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The CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerburg has been testifying in the anti-trust trial from the United States Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Meta has a monopoly in the social media space. Is that true? We'll discuss, and Sarah Frier, author of "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram" will stop by to share her take on the situation. Additionally there's some TikTok news and YouTube news. Show Notes:Leave a Review: Apple PodcastsFollow Me on Instagram: @danielhillmediaTikTok Users Spend Twice as Much Time on the App as Instagram Users Spend on Instagram (The Wrap)Mark Zuckerburg suggested spinning off Instagram (The Verge)Book - No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Sarah Frier (Amazon)YouTube: Creator Research and Feedback (YouTube)YouTube: Hype Feature (YouTube) Leave a Review: Apple Podcasts Follow Me on Instagram: @danielhillmedia
More To Say is officially here! On today's episode, I sat down with Editor in Charge of Big Tech Coverage at Bloomberg and author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Sarah Frier. Sarah's award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. If you're curious to get the inside scoop of how today's top social media platforms operate, this is the episode for you.WE DISCUSS:- ( 4:09 ): Amber and Sarah discuss research for her book and the unique discoveries she made about Instagram.- ( 13:43 ): Amber asks Sarah about her take on social media platforms having a community-driven model versus a company-driven model.- ( 27:07 ): Sarah gives advice for creators who are starting their careers today.- ( 35:50 ): Amber and Sarah discuss the fate of TikTok in the United States and what this could mean for creators and users on a global scale.LTK for CreatorsLTK for BrandsLearn more about More To SayWatch on YouTubeShop Amber's LTKFollow Amber on InstagramConnect with Amber on LinkedInCheck out and purchase Sarah's book, “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Squirrel! Another way we refer to that shiny new thing that distracts us. Marketers classically have shiny object syndrome, and admitting it is the first step, right? This episode covers all elements of the bird app, Threads (more on this than we expected), social media in general, and events. Meg Coffey is THE preeminent digital marketing expert & event organizer in Australia, hailing all the way from Texas. We had so much fun -- three marketers with the gift of gab makes for a fast-paced, insightful, and exciting conversation! Our guest Meg Coffey is an internationally recognized social media and digital marketing strategist, hailing from Texas and now proudly based in Australia. Known as the “Texstralian,” Meg combines her exceptional work ethic, calculated risk-taking, and remarkable communication skills to lead the way in digital empowerment. As the founder of State of Social, Australia's largest social media conference, and #SMPerth, a go-to source for the latest news and a vibrant community in the digital space, Meg is dedicated to keeping businesses ahead of the curve. With a deep understanding that digital is essential in today's business landscape, Meg's expertise extends far beyond the hospitality and tourism sectors she works with thru her agency Coffey & Tea. She specializes in transforming the fear of social media into confidence and excitement about leveraging technology for tangible results. Meg actively contributes to the digital marketing community as a sought-after speaker, lecturer, and panelist. Her thought leadership has led to judging industry awards and being recognized as one of Australia's Top 50 Small Business Leaders in 2017. Notably, Meg was also a finalist for Campaign Brief's prestigious Ad Person of the Year award in 2021 and 2023. Meg's book reco: "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram" by Sarah Frier ~._.*._.~ We are "Making a Marketer"... in all ways. Check out episode 131 - the last one of Season 6! Please take a minute to follow, rate, & review us on your podcast platform of choice & get each ep. when it drops... Also, share with your friends & colleagues! https://bit.ly/mamITuneNEW ::: This episode is made possible by Powers of Marketing - emPOWERing amazing podcast experiences & online and in person events ::: **ALSO: Our editor Avri makes amazing music! Check out his music on Spotify!**
Building With People For People: The Unfiltered Build Podcast
When you design and build a web application for scale, you need to make a lot of decisions and small details can add up to create massive impact. So when you build a web application how do you know what framework to use, which cloud provider to choose or database solution to use? Relational, Document, Graph? You may also need users to login to your site but how do you authenticate them? Do you use sessions, JWTs, or third party authentication? How do you scale and support millions of users? We are joined today by an engineer whose passion it is to solve these exact questions and come up with solutions for designing scalable software systems. Our guest today loves tinkering and building products from scratch. Growing up he was fascinated with Leonardo DaVinci and the machines he built, watching many history episodes on the topic. His love for software started over 10 years back when he took a web dev course on HTML, CSS and VB script where he built a website that helped others create websites, it was a “create your own website” type website. He went on to earn his degree in computer science from University of Pune in India. He started off as a UX engineer, after which he switched to exploring the Data Science domain for a brief period and slowly migrated to designing scalable systems for startups and other companies. Currently he is working as a Software Consultant at a company named Sahaj.ai When our guest is not designing software or architecting solutions he is traveling, reading, watching movies, playing soccer and cooking. He is a big foodie and his favorite meal to make is Biriyani (a rice dish). In his words he was born a nomad and wants to explore the world. Connect with Denny: Twitter LinkedIn Denny's Newsletter Show notes and helpful resources: Obsidian note taking software for productivity - the 2nd person to call this out, so take a look! Quote from Steve Jobs - “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards…” Jugaad - Innovative fix or hack Netflix and Chaos Engineering Open source libraries for Chaos Engineering Denny's article: A Commentary on Authentication Methods Denny's article: Sql, NoSql, Graph: A Commentary on Databases Denny's article: Twitter's Tough Architectural Decision Yagni principle - You aren't gonna need it No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier Building something cool or solving interesting problems? Want to be on this show? Send me an email at jointhepodcast@unfilteredbuild.com Podcast produced by Unfiltered Build - dream.design.develop.
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Dr. Amit (Am-it) Kumar, the President and CEO of Anixa Biosciences, about a new approach to actually preventing the truly aggressive triple negative breast cancer, and its potential for other breast cancers and ovarian cancer. We hear about the scientific breakthroughs and their partnership with the Cleveland Clinic. Then, Sarah Frier (“Fry-er”), a tech journalist with Bloomberg News. Her award-winning book: “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram” has lessons for today's potential buyout of Twitter.
Dr. Amit (Am-it) Kumar, the President and CEO of Anixa Biosciences, about a new approach to actually preventing the truly aggressive triple negative breast cancer, and its potential for other breast cancers and ovarian cancer. We hear about the scientific breakthroughs and their partnership with the Cleveland Clinic. Then, Sarah Frier (“Fry-er”), a tech journalist with Bloomberg News. Her award-winning book: “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram” has lessons for today's potential buyout of Twitter.
Few people know Instagram better than Bloomberg News tech reporter Sarah Frier. Author of the award-winning book No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, she talked with Ricky Mulvey about: - How parent company Meta Platforms affects Instagram's user experience today - CEO Mark Zuckerberg's role in company acquisitions - The company's shift into the metaverse Want more background on investing in metaverse stocks? Click here: https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/market-sectors/information-technology/metaverse-stocks/ Stocks: FB, SNAP, AAPL Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Sarah Frier Engineers: Tim Sparks, Rick Engdahl
There's been over 450 episodes of The Property Podcast, but until now, we've not revealed the secret formula that investors NEED to be aware of. In the past, Rob & Rob have told you all about net yield and return on investment (ROI), and how using these can show you how profitable your investments have been - and will be in the future. But there's an important factor that neither of these consider. That's capital growth. That's a big thing to miss out, especially since capital growth is usually the biggest return you'll get. It's one of the main factors we consider when sourcing deals for our Property Hub Invest clients. The new formula, called the ‘Total Return Formula', takes capital growth into account. Listen as Rob & Rob explain how to use this formula, as well as how to best predict capital growth for future investments. In the news And this week's big news is actually a notable lack of news! Specifically, about how there was no increase in interest base rates announced last week. It was predicted that they'd rise from 0.1%-0.25%, but this move wasn't taken. What do Rob & Rob think this means for the property market? Hub Extra We've got a great book for you this week, and it's about something that almost everyone on earth has engaged with in one way or another – Instagram! ‘No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram' by Sarah Frier. This one's different from the other books about the origins of social media channels, because it's not solely focussed on controversy. Instead, it zeroes in on how this brand-new platform went from something small to something that has impacted not just app-users, but businesses and the world at large. We're big supporters of thinking big, and the story of Instagram is a prime example of that. Let's get social We'd love to hear what you think of this week's Property Podcast over on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. You might even have a topic you'd like us to cover in the future - if so, pop us a message on social and we'll see what we can do. Make sure you've liked and subscribed to our YouTube channel where we upload new content every week! If that wasn't enough, you can also join our friendly property community on the Property Hub forum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Facebook is having a rough week. From the largest outage in its history on Monday, to the bombshell testimony a former employee turned whistleblower gave to the Senate on Tuesday, we've all been thinking about our relationship with these apps as individuals, and as a society. Sarah Frier, senior technology reporter for Bloomberg News and author of, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, joins to unpack a whirlwind week for Facebook, and listeners call in about how the outage made them re-evaluate their relationships with the tech giant.
By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Sarah Frier, the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram. The past two weeks has revealed a great deal of information about how Instagram and Facebook operate thanks for the most part to a trove of documents published by The Wall Street Journal. Sarah's covered the inner workings of Instagram and its tenuous relationship with Facebook for a long time, and with her book now coming out in paperback this week I wanted to talk to her about what we've just learned, how Facebook got more powerful in the pandemic, what we've always known about Facebook, and how deep into this company's culture this goes. Sarah can be found at Bloomberg where she runs the big tech team, she's on Twitter and the book No Filter is available wherever books are sold. This interview has been condensed and edited. Sarah you are the author of No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, that this week is coming out in paperback. Can you tell us a little bit about the book?No Filter is the first book to give the behind-the-scenes story of how Instagram came to be so powerful, have so much of a hold over our culture, over our economy, over our sense of self. I think that the paperback comes out at a time that the app has just become even more relevant. You would think that an app that was about measuring us socially and sharing our experiences would maybe dwindle during a deadly pandemic that forces us to stay inside, but in fact, when we remained at home, we scrolled more, and we shared more. Some of the in-person stuff we were doing became on Instagram and some of the small businesses that were trying to figure out how to sell stuff with their doors closed shifted to Instagram.It's just become an even more relevant story today. I know I'm biased, but with the book, what I try to do is I didn't want to just tell the corporate story. I wanted to tell the story of how those internal decisions affected us on the outside, changed our culture, changed our world. And hopefully people who read it will feel that way.I really enjoyed the cultural parts. I enjoyed the rise of influencer culture and how kind of cultivated that all was. To your point, that has only gotten more significant in the past year.There's been a couple of recent revelations about Facebook and Instagram in particular that echo some of the stuff that you wrote about. Do you want to talk a little bit about what the past two or three weeks have been for Facebook and Instagram?Oh, my goodness. They've had to reckon with some truths here from the Wall Street Journal. They had an incredible leak of documents. They called them the Facebook Files, and they just were probably very painful if you're a Facebook employee because these are the stories that they've tried to tamp down on. When Congressmen and women have asked Facebook, "Is Instagram harmful for teens?" Their response is always, "Oh, the research is mixed." Well, this shows definitively in their own internal research that, yes, they know that it's harmful for teen body image for girls and boys.The Journal had several parts of the investigation, some of them have to do with Facebook Inc. One really uncovered how the company does not have appropriate staff in countries where it's in languages where it just simply doesn't have people to moderate that content. This is a product used by more than 3 billion people around the world, and when you consider that fact, it's more than half of the world's internet connected population.These products have just enormous impact and they're all controlled by a single person who doesn't want us to think anything badly about them. And so, they consistently obfuscate the truth. They make sure that there's nothing out there that could be negative for Facebook or Instagram. And in doing so, are totally disingenuous because of course there's stuff that is real awful that is happening on their platforms.On that note, one thing I really liked about your book, was that it was kind of very personal, describing the relationship between Kevin Systrom and Mark Zuckerberg. And at the time, it can kind of be like, "Oh, is this just drama between two dudes who are very powerful?" But to your point, it is one person who controls this entire ecosystem. Do you want to get into that?Well, I think it's a huge challenge for Facebook, that they have all the voting power, all of the control, centered in this one person who has not surrounded himself with anyone that will critique him. He just simply isn't trusted anymore. If you're using Facebook, you've been lied to so many times or you've been misled so many times, that it's simply is not a product that you can trust, at least not under Mark Zuckerberg's leadership.I think that this company has only given him more power over time. I think that in the Instagram story, you'll see that he is working to consolidate power at Facebook, taking more control over the future of Instagram, more control over the future of WhatsApp, and Oculus and integrating that into the core product. And Facebook Inc is not as important as Facebook, the Social Network. I mean, that's really the core of it all. That's his brainchild that he wants to survive.It's just incredible how the company is attempting to pretend like it doesn't do anything wrong. I was talking with some colleagues the other day, and we were talking about the fact that Facebook doesn't just come out and say, "Listen, the reason we do it this way is because we're a business and we need to money. And if we did it the way you're saying we should do it, well, that might be better for our users, but we lose a ton of money."Right.That would be honest.The tobacco companies did that for years. And it's a viable, straightforward argument in the United States. There is something said for, "I have a fiduciary responsibility to my shareholders to maximize profit, which is why I'm making the decisions that I'm making."Facebook has never said that, ever.It's always like, "No, it's good."They're saying, "Listen, we have the interests of our users, first and foremost. Privacy is at the foundation of our business. Wellbeing, we are making incredible investments." All of these things, over and over and over become these lines in PR. But ultimately, yeah, Facebook is a business and their main objective is to grow.Can you get into their growth because even in the past year, it's been substantial since we last chatted?With the pandemic, there were fewer things that you could do in person, whether that was shopping or going to a concert or hanging out with your friends. Facebook, and especially Instagram, took advantage of that shift and moved a lot of our offline activity online, especially in the case of small businesses. Now they're leaning hard into content creators. I think that they're trying to make this trend exist beyond the pandemic, whenever that may end. That's the case with all the tech companies. You saw Amazon get more powerful, you saw Google get more powerful, because these companies are now the infrastructure of our society. They're almost as crucial as any of the roads we use. It's just like, this is how we live, is through Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Google, especially in a mode where we've been forced, virtually.To that end, what you're kind of describing there is getting utility-esque. Right? And we've seen some stuff from the FTC this year. What's kind of been going on, on that end, because it seems like they've been playing a little bit of tennis with the courts?Yes. So, what you're referring to is a monopoly claim from the FTC that Facebook has just way too much power over our social interactions. And so much so, that it is considered a monopoly. And that monopoly has been enriched by the purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp, purchases that the FTC considers to be anti-competitive.Because if you look at what internal documents show, and if you read, No Filter, of course, you will see that the reason that mark Zuckerberg buys Instagram is to quash a competitor.Really? The entire reason?Well, absolutely. I mean, he would rather own it than have someone else own it. He would like for Facebook to be somewhere in mobile. At the time, they didn't have really, a mobile strategy. And one of the things that points to this, there's an anecdote in my book where Instagram comes and joins Facebook HQ. The acquisition was announced for a billion dollars, and was the most anyone ever paid for a mobile app.And in the first weeks that they're there, the growth team at Facebook says, "I'm sorry, but we really can't help you grow until we find out if you are a threat to sharing on Facebook."Huh?So, they ran a study to see if Instagram was threatening Facebook. They were willing to let it wither, this incredible investment, if it was going to be a problem for Facebook down the road. And then you see that later, when Zuckerberg sees Instagram becoming more popular, really on that ramp to a billion users.It coincides with this time that we're all scrutinizing Facebook a lot more, after Donald Trump is elected president, the spread of misinformation on Facebook is scrutinized, violent live video, et cetera, et cetera, privacy scandals come about. And Zuckerberg is thinking, "The reason people may not be using Facebook so much is because they have this alternative, that we've been pumping resources into. So, maybe the problem is that we should be directing more attention from Instagram to Facebook."It's at the root of a lot of personal difficulties between the founders.It was jealousy.Seems like a fascinating way to run a business.Yeah, because he owns Instagram. Right? He owns this product that's incredibly successful and he doesn't want it to cannibalize. That's the word they use internally. He doesn't want it to cannibalize Facebook.Again, that sounds a little like buying rival businesses, in order to guarantee that they don't undermine me. That sounds extremely anticompetitive. Oh, you mean, buying something so that they won't compete with you, is anti-competitive? Yeah.That's the definition. But, the law is a little squishy on this. If you and I look at this and say, "Okay, is Instagram a part of Facebook strategy to quash competitors?" Of course, it is. They have a version of every competing product. They have reels to compete with TikTok, they have IGTV to compete with YouTube. They have highlights to compete with all sorts of stuff. There's this infrastructure of things. If you break down every product in Instagram, it correlates with something else outside. And Instagram's purpose within Facebook is really to be the product that brings in that audience. And compared to other products at Facebook, they're doing a much better job. That's about that longevity, that's about the continued domination of Facebook around the world.If I may. some of my favorite things in your book were just how initially Facebook was worried about Twitter. And they used Instagram to really kind of poach stuff away from Twitter. And I'm almost kind of wondering is Facebook the quarterback in this situation and they're using Instagram kind of like a lineman? Really just the thing that hits the threats, in order to preserve home base of Facebook?Yeah, I would say that, that's a pretty good interpretation because when you look at something like reels, do we need reels? Do people need that on Instagram? When Instagram still had its founders and they copied Snapchat stories, Snapchat was a threat for sure, especially among that younger demographic. But there was also a real reason that they needed to do it for their user base because people were incredibly anxious about posting on Instagram. And that anxiety was actually bad for growth. Because if you don't think that your life is worth posting about, you are going to post less. And when you look at Instagram, it's not going to be full of content from your friends who were also all anxious, it's going to be content from celebrities. And then you'll think, "Nobody hangs out here anymore." And the app dies. That was the thesis of why they did Instagram stories, so there would be some lower pressure way to post on Instagram. But when you think about reels, the reason for reels was, "Oh my God, everybody loves TikTok. We need reels." And then, you are Mark Zuckerberg solving a business problem. You're not Instagram solving a user problem.It seems like TikTok is really giving them a real run for their money. I know that Snapchat took a ding from the adaptation of stories, but is actually kind of still doing decently to this day. But TikTok really seems like it's been the first thing that really has kind of stolen Instagram's thunder, particularly in the past year.Well, I would say that TikTok, yes, in part, because Facebook is so determined to move in the same direction that TikTok is moving. One of the things that's interesting about Snapchat is they're trying to do things in their own unique way. It's a little quirky and it doesn't necessarily fit with what you expect every social network to be doing.But Instagram is kind of just hitting back with the same play. And I think that in that sense, you get an app that strays a little bit from its purpose. And when you think about what Instagram's purpose is now, it used to be very clear. There's a place where you go to share the highlights of your life, and make your life appear more beautiful and perfect than it actually is. And discover corners of society that maybe you didn't know about before.Now, you have reels, you have IGTV, you have regular posts, you have Explore, you have all of these different components of Instagram. You have direct messaging, which is combined with Facebook messenger. You have text posts, you have memes. It's just like, it's everything to everyone.And I think that that becomes difficult.That's really interesting. There's one thing that I wanted to talk about from your book that has to do kind of with the recent news, and that has to do with kind of teens using Facebook. A lot of what you cover in the book is just how development happened on the platform for a while, that really came from its user base. Like, teens came up with the idea of making Finstas and they had to find out — why are Finstas a thing?And then, I guess, I'm kind of curious, as we kind of saw with some of the recent revelations, this isn't really a particularly healthy platform for its users. Can you just expand on some of the stuff that you wrote about in the book when it came to youth users, and then how that kind of reflects on some of the things that we've seen in the past two weeks?Yeah, I talked a little bit about this, about the intense anxiety for posting on Instagram and why that was bad. But Instagram didn't really look into this, in any formal way until around 2015. And when they did, they heard a lot from teens about how hard it was on them to keep up appearances on Instagram. And teens had all sorts of strategies. Some would just delete their entire grid of photos every month and post a new one, or they would try to find a way to, as you said, have a fake Instagram, which is really their real Instagram. And, of course, they use things like filters for their faces to make themselves appear more attractive, get rid of their acne, whiten their teeth, whatever the case may be.The way that Instagram learned a lot more about teens is they would have this Thursday teen observation, where they would have a bunch of product people, sometimes including Instagram's CEO, sitting at this table. And there was this one way mirror and the teens are on the other side discussing the new products that Instagram is building. And they often don't know that it's Instagram building them. But all the things that they're saying about it are being observed by this internal team drinking a bottle of wine on a Thursday night.That's wild.And that's how the product development works at Facebook. I mean, there's a lot of focus grouping, a lot of observation. The goal isn't like, "Let's make sure this is a product that's healthy for our users.", as much as it's, "Are people going to use this? Is it going to increase their time spent on the platform? Is it going to increase engagement with Instagram? Is it going to improve our retention?" All of those things.Remind me — I think that some of the things that came out — were there opportunities to install fixes, whether it was on Facebook or Instagram, I don't recall which. But that got shut down because engagement did not go up.Right. If there is a solution to some wellbeing problem that also dings at engagement, it's really just not going to work. I mean, look what they did, they were going to get rid of likes, and they'll say that they did, but the likes still exist. You can just hide them. And that's the way that they've done a lot of their wellbeing initiatives. For example, if you want to not see all of the comments that are calling you a slut, you just mute the word, slut. Right?Oh, God.But that doesn't mean that you're not getting those comments. And if you're being attacked, you kind of want to see it. I think that, that's the problem with likes too. If you're hiding your likes, but you're still getting that score every day on your photos it's like telling someone, "You can have a test, but we're not going to show you the grade, if you don't want to see it." Everyone wants to see what grade they got on the test. It's irresistible.And it's not just the likes. It's the followers, it's the comments, it's the views on your stories, the order of people who view your story, everything gets obsessive. You can turn your account into a business account and see, "Oh, I have an audience that is more heavily female and concentrated in Brazil. And they look at my profile in between the hours of 4:00 and 6:00 PM most." If you are a young person in the world, you can know that much about what people think about you. It's not a real measure of how relevant or popular or interesting or exciting your life is. It is a measure of how well you're playing the game.You're in charge of big tech coverage at Bloomberg. In the end of September, they had an editorial that basically said, "Instagram is no place for kids." But also, stop me if they canceled this, but Facebook is literally building an Instagram for kids. [Ed note: the day after we recorded this they did in fact delay it] At a certain point, are they going to have an obligation under any of the online protection acts that we have for children who use the internet? At what point does this become more of a liability for them than anything else?Well, that is certainly something that everyone in Washington is up in arms about, on both sides of the aisle. We've seen a lot of screaming matches, a lot of strongly worded emails. The question is can you stop them from doing it? I don't really think that you can.They did roll out Messenger Kids. And that, of course, had a lot of similar concerns and privacy issues. But the product has been relatively successful. We haven't gotten strong numbers, but it does exist and it is used. I think Instagram, it's hard to make an Instagram for kids that doesn't use tons of images of children in it. Right? Instagram is about images.So, I'm curious to see what that product looks like. The thesis is that kids use Instagram no matter what. So, we want to make a safe space for them. But Instagram hasn't made a very strong effort to root out the under-13 audience on Instagram. They've made a few steps towards better age verification, but it's really easy to find nine year olds hanging out on Instagram and just using it the way we all use it.It sounds a little bit like what the tobacco industry had to deal with. Again, underage smoking was not considered a very good thing. It happened, absolutely. And they got dinged for not doing enough to stop it. And it wasn't particularly healthy for anyone involved in it.That, though, is a very highly regulated industry now. And this social media industry, I mean, how do you even regulate it? It's speech by people. If you are the government and you say, "Well, we don't want Facebook to show anyone anti-vaccine misinformation." Well, then you have to define that. It just gets really complicated. In that category, of course, the science has changed over the course of many months.It's a tricky problem to solve. What I hope happens when people read the book is they understand the infrastructure of these products, the motivations of these executives, the grow-at-all-costs mentality at Facebook, and are able to make healthier decisions for themselves, informed decisions about how they want to use the products with some level of intention. And maybe that's a way to help it be healthier.All right. So, to make an informed decision, you have got to be informed and the book is No Filter. It won a bunch of best book awards last year, right? Like NPR, the Economist, I think McKinsey, rightIt was the Financial Times McKinsey Business Book of the Year, which was very exciting!Very cool! And it's out in paperback now, and folks can get it anywhere.Anywhere. Anywhere books are sold, eBooks, audio books, it's there,Sick. And then where can folks find you?I am on Twitter and Instagram and everywhere that people are on the internet these days.If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips, or feedback at walt@numlock.news. Get full access to Numlock News at www.numlock.com/subscribe
Allegations against R. Kelly have been made for decades, but several investigative reports, including the 2019 documentary "Surviving R. Kelly," led prosecutors to take another look. dream hampton, writer and executive producer of the documentary, joins us. And, Facebook says it's "pausing" its plans to build a separate version of Instagram for kids. The app, aimed at people 13 years old or younger, had been the subject of heavy criticism. Sarah Frier, author of "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram," discusses.
Bloomberg's Brad Stone is one of the country's leading experts on the global commerce company Amazon. His bestselling book from a decade ago, The Everything Store, gave one of the most detailed pictures of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos. His coverage in Bloomberg Businessweek has helped shaped our understanding of the internet giant. Since Stone's first book on Amazon was published, the company has expanded to become the most valuable internet company and one of the globe's largest retailers. Its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to well over $1 trillion dollars. The company's holdings also include Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon's cloud computing unit, AWS, which powers many of the country's largest websites. Throughout the pandemic, Amazon became a lifeline for many people and small businesses around the world for home supplies, cleaning products and PPE. Bezos also has a personal ownership of The Washington Post, expanding the Amazon owner's impact. In Stone's new book, Amazon Unbound, the author presents another deeply reported narrative of how a retail upstart became one of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also looks at the evolution of Bezos himself from a geeky start-up guy to leading one of the globe's most influential companies. Please join us for this important event to better understand one of the private sector giants that is shaping modern life, and the company's enigmatic leader who is shaping that vision. SPEAKERS Brad Stone Senior Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg News; Author, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire In Conversation with Sarah Frier Technology Reporter, Bloomberg; Author, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on May 25th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bloomberg's Brad Stone is one of the country's leading experts on the global commerce company Amazon. His bestselling book from a decade ago, The Everything Store, gave one of the most detailed pictures of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos. His coverage in Bloomberg Businessweek has helped shaped our understanding of the internet giant. Since Stone's first book on Amazon was published, the company has expanded to become the most valuable internet company and one of the globe's largest retailers. Its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to well over $1 trillion dollars. The company's holdings also include Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon's cloud computing unit, AWS, which powers many of the country's largest websites. Throughout the pandemic, Amazon became a lifeline for many people and small businesses around the world for home supplies, cleaning products and PPE. Bezos also has a personal ownership of The Washington Post, expanding the Amazon owner's impact. In Stone's new book, Amazon Unbound, the author presents another deeply reported narrative of how a retail upstart became one of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also looks at the evolution of Bezos himself from a geeky start-up guy to leading one of the globe's most influential companies. Please join us for this important event to better understand one of the private sector giants that is shaping modern life, and the company's enigmatic leader who is shaping that vision. SPEAKERS Brad Stone Senior Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg News; Author, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire In Conversation with Sarah Frier Technology Reporter, Bloomberg; Author, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on May 25th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sarah Frier, technology journalist with Bloomberg News, and author of the Financial Times' Book of the Year, “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram”. And Victor Hwang, a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Right to Start. He's also the author of “The Rainforest – The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley.”
Business journalist and author of "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram" Sarah Frier shares the story behind Facebook's purchase of the photo sharing social media app Instagram and how the cultures of the two companies clashed. Frier, a Bloomberg News reporter, explains what was the initial appeal of Instagram to users and the Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - who purchased the platform for $1 billion in 2012. Talking to CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett, Frier details how the relationship between Instagram's founders, Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger, and Zuckerberg soured after the social media platforms accelerated growth with stories. Plus, as the FTC reexamines the idea of what defines a monopoly, Frier explains what this could mean for Facebook's purchase of Instagram. NOTE: This conversation was recorded before the Assault on Capitol Hill took place on January 6th, 2021.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
We interview Sarah Frier about the growth of Instagram and then what happened when it was bought by Facebook. Sarah Frier reports on social media companies for Bloomberg News out of San Francisco. Her award-winning features and breaking stories have earned her a reputation as an expert on how Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter make business decisions that affect their future and our society. Frier is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. She attended the University of North Carolina, where she earned a degree in journalism and edited the school paper before joining Bloomberg in 2011. Her first book, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, won the Financial Times/McKinsey & Co 2020 Business Book of the Year award, and has been listed as a top book of the year by The Economist, Fortune, NPR and others.
Owaves Wellness Planner Sarah Frier is the author of the new book No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram and is a tech reporter at Bloomberg. As featured on www.owaves.com Episode 34: Sarah Frier
Es sind nur noch wenige Tage bis zur Präsidentschaftswahl in den USA. Zu diesem Anlass haben wir die US-amerikanische Bloomberg-Journalistin, Buchautorin und Social-Media-Expertin Sarah Frier eingeladen. Wir sprechen über ihr Buch "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram", über Einflussnahme auf die US-Wahl in sozialen Netzwerken und über die Kampagnen von Donald Trump und Joe Biden. Wir fragen Sarah Frier: Sind die Wähler heute besser informiert als früher? Beteiligen sich die Menschen durch soziale Medien stärker? Und was tun Facebook, Twitter & Instagram im Wahlkampf gegen Fake News? It's only a few days until the presidential election in the US. We invited the US-American journalist, author and social media expert Sarah Frier to join our podcast. We talk about her book "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram", about fraud and the campaigns of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We ask her: Is the electorate better informed than 20 years ago? How has political campaigning on social media changed political participation? What do Facebook, Twitter and Instagram do against fake news?
How have Instagram's corporate decisions changed the way people interact with the world? What are the ways Instagram serves as a lens into contemporary society? What's behind the social media platform's battle for attention? How can we weigh the decisions of a corporation to better understand the environment is creates?Sarah Frier is the author of "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram" and a reporter covering social media for Bloomberg.Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.Josh Chapdelaine is the co-producer of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff's Team Human Podcast.-----Follow Digital VoidTwitter: https://twitter.com/digivoidmediaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKWoac3SIfsUg6Xl0X1GS8AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/digivoidmediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitalvoid.media/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/34894594Use the hashtags #DigitalVoid #DigitalVoidPodcast to join the conversation-----CreditsProduced by Dr. Jamie Cohen and Josh ChapdelaineAudio edited and mixed by Josh ChapdelaineOur Community Manager is Kayleigh Marinelli-----Digital Void Podcast is a production of Digital Void Media.Contact Digital Void:Email: digivoidmedia@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sarah Frier, the author of the new book 'No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram' and a technology reporter for Bloomberg, talks about how the app's co-founder Kevin Systrom was able to succeed for so long after Facebook purchased his startup and what he might do next. She also discussed the elements of good design in the smartphone era and how regulators should approach tech M&A.
Sarah Frier is a prolific technology reporter for Bloomberg. Her new book, “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram,” is both a compelling account of Instagram’s history and a record of the social media platform’s impact on society. Professor Brian Keating’s interview with Frier covers a range of topics, including the inspiration to research and write the book, the role of augmented technology, and how social media will be changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Show notes and resources are available here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php Timestamps links 00:07:39 The meanings behind the title and cover of “No Filter.” 00:14:45 Social media moguls as humans and not just characters in the story. 00:22:15 How to tell a story when everyone knows the ending. 00:31:15 Anyone can be an Instagram celebrity. 00:41:00 Will a new platform emerge during the pandemic? 00:47:51 Technological advances keep Instagram relevant. 00:53:11 Questions INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE asks all authors. Sarah Frier is a technology reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek. She earned a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina. Her articles on social media have won awards from The San Francisco Press Club and other organizations. Buy Sarah Frier’s book here: https://amzn.to/2X6rurs Read Frier’s articles on Bloomberg here. Listen to Frier’s interview on the podcast Recode Decode: Find Frier on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahfrier/ and Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahfrier Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes for a chance to win a copy of Frier’s book. ♂️ Find Brian Keating on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating Find Brian Keating on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SEGMENT 1: Eight years ago, Facebook understood the power of Instagram when it purchased it for an outrageous amount of money at the time - $1B for the app and its 12 employees. Today it's worth over $100B. Taking us inside this deal and what has happened since is my guest Sarah Frier, reporter for Bloomberg News and the author of the new book “NO FILTER: The Inside Story of Instagram”.SEGMENT 2: Small business owners need help right now. Who better to bring in than Mike Michalowicz, author of “Profit First” and the new book “Fix This Next”? He's here to share the formula for how to figure out what to fix next in your business.SEGMENT 3: Many people avoid conflict, especially in times of stress like we are all going through right now in the corona-economy. But is there actually a benefit to having conflict in a small business? My next guests are the authors of “The Beauty of Conflict”, CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke. Sponsored by Nextiva
In a short 10 years, Instagram has grown from a simple idea for sharing photos to an application with over 1 billion monthly users and company growth that has surpassed many other tech giants. At the same time, this exponential success has been accompanied by a dramatic acquisition by Facebook in 2012 and the Instagram co-founders stepping down in 2018. Award-winning technology reporter Sarah Frier helps bring some clarity to the mysteries surrounding the tech giant in her book No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram. The Bloomberg reporter delivers stories taken from the Instagram influencers and celebrities that have helped drive the app to such rapid growth, the employees and executives who have watched from behind the scenes, and the founders of Instagram themselves who give insight into the growth and change of the service. Join INFORUM as Frier draws from her expertise in technology to navigate through this diverse cast of sources to paint a picture of how Instagram evolved to shape the online experience and fundamentally change how we engage with society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bloomberg reporter Sarah Frier stopped by the Jam to discuss her book, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram. But, we also got into her illustrious college journalism career (and if you like sports, you've actually heard of her work) and the work it takes to cover technology these days. Thankfully, I only told a few stories from back in my day! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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