This NYT reporter spent 24 non-consecutive hours in Facebook’s metaverse as research for this story. “My goal was to visit at every hour of the day and night, all 24 of them at least once, to learn the ebbs and […]
Here’s an email exchange between him and his investor and board member Mitch Lasky from Benchmark. It’s a stark contract to (most of) the rest of us at 23. I think we can overlook the fact that he underestimated Facebook […]
While I wasn’t paying attention, “FTC ordered Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft to provide data on every single acquisition they made from 2010 to 2019, and published some aggregate data as a report in September.” Benedict Evans analyzes the […]
Ben Thompson from Stratechery thinks the metaverse is already here in the form of the internet. Its next iteration will primarily serve workers, not consumers. “This means that the company that is, in my opinion, the most well-placed to capitalize […]
I think this is the pitch deck that Eduardo Saverin used to drum up advertising revenue for the social network. One interesting fact: they added 10k members in the first week of April 2004. | learn more
“Is Facebook listening to your conversations? No, they are not. They are doing something MUCH more effective!” This thread is not the final word on the topic. I don’t think this rules out their use of microphone data obtained indirectly. | learn […]
“Today let’s talk about platforms’ growing interest in building newsletter tools — and whether Facebook, against all conventional wisdom, might have an opportunity there.” | learn more
“The group has helped recover more than 200 cars in the last two months from Chicago and surrounding areas, the group’s moderator said.” | learn more
“While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time.” | learn more
Published by Facebook’s VP of Analytics, Alex Schultz: “The vast majority of what people in the US see on Facebook is in their News Feed. Most of the content people see there, even in an election season, is not about […]