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Roel Wieringa

Digital advertising extracts data from consumers and money from advertisers. Here is how to fix it.

The digital advertising ecosystem has engendered a global surveillance industry that violates privacy on a large scale and contains a few…

Sep 9, 2023

Digital advertising extracts data from consumers and money from advertisers. Here is how to fix it.

Sep 9, 2023

Roel Wieringa

Twitter offers immediate gratification at unsustainable costs

Elon Musk’s messing around with Twitter is an illustration of what is wrong and unsustainable about the modern economy. We may be…

Nov 24, 2022

Twitter offers immediate gratification at unsustainable costs

Nov 24, 2022

Roel Wieringa

Business Models for Universal Social Media

Imagine that all social media would interconnect just as telecommunication providers do. What would this mean for the business models of…

Jul 4, 2022

Business Models for Universal Social Media

Jul 4, 2022

Roel Wieringa

AI Systems Are Imperfect. Use Them With Care. — The Value Engineers

Spoiler: AI decisions must be regulated because they can be used to make moral decisions on a massive scale, and this allows massive…

Jun 6, 2021

AI Systems Are Imperfect. Use Them With Care. — The Value Engineers

Jun 6, 2021

Roel Wieringa

To Compete, Social Networks Must Be Interoperable

To break the monopoly of social networks, they need to be interoperable so that users can move from one social network to another easily…

Dec 21, 2020

To Compete, Social Networks Must Be Interoperable

Dec 21, 2020

Roel Wieringa

The Twitter business model

Twitter is one of the smallest social networks in terms of daily active users (152 M) and revenue (US$ 3.5B in 2019). Compare this with…

Oct 23, 2020

The Twitter business model

Oct 23, 2020

Roel Wieringa

iOS14: It’s the Ecosystem, Stupid — The Value Engineers

This fall, Apple will release its iOS14 operating system. Or more accurately, it will release its iOS14 ecosystem. Previews of the update…

Sep 17, 2020

iOS14: It’s the Ecosystem, Stupid — The Value Engineers

Sep 17, 2020

Roel Wieringa

Targeted Political Advertising is Undemocratic

Computer Weekly recently reported that the UK’s three political parties are collecting personal data on voters for targeted political…

Jul 13, 2020

Targeted Political Advertising is Undemocratic

Jul 13, 2020

Roel Wieringa

The Credit Card Business Model

Credit cards have reduced friction in commerce by creating the possibility to buy now and pay later. However, there is no free lunch and…

Jul 6, 2020

The Credit Card Business Model

Jul 6, 2020

Roel Wieringa

A business model of the Facebook ecosystem — The Value Engineers

Facebook is a platform on which users can distribute content, play games and organize information, publishers can broadcast content, and…

Jun 5, 2020

A business model of the Facebook ecosystem — The Value Engineers

Jun 5, 2020

Roel Wieringa

Roel Wieringa

Professor emeritus Information Systems, University of Twente, The Netherlands. Co-founder and Director, The Value Engineers (www.thevalueengineers.nl).

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