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Tracking-based ads, generally called adtech, do not sponsor publications

Tracking-based ads, generally called adtech, do not sponsor publications

Getting the world to mistake direct marketing for real advertising is one of the great magic tricks of all time: a world record for misdirection in business. Tracking-based ads, generally called adtech, do not sponsor publications. They use publications as holding pens in which human cattle can be injected with

TikTok Times a Billion

TikTok Times a Billion

In a major milestone for a Chinese technology company, the short-video app TikTok, known as Douyin (?? d?uy?n) in its home country, was downloaded over 1 billion times as of earlier this year. That’s according to statistics from Sensor Tower, a US company that tracks apps. Chinese companies

How fake tech news works.

1. Make something up and report story 2. Make top-ten list of why it will be the best 3. Make story about others have plans to do it better and cheaper 4. Make another top-ten list about why competitors will be better 5. Report fake something is late or having

One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end

Twitter was built at the tail end of that era. Their goal was giving everyone a voice. They were so obsessed with giving everyone a voice that they never stopped to wonder what would happen when everyone got one. And they never asked themselves what everyone meant. That’s Twitter’