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- The Collapse of Form … Make Facebook the important thing, not the information coming from external sources. This was also technically easy, of course. It would be more difficult to present, say, the …
- What Does it Mean to be Friends? … If it were easier for Facebook groups to en-masse leave Facebook for other software, then at least they’d have that choice and it deals with part …
- Still Mad As Hell; The World’s Best Worst Client; How Many Chances Do You Get?; Sunset Syndrome … Also the article points out that Cameron Moll, a former head of design at Facebook trotted out the usual “cool! designers at the table now! line and got …
- Decide What’s Important; Tacit Admission … I mean, let’s just say it’s Facebook or whatever the EU decides is big enough that day (I am sympathetic to the EU regulating based on …
- Fine, Social Networks; Are you in? … Threads, owned by Meta/Facebook, bootstrapped from Instagram, and with hundreds of millions of users Mastodon, a decentralized open-source social network built on an open protocol called …
- Kill Your Gods … Facebook’s AI Told Parents Group It Has a Gifted, Disabled Child ( archive.is ), Jason Koebler, 404 Media, 17 April 2024 ↩︎ Meta’s AI is summarizing some bizarre …
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … Actually, along with Twitter’s example, I think Facebook Messenger used to hide weirdo replies. But there aren’t user-controllable spam filters for replies. There’s no …
- The Great Social Network Heist … Now I’m guessing here, but government organizations can already get bluechecked on Facebook, and at a high level I reckon the process is a bit like “send …
- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms … In this way, Facebook would be separated out, I think, into your mailserver, (both smpt and imap/jmap(ooh!)) and your mail client. What’s different in this …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … so we can all have a go at "what if Shakespeare wrote the Facebook Terms and Conditions but also as a Charlie XCX song, also please illustrate this …
- Not Up and To The Right; Just Deeper, Really; Better Wording Faster; Tools for Remembering; A Centaur for Caring?; Of Course They're Art … But the utility for the front-end of Facebook? For maintaining those types of relationships? It raises the question of what is Facebook for ? Is it supposed to …
- Substack's Thin End of the Quora Wedge … where things are going to turn out shit, I would like to leave Facebook but everyone is there". I don't know, is there anything even in a …
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … Just as AoL taught people about search boxes and hyperlinks, Facebook taught people about profiles, connections, privacy settings and so on. Now people can take those skills to …
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … Twitter was in part great because it wasn't a single public square in a way that Facebook could never be, but that it allowed people to reach …
- Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me … on Facebook ... over SMS ... over emergency alert systems on Mastodon What Twitter and Facebook provide over SMS and emergency alert systems is the ability to have much more …
- Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes … The thing is, not even that many people use Twitter compared to that other self-proclaimed global public social network Facebook (formerly known as thefacebook for rating women …
- Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough … I assume that the infrastructure of Twitter and Facebook and anything even approaching that size is custom-made toward implementing whichever "algorithm" or method has been chosen (and …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … Facebook, and Facebook's feed. It doesn't have to be this way. The container could be different. Your Facebook feed could look very different. It could look …
- What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person … Of all things, this is one of the things I remember from working on a brand campaign for Facebook, a good nearly ten years ago, when were figuring …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … Facebook (and through that, Facebook Groups), Twitter, Reddit, and, well. That's it, if we're talking about "community" and places that have more than, say, a hundred …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … I don't remember seeing much of Facebook Groups being recommended to me, but then again I don't use Facebook that much anymore. Reddit's website, though …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … Slacks are not a Discord is not a mailing list is not a subreddit is not a Twitter Community is not a Facebook Group and so on. So …
- Business models that make you cry; Long-range microwave networks; Home servers; Twitter, But Angrier And In VR … Mobile games were -- are -- interesting because they a) completely shot to shit Facebook's social game passive income because suddenly people wanted to play games on their phones …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled … Facebook is whatever Facebook is. I suppose what I'm saying is that Twitter is becoming gradually unbundled, that while it won't go away with The Great …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation, Netflix/Everyone Else Edition … matters? Google and Apple don't quite compete on differentiation through user experience. Facebook (and everyone else who feels at threat) tries to ape the social-content-sharing …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … But then you zoom out a bit, and Apple (and Facebook, and Google, and Microsoft) are also identity providers. ... what if PlayStation were an identity provider? What sort …
- A Grab Bag … what if Facebook had to behave externally, publicly, in the same way that building developers behave and issue notices and run consultations ? I am reasonably sure I've …
- There Was No User Need … If you were asking "how much would it take Facebook to build a vaccine passport app" then I imagine the number would be way more than $2.4 …
- Be not careless with your users' data … Anyway, that thing happens where Instagram from Meta née Facebook suggests new contacts or accounts for me to follow and of course this time one of the accounts …
- We choose not to do the harder thing … I could join a local Facebook group (ha. ha.) and ask someone there, too. Or I could post on my frankly ridiculous Twitter account on the off-chance …
- The Thing About Websites, Is... … Modulo on the GOP side an apparently more effective infrastructure for super angry yelling Facebook ads to rile up your base. There's a way of looking at …
- ... for the mind? … s maybe the thing, which is that when you hit society-scale , like Facebook did when it hit 1 billion MAU, then is it irresistible to start thinking …
- Dan Hon is Away, Still … Some of the items are self-service, like the vending machines on the Facebook campus. But it turns out that a lot of the time, you just have …
- Dan Hon is Away … Paper, released in January 2014, was designed as slower, more immersive, "curated" and visual take on the Facebook timeline. It was, in a way that Mark Zuckerberg continues …
- I Learned It From You … Arthur Holland Michel [1] did a Twitter thread writeup [2] of Meta (née Facebook)'s OPT-175B language model [3] that caught my attention because, well, I'll …
- Didn't Organize, Only Moved; Context Collapse … I mean, it's just one data point out of the 15,000 Facebook uses in its ad model of you. One of the reasons why ADHD people …
- Storage is cheap, thinking is expensive, consequences ensue … there's this Facebook Data Lineage internal document that's been leaked. Vice covered the document leak , and David Carroll has a write-up of the leak in …
- Do Not Recommend … Netflix, YouTube, My Account, Pandora, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, xFi, Voicemail and Home. When an app is locked, you'll need to enter your four-digit Parental Control PIN …
- Pirate Radio … the internet now" which in a way kind of makes Twitch streaming and Facebook Live streaming and so on boring because The Sand Hill Road wants you to …
- The Wind That Blew The Preschoolers Away … Facebook A thing about a Facebook bug leading to increased views of harmful content over six months caught my attention and instantly led to associations with: hidden pollution …
- s11hiatus05/05: umbra … Walking around Google’s campus, you might see a life-size dinosaur skeleton or a replica of the first commercial sub-orbital spaceship; walking around Facebook’s campus …
- Things That Caught My Attention, Volume 1 … 50 Introduction When You're Part Of A Team Wearable Reckons danah boyd Facebook and Oculus Rift Computers, AMIRITE? Video is a content-type You Can Blame The …
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2 … I was going to add something here about Facebook’s facial recognition database as an example of private companies doing facial recognition/biometric identity “at scale”, but instead …
- Cursed Takes; Multiplayer Figma and Low Ping Bastards; Digital Isn’t Better Than Paper … It is ironic, in a way, that companies like Facebook are benefiting from 1930s federally-funded infrastructure for cheap hydroelectric power, huh? Anyway, that’s why a bunch …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … virus scanners? Facebook has a big problem which is... "cognitive biases" and this means it's "too open"? So Facebook had to do a bunch of stuff, which …
- The Return of Snow Crash - Snow Crashing: Chapter 14, part 2 … own the protocol, own the metaverse, whether that’s Facebook or (my still sincere belief) something that may as well evolve from Fortnite. The idea or concept that …
- Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People … that some of my earlier criticism of Facebook and stuff like Facebook's 2013 Graph Search , which was an early Facebook effort to let you use search on …
- A New Hope … The “we’ve invented a notification that is not the kind of notification you might expect” reminded me about a behavior I think I’ve seen in Facebook …
- The One Where I Don't Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet … There are apps that offer badging on Facebook, where for example a third party application takes your existing profile photo and makes changes to it, and then substitutes …
- How can I help you? … of haha no have you looked at the support forums for Google and Facebook? I mean, is that that much better than having an entire Reddit dedicated to …
- A small collection of things … Apparently since around November 2019 [ Venturebeat ], Facebook has been asking (some?) users to upload a video selfie[sic?] as one of the latest salvos in the “prove you …
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate … a good 70 terabytes of data were scraped from Parler, and around the same time, open source intelligence outfit Bellingcat were busy archiving data from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook …
- An amateur with opinions … Dan Hon @hondanhon Idly imagining a world where Facebook and Twitter don’t exist, the world’s biggest social platform is Blogger.com with over three billion users …
- QAnon looks like an alternate reality game … Their local fame is quantified and made instantaneous through retweets, favorites and Facebook reshares. QAnon’s explorers? They’re the connection finders, too. But in ways different to …
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts? … and machine learning can commonly come from researchers working at private companies like Facebook, or startups. (Interestingly, Apple had to deal with this issue in hiring machine learning …
- The Location-based Pokemon Game Company … the ad agency world for a few years, working with clients like Nike, Facebook (yeeees), Sony and… Kraft. (You are not allowed to call Velveeta “cheese”). Niantic is …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … theory of disruption, most recently covered again in his piece on Apple and Facebook . Ben makes the case that Apple’s moat — its insulation and defense against being …
- Take your time reading this one … I brought user-centered, product and service design and game mechanics to creative work as a Creative Director for clients like Nike, Coca-Cola, Sony and Facebook. (Yes …
- Back on the wagon … right now of evolving into the metaverse, whatever that might be, rather than Facebook’s top-down attempt. In other words, Epic knows exactly how much content is …
- There’s only one rule that I know of, babies … experience with complete strangers? I give Facebook and Twitter a bunch of shit for their rhetoric about a global community (no, Facebook’s billions of users are no …
- The ATCR Boundary … imagine that the leaders at youtube, twitter, facebook, and instagram got together and decided that they would all stop suggesting/promoting content via algorithmic feeds for the next …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … Never mind unintentional breaches resulting in the dissemination of personal data, there’s no visibility right now on, say, the data that Facebook has about you and who …
- What Kind of Day Has It Been … privacy standard through which it reviews devices (here’s its review for the Facebook Portal ) but to be honest I’m not entirely sure people know what a …
- Personal Data Gossip Networks … Hey, Facebook. Do you know how much I spend on groceries every year? Facebook: Oh, ha. Yes. Well. Caught me red-handed there. Yep. I know that. Me …
- 1:9:90 … the 1:9:90 of ephemeral Instagram stories is different from the 1:9:90 of Facebook Stories is different from the 1:9:90 of straight Facebook …
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political … Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift Part 2: Chapter 3 - Episode Forty Five - Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face Part …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … I mention this in the context of Facebook appearing to blunder its way through figuring out a) what a society could be, and b) how it might operate …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … No IRC, no Facebook, not even any text messaging. Hiro and Y.T. spend the rest of each other, I swear to god, making voice calls with each …
- Snow Crashing … Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift Part 2: Chapter 3 - Episode Forty Five - Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face Part …
- "Decentralized?!" … someone at Facebook has sat down and written a nice speech for Mr. Zuckerberg to read and other people than me have excellent criticisms of it. (For example …
- Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle … Because I think huh, communal water well and then I think well yes, Twitter and Facebook are pseudo-communal water wells because they serve as a sort of …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift Part 2: Chapter 3 - Episode Forty Five - Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face Part …
- Snow Crashing … Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift Episode Forty Five - Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face Episode Forty Six - Snow Crashing …
- "Leverage-meets-Parks-and-Rec" … like a light blue or something that’s not as triggering as the Facebook logo: Subscribe now 1.0 Things That Caught, Etc. 1.1 Longitudinal immutable datastore …
- What’s the target? … if Facebook, a company, not a person, can commit the egregious “error” of using a communication method provided with the specific intent of *securing their platform* for *advertising …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … But… more people keep using it? And then Facebook goes and buys it and everyone gets a bit confused because why would Facebook buy it and the prevailing …
- Firebreak Protocol … I’ve had a number of conversations with friends about this and the idea that Facebook is a “community” to which I have the strong position that Facebook …
- Probably Not Gutless … But I feel like Facebook and Twitter - with things like global search and Person Discovery, are... maybe not good things? Or maybe, what would it be like if …
- You're The Mayor of Terminal B Airside at SMF Airport! … The next question, of course, is whether *Facebook* should have a Supreme Court or whether Facebook (or others! Hello, Your Government Needs You!) might be able to help …
- Judge social networks not by their DAUs but by the content of their CEO’s character … I’ve had multiple discussions with different people about whether “Facebook” is a community (I don’t think it is) or “Twitter” is one (it has slightly more …
- Sherlock Holmes and the Slack Channel Names … was “All that she wants / is another *lover*”, i.e., not another baby. * Facebook now pays about $17 million dollars a year to protect Mark Zuckerberg . As Bloomberg …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … Casey’s joke is that Twitter’s riff on Facebook’s “move fast and break things” (which motto becomes unappetizingly sweeter every goddamn day) is “move slowly and …
- Platforms Corrupt … Paper, released in January 2014, was designed as slower, more immersive, "curated" and visual take on the Facebook timeline. It was, in a way that Mark Zuckerberg continues …
- At Any Cost … everything Facebook right now. There's a lot that I'm just not writing about Facebook because, well, there's a lot *to* write about Facebook and I …
- Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread … I recently realized (yet another) thing I dislike about "algorithmic" feeds like Facebook's newsfeed and Instagram's feed. I'm singling those two out because they're …
- Filtered for wide spread, low accuracy … This is pretty much a long way of saying what we already knew when I was at Wieden and working on the Facebook account. People didn't *like …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … the confirmation that Facebook has some sort of device with some sort of screen (“Portal”) combined with the news that it was shutting down the centaur human/AI …
- Division by Infinity … It's an honor to be on this journey with you. - Mark Zuckberg, https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103831654565331 I treat Facebook as a sort of real …
- Welcome to the Churn … So, Facebook's been in the news, right? *One* of the reasons why Facebook's been in the news is that there's evidence that "the Russians" used …
- Fully Connected, Feed Forward … difficult for this to happen to a digital native style company (e.g. Facebook, Google, Amazon), but I think orders of magnitude *easier* for it to happen to …
- Write the future … Is it an app? A website? How do you compete against Facebook or… well, wherever it is that communities form these days. To which I counter: Slack affinity …
- Criticality … first, an NDA to let me in on the spike codename (Rorschach), a second to tell me who the client is (Facebook - my third time with them now …
- So, What'd I Miss? … you get jab me in the ribs because Chairs are a bit like Facebook [1] https://thedigitalservice.org [2] https://techreserve.org [3] Tech Reserve [4] Immigration Application …
- umbra … Walking around Google’s campus, you might see a life-size dinosaur skeleton or a replica of the first commercial sub-orbital spaceship; walking around Facebook’s campus …
- Random Walk; Black Design … It's Difficult which is in part about Facebook and how it's hard to do content moderation but really about how Silicon Valley needs to just try …
- Not Actually A Law … the basis for an entire somewhat misguided strategy around social media marketing on Facebook! Observation the second: affiliate/referral marketing is not new either! Me getting a cut …
- It's Difficult … Facebook did a completely normal Facebook thing if you've been following Facebook for the last few years. They have rules - like most online services - about what's …
- Change will continue to accelerate until morale improves … I deleted Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. Turned off all the email accounts. Turned off my *phone*. And I mean *actually* turned it off - not just silent-and-airplane mode …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … way, this makes sense. There are only so many humans in the world. Facebook and Google can only theoretically max out at 7bn daily active users. If you …
- The usual: nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there … Phones mean we don't have to remember phone numbers of our friends. Facebook means we don't have to remember birthdays. Twitter means we don't have …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … like the former head of Google's ATA, Regina Dugan, moving over to Facebook[4]), but boy do I have wildly under-informed opinions about startups and "innovation …
- First Rule In Government Spending … What's interesting to me here is that Slack is a product built on Slack in the same way that Facebook is (and maintains) that it's a …
- Gigawatt Laser Array … s Free Wi-Fi Help Police Watch You? - The Atlantic [2] Messenger | Overview - Facebook for Developers [3] You Just Wait - YouTube [4] Boeing: The Next 100 Years of …
- Broadcast Resumed … is also hoped to save lives. - Robin Sloan found a note that on Facebook where we have the chance to forward-influence a massive attention spike[3] - And …
- Black Design … increasingly in vogue amongst both Silicon Valley style companies like Uber, Google and Facebook, as well as more traditional companies like General Electric and financial firms like Capital …
- Previously … s collecting any data is busy putting together their end-of-year reports (Facebook's already out of the gate, I see), but it also means that you …
- The Random Walk Strategy; The Wrong Way Round; Miscellanea … Apparently it's mainly staffed by people, because way more twenty year olds want to work for Facebook than well-trained concierge algorithms. [0] Matt Patterson (@fidothe) | Twitter …
- What Twitter Should Do; CXO vs CUO; Shilling … participation continues to hold even when networks scale to unprecedented rates (e.g. Facebook sizes, and I suspect it does), then there's *way more* people who just …
- The Watsons; 2015 (2) … http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116 [6] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook [7] http://www.satsentinel.org OK. 12:45am. Bedtime. Up early for super busy …
- On Advertising. Again. … What's worse is that because of those YouTubes and Twitters and Facebooks and the fact that it's easier than ever before for culture to speak unto …
- Bob Rife Is Real; Digital Secure Confusion … two-factor authentication | HSBC UK [2] Two-factor authentication - Wikipedia [3] Scrap the HSBC Secure Key - Facebook [4] Facebook campaign by angry HSBC customers over new online security …
- Any Old Iron … Aren't they great! And the Facebook. The Facebook didn't cost that much. And loads of people use The Facebook. And from their computers and their phones …
- Sending Signals; So We Solved Publishing; 2015 (1) … they wanted on the internet, available for all n billion of the world. Facebook made it easy for around 1.5bn people to "publish" to 1.5bn other …
- Never Forget; OK, One Thing Google Apps Does; Weird Notes … What was the thing, with the stuff? It feels a little worse with Facebook because you can see something in the feed there and feel like you know …
- The System Of The World; Hard Takeoff … One of the best introductions that I read recently came to me via Greg Borenstein, a condensed and edited interview with Yan LeCun, Facebook's new-ish director …
- Just No; Don't Do That, Either; Seeing Like The Internet … really great TV ads, the creative opportunity of a well-placed but relevant Facebook ad just doesn't cut it if Nike is asking for a 2 minute …
- Smarts; Odds … of GPUs that nVidia has sold in the last financial quarter, e) whether Facebook has hired any more experts in covolutional neural networks, and so on. You might …
- Episode One Hundred and Ninety Five: … I don't think stuff on Facebook ever really triggers thoughts that I end up writing about in here. Sorry, Facebook. But you're not that kind of …
- Bureaucracy Is An Algorithm; Vapourware; No New Ideas
- When Things Listen; An Unproductive Argument; Process; Until It Turns Into Writing … Google Or Samsung, And No, You Can't Choose Facebook. The latest salvo in "do a dumb thing that you can't reasonably expect would be well-received …
- Ops, Not Apps; The Internet (Of Things); Reviewing Reviewing A Year In Review … Because Facebook is a set of computer programs running on a computer, the range of content that you can choose from is derived from an algorithm which probably …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … MEC logo A GroupM Company Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Description: Description: Description: http://images.insidemedia.net/DigitalSignature/mec/rp4signature1.jpg IPA CPD Gold accredited …
- Our Crap Connected Future; Oh My God More Advertising; Echo … relationships already have to now negotiate a sort of public graph and visible interactions on networks like Facebook and Twitter, *never mind* what will happen when the objects …
- The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital? … Some of the items are self-service, like the vending machines on the Facebook campus. But it turns out that a lot of the time, you just have …
- Web Directions South; A Thousand Songs In Your Pocket; Odds … I said yesterday after I showed an ad we made for Facebook that this particular genre was weaponised empathy. Created with a purpose. Edited and soundtracked to an …
- Not Missing Out … a post-rationalisation of Facebook as the creation of someone who didn't fit in at college who wanted to know more about people without actually having to …
- Names; The Condition … that there was something different between Diaspora and Ello, not just the function of time (Facebook has done so many more things in the time that's passed …
- Week One; Universal Basic; Karen … same day trip that I used to do to present to clients at Facebook. Plus ça change, I suppose. But Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (and the preceding weekend …
- How Are You?; Built It And They Will...; In The Gaps … Sometimes my posts on Facebook are public. My profile on LinkedIn is public so as to, as the saying goes, "increase my surface area", to make it easy …
- WATCH; BERG … The fact that I *can* get Facebook Friend notifications or Twitter notifications or even email notifications on my wrist is feels like something Apple might have had an …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … I mean, notice the casual and accessible tone of voice pioneered by Flickr (and now adopted by Facebook, of all places, in their usage of Dinosaur Stickers to …
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … But in the same way that people would look at Facebook and see a collapse of context around who you're friends with and the environments in which …
- Yes, And... … Or if anything, it's someone like Hari Seldon, who finally cracked the nut with psychohistory. (If I worked at Facebook or Google, I would totally as a …
- Email; Snow Crashing (10); 2014 (4) … Sure, there are still the long Facebook status messages. And the long Tumblr posts, I suppose. But email feels like it will last. Maybe it won't be …
- The Exoskeleton of the Internet; The Web Created the Modern Camera; Data Has Replaced God … In some respects, photosharing products like Facebook showed what it took to become more mass (better distribution, a simpler product offering) but at the same time lost community …
- Human Extinction; Let There Be Jobs … One of them was in the comments feed of a friend's Facebook post making the point that they didn't so much talk about "Climate Change" anymore …
- Only 10%; This Hasn't Benefitted Ordinary Lives As Such … Imagine if Nestle could unlock all 100%. - Most people only use 10% of their Facebook profile. Imagine what they could do if they unlocked 100%. - Most people on …
- To Serve; Odds … to have data extracted under gag or cover of darkness from companies like Facebook or Google because something might blow up, but for longer-term infrastructural threats or …
- Seeing; Shallow; Better Taxis … Just link up enough CRM databases, or pull in a Facebook auth, or even just *buy* the data, and then you have, as McNeil accurately points out, a …
- Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service … I don't have access to Airbnb's internal metrics about who's doing what, but for those who're following along with the outrage at the Facebook …
- Solving The Problem … Perhaps the canonical example for me is the Google+/Facebook/Glass-like tech executive story of being at an airport terminal and having some time to kill and …
- A Real Hunger; Will The Real Blue Ant; A Category Error … It's increasingly likely that Blue Ant finds himself disrupted by Facebook, Google, Twitter or any other number of Valley-based tech companies who will claim, ever increasingly …
- Dark Value; The Latest Attempt; Five Eyes … Google [x], Facebook and Oculus Rift aren't risk mitigation strategies. They are attempting to do for capitalism and the economy (such as it is) a sort of …
- The Material (3); Odds … But altogether, an interesting movie. - more ammunition for technological illiteracy and lack of transparency, not ethics , in criticism of Facebook's recently disclosed experiment -- Best, Dan
- Manifest Destiny; A Little Bit Desensitized; The Material (2) … 1.0 Manifest Destiny There are some people who, in reaction to the Facebook emotion contagion study, have asked "how could Facebook misread the situation so badly?" At …
- The Material (1) … There are so many parts to Facebook the company - from the researchers and data scientists who ran the study, to the part of Facebook that - although two years …
- Calm Down. Breathe; Making Visible; Wearables … That was how Mark Zuckerberg talked to Facebook users back in 2006 in response to the introduction of the News Feed and Mini Feed products[1]. There's …
- Probationary Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Blog Unbundled; A World of Connected Objects … The information used from the badge ID can also be pulled in from Facebook, giving you the opportunity to allow a STATION application to post to your timeline …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … Also, it wasn't clear exactly what I was missing and, how should I say, in a world of Instagram and Facebook and iCloud Photo Streams and now …
- Structure; The Thing About People … There was a feeling I had when I removed my work Exchange accounts from all of my devices and unsubscribed myself from various Facebook groups that felt like …
- Taking Stock; And The New … Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift Episode Forty Five – Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face Episode Forty Six – Snow Crashing …
- Yet More Smarts; The Continued Tyranny; A Different Kind Of Overload … television adverts) but by in-stream messaging (Tweets and Facebook posts) and also some sort of holy grail of interruptive push messaging (an exhortation to win the hour …
- Solid 1 of 2; Requests: Cities and Technology … Back then, of course, the future was in bits, not bits-and-atoms, and the palpable excitement of connecting people pre-Wikipedia, pre-YouTube, pre-Facebook and essentially …
- This Is My Next; And How It Felt … Across every single account I've worked on - Nike, Coca-Cola, Sony, Kraft, Lurpak and Facebook - I've worked with fantastic, smart people and been a part of …
- The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities … 1 billion served), you get companies like Facebook that *could* serve a billion people and employ not even ten thousand people, of which the majority are new recruits …
- The Sustainable Web; TaskRabbit; Airbnb; Cities … That sustainability may prevent the sort of occurrence where you have Moves being acquired by Facebook[6] and their subsequent perceived about-turn in terms of "comingling" of …
- The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS 0.0 Station Ident I'm say in the back of an Uber, heading out to Facebook's Menlo Park campus again. Turns out you can get some …
- Transcendence; Broom-Shaped Objects; Odds 0.0 Station Ident I'm sat in MPK 17 at the Facebook campus in a few minutes of down time. I'm in the Bay Area for …
- The iPad; The Difficulty; Tools; Silly 0.0 Station Ident I'm sat here at Building 16 at Facebook's Menlo Park campus with a Diet Coke. It's a pretty normal Monday morning …
- Apple and Nike; Critiquing Everyone Deserves Great Design; Odds 0.0 Station Ident Today, I was back at the office, where the value of "office" has been set to "spend the day down at Facebook in a …
- On Design; New Aesthetic Zeitgeist Bingo; Odds … 3.0 Odds Do you like word games? If you do, then you should play Ludometrics' new game, dsmvwld, for iOS.[1] Facebook bought Moves[2]. Honestly I …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … Evernote, Uber, Tesla, Square and Jawbone, or a dominating one, like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter and PayPal, then you need to be a Responsive Organisation. The key to …
- Why Is This So Hard; Dependency; Chief Empathy Officer … I probably should have Registered My Product or something but Jesus Christ all I want to do is buy some new beaters and essentially give Kitchenaid and Facebook …
- Critical Infrastructural Vulnerability; Cultural Adaptation; The Bitcoin Moment; Carousel … with full knowledge that my day job is doing the same job for Facebook, but the Dropbox Carousel spot is a competently put together video of *meh*. They …
- Kill Hollywood; Not That Worried; Healthbook; Webring! … I bet that Facebook (and to a lesser extent Twitter) account for a bunch of web activity through embedded web views. Gruber's got a rebuttal wherein he …
- Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh … how do you sell virtual reality to everyone who's not a convert? We saw this a little bit with Facebook. While the impression that a great many …
- Disintermediation & Externalisation; Housing; Odds … I remember being asked by Airbnb to supply my Facebook address so prospective Airbnbers could stalk^Wcheck me out when I applied to stay at their place. It …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … There are those who're bullish about it and those who're bearish - Benedict Evans, now at a16z, who was bullish on Facebook/WhatsApp is bearish on Facebook …
- Building Better Worlds; Mobile; More video … We were talking about - and, generally, processing - the implications and strategy behind the Facebook/Oculus Rift deal, and got onto the subject of internet.org and the various …
- Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools … where are the prototyping tools? Facebook ended up building their own on top of Quartz Composer[2] - and having seen it in action with Paper and Facebook Home …
- Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face … I was reading the Hacker News comments on the Oculus Rift/Facebook story and then it was only a click away to Notch's post about the future …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … If he wanted to make more money out of Facebook, we'd know. So when you're vision driven, look at Facebook the way you look at Google …
- When You're Part Of A Team; The Dabbler … disciplinary teams but are fluid enough to enable those teams to come about. Facebook's development of their Look Back product in celebration of their tenth birthday required …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … and learned to code, "break free of the centralisation of corporate entities like Facebook and Google that want to control the flow of information and become an information …
- On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts … It's a piece of work for Facebook: that forever interesting, thorny client used by over a billion of people who have simultaneously strong and vague feelings about …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … 237 - Population of India 1,230 - Facebook monthly active users 815 - Airline passengers, United States 757 - Facebook daily active users 556 - Facebook daily active users, Mobile 530 - Watched …
- The Difficulty … over tone of voice, but normally even this is added as an afterthought. Facebook still has, as language options, English (Pirate) and English (Upside Down), and on Google …
- Net-Native Storytelling, Selling The Future, Always On … A lot of the reaction that I saw to the new Facebook Paper app was about how the infinite vertical scroll method of displaying News Feed items was …
- Literal Tone Of Voice, Presence, Networks, Applescript … from commands like finger on multi-user UNIX systems to the peripheral-vision and green indicators of ICQ and AIM, to the green light on Facebook chat and …
- The Job To Be Done, The Ethics, The Good and The Practice … at a build-fast-and-deploy company like Google (and countless others, including Facebook) to look after those A/B tests of functionality and deployment of, frankly, opaque …
- The Inevitable Apple TV Episode and Algorithmically Induced Sadness … Personally, it was more painful (perhaps because it was timely) than seeing a birthday reminder for a dead friend on Facebook or a work anniversary for a dead …
- My Followers, Friends and Social Objects … And then, poof, ten years later, we have Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat and Google Plus and and and. Words mean things. Okay, that's a …
- Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen … We're seeing a lot of companies like Etsy (and like web-era Facebook) that saw a competitive advantage in terms of the quality of their tools. You …
- We Build Worlds … The Day Job Paper, the new app from Facebook Creative Labs came out today. We've been working closely with the team on the launch for the past …
- The Short One … Facebook Paper This is perhaps the first time I've spoken about work in this context, and you should all know that in my day job, I'm …
- Any Sufficiently Advanced Economy … Upworthy headline construction is designed explicitly to work in streams - the most effective whiplash headline to pull you out of a social stream (Twitter, Facebook or email) and …
- Happy Birthday and Connections … And thus Facebook's many-weak-ties. But email feels like it fills this niche of a particular type of connecting. Opt-in with pseudo-verifiable identity makes …
- The Desire To Fix Things … http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2014/01/23/forecasting-demise-facebook/ And, of course, Facebook fired back with their own data science post, showing that Princeton should probably …
- The Beginning … Cab Conversation Of The Day "So, you work on Facebook?" "Uh-huh.""Say, did you read that article that said they were going to lose 80% of the …