2025-02-19
Humane has absolutely binned its incredibly loyal early adopter customer base here. 10 days notice that your device is getting bricked. A community comms disasterclass. Glad I never bought one. Had so much potential but hiring a fanboy and focusing too much on AI put me off. [image]
Bloomberg
HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M, wind down Humane's Ai Pin business, and add Humane's team, including its founders, as an AI-focused division
- Humane's Ai pin business to be wound down after rocky launch — New unit at HP will focus on implementation of AI in devices
2021-12-16
All good things end... just too quickly on the internet. Surely uncle Condé could've kept this going. https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Redditors grieve as Reddit sunsets its beloved annual Secret Santa exchange platform Reddit Gifts, which facilitated anonymous giving between users globally
Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times :
2021-07-27
There is ambitious ‘world building’ stuff at the heart of all this. But short term, expect some augmented reality shops on Instagram in a year or two, along with more QR codes in real life shops and on products. Also a kind-of ‘IRL’ Instagram, if a AR-specs go mainstream. https://twitter.com/...
Protocol
Facebook announces a new Metaverse product group, with plans to hire hundreds of staff, led by Instagram VP Vishal Shah, reporting to VR/AR VP Andrew Bosworth
The company plans to hire hundreds of new staffers for the group. — Facebook is all in on the Metaverse …
2020-06-20
Videos are ranked to determine the likelihood of a user's interest in a piece of content then delivered to each unique ‘For You’ feed. (TT internal terminology for ranking is ‘weighting’.) It's not rocket science, but useful to know it's surprisingly simple and fair. 3/5
Wired
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
Louise Matsakis / Wired :
One encouraging note for smaller/newer accounts: “Neither follower count nor whether the account has had previous high-performing videos are direct factors in the recommendation system.” That's nice. Again, fair. 4/5
Wired
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
Louise Matsakis / Wired :
In general, good content should do well. So focus more on content quality + your brand / tone of voice over trying to game the algo. And don't bother with the dancing. TikTok is not going away, it's growing, maturing quickly with who it hires and content is growing up too. 5/5
Wired
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
Louise Matsakis / Wired :
The algo is mainly affected by user behaviour, not what we do as creators. For example, a viewer finishing watching a longer video from beginning to end will be ranked higher than a weak indicator, such as whether the video's creator & viewer are both in the same country. 2/5
Wired
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
Louise Matsakis / Wired :
https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ... TikTok has revealed some of the ways its algorithm works. Here's a summary: Things publishers/creators can influence - captions, sounds and hashtags - are literally a tiny fraction of the huge number of signals that affect ranking in the feed. 1/5
Wired
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
Louise Matsakis / Wired :
2020-06-19
Videos are ranked to determine the likelihood of a user's interest in a piece of content then delivered to each unique ‘For You’ feed. (TT internal terminology for ranking is ‘weighting’.) It's not rocket science, but useful to know it's surprisingly simple and fair. 3/5
Wired
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
For the first time, the social media company is opening up about its most mysterious feature.
The algo is mainly affected by user behaviour, not what we do as creators. For example, a viewer finishing watching a longer video from beginning to end will be ranked higher than a weak indicator, such as whether the video's creator & viewer are both in the same country. 2/5
Wired
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
For the first time, the social media company is opening up about its most mysterious feature.
One encouraging note for smaller/newer accounts: “Neither follower count nor whether the account has had previous high-performing videos are direct factors in the recommendation system.” That's nice. Again, fair. 4/5
Wired
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
For the first time, the social media company is opening up about its most mysterious feature.
In general, good content should do well. So focus more on content quality + your brand / tone of voice over trying to game the algo. And don't bother with the dancing. TikTok is not going away, it's growing, maturing quickly with who it hires and content is growing up too. 5/5
Wired
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
For the first time, the social media company is opening up about its most mysterious feature.
https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ... TikTok has revealed some of the ways its algorithm works. Here's a summary: Things publishers/creators can influence - captions, sounds and hashtags - are literally a tiny fraction of the huge number of signals that affect ranking in the feed. 1/5
Wired
TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
For the first time, the social media company is opening up about its most mysterious feature.
2020-03-12
AR is still limited because everything has to happen through an app. It will only truly go mainstream when its capabilities are built directly into devices. Like this: https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
Fast Company
Source: at least one of this year's iPhones will have a 3D depth camera on its back, enabling new photo and video effects, as well as better AR experiences
Our source confirms Apple's plans to put a 3D depth camera on the back of the iPhone. Here's what it'll do.
2020-01-22
How many @netflix Originals can you name? There are ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND ELEVEN 😳 https://media.thinknum.com/...
Thinknum
Analysis: Netflix now boasts 1,211 originals and has been adding one show a day on average over the past eight months
Joshua Fruhlinger / Thinknum : Tweets: @michaelmacleod1 and @gvidon See also Mediagazer Tweets: Michael MacLeod / @michaelmacleod1 : How many @netflix Originals can you name? Ther...
How many @netflix Originals can you name? There are ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND ELEVEN 😳 https://media.thinknum.com/...
Netflix IR
Netflix Q4 revenue grew 31% YoY to $5.467B and net income rose to $587M, surpassing 100M paid memberships outside the US; global paid net additions totaled 8.8M
Fellow shareholders, We had a strong finish to 2019, with Q4 revenue growing 31% year over year, bringing full year 2019 revenue …
2018-02-01
Good read. I wonder what Instagram would've been like (for its users) without Facebook. Different, but in what ways? FB certainly helped it grow, but is obsession with aggressive and never-ending growth for growth's sake worth it? http://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Instagram's Facebook-style recommendations and notifications and an uptick in the number of ads in feeds are making the service more annoying to use
Why does Instagram want to be so much like its big brother at a time when the pre-eminent social network is drawing so much criticism?