Week in Review Leadership Comms | Lara Hogan
“I Was Devastated”: Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets | Vanity Fair
AI at Google: our principles
AI at Google: our principles
Mobile ad mediation’s new era: SDK bidding
Summary of mobile app ad tech stack today as it evolves towards true RTB.
Credit score ratings: Is artificial intelligence scoring more fair? — Quartz
Thread by @noah_weiss on Product Management
Product Management isn’t a major one can study, few folks graduate into, and most people learn by apprenticeship.
Facebook Doesn't Make as Much Money as It Could—On Purpose
How Facebook's ad auction model is different, the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves model
Exclusive: Facebook Opens Up About False News
Facebook is today making three important announcements on false news, to which WIRED got an early and exclusive look. In addition, WIRED was able to sit down for a wide-ranging conversation with eight generally press-shy product managers and engineers who work on News Feed to ask detailed questions about the workings of the canals, dams, and rivers that they manage.
Reporting in a Machine Reality: Deepfakes, misinformation, and what journalists can do about them - Columbia Journalism Review
Product Development Cycle Fundamentals
Popular, YC-recommend Product Management framework.
Japanese Animation Guide: The History of Robot Anime
The Japanese government commissioned a detailed report on the history of Japanese robot anime.
The Flight Deal
Cheap flight packages
Terms of Service; Didn't Read
crowd-sourced ratings of all those click-wrap agreements you never read
How Pizza Night Can Cost More in Data Than Dollars
Even a low-key evening at home can mean handing over a trove of personal information to high-tech companies
A gentle introduction to self-sovereign identity
Today, we keep passports, birth certificates, utility bills at home under our own control, maybe in an “important drawer”, and we share them when needed. We don’t store these bits of paper with a third party. Self-sovereign identity is the digital equivalent of what we do with bits of paper now.
Increase funnel conversion with Psych
Elements of a webpage either inspire us by giving us more units of Psych or overwhelm us by depleting our existing store of Psych. Once you understand what elements are adding to or depleting users’ energy, you can then start to manage that energy: adding inspiration and minimizing overwhelm to help users take your core actions.
The Eternal Jukebox
For when your favorite song just isn’t long enough. This web app lets you search a song on Spotify and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song.
Inside Google’s plan to make the whole web as fast as AMP
Can the most contentious piece of the web form the basis of a new standard?
Looking Back at r/Place
In just 72 hours, over a million redditors placed 16.5 million tiles to transform a simple, white, 1000×1000-pixel canvas into a surprisingly beautiful clash of communities, nations, ideologies, and fandoms.
Facebook tells publishers to take it or leave it
Embedded with full interview with Campbell Brown and Adam Mosseri at Recode's Code Media conference.
Inside the two years that shook Facebook - and the world
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Operation Elop
The final years of Nokia’s mobile phone
The Economy of Ideas
Why copyright is not the right concept in an age when ideas can be distributed at no cost.
Cassidy's Tale
John Perry Barlow on Neal Cassady and the origin story of the Grateful Dead song, Cassidy.
Super Bowl LII Ad Tracker
Adweek’s Super Bowl LII Ad Tracker. Here you’ll find a frequently updated list of all the national (plus a few regional) commercials that will air during the Big Game on Feb. 4, along with details on the agencies that created them.
The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought
Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber?
Wolff Trapped
profile of Michael Wolff
A Saucy App Knows China’s Taste in News. The Censors Are Worried
According to Bytedance, every piece of content is automatically screened to check that it is acceptable before appearing on Toutiao. But once something has attracted more views, the system applies a more sophisticated screening algorithm. Certain material is also examined by humans as a final check.
Tech alone cannot defeat fake news
Ultimately, any cure will require the following: clever technical solutions to stop the spread of fake news; efforts to cut fake news publications from revenue sources; and legal sanctions against those that intentionally try to mislead the public, in order to shape public debate.
Skin Motion
Tattoo a waveform