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Web 2.0, Google, Social media, Dustin Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

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RT @stratechery: Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends Trends in medium, AI, and user interaction underpin Instagram's response to TikTok, and will determine Meta's long-term moat. https://t.co/YyUVdkcr3a
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Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends

Trends in medium, AI, and user interaction underpin Instagram’s response to TikTok, and will determine Meta’s long-term moat.

@benthompson shared
On Aug 16, 2022
RT @stratechery: Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends Trends in medium, AI, and user interaction underpin Instagram's response to TikTok, and will determine Meta's long-term moat. https://t.co/YyUVdkcr3a
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Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends

Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends

Trends in medium, AI, and user interaction underpin Instagram’s response to TikTok, and will determine Meta’s long-term moat.

How to predict Facebook’s future

How to predict Facebook’s future

What a new theory of social networking tells us about beating the incumbent

From Instagram to TikTok: How social media evolved this decade

From Instagram to TikTok: How social media evolved this decade

On October 6, 2010, a new app called Instagram went live on Apple's App Store. By the end of the decade, it would have more than one billion users and the backing of one of the most ...

How Facebook’s like button hijacked our attention and broke the 2010s

How Facebook’s like button hijacked our attention and broke the 2010s

What began as a simple way to show appreciation online has become the social currency of the decade, and there may be no going back.

Why Is Facebook Interested In Blockchain Technology?

Why Is Facebook Interested In Blockchain Technology?

Over the last few years, one thing has become clear; blockchain technology is here to stay. Traditional technology developers have grown tired of resisting blockchain technology and have ...

You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango

You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango

Companies like Facebook need to be frank about how the relationship between you and their major algorithms really works.

Why Facebook won’t let you control your own news feed

Why Facebook won’t let you control your own news feed

A new legislative push to regulate social media algorithms — the sophisticated, personalized software that decides which posts you see each time you log in — raises an old question: Why ...

Why is Facebook Still Popular? 5 Reasons To Consider

Why is Facebook Still Popular? 5 Reasons To Consider

Some hate Meta's Facebook and some love it. Who loves it and why? Here are 5 reasons why Facebook is still popular and growing in 2022...

The History of Social Media: 29+ Key Moments

The History of Social Media: 29+ Key Moments

Here, we’ve compiled some of the most pivotal “moments” in social media’s history. From the very first social networking site (invented in the 1990s), to recent changes to networks with ...

Facebook’s rumoured name-change reflects its ambitions—and its weakness

Facebook’s rumoured name-change reflects its ambitions—and its weakness

The company is more than a social network. It also has a reputation problem

On Social Media, Only Some Lies Are Against the Rules

On Social Media, Only Some Lies Are Against the Rules

Consumer Reports charts misinformation policies from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and every other major social media company on vital topics from COVID-19 to voting.

How Instagram and Twitter buried the hatchet

How Instagram and Twitter buried the hatchet

A 9-year feud ends after a backyard pizza night

A Dozen Experts with Questions Congress Should Ask the Tech CEOs — On Disinformation and Extremism

A Dozen Experts with Questions Congress Should Ask the Tech CEOs — On Disinformation and Extremism

Experts draft specific questions — on disinformation and extremism — for Congress to ask Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai in hearing on ...

Mass manipulation and platform privacy: where we’re at

Mass manipulation and platform privacy: where we’re at

Why the protection of social media platforms is becoming the major challenge this century.

Facebook: from Harvard dorm to global phenomenon

Facebook: from Harvard dorm to global phenomenon

WASHINGTON: Key chapters in the history of Facebook, the world’s biggest social media application, which marks the tenth anniversary Wednesday of its stock market debut. In 2003, ...

Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly

Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly

To the average person, Facebook’s monopoly seems obvious. But obviousness is not an antitrust standard. Monopoly has a clear legal meaning, and thus far Lina Khan’s FTC has failed to meet ...