COVID’s other long shadow
Covid’s longest legacy may be the addiction and poor education of a lost generation of school children in emerging economies.
engagement’s battleground has shifted to groups
Facebook is serious about building out its Groups platform. Why?
a solution to facebook: regulation, yes, but also a simpler tech
The future of social networks lies in simpler technology, not (just) in regulation, and definitely not in more complex technology.
the digitally ass-backwards age
We’re living in a digitally ass backwards age, where everything you do of commercial monetary value is retained, amazingly easy to recover and commercially mined at mind-boggling speed, but everything else — photos, an SMS, an email you sent to someone last week, the deed to your house — is lost in the muddle of that drive an inch or two from your finger tips.
one less word, one more brick in the garden wall
Apple has quietly moved the goalposts again, this time to impose its own social login service on developers. It’s talking about giving users choice, and offering a more secure way of doing what Facebook and Google have been doing for years, but is that all it’s about?