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Tracking-based ads, generally called adtech, do not sponsor publications
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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
Jun 28, 2019 — 1 min read
TikTok Times a Billion
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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
Jun 25, 2019 — 1 min read
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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
Feb 15, 2018
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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’
Oct 16, 2017 — 1 min read
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