AI
Cuttings #8: We've made AIs racist
Image AIs love their stereotypes, Snapchat is embeddable, and to nobody's surprise, Elon does something dumb.
social networks
Attack of the clones: all social networks are NOT becoming the same
Yes, all social networks are developing the same feature set. No, that doesn’t mean they’re all becoming the same. Here’s why.
conde nast
Condé Nast giveth, and it taketh away
Condé Nast is moving fast and breaking its Snapchat presence.
geolocation
Snap Map: exploring public Snapchat Stories on a map
You can now view public Snapchat Stories on a map [https://www.snap.com/en-US/news/post/introducing-the-snap-map/]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvl82FfnUvw Handy.
How The Economist plays the platform game
How do you recruit new subscribers - especially young ones? For The Economist, social platforms are a big part of the equation…
platform publishing
Snapchat Discover is less discoverable
Snapchat changed the layout of Discover [http://digiday.com/publishers/snapchat-discover-publishers-viewership-dropped-33-platform-tweaks/] : > Shortly after Snapchat tweaked its Stories page to move Snapchat Discover content closer to the bottom of the page — below stories posted by your friends — multiple Discover publishers saw daily viewership drop. Two Discover publishers said they noticed
Snapchat gains Memories, moves in on Facebook's turf
Snapchat updates [http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/snapchat-introduces-memories-for-saving-snaps-and-stories/641936] : > Snapchat introduced Memories, a way for users to save their Snaps and Stories for later viewing and sharing. That’s muscling on Facebook territory, that is. > Users can swipe up while on the camera screen to open their Memories.
snapchat
Snapchat is (slightly) revamping Discover
Snapchat is (slightly) revamping Discover [http://digiday.com/platforms/snapchat-publishers-get-redesign-help-goose-traffic/] Changes afoot for the much-coveted Snapchat Discover slots: > Instead of static media logos in circles, representing the channels, publishers will have an actual cover image to draw readers into the content, according to one source. One publisher said the
explainer journalism
Snapchat Explained
A really useful explanation of Snapchat and how it works for those of us more generously endowed with years of experience. Good work from the WSJ‘s Joanna Stern [http://www.wsj.com/video/snapchat-explained-using-snapchat/84712C9C-41D7-4C4F-AA4D-28AF383846AD.html] .
business
#leweb - Go wide, not deep says Gary Vaynerchuk
Allegedly Gary Vaynerchuk [http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com] hadn’t slept for two days before his talk at LeWeb. I well believe it given how rambling it was. This isn’t a conventional chronological liveblog, as I’ve tried to gather together his thoughts into subject groups… Go deep not wide
snapchat
Teenagers and tech: look at the trends, not the tools?
Mathew Ingram responds to Farhad Manjoo on how telling teenagers’ use of tech is [http://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/why-the-youth-market-matters-for-snapchat-and-facebook-despite-what-the-wsj-thinks/] : > […] teens and twenty-somethings are good predictors of technology’s future, even if the services or apps or hardware they prefer at a specific point in time don’t