Apparently selling custom domains as a user name. Sounds like a real moneymaker 🙄

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won’t ‘Enshittify the Network With Ads’ WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the X competitor opening signups to all, how to crowdsource deepfake porn moderation, Jack Dorsey, and more.

Bluesky CEO has vowed to never "enshittify the network with ads" — does anyone actually believe this?

I am surprised that Google or Amazon still haven’t teased enhanced conversational features using GenAI for their smart speakers yet. Getting something like the real-time ChatGPT conversation feature will be an absolute game changer for Alexa and Google Home devices.

Employee lawsuit accuses Apple of spying on its workers | Semafor The suit alleges Apple forces employees to give up their personal privacy rights and surveils them through iCloud accounts and non-work devices.

A current Apple ad tech employee accused the company of spying on him and other employees via their personal iCloud accounts and forbade him from participating in any public speaking about digital advertising.

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Why don’t advertisers care about universal creative IDs? We can all live in blissful creative identification harmony if you register your damn creatives.

1Password. I like that it does everything I need it to do (including passkeys), works across browsers, and it’s free. Sucks that Apple has to take out business models (similar to Day One with their new Journal app) but if it works it works.

Love Monarch as well. For me, it’s the new Apple Passwords app and ChatGPT. Worst app goes to Sonos.

He does love his uncomfortable angles

Smart move. This will likely be remembered as the first use of AI in a major commercial, which will soon be how most ads are made.

The Trade Desk Ventura: When Efficiency Calls An analysis of The Trade Desk's strategy to create a CTV operating system

This is my analysis of The Trade Desk's strategy to create Ventura, a new CTV operating system. I include many excerpts from TTD CEO Jeff Green's recent visit on The Current podcast, along with my thoughts and takeaways.

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I wonder what percentage of Bluesky users understand how the decentralized aspects of Bluesky work — because I do not.

I feel like Google would prefer to eject Chrome into the sun than let TTD buy it.

So you don't think there's any value in a publisher or SSP applying what they know about a user (and the DSP may not know) to a transaction?

Disclosure is the difference between fraud and insight.

So it’s okay for a DSP to bridge an ID themselves (device graph), but an SSP can’t do it even if they flag it as bridged? If the SSP has additional probabilistic insight, why not leverage it?

I’d have to imagine that being unable to buy their way back is a stipulation. This could also be one of several remedies.

Mozilla makes 86% of its revenue from a search deal with Google.

What is the value of an independent Chrome?

I hope it scales better than their live streaming infrastructure.

Which challenge? If they spin off Chrome, Google can no longer force Google search to be the default, so I’d count that as a win.

I think certain types of people thrive in person, but there is absolutely no reason you cannot grow your career full-time remotely if you are intentional about it.

Are we trying the BlueSky thing again?

Poor Bluesky never stood a chance after Threads launched.