16 Ways to Measure Network Effects

Network effects are one of the most important dynamics in software and marketplace businesses. But they’re often spoken of in a binary way: either you have them, or you don’t.

https://a16z.com/2018/12/13/16-metrics-network-effects/

Longreads Best of 2018: Investigative Reporting

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in investigative reporting. Villarosa’s unflinching examination of giving birth while black in America has stayed with me.

https://longreads.com/2018/12/14/longreads-best-of-2018-investigative-reporting/

Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time

Waking up on a Sunday morning, I received a text about what happened after I left the previous night’s party. “Everyone got high and we played truth or dare. Ted and Ivan docked.” “Are you serious?” I replied. “I thought that only happened in porn.

https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/pornhub-and-the-american-sexual-imagination.html

Porn sites collect more user data than Netflix or Hulu. This is what they do with it.

The biggest and perhaps best source of data about what people like to watch on the internet and what they would pay for doesn’t come from streaming giants like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, or Hulu. It comes from porn.

https://qz.com/1407235/porn-sites-collect-more-user-data-than-netflix-or-hulu-this-is-what-they-do-with-it/

The 40 best digital stories of 2018 listed for you by Hackastory

Hackastory selected the 40 best digital stories of 2018. We listed the interactives, graphics, longreads, newsgames and data visualizations that make our hearts beat faster. Let these articles and visualizations inspire you to continue innovating in journalism.

https://hackastory.com/the-40-best-digital-stories-of-2018-listed-for-you-by-hackastory/

The Times’s Capsule of History Goes Digital

Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In a basement three floors underground, next to The New York Times’s headquarters, steel filing cabinets hold about six million photographs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/reader-center/past-tense-photos-history-morgue.html

How the West Was Woke: ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ and Gaming’s Iron Curtain

In the final months of 2018, Rockstar Games has absorbed the full force of video game culture’s radicalization. It’s an awesome force. It’s an awful force. It’s modern politics.

https://www.theringer.com/2018/11/20/18104335/red-dead-redemption-2-reviews-politics-discourse

Streaming Wars

Quartz AfricaThe important stories of innovation across the continent’s wide-ranging economies

https://qz.com/guide/streaming-wars/

https://rsci.app.link/epuKjHigvR?_p=f05c3a47f52cc2626680177c226a

11 Questions You Need to Ask a Digital Agency Before Working with Them

Written by Joaquín Gatti for Elevate. Our 10 year experience creating digital products has allowed us to elaborate the ultimate guide for you to choose the right partner to work with based on both client and product needs.