Gillmor Gang: Platforming
TechCrunchAnd then there’s the outline of the new platform — live streaming notifications from what some call citizen media, or the influencer network, or the loyal opposition.Mobile would seem to be that fundamental shift from the desktop world of Windows and PCs. The twin dominance of powerful phones by Google and Apple has created a new language of notifications and streaming video perfectly timed for the devastating pandemic.READ MORE
Banging a Gong: Inside Producer Hal Willner’s Final All-Star Tribute Album
Rolling StoneAlthough Willner had begun work on the album four years ago, AngelHeaded Hipster arrives at a moment when Bolan is on the crest of a new wave of appreciation.Over the course of his decades-long career, Willner held down an impressive day job — selecting the music for Saturday Night Live skits since the early Eighties — while also assembling a series of eccentric tribute albums, where he recruited everyone from Keith Richards, Lou Reed, and Tom Waits to Chuck D, Sun Ra, and Lucinda Williams to tackle the music of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Kurt Weill, and Disney films.READ MORE
Francis Coppola’s New Cut Of ‘Godfather Part III’ To Get Limited December Theatrical Release Before VOD
DeadlineI said, “I’ll work with Mario, and we’ll make a script for a second Godfather movie, but I don’t want to direct it.I said, “Charlie, my opinion of Bob Evans, he has talent but he was so tough on me and he’s so second-guessing of me, it’s such a struggle, I don’t want to go through it again.”READ MORE
Reed Hastings on Netflix, Hollywood and the Future of Streaming
NYT > Business“Every new technology has real issues that have to be thought through and, you know, we’re in that phase for social media,” he said, adding: “The car, many people think is a great invention for human freedom, but it also has killed a lot of people over time.“No,” said Reed Hastings, who nurtured Netflix into the Godzilla of the entertainment world.READ MORE
How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long?
NYT > Top StoriesThe politics of race and region also figured prominently in the stinging defeat of a national popular vote amendment in the Senate in 1970 — the closest that the United States has come to transforming its presidential election system since 1821.What is far less known, or recognized, is that long after the abolition of slavery, Southern political leaders continued to resist any attempts to replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote.READ MORE
TestFlight forever: Developers are building a better world outside the App Store
ProtocolApple considers TestFlight a developer tool, a way for app makers to test their own software and get feedback from a few trusted testers before launching into the Wild West of the App Store.It's also increasingly a place to build apps and try things outside of Apple's stringent guidelines for the App Store.READ MORE
‘People want to take back their mind’: Substack CEO Chris Best on the growing appetite for paid newsletters
DigidayThe broader trend that I think we’re seeing is that people want to take back their mind. Because we’ve seen this media landscape dominated by what’s popular on social media feeds, and what’s popular on social media feeds is a result of the algorithms that run those feeds — which are crafted to be maximally addicting — that has created an environment where the things that win and get the most clicks are not necessarily the things that you want.”READ MORE
Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases after all
The VergeThat said, my source told me there was no ability to purchase any of those plans — and I can confirm the entire “Plans” section had already been removed by the time WordPress developer Matt Mullenweg told us Apple had successfully forced him to add Apple’s in-app purchases (IAP).You’ll notice that Apple is positioning this as the developer — WordPress — having done the right thing and removed the “display of their service payment options from the app,” and to my knowledge that is technically true.READ MORE
The Event Industry Is Being Confronted By Its Napster Moment
SkiftArguably, the video industry learned the lessons from the music and news industry much better, potentially setting it on a better economic path, but the industry also gave us the best quote ever given by an incumbent resisting digital changes in their sector: “It’s a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the world?”For years I wrote stories about the lessons the newspaper industry was ignoring and not moving to digital channels fast enough, or restructuring their businesses for a different world.READ MORE
How Salesforce beat its own target to reach $20B run rate ahead of schedule
TechCrunchAs a platform, it’s not only about providing a set of software tools like CRM, marketing automation and customer service, it’s also giving customers the ability to build solutions to meet their needs on top of that, taking advantage of the work that Salesforce has done to build its own software stack.He added, “I would say that these low-code platforms and the ability to stand up solutions quickly is more relevant than ever before because our customers are going to have to respond to changes in their business faster than ever before,” he said.READ MORE
Feeling mobile? Get the Feedly app and read on the go