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The Secretive World Of Selling Data About You

We know all of your interests. ~Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit

When the Screen Moves Just as You Tap

Facebook, the world’s most addictive drug

Slack and the search for the killer bot, while Facebook helps companies build their own Messenger bots, by the Verge

"Facebook is rapidly becoming the way people experience The Web."

Welcome to hell: Apple vs. Google vs. Facebook and the slow death of the web...

UPenn study: 91% of health related webpages relay sensitive info to third parties including Google, Facebook and data brokers like Experian.

Creepy ways advertisers find pregnant women on Facebook ...

Thoughts on Google+ by Chris Messina

How The Internet Killed Profit

Apple's Tim Cook on Buying Beats

Janet Vertesi may be the only expectant woman in America not to see a single diaper ad during her pregnancy.

Snapchat Discussing New Content Service With Advertisers and Media Firms

I Ruined the Internet and I'm Sorry, by Ethan Zuckerman in The Atlantic

John Oliver on Native Advertising

OKCupid Plays With Love in User Experiments - NYTimes.com

Facebook doesn't want to be the new Amazon. It wants to be the new Vegas

Furor Erupts Over Facebook Experiment on Users - WSJ

He's wired in. ~The Social Network gif

Delete Your Facebook video

Please Use This Song in Your Commercial - Jon Lajoie

Google Admits Google+ Was Just A Ploy To Track Your Behavior Online

George Packer: Is Amazon Bad for Books? : The New Yorker

Why Facebook just agreed to give its data to Russia’s biggest search engine - Quartz

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. ~Jeff Hammerbacher on the current generation of start-ups

The data scientist is tossed around loosely these days, so much so that it's creating a bit of confusion in the tech industry

You're Not Just The Product, You're The Ads (And Your Friends Should Thank You), by Josh Constine, TechCrunch

The end of kindness: weev and the cult of the angry young man | The Verge

The Machine Zone: This Is Where You Go When You Just Can't Stop Looking at Pictures on Facebook

Airbnb is engineering itself into a data-driven company.

Why I have to quit Spotify | Digital Trends

Dumped! by Google : The Last Word On Nothing

"I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet." ~Derek Powazek

Mark Zuckerberg Reveals 'Facebook Home' for Android

Even if you never click on Facebook ads, they are making you buy things, because sponsored ads in your feed change your behavior.

Google Vision for the Demise of Print Advertising

Meanwhile, at the Google Store... WTF just happened???

On BuzzFeed, advertising IS content.

The Rich See a Different Internet Than the Poor: Scientific American

They are the advertisers and they are laughing at you. ~Banksy

Actual Facebook Graph Searches: “Current employees of Tesco who like horses” ...

Zuckerberg's Law not true. Sharing does not double every year. People have sharing fatigue.

Do Facebook ‘likes’ mean anything? - John Dvorak

Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos. Delete, delete, delete!

How to Steal The Election of 2012

Amazon, DRM, and P.S. Amazon customer service always sucks

Your E-Book Is Reading You - WSJ.com

The New York Times Is Now Supported by Readers, Not Advertisers -- Daily Intel

Selling You on Facebook - WSJ.com

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