Social Media

General

The battle for consumers’ attention by Economist
Mass entertainment in the digital age is still about blockbusters, not endless choice Winner takes all

Crypto space

A primer on decentralized social media with the example of Monetize your Gmail inbox with Earn.com (recently acquired in 2018 by Coinbase in Turnaround)

• the emergence of "financial internet"?

Websites That Pay Users With Blockchain Aim to Disrupt Facebook

• useful lessons from history?

The 10 Guinness World Records for Social Media Are?

• Nakamoto consensus is a digital Collective Market. Digital here in the sense of attack/no-attack of BFT. Question - can this resource-consuming principle be used for voting and decision making (for instance, in social media)? Notice that markets can be of different types, not only bilateral but also matching and based on swap-chains. How to exploit and leverage "assymmetric information signal"?

Specific projects (to be investigated in more detail....)

• Messari
  Q&A w/ Ryan Selkis of Messari

• Orchid

Orchid is a sort of tokenized-Tor, with the goal of bringing censorship-free internet everywhere.

• Blockstack

A 1 Million Request for Social Networks

• TruStory

TruStory raises a seed round led by True Ventures and other notable investors and Angels by Preethi