Things of Interest

These are things that I have read recently, which I thought were interesting. Covers digital, technology, working, and “stuff”.

JB’s Digital Update 20th June 2023

2023-06-20T19:10:11+10:00Categories: Content Strategy & Creation, CRO and Conversions, Digital Marketing, Google Ads, JB's Digital Update, PPC & Paid Social, Social Media, Technology & Development, Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

A slightly quiet week, unless you're a mod on Reddit, sticking it to the man. But still, some interesting digital marketing info around AI, more AI, how AI can make your dinner, and good old landing page performance. Read on Macduff! And please: like share and follow!

Digital Things of Interest 30 August 2017

2017-08-30T13:13:50+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

I was pretty interested to go and read the things I've linked to in the Digital Things of Interest for 30th August 2017. Mainly this was because I try and post some interesting things (almost) every day, and I thought you might be interested in these nuggets as well: - A $500 gadget which can brute-force an iPhone7; - How AI should be used for / explained by stories; - A good list of interesting learnings from launching a software product; - An infographic about programmatic advertising which ignores the elephant in the room. #iPhone #ArtificialIntelligence #Storytelling #Learning #SmallBiz #Programmatic

Digital Things of Interest 29 August 2017

2017-08-29T16:19:57+10:00Categories: Digital Marketing, Social Media, Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 29 August 2017, which includes these exciting entities: - Even Big Corp PLC makes horrendous marketing and data mistakes; - Too much fake news on social media makes your eyes bleed* ; - Fun advice for newbie designers (wear a shirt, just once); - I ghosted my ex - bit of a tale this one. - * Honest, it does! #BigData #DigitalMarketing #FakeNews #SocialMedia #WebDesign #ModernLife

Digital Things of Interest 24 August 2017

2017-08-24T14:35:25+10:00Categories: Digital Marketing, Social Media, Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 24 August 2017, which includes the following fabulous foibles: - Shocking news the people will give up their privacy for a slice of pizza; - The revelation that Amazon basically owns Seattle; - A geeky look at the UX design of the credit card payment form; - Facebook adding publisher logos to news links to combat fake news. #SocialMedia #Facebook #FakeNews #DataPrivacy #Amazon #UX #WebDesign

Digital Things of Interest 23 August 2017

2017-08-23T11:53:55+10:00Categories: Digital Marketing, Social Media, Technology & Development, Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 23 August 2017, which includes the following enlightening exhibits: - A report on how Earned Media drives lead gen and consumer trust ; - Notes on Twist a new comms and collaboration app from the makers; - Interesting reading on when your brain peaks at learning and applying knowledge; - News that Facebook is starting to deal with video spam. #DigitalMarketing #Productivity #Facebook #FacebookVideo #Learning

Digital Things of Interest 22 August 2017

2017-08-22T11:47:53+10:00Categories: Digital Marketing, Social Media, Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

Click to read these Digital Things of Interest for 22 August 2017, which includes: - The rise of fraud in influencer marketing; - Fairfax Media's new commercial digital strategy; - A quick look at some dangerous digital design trends; - 5 productivity tips from proper procrastinators #DigitalMarketing #SocialMedia #InfluencerMarketing #AdStrategy #WebDesign #ProjectManagement

Digital Things of Interest 21 August 2017

2017-08-21T16:01:42+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , |

Click to read these Digital Things of Interest for 21 August 2017, which includes: - A nifty e-paper tablet nearing production; - Push notifications can increase engagement, or drive users wild; - GDPR is going to be big - for users and advertisers; - The $$$ outcomes of a whole heap of big tech IPOs. #DigitalTechnology #DigitalMarketing #AppStrategy #DataPrivacy #GDPR

Digital Things of Interest 19 August 2017

2017-08-18T17:57:34+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 19 August 2017, which includes these knowledgeable nuggets: - PageSpeed is dead to this browser extension;  - Sneaky priming in social media; - When to use UX as bad design; - Nokia goes for a 'bothie' camera. Interesting #PageSpeed #SocialMedia #BrandBuilding #UserExperience #WebDesign #MobilePhones

Digital Things of Interest 18 August 2017

2017-08-17T17:18:24+10:00Categories: Social Media, Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 18th August 2017, which includes the following exceptional entities: - Facebook Watch copying YouTube; - LinkedIn's new "Connection Active" feature; - Great article about when to use Web Fonts; - A great geeky page about keyboards through time. #Facebook #LinkedIn #SocialMedia #WebFonts #UserExperience #GeekStuff

Digital Things of Interest 16 August 2017

2017-08-17T17:20:55+10:00Categories: Digital Marketing, Social Media, Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 16 August 2017, which includes: - Facebook acquiring a German video specialist, possibly for AR; - Snippets from Deloitte's Mobile Consumer Survey; - How a Single Word Drove 161% CTR improvement; - News that IoT smart locks have been borked by an OTA update. Oops. #Facebook #MobilePhones #Conversions #IOT #AugmentedReality #GrowthHacking

Digital Things of Interest 15 August 2017

2017-08-17T17:21:25+10:00Categories: Digital Marketing, Social Media, Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 15 August 2017, which includes the following great gems of information: - Plandids taking over Instagram; - Thoughts on a PageSpeed preso from Google; - How to detect if numbers are random; - Roomba could sell maps of your home; #Instagram #SocialMedia #PageSpeed #KnowYourNumbers #DataPrivacy

Digital Things of Interest 09 August 2017

2017-08-09T16:19:57+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 09 August 2017, which includes some interesting articles on: - Uber drivers ganging up to beat the algorithms; - King Content goes down the gurgler; - Top-notch content numbers from LinkedIn & BuzzSumo;  - Funny freelancer achievement stickers. #ContentStrategy #ContentMarketing #ArtificialIntelligence #Freelancing

Digital Things of Interest 08 August 2017

2017-08-08T14:58:30+10:00Categories: Digital Marketing, Social Media, Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

Read the Digital Things of Interest for 08 August 2017, which includes digital news, a study and a how-to guide - mainly across social media and content marketing today: - Facebook using PageSpeed as part of the Newsfeed algo; - A how to article on beating the NewsFeed algo; - A study from Buffer across 16 million social media posts;  - *That* Google engineer has been fired. #Facebook #SocialMedia #DigitalMarketing #ContentMarketing #NewsFeed #PageSpeed

Digital Things of Interest 07 August 2017

2017-08-07T15:37:28+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 07 August 2017, which includes: - Apple hiring mappers - hope they get it right this time; - PWA vs Native Apps (PWA all the way, let's hope); - Email Whaling - things you didn't know you didn't know; - Big infographic about colour, psychology and the web, and I mean big. #Apple #PWA #Apps #UserExperience #WebDesign #Conversions

Digital Things of Interest 06 August 2017

2017-08-05T16:31:38+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

Read the Digital Things of Interest for 06 August 2017, which includes these terrific tidbits: - A cracking example of great content obliterated by poor design; - AMP deep linking to Apps; - HBR cheerleading AI; - A celebration of the iPhone at 10. #ContentStrategy #AMP #ArtificialIntelligence #UserExperience #iPhone #Apps

Digital Things of Interest 05 August 2017

2017-08-04T16:21:01+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , |

Read the Digital Things of Interest for 05 August 2017, which includes these stupendous snippets: - Yet another note for devs about Googlebot and JavaScript; - The EU is on the hunt for a company to monitor Google; - 20 years since the USC ruled on the CDA and gave us a (relatively) open internet; - A silly post about social media posting frequency. #SEO #JavaScript #Google #SocialMedia #ContentStrategy

Digital Things of Interest 04 August 2017

2017-08-04T13:40:03+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

Read the Digital Things of Interest for 04 August 2017. The delectable delights include: - Google Play ranking factors; - Google offering $30 billion for Snap; - CommBank's Albert leaving blind people struggling; - Academia yarns about hypertext, semantics and knowledge graphs. #GooglePlay #Google #UserExperience #SemanticWeb #SocialMedia #KnowledgeGraph

Digital Things of Interest 03 August 2017

2017-08-03T14:45:55+10:00Categories: Digital Marketing, Social Media, Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 03 August 2017, which includes: - Android dev releases have Chrome's ad-blocker installed. - Apple ditches Nano & Shuffle. - The sad, sad tale of Winamp's journey to oblivion. - Facebook advertisers are paying to promote news stories which mention their brand. #AdBlocking #GoogleChrome #Apple #MusicPlayers #Facebook #DigitalMarketing #NewsFeed #Android

Digital Things of Interest 02 August 2017

2017-08-02T14:02:36+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 02 August 2017, which includes: - Widespread cheering at the news that Flash is being killed off. Hooray!; - AI is apparently inventing languages humans can't understand. It's called gibberish; - Viewing in landscape is making a comeback as screen sizes increase; - Ways to chill out by turning off push notifications. #Flash #ArtificialIntelligence #UserExperience #MobilePhones

Digital Things of Interest 01 August 2017

2017-07-31T11:30:02+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 01 August 2017, which includes: - 3 mistakes people make with CTA buttons, from Gill Andrews; - The news that Google Photos 3 is out, and it's sharing your pics automatically; - 6 mistakes people commonly make with CRO; - Adobe catches up with the world and realises mobile experiences aren't all that hot. #DigitalMarketing #Conversions #CRO #MobileFirst #UserExperience #GooglePhotos

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