Social platforms like Facebook and Snapchat are trying hard to become publishers or to host content from media companies, but one of the platforms that has been quietly doing this for… Read more »
Uber, LinkedIn and Airbnb take different approaches to integrating data into their businesses, but they all agree that data is a crucial signal of whether their products and services are serving… Read more »
LinkedIn, which just opened up its publishing platform to anyone for free, has one big strength that most of its traditional publishing competitors don’t have, and that should be keeping them… Read more »
The term “platishers” is a terrible one, but Jonathan Glick of Sulia has a point about the increasingly blurred lines between platforms and publishers. The real question is what the duties… Read more »
Do we need another social network? Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross thinks that we do, and he is trying to create one that reflects our real interests, rather than the narrow view… Read more »
Wall Street Journal technology writer Farhad Manjoo says there’s no point in paying attention to what younger users do, because they are poor predictors of technology trends — but he couldn’t… Read more »
Fortune editor Adam Lashinsky’s response to readers — who were upset about a LinkedIn post he wrote pointing to a paywalled article — shows a lack of understanding of both paywalls… Read more »
The Wall Street Journal has said it is planning to launch a LinkedIn-style social network for readers, and Bloomberg appears to be launching (or relaunching) one as well — but is… Read more »
With the proliferation of new publishing platforms — and not just blogs or social networks, but also all-digital publishers like Medium, LinkedIn and the Huffington Post — how does a writer… Read more »
LinkedIn has been making some significant moves towards becoming a media entity focused on business news, and the launch of new magazine-style channels of content is just the latest example of… Read more »