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Using Privacy as a Shield, Facebook May Well Conquer the Entire Internet.

Using Privacy as a Shield, Facebook May Well Conquer the Entire Int...

I’ll never forget a meal I had with a senior executive at Facebook many years ago, back when I was just starting to question the motives…
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John Battelle
What It’s Like to Be A Woman On the Internet

What It’s Like to Be A Woman On the Internet

A follow-up to the mystery of Tee Medlin, and “What It’s Like to Be a Woman at a Tech Conference”
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Chloe Condon
The Anti-Network Effect

The Anti-Network Effect

As social media platforms grow stronger they grow weaker too. This will eventually open the way for a meaningful alternative to Facebook.
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Andre Redelinghuys
Predictions 2019: Climate, Tech, Trump, Facebook, and…Weed.

Predictions 2019: Climate, Tech, Trump, Facebook, and…Weed.

If predictions are like baseball, I’m bound to have a bad year in 2019, given how well things went the last time around. And given how my…
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John Battelle
A.I. Will Kill Social Media As We Know It

A.I. Will Kill Social Media As We Know It

The way Open.ai released the results of their recent research was meant to freak us out, and it worked. The A.I. Text Generator That’s Too…
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Ross Mayfield
It’s Not Facebook’s Fault Alone

It’s Not Facebook’s Fault Alone

We got ourselves into this mess. Facebook was just happy to take our money and our data along the way. 2019 is the year we starting…
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John Battelle
The Future of Advertising Is In the Hands of Ad Blockers

The Future of Advertising Is In the Hands of Ad Blockers

Young adults are hungry for the ad industry to be better. They are right.
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Laura Desmond
Instead of Breaking Them Up, Let’s Force “The Four” to Share.

Instead of Breaking Them Up, Let’s Force “The Four” to Share.

Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook won’t like it. But our economy would soar.
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John Battelle
WTF is SMA?!

WTF is SMA?!

Social Media Amplification unites social with paid media. It’s crazy that we haven’t done this already.
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Casey Saran
How to Stop the Killing of eBooks?

How to Stop the Killing of eBooks?

When Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen opined that “software is eating the world,” print publishers probably shook their heads in despair.
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Edward Radzivilovskiy
Nation State At the Crossroads

Nation State At the Crossroads

Whither thou goest, I will go
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azeem
Goodbye, Bay Area. Hello, New York!

Goodbye, Bay Area. Hello, New York!

Sometimes you have to just shake it up a bit. Or a lot.
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John Battelle
New Rules for the Internet, Looking Backwards

New Rules for the Internet, Looking Backwards

The EU Parliament seems not to understand the 29-year-old World Wide Web
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azeem
Cloudflare Loves to Mess With Incumbents

Cloudflare Loves to Mess With Incumbents

And that’s a very good thing for the Internet
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John Battelle
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