Tag: media platforms

• The hottest startups in Lisbon

  August 22, 2019

  A decommissioned power station, a 15th century convent and former bread and pasta factories are part of the 20-building complex in the east Lisbon neighbourhood of Beato that’s currently being… more ›

• Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr

  August 21, 2019

  It’s been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers. It sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in 2013, then withered as… more ›

• The 5-minute design brief

  August 18, 2019

  My goal here is to suggest a better way to write a design brief. By better, I mean, can we ask questions that will give us a better outcome. Five… more ›

• TikTok is fuelling India’s deadly hate speech epidemic

  August 17, 2019

  At 8:00pm on February 22, 2019, 28-year-old Venkataraman walked into a south Indian police station and confessed to strangling his friend Vijay to death with a scarf. But police in… more ›

• Major corporations blacklist ads on news stories that include the words “Trump,” “racism,” “gun,” “Brexit,” “suicide” and more

  August 17, 2019

  The Wall Street Journal investigates major corporations’ ad buyers’ practice of blacklisting of ads on news stories that deal with the world’s most urgent issues, including any news story that… more ›

• Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today

  August 15, 2019

  The media landscape used to be straightforward: Content companies — studios — made stuff — TV shows and movies — and sold it to pay TV distributors, who sold it… more ›

• A guide to Virtual Beings and how they impact our world

  July 29, 2019

  Money from big tech companies and top VC firms is flowing into the nascent “virtual beings” space. https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/a-guide-to-virtual-beings/ more ›

• The News Provenance Project

  July 29, 2019

  The News Provenance Project is exploring new ways for publishers to help fight misinformation. https://www.newsprovenanceproject.com/ more ›

• Jeff Bezos and the United States of Amazon

  July 29, 2019

  In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, the company that has since made him the richest man in the world. Julia Carrie Wong charts the company’s success and controversies. Plus: Jim… more ›

• The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”

  July 24, 2019

  The button that ruined the internet — and how to fix it. Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter’s retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet more ›