Hesitation, risk of embarrassment, & even politeness add friction when we face another human while buying from them. Non verbal cues help with judgment to prevent fraud, & second thoughts (removing something from our cart) act as informal safeguards in commerce. When AI agents buy on our behalf +

I wrote recently about how Meta acquired Manus to close an execution-layer gap, not to win the AI model race: Meta already had distribution, data, and business context through Ads, WhatsApp, and Messenger, but lacked a production-ready orchestration layer. Manus supplies +

AI changes the nature of social media feeds: AI bots inside social media feeds, like Grok in X, represents a strategic attempt to eliminate dependence on human to human participation for engagement. Social media platforms have already shifted from relationship-driven feeds to engagement-optimized +

You might have read about the controversy around Grok, X/Twitter’s AI bot, which allowed users to generate images of other users, including converting images of fully clothed women into swimsuit photos. This controversy was predictable and preventable. X’s decision to let Grok edit and publish +

Apps in ChatGPT aren’t destinations... they’re just tools. Developers don’t own the interface, the brand, the interaction, or even when their app gets called. It's just "jobs to be done". ChatGPT is the selector, the umpire, the ground, the conditions and potential future opposing team, all at the

Happy birthday @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Shifting out of Evernote feels like escaping from Evernote. Gone downhill so quickly. Still can't find anything that works as smoothly though * Great search * Quick capture and web clipper * Simple structure * Easy merge, moving Anyway, moving out of it in the coming week. 1/n

Finally it fits him!

I can say that I resonate with @anildash.com's view on this, having been in a similar place at a similar time. The bubbles are real, and we also aren't doing a good enough job of saying that the emperors have no clothes https://www.anildash.com/2023/07/07/vc-qanon/

Something to be said abt a predictable user experience, where they're able to focus on their own interactions than what you're doing with the platform by changing terms & conditions every day. Well done Elon: you've made twitter into something that people are willing to move to a Zuck platform from.

So here's what I see re Threads: 1. Vs Twitter: from a UX perspective, unlike Twitter, threads actually encourages adding more to your thread. 2. Vs Bluesky: unlike Bluesky, threads actually has threads. And a substantially higher wordcount.

I spoke with Suprita Anupam of Inc42 for a story he did on the impact of the Reserve Bank of India’s recurring payments regulation & tokenisation of credit cards: The points I made are here: https://nikhilpahwa.com/2023-digital-payments-mess-on-the-impact-of-recurring-payments-and-tokenisation

On the importance of low cost handsets https://nikhilpahwa.com/2023-tv-show-the-impact-of-low-cost-handsets-on-indias-internet

hey new users, Bluesky is a *public* social network please read about data privacy and more in our User FAQ to help you get oriented! even though we require an invite code to create an account, you should treat any posts here as if it's a public blog https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq

I'd like a feature here where my posts older than 30 days are invisible to everyone but me.

Funnily enough, the regulations for traceability in India, which WhatsApp has challenged in court because they would break e2e encryption, apparently don't apply to apple. They could have negotiated something with the Indian govt.

One baby (MediaNama, that is) turned 15 yesterday. The other (the boy) turned two months old today. A week for birthdays.