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GitHub-as-AgentOS
The characteristics of what I think everyone is referring to by the term “Agent OS” seem achievable through abstraction by configuring GitHub as a harness. In fact, much of the Zero Trust requirements as described by Anthropic come for free this way. And with all that’s on offer via the API much of the observability…
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Why we made Brave Today
(Full announcement here: https://brave.com/announcing-brave-today/) My media diet is never going to be satisfied by a single publisher. That said, most of the publishers I like have useful apps and give me a lot of what I want. The good ones have some visual appeal; they’re timely, relevant, and a pleasure to use. Any publisher app…
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Data pattern-hunting makes everything boring
Digital platforms have finally become the economic powerhouses many of us whose careers have spanned a few technology waves always knew was possible. Among other things I’m quite interested in how their use of statistics and cohort analysis is driving conformity in society at scale. Admittedly, this is a subjective chicken and egg question, really,…
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Where does News go from here?
The ‘stack’ or rather the ‘circuit’ of GraphQL, Elasticsearch, React Native and Firebase offers new ways of working for news orgs everywhere. It’s about making things movable and bendy and accessible to everyone (not just the dev team). This post originally appeared on the News With Friends blog here. Tech offers lessons about the future for…
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The beginning of the end of Facebook’s grip on News
2018 will be remembered as the year the news industry changed its tune about platforms 2018 was a remarkable year for news. It finally parted ways with the technology platform that had been shaping so many aspects of everyone’s work. Facebook isn’t gone, but news is free now to explore other technologies that help journalism…
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People are in denial about news
The way people think about news is very different from how they behave. I think it’s because they don’t feel connected to news anymore. When I speak to people about being in the news business there’s often an eyeroll or maybe a condescending tone that follows. But when I ask how they get their news most…
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News With Friends 2.0
The upgrade includes a friend news ticker, suggestions, a new look and feel, and an Android version. Here’s some background on how we arrived here. Over on the News With Friends blog we have some news to share about the app we’ve been working on this summer. The idea is pretty simple. News With Friends is…
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News consumers trade in Facebook for private messaging apps
In the latest Digital News Report from our friends at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism they found that people are gravitating toward WhatsApp and other private messaging services for many of their daily news habits. Corroborating some of our own findings in Kaleida’s News Ecosystem Report, the new study showed that people may…
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Baby Boomers love news
In our survey of news consumers for Kaleida’s News Ecosystem Report the 55+ age group showed that platforms are underserving this high value demographic. While studying demographics and behaviours for Kaleida’s News Ecosystem Report we stumbled across a fascinating number. 37% of news consumers prefer Publishers’ websites and apps as their main source of news…