Nick Heer in Google’s iOS App Inserts Its Own Links Into Webpages
For Google to believe it has the right to inject itself into third-party websites is pure arrogance, yet it is nothing new for the company.
The only upside is I doubt many people use this app.
Matt Birchler in The “Bluesky feels like early Twitter!” vibe
In my opinion, Mastodon has leveled out to be a great place to talk with nerdy people (aka my core demographic!), Threads has turned into an engagement bait hell that I don’t enjoy browsing much at all right now, and Bluesky still has that “first week of school” energy.
Yep, I think that’s about right 👌
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X’s former top advertisers including Comcast, IBM, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lionsgate Entertainment, have resumed ad spending on the platform this year, albeit at much lower rates than before.
I guess if you want to try and avoid new tariffs on your products you have to appease the incoming presidents lap dog.
Dan Moran in Macworld🔒:
Apple can not only afford to be more judicious about how and where it deploys AI, but it also doesn’t have to be as aggressive about selling it to end users
I think Dan hasn’t been paying close enough attention to their advertising. It’s too much, to the point of ridiculousness. It doesn’t tell a tale of a company that hasn’t made an “existential bet-the-company” placement on AI.
Adam Mosseri on Threads:
We are rebalancing ranking to prioritize content from people you follow, which will mean less recommended content from accounts you don’t follow and more posts from the accounts you do starting today
I like the way that Meta can start to implement the things users have been asking for just in time to see a lot of their user base leave. The best part is, I would presume, the users that really benefit from these updates don’t really want to use a Meta platform anyway 👋
The Dent in Echo chamber? You’re damn right!
When I’m chilling in a coffee shop, writing a blog post about echo chambers, I don’t move to the table next to me to listen closer to the muppets there talking about how children shouldn’t be immunised against deadly viruses because Bob down the pub told them about mind controlling nano bots.
A perfect analogy. People act like I have to see all this toxic crap online. Or imply I’m weak because I might get ‘triggered’.
But I just want a nice place to hang out and that shouldn’t be an issue.
Nick Heer in Adam Mosseri Says Threads Will Now Show You More of the Stuff You Have Said You Are Interested in Seeing
These are the people who see social media as a place for furthering their brand. They are not interesting. The only way they are able to grow their audience is by treating a recommendations algorithm as a problem to be solved.
These are people that completely miss the point of social media. These are people that have ruined it for the rest of us. These are people that I don’t want to see in my feed.
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The company plans to introduce the revamped LLM Siri next year and launch it by spring 2026
Companies talk so much about products that don’t exist. Apple say “coming later this year” more than I ever expected. And don’t even get me started on Orion