Month: February 2018
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Facebook eroding & other news
Facebook eroding Wow. Facebook eroding much faster than anyone expected. Pivotal’s analysis of Nielsen data shows core app dropped 11% in time spent per person in November. Without Instagram/WhatsApp, a complete cliff dive in share of time. pic.twitter.com/tEd5UclZ3p — Jason Kint (@jason_kint) February 20, 2018 The tweet about Facebook eroding is part of a greater…
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Chinese devices in Asia + more news
Why the iPhone Is Losing Out to Chinese Devices in Asia – WSJ – Xiaomi has an edge in many markets because it can customize for each country while Apple creates the same products for everyone, said Jai Mani, Xiaomi’s product manager for India. – the rise of Chinese devices in Asia are picking up the…
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Operaatio Elop
Operaatio Elop covers one of the most dramatic events in Finland since the Winter War. At the time of Nokia’s high point it accounted for over 25% of the Finnish economy. There has seldom been a fall so drastic as Nokia’s fall in the mobile phone market from leading player to disaster. With that fall…
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Siri vs Siri + more news
Siri vs Siri: What Apple’s AI can and can’t do on every Apple device | Macworld – Siri vs Siri implies context based on device, but they need to raise the game in particular on the Mac. More related content here. How Russia’s ‘red tourism’ is luring wealthy Chinese visitors bored with Paris and Milan…
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Blazed & other things
Blazed I was having an online conversation with friends in the game about our favourite advertising, and this one came up. I hadn’t seen it before. It’s a public service announcement from New Zealand: Blazed – Drug Driving in Aotearoa. Guinness Rutger Hauer ads I also managed to find all the Rutger Hauer ‘Pure Genius’…
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Twitter for Mac – some alternatives
Twitter’s desktop client on the Mac has been pulled from the app store and won’t be supported any more. It is time to look for an alternative. What you should choose depends on how you use Twitter, I’ve tried to outline what I consider are the best native Mac apps for Twitter. The alternative that…
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Authenticity is changing porn + more
How social media and our obsession with authenticity is changing porn | Dazed – “Authenticity and amateur (fall) into traps about not acknowledging porn performance as craft, labour, and work”, Sullivan says, referencing a piece in the SF Weekly in 2014 by performer Siouxsie Q. In the article, the pornstar argues that, although authenticity is “one of feminist porn’s…
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The Four by Scott Galloway
Author of The Four; Galloway is known as the founder of L2 and as a perceptive commentator on the digital economy (well as perceptive as anyone is with a bank of researchers behind them). He admits freely in his book that his fame was due to years of effort, advertising spend, researchers, script writers, video…
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Ad spend and other news
Ad spend Unilever threatens to pull ad spend from platforms that ‘breed division’ – “Consumers don’t care about third-party verification. They do care about fraudulent practice, fake news, and Russians influencing the US election. They don’t care about good value for advertisers. But they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads…