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

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

Digital Things of Interest 31 July 2017

2017-07-31T11:18:14+10:00Categories: Things of Interest|Tags: , , , , |

Read these Digital Things of Interest for 31 July 2017, which includes: - 5 digital trends you should be on top of;  - A nice piece about using eye tracking to aid design; - The news that Volvo self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos. Like the rest of us then; - BuzzSumo's massive social media headline analysis. Self-fulfilling, or what? #DigitalMarketing #SocialMedia #UserExperience #WebDesign #AutonomousDriving

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