Meditations in an emergency It is a divine precedent you perpetuate! Roll on, reels of celluloid, as the great earth rolls on!Frank O'Hara, "To… June 4, 2025
Podcast: Meta’s AI advertising playbook (with Matt Steiner) https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AFmSLMnuJnYM1SY8LRR9d?si=d60adfa751c641e7 In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Matt Steiner, Meta's Vice President of Monetization Infrastructure, Ranking &… June 3, 2025
Google’s gambit, part 2 Google hosted its annual I/O developer conference last week. Predictably, every product showcase emphasized AI-enabled functionality; this video provides a… May 28, 2025
“Black box” ad optimization and satisficer’s remorse A recent WSJ article unpacks divergent advertiser sentiment around AI-enabled optimization tools like Meta's Advantage+ and Google's Performance Max. From… March 12, 2025
DeepSeek and consumer AI’s first mover disadvantage DeepSeek, a chatbot app developed by a Chinese artificial intelligence company of the same name, was released for both iOS… January 29, 2025
Podcast: Achieving product personalization at scale (with Raveesh Bhalla) https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rfU6OsLMUUppgnGZ267Il?si=7a0766fa855f4e23 My guest on this episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast is Raveesh Bhalla, the Product Lead for Homepage… December 25, 2024
Google’s gambit The structural integrity of Google's Search business is currently being strained by four explicit factors: The growth of consumer-facing generative… October 23, 2024
Podcast: The power of AI in game development (with Christoffer Holmgård) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Yfba1FLuDekQkdfIjWc3O?si=935f7cdd8e7b47a0 My guest on this week's episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast is Christoffer Holmgård, the CEO and co-founder… October 16, 2024
Meta: 1 million advertisers using GenAI for creative Meta revealed at its Meta Connect developer conference yesterday that more than 1MM advertisers are using its generative AI tools… September 26, 2024
Podcast: AI’s impact on social media abuse (with Rob Leathern) https://open.spotify.com/episode/43AKGaGN5r2RGKRGQlBNoZ?si=ec6f4d9608bb47d9 In this episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast, I speak with Rob Leathern, a trust and safety and… August 28, 2024