Steven Levy on the Inside Story of Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, and TikTok
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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In this episode, Andrew talks to Steven Levy, Wired editor-at-large and author of Facebook: The Inside Story, about the history of social media from Friendster and MySpace to Facebook and TikTok.
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Steven Levy is Wired’s editor at large. The Washington Post has called him America’s premier technology journalist. His previous positions include founder of Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books, and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper’s Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book Hackers, which PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the past twenty years; and for Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.
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