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by niftich 10y ago
To get Microsoft-owned media content in front of more eyeballs. This is what Google (indirectly) did with Android, and what Yahoo wish it could do to shore up its declining share of consumers of its content.
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by niftich 10y ago
How does Yahoo make money and how did its sources of revenue change over time? Ads? In search, Yahoo was handily beaten by Google, and competing against Microsoft and Baidu for the rest. For webmail, Google won out, and Microsoft and Yahoo
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by niftich 10y ago
I have two dozen friends on Snapchat, which I'm guessing is below average. Most of them are mutuals, the ones who aren't are internet famous. Most are friends I've made online in other communities, but a few are people I&#x27
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by niftich 11y ago
This is about as tasteful as they could've gotten and I applaud them for their choice. It's visually appealing concept art showing a cool setting, and it's completely devoid of logos and obtrusive indicators of brand. It does
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by niftich 11y ago
Author, over the course of at least 15 years, worked 2 jobs to fund his way through college and went on to start several businesses. He credits his work ethic and contends that he sacrificed a great deal to get where he ended up. However, h
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by niftich 11y ago
I got curious and researched the history of IM, the decline of the old networks, and the rise of the new. Anecdotally, I got into college (in the US) right as Facebook and Gmail opened up to everyone, and my peer group created a "profe
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by niftich 11y ago
Snapchat won't protect you from a state-level adversary, nor does it need to. It may, however, protect you from a disgruntled ex leaking your photos, or from an employer snooping on your private life. It may even protect you from yours
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by niftich 11y ago
I'm not sure why so many of us don't "get" Snapchat. Really it just corrects one of the biggest "features" of social apps: that they're essentially public-facing, permanent popularity contests. On Snapchat
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by niftich 11y ago
There are distributed data stores that work just like this. IPFS ( https://ipfs.io/ ) is a recent effort, while Freenet ( https://freenetproject.org/ ) has been around for a while. Whether this can be retrofitt
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by niftich 11y ago
Pre-6.0 Android permissions aren't granular and are 'take it or leave it' approved at first install. Some apps install services that run at startup. This would make for a rather excellent monetizatation/interactivity str