Hype
How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following
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Eileen Stevens
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From former Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters, and snake-oil salesmen of the digital age - and why we can’t stop falling for them.
We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. Respected investors pour millions into a start-up centered around fake blood tests. Reviewers and celebrities flock to London’s top-rated restaurant that’s little more than a backyard shed. These unsettling stories of today’s viral grifters have risen to fame and hit the front-page headlines, yet the curious conundrum remains: Why do these scams happen?
Drawing from scientific research, marketing campaigns, and exclusive documents and interviews, former Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social-media ecosystem, whether it’s from the trusted influencers who peddled Fyre or the consumer reviews that sold Juicero. A cultural examination that is as revelatory as it is relevant, Hype pulls back the curtain on the manipulation game behind the never-ending scam season - and how we as consumers can stop getting played.
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Motivational!
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By: Ben Arment
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You Only Have to Be Right Once
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- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
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Over the last three years, Forbes has published in depth profiles of this new batch of billionaires, including the founders of Spotify, Dropbox, Tumblr, and Twitter. Now, in a compilation introduced and updated by Forbes editor Randall Lane, fans and critics alike will get a comprehensive look at who these super-entrepreneurs are and what they say about their own success and their plans for the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book!
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By: Randall Lane
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How Money Became Dangerous
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From a veteran of the trade, a provocative and entertaining voyage into the turbulent heart of modern money that sheds new light on the rise of our threatening and complicated financial system, how money became our adversary, and why finding a new course is crucial to a healthy society.
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Many-sided, thoughtful, very listenable
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By: Christopher Varelas, and others
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For the first time, Appetite for Self-Destruction recounts the story of the precipitous rise and fall of the recording industry over the past three decades, when the incredible success of the CD turned the music business into one of the most glamorous, high-profile industries in the world - and the advent of file sharing brought it to its knees.
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Awesome Book
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By: Steve Knopper
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The Zeroes
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Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir about the excesses and bad behavior of an outsider who got pulled into a crazy, self-contained world.
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Meatball Sundae
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New Marketing, whose tools include things like MySpace, You Tube, Web sites, permission marketing, cable TV, and viral techniques, is reshaping our world. But many companies try to use the tools without first getting their organization and products in sync with them. The result: what Seth Godin calls a "meatball sundae". A big, ineffective mess.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Meatball Godin
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By: Seth Godin
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Buying In
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- Unabridged
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Marketing executives and consumer advocates alike predict a future of brand-proof consumers, armed with technology and a sophisticated understanding of marketing techniques, who can effectively tune out ad campaigns. But as Rob Walker demonstrates, this widely accepted misconception has eclipsed the real changes in the way modern consumers relate to their brands of choice. Combine this with marketers' new ability to blur the line between advertising, entertainment, and public space, and you have dramatically altered the relationship between consumer and consumed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lets you in on the secret...
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From the award-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and work—including the true story of what really happened to MoviePass—straight from the cofounder and former CEO himself.
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In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws to help elect Donald Trump - and how this could easily happen again in the 2020 presidential election.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Heavy on Kaiser, Light on Cambridge Analytica’s Data Operations
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By: Brittany Kaiser
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Total Focus
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 600
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Over his four deployments as a Navy SEAL sniper, Brandon Webb learned all about performing while experiencing heart-pounding stress. After returning to civilian life, he started his first business venture - and failed miserably. He realized that his big mistake was neglecting to apply what he already knew about focus under pressure. By drawing on the lessons of his SEAL training and early business struggles, Webb went on to build a second business, a media network called Hurricane.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Biography/ sales pitch.
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By: Brandon Webb, and others
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What Would Google Do?
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- Narrated by: Jeff Jarvis
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,102
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 413
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Story4 out of 5 stars 415
In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google, the fastest-growing company in history, to discover 40 clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Play Nice but Win
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 689
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 586
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In 1984, soon-to-be college dropout Michael Dell hid signs of his fledgling PC business in the bathroom of his University of Texas dorm room. Almost 30 years later, at the pinnacle of his success as founder and leader of Dell Technologies, he found himself embroiled in a battle for his company’s survival. What he’d do next could ensure its legacy — or destroy it completely.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not perfect, but worth a listen
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By: Michael Dell, and others
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All the Rave
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 95
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Story4 out of 5 stars 94
The definitive inside account of the file-sharing revolution that overthrew the music industry, All the Rave reveals the family betrayal, greed, and mismanagement that hijacked one the most fundamental innovations of the Internet era. Named one of the three best books of 2003 by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., All the Rave has been out of print until now and unavailable in most formats. Author and veteran technology journalist Joseph Menn also wrote 2010's Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords who are Bringing Down the Internet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Far-reaching Karma of Napster
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By: Joseph Menn
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Googled
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 312
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 147
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Story4 out of 5 stars 150
In Googled, esteemed media writer and critic Ken Auletta uses the story of Google's rise to explore the inner workings of the company and the future of the media at large. Although Google has often been secretive, this book is based on the most extensive cooperation ever granted a journalist, including access to closed-door meetings and interviews with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, CEO Eric Schmidt, and some 150 present and former employees.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Audio production could have been better
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Reality Check
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- By: Guy Kawasaki
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4 out of 5 stars 55
In Silicon Valley slang, a "bozo explosion" is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, "If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don't make sense"...then it's time for a reality check.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Reality of Reality Check
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UnMarketing, Second Edition
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- Narrated by: Allison Stratten, Scott Stratten
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
UnMarketing shows you how to unlearn the old ways and consistently attract and engage the right customers. You'll stop just pushing out your message and praying that it sticks somewhere. Potential and current customers want to be listened to and validated and have a platform to be heard - especially online. With UnMarketing, you'll create a relationship with your customers and make yourself the logical choice for their needs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Authentic and genuine people
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By: Scott Stratten, and others
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Break Through the Noise
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- By: Tim Staples, Josh Young
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
The odds of getting a video onto YouTube's front page are 1-in-2,000,0000, but Tim Staples, founder and CEO of Shareability, knows how to make the algorithms of Youtube, Google, Facebook and Instagram work for you - and he has the results to prove it, with a thriving business that has gotten their videos onto YouTube's front page an amazing 25 times. Here he shows savvy marketers, entrepreneurs, and online celebrity wannabes how they, too, can develop clever videos that amass millions of views.
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1 out of 5 stars
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NOT A GOOD BOOK TO BE
- By FABIO HART on 05-08-22
By: Tim Staples, and others
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Once we were drivers, the open road alive with autonomy, adventure, danger, trust, and speed. Today we are as likely to be in the back seat of an Uber as behind the wheel ourselves. Tech giants are hurling us toward a shiny, happy "self-driving" future, selling utopia but equally keen to advertise to a captive audience strapped into another expensive device. Are we destined, then, to become passengers, not drivers? Why We Drive reveals that much more may be at stake than we might think.
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Another masterpiece by Crawford.
- By johnson on 08-19-20
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What It Takes to Save a Life
- A Veterinarian’s Quest for Healing and Hope
- By: Kwane Stewart
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Dr. Kwane Stewart was questioning his career as a veterinarian when he saw a homeless man with a flea-infested dog outside of a convenience store. In a moment of spontaneous generosity, he offered to examine the dog and treat him for free. It was the first step in a now nine-year journey that has taken Dr. Kwane from Skid Row to San Francisco and beyond to care for pets and their humans who are living on the streets.
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A good view on the human pet relationship
- By Matthew G Wessels on 12-21-24
By: Kwane Stewart
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Femina
- A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
- By: Janina Ramirez
- Narrated by: Janina Ramirez
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings; a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the “Dark” Ages were anything but.
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Fascinating look at the “silent majority”
- By Amanda on 04-04-23
By: Janina Ramirez
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The Survivors of the Clotilda
- The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
- By: Hannah Durkin
- Narrated by: Tariye Peterside
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on American soil, docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in July 1860—more than half a century after the passage of a federal law banning the importation of captive Africans, and nine months before the beginning of the Civil War. The last of its survivors lived well into the twentieth century. They were the last witnesses to the final act of a terrible and significant period in world history. In this epic work, Dr. Hannah Durkin tells the stories of the Clotilda’s 110 captives, drawing on her intensive archival, historical, and sociological research.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great reader!
- By Robin E Moore on 07-07-24
By: Hannah Durkin
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The Art of Dying Well
- A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
- By: Katy Butler
- Narrated by: Katy Butler
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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An inspiring, informative, and practical guide to navigating end-of-life issues, by a groundbreaking expert in the field and the New York Times best-selling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door. Katy Butler argues that we have lost touch with the “art of dying” as practiced by our ancestors, yet we still hunger for rites of passage and a sense of the sacred, especially in the important life transitions of aging and dying.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Me too
- By Clif Green on 01-04-20
By: Katy Butler
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- Marjorie
- 08-10-23
Will Listen to again!
Great read/listen! Enough that I thought of getting the actual book :) I can’t wait to listen again and learn about human psychology!! Humans will humans, that’s for sure!
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- Matthew J. McMahon
- 10-25-22
So important
This book should be required reading for anyone with a wifi connection. It’s wild How much the line has blurred between fraudster and business mogul.
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- JPatrick
- 08-31-21
Wildly Entertaining and Informative
In a culture of followers, likes and vanity metrics - it can be confusing to determine what is real versus postured. This book unwraps the attractive foil off of those looking to foil us.
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- Erica Seigneur
- 05-07-21
Boring and pointless
The narrator does a good job, but the book is boring and pointless and a lot of the “cons” the author discusses are petty and uninteresting.
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- Christy P.
- 11-16-21
Facts…?
This text repeatedly (not to mention the redundancy of this book) talks about the disappearance of facts in the current social climate. Unfortunately, the author also makes claims (denoting them as facts) and never provides verifiable support for her own “facts”. This could be a very interesting topic if the “story” showed extensive research into these cons. Good topic idea poorly executed.
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