Tag: media platforms

• Post-global

  January 27, 2021

  The power to direct the thinking or behavior of others, usually indirectly, is called influence. Authority, clout, credit, heft or leverage are some of its oblique synonyms. more ›

• Speculative ad formats for the post-newsfeed world

  January 25, 2021

  You fish where the fish are. As a business – an advertiser – there is an upcoming need to reach people in spaces that currently do not allow for gathering… more ›

• Who Gets Rich?

  January 24, 2021

  Roblox is a video game platform, though it describes itself alternatively as a “metaverse,” “human co-experience platform” and “new category of human interaction.” It’s expected to go public via direct listing on… more ›

• Spatial Software

  January 23, 2021

  Software applications can utilize spatial interfaces to afford users powerful ways of thinking and interacting. Though often associated with gaming, spatial interfaces can be useful in any kind of software,… more ›

• January 23, 2021

  https://interconnected.org/home/2021/01/07/dunbar_spaces more ›

• January 22, 2021

  https://interconnected.org/home/2021/01/07/dunbar_spaces more ›

• Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021

  January 21, 2021

  The goal of Google Research is to work on long-term, ambitious problems across a wide range of important topics — from predicting the spread of COVID-19, to designing algorithms, to learning to… more ›

• The Internet is for Porn

  January 17, 2021

  Giggles, eye-rolls and the occasional moral scold aside, porn is a gigantic industry that serves an equally enormous popular demand. The cavernous disparity between the demonstrably massive popularity of porn… more ›

• The State of the Platform Revolution 2021

  January 17, 2021

  It’s finally here! I’m thrilled to announce the launch of our annual report on the key themes of the platform economy for the year 2020-21. (Download link towards the end… more ›

• What social networks can learn from public spaces

  January 16, 2021

  The research began with the observation that in the offline world, healthy communities have traditionally been served by thriving public spaces: town squares, libraries, parks, and so on. Like digital… more ›