Search results for: “edelman”
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The influence post
Mark Ritson wrote an op-ed over at Marketing Week on influence and influencers. Whilst it lacked nuance on the subject area, a lot of what it said is true. Go over and have a read; I’ll be waiting for when you come back. Whilst I disagree on the finer points, what Ritson wrote needed to be…
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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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Google Translate sucks & other news
Why Google Translate fails The Shallowness of Google Translate – The Atlantic – Google Translate really weak on language that uses metaphors or symbolic elements in their discussion. So examples that I am familiar with Google Translate failing on include both Cantonese and Mandarin. It’s Mandarin is slightly better, likely due to a wider body…
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WhatsApp Business & other news
WhatsApp Business Introducing the WhatsApp Business App | WhatsApp blog – a free-to-download Android app for small businesses. Our new app will make it easier for companies to connect with customers, and more convenient for our 1.3 billion users to chat with businesses that matter to them. Here’s how: Business Profiles: Help customers with useful information such…
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Munich migration + other news
Munich Windows migration And we return to Munich migration back to Windows – it’s going to cost what now?! €100m! • The Register – interesting to see this war over Munich public sector computing still being fought in the background by Microsoft two decades later. I remember working at Edelman when its open source competitive…
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Most popular blog posts of 2017
How did I go to define the most popular blog posts of 2017. I looked at my most trafficked articles from January to June 2017 here. What did June to December look like? # Title Notes 1 Is your PR plan good enough? A series of six posts and a work book on developing and…
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The Bell Pottinger Post
PR firm Bell Pottinger has got entangled in a mess of the South African government and the Gupta family. More people have written about this in depth, so I will just link to them at the bottom of the post. Here’s some thoughts on it all There but for the grace of God go I…
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POSIX + more news
POSIX compliant POSIX has become outdated by Atlidakis, Andrus, Geambasu, Mitropoulos & Nieh (Columbia University) – this seems arcane but will impact every part of information technology from mainframes and web infrastructure to Macs and smartphones (both iPhone and Android). POSIX is an IEEE approved standard. It was developed to maintain the comparability between different…
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Pro Brexit town + more news
Pro Brexit town Welcome to the most pro Brexit town in Britain | FT – One thickset Lithuanian man asked why English people did not seem to like foreign workers. “They complain about us,” he said. “But why they not do the work?” – A lot of small towns dominated by food production, warehousing or agriculture became a…