Episode 075 — Baby Picture Bots by ExponentFM

<p>Ben and James discuss Facebook F8, how the company is trying to own both public and private social, and why Messenger is a good idea, but bots may not be.</p>

<p><strong>Links</strong></p>

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<li>Twitter Has Outsized Influence, but It Doesn’t Drive Much Traffic for Most News Orgs, a New Report Says — <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/04/twitter-has-outsized-influence-but-it-doesnt-drive-much-traffic-for-most-news-orgs-a-new-report-says/">NiemanLab</a></li>
<li>Ben Thompson: Facebook, Phones, and Phonebooks — <a href="https://stratechery.com/2016/what-facebook-is-and-isnt/">Stratechery</a></li>
<li>David Kirkpatric: The Facebook Effect — <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Facebook-Effect/David-Kirkpatrick/9781439102121">Simon &amp; Schuster</a></li>
<li>Amir Efrati: Facebook Struggles to Stop Decline in ‘Original’ Sharing — <a href="http://go.theinformation.com/0d4304">The Information</a></li>
<li>Ben Thompson: Facebook and the Feed — <a href="https://stratechery.com/2015/facebook-and-the-feed/">Stratechery</a></li>
<li>Ben Thompson: The Problem with Facebook’s Ten-Year Plan, Is BuzzFeed Struggling? — <a href="https://stratechery.com/2016/problem-facebooks-ten-year-plan-buzzfeed-struggling/">Stratechery Daily Update</a></li>
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<li>Ben Thompson, <a href="http://twitter.com/benthompson">@benthompson</a>, <a href="http://stratechery.com">Stratechery</a></li>
<li>James Allworth, <a href="http://twitter.com/jamesallworth">@jamesallworth</a>, <a href="https://hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=popularity_score">Harvard Business Review</a></li>
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