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Remember The Daily Me? Not just the startup that came and went trying to provide a personalized product I mean that original dream/nightmare of the golden news site that gives the reader what she wants, first voiced ages ago by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. In t…

In recent months, publishers may have been noticing an influx of traffic from a not-usual suspect: SmartNews, the news app that was founded in Japan in 2012 and has been operating in the U.S. since 2014. The company is Parse.ly’s most reliably growing externa…

Marshall LemonJune 25 2019 For the past few years, marketers no longer have to guess what customers want. Using digital technologies and analytical tools, they can analyze consumer histories and predict their interests with an impressive degree of accuracy. …

Apple CEO Tim Cook was the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremonies for both Stanford University and Tulane University this year. His speeches reflected on the themes of accepting responsibility, having the courage to listen to …

A central theme of Cook's Stanford commencement speech was the importance of accepting responsibility. Cook didn't mention any specific tech companies by name. But his remarks about data breaches, privacy violations, fake news, hate speech, and "false mira…

Anyone out there read 1984, George Orwell’s chillingly dystopian novel about a world in which our thoughts and behavior are controlled by a Big Brother figure? It was published in 1949 but, to the ordinary bloke on the street, did not appear to be at all re…

Apple CEO Tim Cook said he believes Silicon Valley tech giants need to be held responsible for the consequences stemming from their innovations. Cook pushed for such responsibility while giving the 2019 commencement speech at Stanford University on Sunday,…

Irony.The want free speech for themselves but not others. If this was honestly about free speech, they'd make a new platform, and let anyone post. But this isn't about free speech, it's about playing the victim card and building echo chambers.

Terrestrial and satellite radio, be warned: Spotify sees your morning zoo shows and wants a piece of that action. The streaming music service has just launched a new playlist, expressly for U.S. listeners, called Your Daily Drive — a mix of music and news aim…

When I asked the Buffer team for their ideas for commemorating June’s Pride Month, the overwhelming response was that we all wanted to find, collect and share more resources to educate ourselves and do the work. Within the team, we began asking for and shari…