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Episode 075 — Baby Picture Bots

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Facebook F8, how the company is trying to own both public and private social, and why Messenger is a good idea, but bots may not be. Links Twitter Has Outsized Influence, but It Doesn’t Drive Much Traffic for Most News Orgs, a New Report Says — NiemanLab Ben Thompson: Facebook, Phones, and Phonebooks — Stratechery David Kirkpatric: The Facebook Effect — Simon & Schuster Amir Efrati: Facebook Struggles to Stop Decline in ‘Original’ Sharing — The Information Ben Thompson: Facebook and the Feed — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Problem with Facebook’s Ten-Year Plan, Is BuzzFeed Struggling? … Continue reading Episode 075 — Baby Picture Bots

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0:00.0

Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm okay. How are you? I'm doing pretty well, actually. Why are you doing pretty well?

0:08.6

Well, I'm feeling like I'm on the road to recovery after all that surgery. It's still a little bumpy up and down, but the trend is definitely up. And this week was the first week I got to get back

0:22.2

in the swimming pool and swim properly. And that always makes me happy. So I'm probably,

0:27.8

my body's getting back to having all those endorphins floating around in it as a result of

0:32.2

exercise. And that's probably improving my mood and my general outlook. So you do,

0:37.0

you do sound very chipper.

0:38.5

They're all alternate ways of getting endorphins into your system.

0:41.9

That's right.

0:43.4

Well, I'm taking that one.

0:45.2

I love that one.

0:46.1

The water.

0:46.6

I love the water.

0:47.5

Anyway.

0:48.9

This week, Facebook had their big developer conference.

0:52.7

And something that I thought was interesting,

0:55.0

just kind of thinking about, you know,

0:57.5

how I think about what I'm going to write about,

0:59.5

is really a sense that,

1:02.0

and I've written about, you know,

1:04.2

their developer conference in the past,

1:07.0

but I think it was, I should check,

1:08.8

I don't know for sure,

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