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LLMs Can’t Save The Old Internet; But They Can Create A New One

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The quality of your experience as an internet user relies on user-generated content, or UGC. In the early days of the internet, it was — basically — for bragging rights, and because they could. We realized that a captive audience is a good audience to advertise to. It’s what we have to do if we want a better internet.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

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Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements, placing them ahead of the customer-centric results chosen by the company’s organic search algorithms, which prioritize a combination of low price, high customer ratings, and other similar factors?

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UK’s Big Tech regulator ‘to boost switching, cut killer acquisitions’

TechCrunch

However the government still hasn’t confirmed exactly when it expects to legislate to empower the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) — saying only that it will introduce legislation to put it on a statutory footing “in due course.” UK to set up ‘pro-competition’ regulator to put limits on big tech.

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Archive.ai aims to free marketers from their monotonous workflows

TechCrunch

When marketers Paul Benigeri and Geoffrey Woo were at their former companies, in food tech and e-commerce infrastructure, respectively, they experienced how manual and repetitive digital marketing workflows were, especially as the number of disparate and unintegrated marketing tools grew.

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Uberall raises $115M, acquires MomentFeed to scale up its location marketing services

TechCrunch

The funding is being led by London-based investor Bregal Milestone, with Level Equity, United Internet and Uberall management also participating. market, but all the same, MomentFeed has built some specific technology that will enrich the wider platform, such as a particularly strong tool for measuring sentiment analysis.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Web3 investor survey, conversational UX, ‘insane IPO pops’

TechCrunch

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0. Online applications, the social web and software as a service form the fabric of our lives. We don’t run many TechCrunch+ articles that are focused on basic best practices, but we make exceptions for posts about emerging technology — in this case, conversational UX.

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Take Blip lands $70M to grow its omnichannel messaging service

TechCrunch

. “In the early stages of the internet, 20 years ago, every company needed to have a website because people started to experience the brands online and use Google to search for brands and products,” Oliveira told TechCrunch via email. “Since the beginning of 2020, this movement has increased. dialog flow). .