Jan 10, 2021

📡 Black [and white] magic 🎩

Hello and welcome to Pulse — the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix that wishes you a happy new year and missed you so very much! I’m your host Behrouz, and I’m delighted to be back!

Not writing Pulse for a couple of weeks helped me take a step back and look at it from various perspectives.

Now, I’m even more confident about Pulse’s values and its path. I know it sounds a bit abstract/generic at this point, but things will have to change to ensure constant quality content.

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Thank you — and let’s get this year’s Pulse sc-rolling — down to the very bottom…

🗞 NEWS

After Apple and Google, now Amazon is about to kick Parler off its AWS servers [link]
Trump got banned from Twitter, tried to cheat it, but it didn’t work [link]
Social platforms flexing their power, Jeff Bezos losing his spot to Elon Musk, and Boeing’s $b fine [link]
Trump, Pro-Trumps, and Social platforms [link]
US-China wrestling, US-Iran sanction exemption, and Amazon buying Boeings [link]
Unionisation at Google, Update in Instagram Stories, and Apple rumours 2021 [link]
SolarWinds keep blowing in the US, Zyxel’s backdoor, and Bitcoin’s surge [link]

🙃 a gift for you.

🧠 INSIGHTS

Artem Maltsev on Unsplash

🎩 How Product Colours Influence Prosocial Behaviours

Consumer products come in various colours. Apple launched the iPhone 12 in black, white, blue, green, and red. At IKEA, consumers can purchase Billy bookcases in white, brown, birch, and black-brown.

Does buying a product in a certain colour affect how consumers think and what they do afterwards?

an interesting piece of research by Yan Meng and Eugene Y. Chan published in Psychology & Marketing, in which they study how buying a product in white affects people’s charitable behaviour as opposed to the purchase of the black version of the same product…

Read more on MusicIndustryBlog.

musicindustryblog.wordpress.com

📱 TOOLS & APPS

Describe a movie: when you don’t remember a movie’s name, you can describe it.

and it works pretty well…

Col.or: Explore colors with AR [iOS]

such a well-designed app

Listen App: Social podcast listening app [iOS]

my favourite podcast listening app, Breaker, has been acquired by Twitter, so this is my current favourite… i’m also testing Shuffle (iOS) as well… and i think their transcription is pretty cool… (Android waiting list)

YourCast Bot (Telegram): Search, subscribe and listen podcasts on Telegram

FreeTrade: Invest in stocks (even a fraction of a share!) & ETFs for free, get started in seconds.

also, earn a free share (could worth up to £200) when you use this link to sign up for it.

evry.link: Add links to your TikTok videos

it’s time for tiktok stuff to become more routine…

🔍 SPOTTED

Twitter continues working on Birdwatch [link]
Notion is working on auto dark mode that uses system setting [link]
Notion is working on supporting more languages: 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇯🇵🇵🇹🇨🇳 [link]
Facebook is working on the vacation mode for the marketplace profile [link]
Tumblr is working on the possibility of filtering activities also on the mobile app [link]

🐦 TWEETS of the WEEK

Naval

@naval

The price of productivity is creativity.

9:46 PM - 8 Jan 2021

Thoughts Are Seeds

@thoughtsRseeds

“The desire to know your own soul
will end all other desires.”

~Rumi

2:12 AM - 9 Jan 2021

Matthew Kobach

@mkobach

If no one is copying you, it means your stuff isn’t that good

11:30 PM - 3 Jan 2021

Ashley Mayer

@ashleymayer

I now exist solely to impress my Apple Watch.

3:14 AM - 26 Dec 2020

😂 FUN STUFF

Tonald Drump

@TonaldDrump45an

Hi there, I'm new to Twitter and looking to make new friends.

12:51 AM - 9 Jan 2021

If you've ever felt like your job is useless, just remember these security guards are working crowd control for cardboard cutouts. - Credit: loanme20/Reddit