by @noah_weiss on Product Management

Product Management isn’t a major one can study, few folks graduate into, and most people learn by apprenticeship.

productmanagement
may 2018

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Facebook Doesn't Make as Much Money as It Could—On Purpose

How Facebook's ad auction model is different, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves model

advertising algorithm facebook
may 2018

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Exclusive: Facebook Opens Up About False News

Facebook is today making three important announcements on false news, to which WIRED got an early and exclusive look. In addition, WIRED was able to sit down for a wide-ranging conversation with eight generally press-shy product managers and engineers who work on News Feed to ask detailed questions about the workings of the canals, dams, and rivers that they manage.

facebook fakenews nicholasthompson
may 2018

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Reporting in a Machine Reality: Deepfakes, misinformation, and what journalists can do about them - Columbia Journalism Review
journalism fakenews
may 2018

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Product Development Cycle Fundamentals

Popular, YC-recommend Product Management framework.

productmanagement
may 2018

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Japanese Animation Guide: The History of Robot Anime

The Japanese government commissioned a detailed report on the history of Japanese robot anime.

japan animation
april 2018

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The Flight Deal

Cheap flight packages

vacation airline
april 2018

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crowd-sourced ratings of all those click-wrap agreements you never read

legal
april 2018

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How Pizza Night Can Cost More in Data Than Dollars

Even a low-key evening at home can mean handing over a trove of personal information to high-tech companies

datamining privacy socialnetworks
april 2018

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A gentle introduction to self-sovereign identity

Today, we keep passports, birth certificates, utility bills at home under our own control, maybe in an “important drawer”, and we share them when needed. We don’t store these bits of paper with a third party. Self-sovereign identity is the digital equivalent of what we do with bits of paper now.

march 2018

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Increase funnel conversion with Psych

Elements of a webpage either inspire us by giving us more units of Psych or overwhelm us by depleting our existing store of Psych. Once you understand what elements are adding to or depleting users’ energy, you can then start to manage that energy: adding inspiration and minimizing overwhelm to help users take your core actions.

onboarding productmanagement
march 2018

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The Eternal Jukebox

For when your favorite song just isn’t long enough. This web app lets you search a song on Spotify and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song.

hacks music visualization
march 2018

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Inside Google’s plan to make the whole web as fast as AMP

Can the most contentious piece of the web form the basis of a new standard?

google amp
march 2018

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Looking Back at r/Place

In just 72 hours, over a million redditors placed 16.5 million tiles to transform a simple, white, 1000×1000-pixel canvas into a surprisingly beautiful clash of communities, nations, ideologies, and fandoms.

reddit culture
february 2018

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Facebook tells publishers to take it or leave it

Embedded with full interview with Campbell Brown and Adam Mosseri at Recode's Code Media conference.

facebook newsfeed AdamMosseri CampbellBrown
february 2018

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Inside the two years that shook Facebook - and the world

How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.

facebook nicholasthompson fredvogalstein
february 2018

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Operation Elop

The final years of Nokia’s mobile phone

stephenelop nokia finland
february 2018

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The Economy of Ideas

Why copyright is not the right concept in an age when ideas can be distributed at no cost.

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february 2018

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Cassidy's Tale

John Perry Barlow on Neal Cassady and the origin story of the Grateful Dead song, Cassidy.

johnperrybarlow nealcassady gratefuldead
february 2018

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Super Bowl LII Ad Tracker

Adweek’s Super Bowl LII Ad Tracker. Here you’ll find a frequently updated list of all the national (plus a few regional) commercials that will air during the Big Game on Feb. 4, along with details on the agencies that created them.

advertising superbowl
february 2018

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The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought

Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber?

uber
january 2018

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Wolff Trapped

profile of Michael Wolff

michaelwolff
january 2018

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A Saucy App Knows China’s Taste in News. The Censors Are Worried

According to Bytedance, every piece of content is automatically screened to check that it is acceptable before appearing on Toutiao. But once something has attracted more views, the system applies a more sophisticated screening algorithm. Certain material is also examined by humans as a final check.

Toutiao socialnetworks china Bytedance
january 2018

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Tech alone cannot defeat fake news

Ultimately, any cure will require the following: clever technical solutions to stop the spread of fake news; efforts to cut fake news publications from revenue sources; and legal sanctions against those that intentionally try to mislead the public, in order to shape public debate.

fakenews
january 2018

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Skin Motion

Tattoo a waveform

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january 2018

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THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN CONSULATE IN SAN FRANCISCO

Overflights, mapping fiber-optic networks, “strange activities.” Moscow’s West Coast spies were busy.

sanfrancisco russia spying
december 2017

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Pushed beyond breaking: US newsrooms use mobile alerts to define their brand

Findings from CJR research into newsroom’s use of push notifications.

push newsroom research
november 2017

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Remove the Legend to Become One
tufte excel infographics
november 2017

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The Best Interview Questions We've Ever Published

How to get the most out of an interview with a candidate

interview hiring
november 2017

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Really Good Emails

like pinterest for email design

emailmarketing design
november 2017

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Animal cafe listings
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october 2017

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Newsonomics: Tony Haile wants to build the TSA Pre✓ for how we consume news » Nieman Journalism Lab
news subscription businessmodel
september 2017

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How Engineers Work at Smartly.io

How to prevent silos.

productmanagement engineering organization culture
september 2017

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The Membership Puzzle Project

Research on how to make membership work as a business model.

media subscription businessmodel
september 2017

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Two Causes of Toxic Online Spaces (and some solutions) | Community Manager Musings

Evan Hamilton on community management best practices

community communitymanager
september 2017

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Glamping: Luxury Camping in Wine Country
gamping vacation napa
september 2017

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There's Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley

the political class can smell blood. That Zuckerberg campaign was, to the political world, blood in the water, a signal of a new vulnerability around his company and his industry.

politics amazon facebook technology google
september 2017

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Slack Engineering Blog : Introducing Highlights

high-level description of machine learning models used to predict what goes into a user's highlights

slack machinelearning
september 2017

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You Are the Product

London Review of Books on Facebook
The Attention Merchants: From the Daily Newspaper to Social Media, How Our Time and Attention Is Harvested and Sold by Tim Wu
Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine by Antonio García Martínez
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon have Cornered Culture and What It Means for All of Us by Jonathan Taplin

facebook
september 2017

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How to Detect Fake News in Real-Time

Advice to news platforms from the creator of Google News, Krishna Bharat

fakenews
august 2017

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How BuzzFeed News revealed hidden spy planes in US airspace

BuzzFeed News trained a computer to find them by letting a machine-learning algorithm sift for planes with flight patterns that resembled those operated by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

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august 2017

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So you want to continue playing soccer in college?

Checklist of how to prep for playing soccer in college

julia soccer
august 2017

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News You Can Use

Great for folks, who read their news on the go.

smartnews review
august 2017

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Why the scariest nuclear threat may be coming from inside the White House

Trump’s budget eliminates ARPA-E altogether. It also eliminates the spectacularly successful $70 billion loan program. It cuts funding to the national labs in a way that implies the laying off of 6,000 of their people. It eliminates all research on climate change. It halves the funding for work to secure the electrical grid from attack or natural disaster. “All the risks are science-based,” said John MacWilliams when he saw the budget. “You can’t gut the science. If you do, you are hurting the country. If you gut the core competency of the D.O.E., you gut the country.”

trump michaellewis nuclearwaste environment government
july 2017

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$9 Marketing Stack: A Step-by-Step Guide

Bare bones online toolkit to get started

toolkit startup marketing growthhacking
july 2017

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What happens when global expansion goes bad: A cautionary tale from Japan
business strategy gree
july 2017

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Checkology

Toolkit & online curriculum designed for high school teachers of news literacy.

fakenews teaching
july 2017

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Factitious

Maggie Farley and JoLT hacked together a game to test your ability to sniff out fake news.

fakenews game
july 2017

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iOS 11: The Ultimate App Store Guide

details on upcoming changes to the iOS app store layout

iOS iOS11 appstore aso
july 2017

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The Immortal Myths About Online Abuse

After building online communities for two decades, we’ve learned how to fight abuse. It’s a solvable problem. We just have to stop repeating the same myths as excuses not to fix things.

anildash communitymanager community abuse
july 2017

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Towards Bursting Filter Bubble via Contextual Risks and Uncertainties

Rikiya and Shunan propose a novel Bayesian model of uncertainty-aware scoring and ranking for news articles.

filterbubble Bayesian algorithm
july 2017

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A Sociology of the Smartphone
culture adamgreenfield mobile sociogy
july 2017

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Snapchat Shows: Inside the Plan to Reimagine TV for the Mobile Era

With Snapchat Shows, the company’s content team is seeking nothing less than to redefine the very experience of video entertainment on mobile devices.

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may 2017

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Alex Jones Will Never Stop Being Alex Jones

Take a kernel of truth, warp it and its context in a funhouse mirror, and set it against a heavy backdrop of conspiracy, while raising the stakes with a generous dose of fear. The strategy has made Jones — a stocky central Texan with a penchant for clamorous outbursts, fanciful digressions, and meandering stream-of-consciousness monologues — a celebrity.

AlexJones celebrity politics
may 2017

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Questions to ask as a new designer on the team

Written for designers but appropriate for product managers too.

productmanagement
april 2017

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Inside Mark Zuckerberg's controversial decision to turn down Yahoo's $1 billion early offer to buy Facebook
yahoo andygrove markzuckerberg facebook
april 2017

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Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear

Fake news is too big and messy to solve with algorithms or editors — because the problem is….us.

danahboyd fakenews
april 2017

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Facebook's moonshots: Making brains type and skin hear

The social network finally unveils what its secretive Building 8 hardware lab has been working on for the past year. Communication might never be the same.

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april 2017

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Facebook and the cost of monopoly

Last year, before Facebook realized it could just leverage its network to squash Snap, Mark Zuckerberg spent most of his presentation laying out a long-term vision for all the areas in which Facebook wanted to innovate. This year couldn’t have been more different: there was no vision, just the wholesale adoption of Snap’s, plus a whole bunch of tech demos that never bothered to tell a story of why they actually mattered for Facebook’s users.

facebook f8 BenThompson
april 2017

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Climbing Out Of Facebook's Reality Hole

Mat Honan is pessimistic about Facebook's grip on reality

facebook f8 MatHonan
april 2017

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Too poor to retire, too young to die

Stories of older generation that has lost everything and hit the road to survive.

retirement budget travel
april 2017

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The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley reengineered journalism

25,000 words on how media is using (and being used) on major digital distribution platforms.