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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup. SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API. making their way to Los Angeles.

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What You Can Learn from a Scorpion

Both Sides of the Table

On the one hand it denied Facebook from enormous amounts of web traffic that Google controlled at the time but in the longer-run due to network effects of social networks it made Facebook significantly more powerful. What are the chances that SnapChat or WhatsApp would emerge without getting crushed like a bug?

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Has Facebook Achieved What AOL Could Have A Generation Ago?

Tech Zulu Event

If you think about our behavior on AOL in the early to mid 90’s, people never really left AOL to go on the world-wide-web. Having an all-native interface that’s overlaid on top of the world-wide-web is the ultimate ambition for an internet company. By that I mean: Let me explain.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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