Terms of Service; Didn't Read
5 hours ago
crowd-sourced ratings of all those click-wrap agreements you never read
legal
5 hours ago
How Pizza Night Can Cost More in Data Than Dollars
8 days ago
Even a low-key evening at home can mean handing over a trove of personal information to high-tech companies
datamining
privacy
socialnetworks
8 days ago
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.
28 days ago
Increase funnel conversion with Psych
4 weeks ago
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
4 weeks ago
The Eternal Jukebox
4 weeks ago
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
4 weeks ago
Inside Google’s plan to make the whole web as fast as AMP
6 weeks ago
Can the most contentious piece of the web form the basis of a new standard?
google
amp
6 weeks ago
Looking Back at r/Place
8 weeks ago
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
8 weeks ago
Facebook tells publishers to take it or leave it
9 weeks ago
Embedded with full interview with Campbell Brown and Adam Mosseri at Recode's Code Media conference.
facebook
newsfeed
adammosseri
campbellbrown
9 weeks ago
Inside the two years that shook Facebook - and the world
9 weeks ago
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
facebook
9 weeks ago
The Economy of Ideas
9 weeks ago
Why copyright is not the right concept in an age when ideas can be distributed at no cost.
ideas
johnperrybarlow
copyright
9 weeks ago
Cassidy's Tale
9 weeks ago
John Perry Barlow on Neal Cassady and the origin story of the Grateful Dead song, Cassidy.
johnperrybarlow
nealcassady
gratefuldead
9 weeks ago
Super Bowl LII Ad Tracker
11 weeks ago
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
11 weeks ago
The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought
12 weeks ago
Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber?
uber
12 weeks ago
A Saucy App Knows China’s Taste in News. The Censors Are Worried
january 2018
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
Tech alone cannot defeat fake news
january 2018
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
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN CONSULATE IN SAN FRANCISCO
december 2017
Overflights, mapping fiber-optic networks, “strange activities.” Moscow’s West Coast spies were busy.
sanfrancisco
russia
spying
december 2017
Pushed beyond breaking: US newsrooms use mobile alerts to define their brand
november 2017
Findings from CJR research into newsroom’s use of push notifications.
push
newsroom
research
november 2017
The Best Interview Questions We've Ever Published
november 2017
How to get the most out of an interview with a candidate
interview
hiring
november 2017
How Engineers Work at Smartly.io
september 2017
How to prevent silos.
productmanagement
engineering
organization
culture
september 2017
The Membership Puzzle Project
september 2017
Research on how to make membership work as a business model.
media
subscription
businessmodel
september 2017
Two Causes of Toxic Online Spaces (and some solutions) | Community Manager Musings
september 2017
Evan Hamilton on community management best practices
community
communitymanager
september 2017
There's Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley
september 2017
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
Slack Engineering Blog : Introducing Highlights
september 2017
high-level description of machine learning models used to predict what goes into a user's highlights
slack
machinelearning
september 2017
You Are the Product
september 2017
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
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
september 2017
How to Detect Fake News in Real-Time
august 2017
Advice to news platforms from the creator of Google News, Krishna Bharat
fakenews
august 2017
How BuzzFeed News revealed hidden spy planes in US airspace
august 2017
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.
machinelearning
faa
datajournalism
august 2017
So you want to continue playing soccer in college?
august 2017
Checklist of how to prep for playing soccer in college
julia
soccer
august 2017
Why the scariest nuclear threat may be coming from inside the White House
july 2017
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
$9 Marketing Stack: A Step-by-Step Guide
july 2017
Bare bones online toolkit to get started
toolkit
startup
marketing
growthhacking
july 2017
Checkology
july 2017
Toolkit & online curriculum designed for high school teachers of news literacy.
fakenews
teaching
july 2017
Factitious
july 2017
Maggie Farley and JoLT hacked together a game to test your ability to sniff out fake news.
fakenews
game
july 2017
The Immortal Myths About Online Abuse
july 2017
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
Towards Bursting Filter Bubble via Contextual Risks and Uncertainties
july 2017
Rikiya and Shunan propose a novel Bayesian model of uncertainty-aware scoring and ranking for news articles.
filterbubble
Bayesian
algorithm
july 2017
Snapchat Shows: Inside the Plan to Reimagine TV for the Mobile Era
may 2017
With Snapchat Shows, the company’s content team is seeking nothing less than to redefine the very experience of video entertainment on mobile devices.
snapchat
video
may 2017
Alex Jones Will Never Stop Being Alex Jones
may 2017
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
Questions to ask as a new designer on the team
april 2017
Written for designers but appropriate for product managers too.
productmanagement
april 2017
Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear
april 2017
Fake news is too big and messy to solve with algorithms or editors — because the problem is….us.
danahboyd
fakenews
april 2017
Facebook's moonshots: Making brains type and skin hear
april 2017
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.
facebook
f8
language
april 2017
Facebook and the cost of monopoly
april 2017
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
Climbing Out Of Facebook's Reality Hole
april 2017
Mat Honan is pessimistic about Facebook's grip on reality
facebook
f8
MatHonan
april 2017
Too poor to retire, too young to die
april 2017
Stories of older generation that has lost everything and hit the road to survive.
retirement
budget
travel
april 2017
The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley reengineered journalism
april 2017
25,000 words on how media is using (and being used) on major digital distribution platforms.
facebook
businessmodel
media
twitter
EmilyBell
april 2017
Hacking the Attention Economy
march 2017
danah boyd on the rise of social hacking
danahboyd
meme
socialengineering
socialnetworks
march 2017
4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump
february 2017
Trump’s younger supporters know he’s an incompetent joke; in fact, that’s why they support him.
trump
gamergate
4chan
politics
february 2017
Steem. Whitepaper
january 2017
A blockchain-powered social network.
blockchain
businessmodel
publishing
january 2017
Obsolesced
january 2017
The history of Gopher, the predecessor to the World Wide Web
history
internet
january 2017
Front Page Blues
december 2016
It's tempting to blame the media for this, but the media is a reflection of our collective psyche magnified by modern technology. We need to value novelty less and learn how to delay gratification. Take a lesson from wine tasting and meditation. Accept that news happens and let it breathe undisturbed for a period of time. After all, hindsight is 20/20.
fakenews
december 2016
Fake-News Sites Inadvertently Funded by Big Brands
december 2016
Programmatic advertising makes is improbable that brands can properly filter out where their ads run
fakenews
december 2016
A Class Divided
november 2016
The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, a teacher in a small town in Iowa tried a daring classroom experiment. She decided to treat children with blue eyes as superior to children with brown eyes.
racism
documentary
video
pbs
frontline
november 2016
Bursting the Facebook bubble: we asked voters on the left and right to swap feeds
november 2016
To test the effects of political polarization on Facebook we asked ten US voters – five conservative and five liberal – to agree to take a scroll on the other side during the final month of the campaign.
filterbubble
bias
news
election
politics
november 2016
Media in the age of algorithms
november 2016
The essence of algorithm design is not to eliminate all error, but to make results robust in the face of error. Where de Havillands tried in vain to engineer a plane where the materials were strong enough to resist all cracks and fatigue, Boeing realized that the right approach was to engineer a design that allowed cracks, but kept them from propagating so far that they led to catastrophic failure. That is also Facebook’s challenge.
timoreilly
facebook
fakenews
boeing
november 2016
Publishers Are Rethinking Those ‘Around the Web’ Ads
november 2016
“It is not the right look if you’re trying to say you’re a high-quality, upper-tier website — if you have something like this on it — and I think it’s time for us to be honest about that,” said Keith Hernandez, Slate’s president.
taboola
outbrain
advertising
november 2016
A Jolly Jaunt Through the Sentiment of News
october 2016
analysing the sentiment towards the 2016 presidential candidates in online media
election
media
october 2016
What You Must Know To Build Savvy Push Notifications
october 2016
Noah Weiss (FourSquare, Slack) shares lessons learned on design and measurement of notifications
notifications
mobile
design
october 2016
College Application Guide
october 2016
Useful resource written by students, for students
collegeapplications
october 2016
How Facebook News Feed Works
september 2016
The ultimate guide with all the latest, will be updated as new changes are made.
facebook
newsfeed
joshconstine
september 2016
Can we make consciousness into an engineering problem? – Michael Graziano
september 2016
There is a real thing that we call attention – a wildly complex, beautifully adapted method of focusing the brain’s resources on a limited set of signals. Attention is important. Without it, we would be paralysed by the glut of information pouring into us. But there’s no point having it if you can’t control it.
brain
ai
september 2016
ab-testing
activitystreams
addressbook
adsense
advertising
aggregator
agile
ai
ajax
alameda
algorithm
amazon
amazonreviews
analysis
analytics
android
aol
api
apple
apps
appstore
architecture
arg
art
attention
audio
authentication
avatar
badges
barackobama
batteries
behavioraltargeting
bestpractice
blackberry
blog
blogging
blogs
bluetooth
brain
browser
business
businessmodel
calendar
california
careeradvice
cars
cellphone
charts
china
clayshirky
clickfraud
cloud
cloudcomputing
commerce
community
communitymanager
comscore
contacts
copyright
crowdsourcing
css
culture
danahboyd
data
database
datamining
dataportability
del.icio.us
design
designpatterns
developer
development
digg
directory
diso
dla
dns
docserls
domains
dowjones
e71
ebay
ebooks
ecommerce
economy
education
election
email
excellenceinadvertising
facebook
facebookconnect
fakenews
fashion
film
finance
finland
firefox
flash
flickr
fonts
foursquare
friendfeed
funny
futureofnews
game
games
gaming
geolocation
google
googleanalytics
googlereader
gps
gratefuldead
growthhacking
guide
hack
hackday06
hacks
hardware
hiring
history
howto
html
html5
humor
iankennedy
ideas
identity
ifttt
images
infographics
innovation
inspiration
interface
internet
interview
iphone
itunes
japan
javascript
johnbattelle
jonudell
journalism
kids
kindle
language
lbs
learning
legal
lifehacks
lifestreaming
linkedin
linux
lists
livemusic
logo
mac
machinelearning
management
mapping
maps
marcandreessen
marissamayer
marketing
markzuckerberg
mashup
media
metadata
metrics
michaellewis
microsite
microsoft
mixtapes
mmorpg
mobile
mockup
monetization
movabletype
movies
mp3
music
mybloglog
myspace
n900
net2
netflix
netsquared
news
newsfeed
newspapers
nintendo
nokia
nytimes
oauth
online
openid
opensocial
opensource
organization
osx
palm
panama
pandora
patent
paypal
performance
personalization
phone
photography
photos
pipes
plaxo
plugin
podcasts
politics
powerpoint
pr
prank
predictionmarkets
presentation
privacy
product
productivity
productmanagement
profile
programming
psychology
publishing
qt
recruiting
reference
reputation
research
resource
resources
responsive
responsivedesign
review
robertscoble
rss
rules
s60
sanfrancisco
screencapture
screencast
screensaver
screenshots
search
secondlife
security
seo
seo-tools
shopping
shortcut:mybloglog
sixapart
sms
social
socialmedia
socialnetworking
socialnetworks
socialsoftware
software
sports
startup
statistics
stats
storage
strategy
survey
sxsw
symbian
tags
technology
template
testing
themes
timoreilly
tips
tool
toolkit
tools
traffic
travel
trends
tutorial
tv
twitter
typography
ui
usability
utilities
ux
vacation
video
viral
virtualworlds
visualization
vitality
vrm
wallpaper
web2.0
webdesign
widgets
wifi
wiki
wikipedia
windows
wordpress
worldofwarcraft
writing
wsj
xmpp
xoxo
yahoo
yahoopipes
youtube
zynga