Tag: media platforms

• Taliban fighters double as reporters to wage Afghan digital war

  May 20, 2019

  KABUL (Reuters) – Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s chief spokesman and editor-in-chief of the insurgent group’s daily news bulletin, starts every day by collecting reports of overnight fighting with U.S. and… more ›

• Inside Google’s Civil War

  May 20, 2019

  It started in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2018, when 100 employees walked out of Google’s office at 11:10 a.m. local time. Thirteen hours later, the elevators at the company’s New… more ›

• How Pornhub Went From Free Porn Paradise to Respectable Lifestyle Brand

  May 18, 2019

  Since first launching in 2007, Pornhub has swelled and expanded, rising up the internet rankings like a morning hard-on saluting the new dawn. https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/pornhub-merch-fashion-brand/ more ›

• The Messy Truth About Social Credit

  May 6, 2019

  Foreign media has painted a dystopian portrait of China’s social credit system. The reality is both less coherent and more complex. Almost every day, I receive an email from Google… more ›

• Keeping Up with the Daigous: an Industry in Flux

  May 6, 2019

  Daigous, China’s personal shoppers who specialize in importing lower-priced luxury goods from the West, are witnessing a period of turmoil within their niche profession. https://jingdaily.com/daigous-industry-flux/ more ›

• Kiss Cam — Real Life

  May 5, 2019

  Last Sunday, while I was at a baseball game (the Phillies vs. the Marlins, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia), the middle-aged couple sitting next to me made it onto… more ›

• May 5, 2019

  https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/hearables-will-monitor-your-brain-and-body-to-augment-your-life more ›

• The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program

  May 5, 2019

  It’s easy to forget now, but Amazon wasn’t always the king of online shopping. In the fall of 2004, Jeff Bezos’s company was still mostly selling just books and DVDs.… more ›

• History of the Capital AI & Market Failures in the Attention Economy

  May 5, 2019

  This is a lengthy discussion, so I’ll begin with a summary. The basic idea in this post is to consider capitalism as a highly efficient objective function (or “AI”) with… more ›

• How Google is building its huge subsea cable infrastructure

  April 25, 2019

  Google announced a milestone in its bid to control the world’s internet infrastructure with its first privately funded international subsea cable touching down in Chile yesterday. https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/24/how-google-is-building-its-huge-subsea-cable-infrastructure/ more ›