Last year, TikTok’s executives quietly defanged its advertising rules, opening the floodgates to fraudsters that target American users with fake sales of products that never arrive. Sources told Forbes the change was understood internally as a way to make more money.
Rappler’s answer to state-sponsored lies and harassment was to stop using corporate social media as its public square.
Because we owned our own data and combined them with publicly available, vetted databases, our chatbot’s error rate was a little more than 1.6 percent—at the time, the error rate of commercial chatbots was about 16 percent.
Matrix is open-source and allows users to set up their own communication servers.
from discovery to curation to the healing sounds of nature, i attempt you to introduce you to independent platforms you may never have heard of.
Retailers need to stop owning so much inventory risk and start operating more like platforms.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells on the Meta settlement, which will force meaningful changes on Facebook and Instagram, and how it reflects the degree to which public outrage is outmatched by the speed and size of Big Tech.
Stripe's purchase of OpenRouter has been read as a routing or billing acquisition. We argue it's a strategic security decision, and that this is net positive for the ecosystem.
YouTube is poised to unify the streaming championship belts...
The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.
Discover how streaming sponsorships boost response rates, conversions and efficiency, and learn why brands are buying direct.
To what extent do social media algorithms, and YouTube's specifically, contribute to user's views becoming more extreme and even radicalizing? That's a complicated question, but researchers tried to tackle it and have come up with some interesting results. First let's define…
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair?
Jimmy Iovine just called the Death of Spotify. He might be right.
Buyers are researching on Reddit before clicking your ads. That hidden journey is skewing PPC data and misleading automation.
Several platforms are emerging as alternatives to Pinterest for creative professionals seeking inspiration and organization, reflecting a shift toward more
"GitHub Copilot had 20 million users. First to market. Then Claude Code arrived and installs peaked within six months. If the sword can cut the leader, no one is safe."
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The announcement of the planned Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros, one of the last remaining major studios, is shedding light on a key issue we often overlook when thinking about culture, creativi…
Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.
The technology of tokenization of real assets is a component of the general digitalization of financial processes in the economy.
The same fragmentation that reshaped news is now reshaping social media.
Amazon sued Perplexity this month over its Comet browser, which uses AI agents to do online shopping on your behalf. This is the first major front in the war over who gets to browse the web.
Robotaxis are poised to further close the delta between suburbs and the city; the city (and Uber) might never recover.
OpenAI is making a play to be the Windows of AI: the all-encompassing platform that controls both hardware supplier and software developers.
With dating app fatigue rising, some peopl are finding love in unexpected places – the forums and sites they use to pass idle time online, as opposed to those dedicated to online dating.
Our guide to all things strategy, from “adjacency expansion” to “value stick.”
Can microfactories solve prefab's economic problem by inverting the factory model?
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Companies that want to launch a B2B marketplace face a choice: own the platform, spin it off, or create a startup.
PLUS: DoorDash, Apple Intelligence Ads, Walgreens Madness.
NEXT POST: Part II of my thoughts on TikTok, on how the app design is informed by its algorithm and vice versa in a virtuous circle.
An interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about Stargate, DeepSeek, and where the margins and moats will come with models.
A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer meant fewer shipping costs for Netflix, and fewer DVDs for the company to…
Network effects are one of the most important dynamics in software and marketplace businesses. But they’re often spoken of in a binary way: either you have them, or you don’t. In practice, most companies’ network effects are much more complex, falling along a spectrum of…
Thoughts on business models that don't seem to make perfect sense
the result of that economic revolution is that three of the top ten companies by market cap are middlemen, and two of the remainder, Nvidia and TSMC
Expedia and Booking Holdings are collectively worth over $180bn
Digital advertising is developing at the speed of light, and things like Attekmi white label ad exchange are becoming an
If someone was making a list of the most important American companies today, it’s unlikely AT&T would be anywhere near the top.
By providing a foundation for collaboration, platforms can create network effects, where the value of the platform increases as more participants join.
Document management — Electronic document file format for long-term preservation — Part 1: Use of PDF 1.4 (PDF/A-1)
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On the risks of over-emphasizing platform thinking
Last updated: Jan 30, 2021 Are you looking for ideas to unlock your long-term business value? If you shook your head in yes, remember that business model is one of the ways to streamline your business process. Precisely, a business model is a holistic framework to define…
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead. · GitHub
The once-thriving site used to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.
Why Systems of Intelligence™ are the Next Defensible Business Model
The unbundling of Excel is just as important as the unbundling of Craigslist. Here's what you need to know about the Excel Economy and how SaaS companies can take advantage of different verticals and use cases that Excel has dominated.
Like other meta-platforms **the web thrives or declines to the extent it can accomplish the lion's share of the things we expect most computers to do**. Platform Adjacency Theory explains how to expand in a principled way and what we risk when natural expansion is prevented…
Patterns and Practices in the Creation, Rise, and Fall of Platforms
Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard’s chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over.