Making Money
Business models are the surest way to understand a company’s motivations.
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For Apple, hitting middle age means a strategy primarily focused on monetizing its existing customers. It makes sense, but one wonders what happens next.
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The impact of Facebook’s News Feed changes on the media is far less interesting than what the changes — and their stated purpose — say about Facebook itself.
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Google is at its best when its product focus follows its business model; for too long Android was a detour.
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LinkedIn Misses, Sony’s Retreat
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Daily Update: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Earnings
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Daily Update: Learning From the Economist, NYT Now to be Free
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Daily Update: Apple Watch’s Bad Messaging; On Meerkat, Periscope, and Bad Journalism
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Tidal and the Future of Music
Predicting success and failure is about understanding who has leverage. In the case of music, the winners will be the labels, not the artist. But perhaps there is hope for tomorrow
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The Facebook Reckoning
Publishers are wringing their hands about whether or not to utilize Facebook’s Instant Articles, but the truth is most have no choice
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The Changing — and Unchanging — Structure of TV
The way we get TV may be changing, but the importance and defensibility of great content will persist
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Why BuzzFeed is the Most Important News Organization in the World
The key to sustainable, ethical journalism is aligning the business and editorial sides of a publication. No company has done a better job of doing that on the Internet then BuzzFeed