After social media backlash, Superhuman says authors can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address
No apology, no overall change in direction. … They did the same to my boss Nilay Patel, my colleagues David Pierce and Tom Warren, and …
After backlash, Superhuman says authors can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address
No apology, no overall change in direction. … They did the same to my boss Nilay Patel, my colleagues David Pierce and Tom Warren …
A postmortem of Neeva, which tried to build a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, and how default search engine choices reinforce Google's dominance
A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Twitter: @lutherlowe . Threads: @imdavid...
Ten years after Google killed Reader, the team that built the much-beloved app reflects on what went wrong and what could have been
Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been. Bluesky: @dogaker.bsky.social . Mastodon: @mihaip@hachyderm.i...
How Google's attempt to create a better, faster mobile web for media companies with the AMP standard ended up ruining publishers' trust in the internet giant
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A look at ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social network protocol finalized in 2018 that is gaining prominence powering Twitter alternatives like Mastodon
@pierce from the Verge explains that ActivityPub is not just about Mastodon but a method to connect the larger social web. … Johannes Ernst / @J12t@social.coop : “... there's a growing set of people w...
Instagram, and now TikTok, have fallen afoul of the “Bootleg Ratio”, as clout-chasing accounts overtake content created by users specifically for each platform
TikTok is changing. … That stuff is still on the platform, but it's largely fallen off my For You page … Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @russellbrandom , @joshelman , @jeffhorwitz , @kylebrussell , @katienot...
Interview with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems
@photomatt, quoting Camus https://www.protocol.com/... While others go searching for “the decentralized web”, we'll be over here w/ DNS, HTML, & open source. David Pierce / @pierce : Over the last few...
Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhouse
The increasingly popular social media app is allowing conspiracy theories … Darragh Murphy / Laptop Mag : What is Clubhouse and why is Facebook cloning the voice chat app? The Economic Times : ETtech ...
Alibaba founder Jack Ma has not appeared in a public setting since a late October forum in Shanghai, where he was critical of China's regulatory system
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — One of the most well-known papers … Danielle Ong / International Business Times : Jack Ma ‘Jail And Die’: Guo Wengui's 2019 Prediction About Alibaba CEO Resur...