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Jake Levine in The Frontier

Jun 1, 2015

On Ephemerality and Permanence

From Bret Victor’s recent post, on the ephemerality and permanence of the web:

“Think about speech, letters, newspapers, books, smoke signals… Each medium serves only a particular subset of social purposes, and each medium is technically transparent…

Jake Levine in The Frontier

Mar 3, 2013

The Broadcast-ification of Social Media

I originally wrote this post for the Harvard University Nieman Lab Predictions for Journalism 2013.

There is an inherent tension in social software between content discovery and the quality of conversation around that content. Group…

Jake Levine in The Frontier

Sep 2, 2012

Producing Media in Volume

An awesome Branch conversation today with Nina Khosla, Eric Lach, Rob Greco, and Max Fenton!

<a href=”http://branch.com/b/producing-media-in-volume">Producing Media in Volume</a>

Jake Levine in The Frontier

Feb 2, 2012

Facebook, It’s like Instagram for Birthdays

When I reflect on my use of Facebook over the last seven years, it strikes me that how I used Facebook in 2004 is very different than how I use it in 2012. I remember hearing about it for the first time:

Jake Levine in The Frontier

Aug 28, 2011

The Social Web is Splintering (ftw)

This past week, Facebook released a series of changes to the way it manages sharing and privacy controls. You can read more about them here.

The short story is that they are giving their users finer control over their sharing and how others…

Jake Levine in The Frontier

Jul 17, 2011

It’s Time for a Social Network Neutrality

The network neutrality / common carriage debate is one of the most important debates of our time. At stake is the freedom to innovate, the freedom to listen, and the freedom to speak. To date, arguments for or against common carriage have focused largely on…

Jake Levine in The Frontier

Apr 24, 2011

The Slow Hunch (Part 2): Discovering Serendip

After reading Stephen Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From (which you should buy and read, now), I was inspired to take his advice and “write everything down.” Here’s my first try.

Jake Levine in The Frontier

Mar 5, 2011

Ode to a Purpose Built Social Network

Facebook has a big problem. Facebook’s big problem is Facebook.

Social networking applications are not like other businesses. In other businesses, new products built within an existing infrastructure and delivered through existing…

Jake Levine in The Frontier

Jan 11, 2011

Curating the Curators

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about content discovery online, and how the social web effectively turns the people that you’re connected to into your very own personal curators. I wrote that “the social web enables users to iterate through a group of curators who provide relevant…

Jake Levine in The Frontier

Nov 21, 2010

You Don’t Know It Yet, But You Want It

Since inception, the web has seen three major waves in the evolution of relevance: portal, search, and social. These waves manifest typically by the examples of Yahoo, Google, and Facebook/Twitter, and otherwise known as Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and the…