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Bring back tab-to-search
Start typing the URL of a website. When a suggestion appears, press "tab" to search the website: That is/was tab-to-search. I'm not sure I should speak…
Amadeus Pagel
Jan 20
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Can browsers make it easier to use other search engines?
We take for granted that browsers have a default search engine, that users are incapable of using another search engine, for example adding "reddit" to…
Amadeus Pagel
Jan 5
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Can browsers make it easier to use other search engines?
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November 2022
Twitter and the Perils of Learning from Users
When people used the @-symbol to mention other users and the hashtag to refer to topics, twitter build features to support these conventions—linking…
Amadeus Pagel
Nov 26, 2022
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October 2022
Up- and Downvotes Should be Shown Separately
Forums like reddit and hackernews show a total score for every post and comment: Upvotes − Downvotes. This encourages conformism. It encourages people…
Amadeus Pagel
Oct 31, 2022
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Up- and Downvotes Should be Shown Separately
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September 2022
Talker's Technologies
The harder a technology is to work with, the more room it leaves for fantasy, speculation, for everything from tweets to sci-fi novels.
Amadeus Pagel
Sep 5, 2022
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January 2022
The Loop is the Lesson
The character of a platform is determined by its feedback loop.
Amadeus Pagel
Jan 18, 2022
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The Loop is the Lesson
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November 2021
Medium and Market Structure
Why is video dominated by a few platforms and audio isn't? Why is the podcast ecosystem built around audio, not video? The open formats that are used to…
Amadeus Pagel
Nov 12, 2021
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Medium and Market Structure
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