Fri. 12/28 - Why Horizontal Instagram Might Be Inevitable

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🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Instagram briefly goes horizontal, more on how epic Fortnite has been for Epic Games this year, Larry Ellison joins Tesla’s board, the global GPS wars are joined and the last weekend longreads of the year. Links: Instagram briefly switched to a horizontal feed and people freaked out (The Verge) Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, banked a $3 billion profit in 2018 (TechCrunch) Exclusive: Foxconn to begin assembling top-end Apple iPhones in India in 2019 - source (Reuters) Tesla Taps Ellison, HR Expert to Prove Musk Is Reined In (Bloomberg) China ramps up global coverage for domestic Beidou satellite navigation system as rival to GPS (South China Morning Post) The Betterment Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Devchat.tv podcasts The GPS wars have begun (TechCrunch) Amazon gets into health insurance — and more 2019 health-tech predictions from top experts (CNBC) The biggest technology failures of 2018 (MIT Technology Review) Why Your Next Home Might Not Need Any Energy at All (WSJ) THE 'FUTURE BOOK' IS HERE, BUT IT'S NOT WHAT WE EXPECTED (Wired) Bird Box Is the First Great Monster Movie About This Poisonous Invention (PaleoFuture/Gizmodo) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, December 28th, 2018.
0:08.2	I'm Brian McCullough today coming to you from the shores of the Gulf of Mexico Mexico. Today Instagram briefly goes horizontal.
0:15.2	More on how Epic Fort Knight has been for Epic Games this year. Larry Ellison joins
0:20.8	Tesla's board of directors, the Global GPS Wars are joined, and the last weekend
0:25.4	long reads of the year.
0:27.4	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:30.9	Yesterday, in Yesterday Instagram briefly replaced the vertical feed on its popular app with horizontal scrolling.
0:41.0	Users collectively lost their ever-loving minds and Instagram quickly rolled back the change
0:48.0	saying it was just a small test that quote went broader than we anticipated.
0:53.4	So you won this round, you mob of outraged Instagramers,
0:58.2	you, but guess what?
1:00.0	Don't think you're gonna beat back
1:02.1	this sort of change in the long term.
1:05.0	Why?
1:06.0	Because Facebook is generally convinced that stories are the future of social media and stories potentially could be even more monetizable
1:17.1	than feeds ever were.
1:19.5	If you squint your eyes a bit, in essence, the change that Instagram made yesterday turned the app into
1:25.6	one giant story instead of one unending feed.
1:29.9	Here is what Hyam Gartenberg said yesterday in The Verge when the change was still live.
1:35.0	The new feed basically turns all posts into a single giant Instagram story, complete with
1:40.9	tapping to advance and a scrolling bar at the top to show you
1:44.4	how far you've progressed. With the horizontal feed each photo and each ad is
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