A profile of Techmeme, which turns 20 this week yet oddly works and looks the same way it did in 2005, as its executive-heavy readership expands in the AI boom
Every morning nearly 100,000 geeks world wide, including some of the richest tech barons in the universe, fire … X: @elatable . Bluesky: @mranthropology , @turoczy , @metacurity.com , @sauthoff , and ...
A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression
NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Phil Hoad / The Guardian : An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic “algorithm films” intended for broad appe...
Matt Mullenweg responds to DHH's claim that “Automattic is doing open source dirty”, pointing out Rails' own trademark policy and taking some jabs at 37signals
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Casey Newton / @crumbler : The number of ad hominem personal attacks against DHH in here that have nothing to do with the issue are extremely telling. Joe Rosenthal / @...
Inside Worldcoin's Orb factory in Germany and a profile of Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania; 6M+ people now have a World ID, and WLD's market cap is $550M+
Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg : Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @zbs.bsky.social Mastodon: Richard MacManus / @ricmac@mastodon.social : In-depth story about my favourite dystopian app, Sam Al...
Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability
including by trying every obvious solution out there— on several occasions. If the problem were easy to solve, it would have been solved by now. The reason we bring up the problem in a public forum ...
Staff memo: Reddit's CEO says “like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass”, new moderation tools are vital, wearing Reddit gear in public is risky, and more
Programming note: Barring big news, Platformer will be off Thursday as I take a personal day. Matt Binder / Mashable : Reddit Blackout: CEO downplays protest. Subreddits vow to keep fighting. Emre Çit...
Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI
warning the company doesn't have one in A.I. John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog : Google and Commoditization: Anyone Need a BackRub? Agne Cimermanaite / Metaverse Post : Leaked Google Documen...
Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”
I've been thinking about Matt Mullenweg's response to Brian Armstrong's response … Rick Webb / Webb Chatham Report : Good morning. Hello. How are you? #562 Cooper Midroni / Future Proof : Chip Off the...
A look at the cycles of decentralization and recentralization, and why we won't understand what Web3 consists of until after the next bubble pops
There's been a lot of talk about Web3 lately, and as the person who defined “Web 2.0” 17 years ago, I'm often asked to comment. Tweets: @oreillymedia , @amyjokim , @fredbenenson , @tgoetz , @robertdou...
Matt Mullenweg denounces Wix's bizarre marketing campaign against WordPress and says Wix's business model “is getting customers to pay more and more every year”
@photomatt, founding developer of @WordPress https://ma.tt/... #FuckWix (I like the sound of that) Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Those Wix ads are in poor taste for a company who has failed to deliv...