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What are WeChat Mini-Programs? A Simple Introduction
Underneath this transformation lay several key building blocks: mobile-first internet users, WeChat’s role as the national super-app, and mobile payments that transformed every smartphone into a digital wallet.
Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Shortly after its founding in 2010, WeChat started letting you shake your phone to randomly connect with other users. You could also write a digital “message in a bottle” and send it to a random WeChat user in the hopes they’d respond.
Aditya Agashe • Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy (Fast Forward Your Product Career: The Two Books Required to Land Any PM Job)
the most important piece of technology Bytedance introduced to TikTok: the updated For You Page feed algorithm.
Eugene Wei • TikTok and the Sorting Hat — Remains of the Day
Totem is recreating this social experience with what they call "P-commerce" for Proximity commerce, using technology to bring the point of sale to where people are most of the day: the office, hotels, co-living spaces... Totem provides an assortment of goods that can be used immediately, whether it’s food (a quick breakfast, an energy sport bar aft... See more