Tech offers lessons about the future for every industry every year – from development tools to devices to databases to cloud services. 2018 is no exception. Most of what’s below is about being able to change all the time. There seems to be more uncertainty in news than ever before. We’re seeing a wider rangeRead more about Where does News go from here?[…]

We got some great advice from a brilliant entrepreneur recently. He said, “Stay small for as long as you can afford to.” News With Friends costs us less than $500/month to operate, so we can easily test his theory if we want to. It’s remarkable that it’s even possible to do what we’re doing atRead more about A new twist on news curation[…]

Nobody wants to be tracked online. We’ve been wondering why social platforms collect so much data if it upsets their customers. After looking more closely at what standard mobile analytics packages collect we decided News With Friends is going to be different. It doesn’t need to track everything everyone does on the platform. So, we’veRead more about How we’re *not* tracking people using News With Friends[…]

The social news app News With Friends offers people a no-tracking feature called Hide that turns off data collection entirely so the platform cannot see their activity. Reading news without being monitored helps people to escape their filter bubbles. News With Friends helps people stay connected to what’s important in the world. Providing the optionRead more about PRESS RELEASE: News With Friends adds private mode; encourages people to escape filter bubbles[…]

Newsrewired held their 8th annual event at the Reuters offices in London’s Canary Warf, and I was given the opportunity to give a quick talk. There’s a lot to be optimistic about for the future of news, and I wanted to share what we’ve seen and what we’ve been working on as these changes haveRead more about News is social glue[…]

We just released a big update to News With Friends. We gave each story more impact. Your friends are easier to see. And we’ve stripped it way back so it’s super simple and enjoyable to use. When you reduce everything like this it raises some questions about what you’re trying to do. You have toRead more about Reducing the news experience makes it better[…]

Today we’re releasing a big upgrade to News With Friends. It includes both iOS and Android versions. We released v1.0 only two months ago, so it seems a bit bonkers to have a 2.0 so soon. But we learned so much with 1.0 and made so many improvements that today’s release deserved a proper versionRead more about News With Friends 2.0[…]

We wondered if news should be THE driver of a social platform rather than a sideshow. So, we built something that does that.

It’s called News With Friends.

Charlie Beckett of the London School of Economics asks how ‘good’ journalism can survive and thrive in an age of misinformation, competition and distraction. What is quality journalism? The most important question for news organisations today, but do we know what it means? People in the news business spend a lot of time thinking aboutRead more about Rethinking what ‘good’ journalism means[…]

Most Americans believe social media platforms intentionally censor political views that are objectionable to the company. The study was conducted in May and June 2018 by Pew Research and asked people about their attitudes toward technology. Majorities of Republicans say major technology companies favor the views of liberals over conservatives and that social media platformsRead more about People don’t trust platforms even though they value what they offer[…]