Sep 13, 2020

📡 It’s not exactly learning.

Revue

September 13 · Issue #105 · View online

Hello and welcome to Pulse — the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix. I’m your host, Ben, and today’s pulse is coming to you from Istanbul, Turkey. If you want to keep up with me, add me on snapchat; it’s perspectiveix.

By the way, sorry about last week, the trip was so short-notice that I ended up not having time to finish up pulse for you. Hope you missed it (a few of you did; thank you for your messages, btw).

🗞 NEWS

PS5 event on 16 Sept [link], Apple’s ‘Time Flies’ event on 15 Sept [link], and Nokia’s most lucrative asset [link]

China saving face, App Store saving games, and Crypto [link]

Facebook going back to its roots, Hackers attack, and Crypto Patent Alliance [link]

Privacy Shield, Apple killing Fortnite’s sign ins, and China’s Twitter probe [link]

Budget Xbox, Apple event, and Android 11 [link]

A new ban in China, Revolut going through things, and Minecraft VR [link]

iPhone 12, Facebook Live, and Fortnite [link]

😾 a gift for you.

🧠 INSIGHTS

Learning needs passion - Credit: Ian Schneider on Unsplash

“Taking” lessons

What an accurate and horrible term.

It’s hard to imagine that most people would look forward to taking lessons. In the piano or arithmetic or anything else.

You take medicine. You take your punishment. It’s unwanted but grudgingly accepted.

The term gives away the intent behind it.

Learning is different. Learning is something we get to do, it’s a dance, an embrace, a chance to turn on some lights.

You don’t take a workshop. You are part of one.

from Seth Godin’s Blog.

i took a lesson last night… and it wasn’t fun.

📊 STATISTICS

Behavioral COVID-19 Tracker — Did Offline Commerce Lose Against Online, and by How Much? — Part 1

vertoanalytics.com – Share

The Verto Analytics COVID-19 Tracker reveals how, during the COVID-19 pandemic—while most offline categories have lost visitors—the online world has more or less kept its audience. Digital devices and screens, as well as the online availability of services and content, have fulfilled needs for which users might otherwise have looked in the offline world.

Behavioral COVID-19 Tracker — Did Offline Commerce Lose Against Online, and by How Much? — Part 2

vertoanalytics.com – Share

Verto continues to provide insight on how online services are seeing increased use during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how offline places are losing across the board.

📱 TOOLS & APPS

Emblemicons: An open-source free to use library of 1000+ beautiful icons

Tiip: Instantly enhance your word choice in your essays

Fready: Spend less time reading online [Chrome/Brave Extension]

🔍 SPOTTED

LinkedIn is working on telling users to be respectful and professional [link]
Pinterest is working on some sort of Story Pin Tray [link]
Spotify is working on differential streaming qualities for WiFi and cellular data [link]
Google Duo is working on “Reset group link” [link]
Google Duo is working on Snapchat/Instagram-style effect tray [link]
Spotify is working on a promo/landing page for the Stations app [link]
Reddit is working on showing the list of trophies under the user profile header [link]
Instagram is working on a redesigned Live screen for viewers [link]
Instagram is working on the possibility of creating a fundraiser via feed posts [link]