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Even the existing social networks are finding their top innovations embrace the multiplayer model. Instagram leapfrogged Snapchat Stories by adding tagging, questions, polls, and other interactive elements.
Josh Constine • Poparazzi photo app blows up by banning selfies
Ep. 28: The World’s Most Valuable Startup: Bytedance, Maker of Tik Tok & Toutiao — Tech Buzz China
techbuzzchina.comThe first wave of media was fueled by cheap audience acquisition from social media companies like Facebook which created BuzzFeed and UpWorth. The second wave is the subscription wave. Consumers want curation, contextualization, and recommendations
Nathan Baschez • Journalism, Subscriptions, and Podcasting with Li Jin and Nathan Baschez
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Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites
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Peretti’s solution to that problem, it turns out, sounds a whole lot like a combined BuzzFeed/HuffPost — publications that are widely distributed, supported by advertising, and free:
Vox • BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on why he bought HuffPost and why the New York Times can’t be "the paper of record"
Two years ago, I wrote in The Business of Fame that we would never again have a celebrity on the scale of Marilyn Monroe or Oprah: celebrities of those eras existed before the noise of the internet, and fame is simply too accessible now. We’re all in our own content bubbles, and celebrity means different things to different people.
Rex Woodbury • The Internet Killed Mainstream Culture
McLuhan’s depiction of modern life as a global village and ‘one big gossip column that is unforgiving, unforgetting and from which there is no redemption, no erasure of early “mistakes”’ could have been written for the social media age.
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
