Network effects — where a product or service becomes more valuable to its users as more people use it — are one of the key ways software businesses maintain a better product and more defensible market position. This is especially true of messaging apps like WeChat — which, as I’ve argued before, is not just...
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Software isn't Ending.Hoping the expense of creating software creates pricing power has always been a triumph of hope over experience.If a software business doesn't have attributes like network effects that create pricing power, its life can be nasty, brutish and short. pic.twitter.com/yzTVAdG2xb— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) June 2, 2024
Mossberg: The tyranny of messaging and notifications
Can we endure even one more communications service?
Chatbots in consumer finance | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Many financial institutions are using advanced technologies to deploy customer service chatbots. Poorly designed chatbots can lead to customer frustration, reduced trust, and even violations under the law.
GPT-5 Set the Stage for Ad Monetization and the SuperApp
How ChatGPT will monetize free users, Router is the Release, AIs will serve Ads, Google's moat eroded?, The shift of purchasing intent queries
The politics of purely client-side apps - Paul's Leaflets
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
The politics of purely client-side apps - Paul's Leaflets
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
Data centers have a political problem — and Big Tech wants to fix it
A growth engine for the economy is becoming a political albatross. Can messaging change that?
ChatGPT ads are becoming a real business - Sensemaker
OpenAI says its ad business reached a $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days. The bigger shift is what conversation context is becoming.
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort
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Tim Berners-Lee Warns A.I. Could Kill the Web Economy as No One Visits Sites Anymore
As A.I. chatbots replace human readers, Tim Berners-Lee warns the World Wide Web’s ad-driven business model could collapse without reform.
On B2B2C Business Models | Andreessen Horowitz
B2B2C companies sell a product or service to a business, gaining customers and/or data from that business that they get to keep and use.
Not all good products make good businesses - The Intercom Blog
It's easy to assume that solving a real problem with a good product magically creates a successful software business. Sadly that’s never guaranteed.
The internet has evolved to foster a fatal expectation: that the things we depend on every day are free. They aren't, but we're allowed to pretend they are with the help of ad-driven business models. The real cost is substantial, and can be measured in time, money, relationships, health, and more.
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