Welcome to the 40th Pulse! Coming to you from a closed Costa in a Tesco Extra while I'm waiting for m
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Welcome to the 40th Pulse! Coming to you from a closed Costa in a Tesco Extra while I’m waiting for my car to get washed on a rainy day to pick up my wife from airport! Yeah! That’s how important you and Pulse are to me! Oh, and by the way, by popular demand and 💯% Yes to last week’s poll, News section is back - although very brief.
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Focus - Credit: Stefan Cosma on Unsplash
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The Attention Economy Crisis: The Future of Content, Commerce and Culture “What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? … Stories. There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it.” – Tyrion Lannister, “Game of Thrones” People understand the world through stories. Shared stories create brands, shape culture and fuel politics. But a story only has power when it is given attention. The competition for people’s attention is called the “Attention Economy.”
The global economy runs on top of the Attention Economy. What people choose to work on — or even where they live— is influenced by stories that capture people’s attention. When did you first decide what you wanted to be when you grew up? Maybe SimCity motivated you to become a city planner, or X-Files sparked your curiosity in a STEM career, or the raves of a favourite aunt inspired you about the quality of life in Texas. These are all stories, but they can only shape us if we pay attention to them. |
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Top Language Apps Worldwide for April 2019 by Downloads The most downloaded language app worldwide for April 2019 was Duolingo with more than 4.6 million installs, up 26 percent year-over-year from April 2018. The countries with the most Duolingo app installs during this period were the United States at 24 percent of its total downloads and Brazil at 10 percent.
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Top Language Apps Worldwide for April 2019 by Downloads
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Fake accounts; real battles - Credit: Statista
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Facebook’s Battle with Fake Accounts Last week, Facebook published its third Community Standards Enforcement Report which shows the efforts the company is making to curb and remove controversial content. Between October 2018 and March 2019, Facebook said it removed 3.39 billion fake accounts, twice the number detected and removed in the previous six-month period. It is also more than a billion more than the 2.37 billion people who actively use Facebook each month. Facebook is trying to fight mass account creations using a combination of AI and human monitoring. Facebook claims that the vast majority of fake accounts disabled within minutes of their creation.
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Flextime: Troll your friends and fake FaceTime with real celebs, like LeBron James, Kim Kardashian, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and more… 😂
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Tweepsmap: Twitter analytics and publishing, now without ads.
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Away: Jen Rubio : NPR
In early 2015, Jen Rubio was racing through an airport to catch a flight when her suitcase broke, leaving a trail of clothing behind her. She tried to replace it with a stylish, durable, affordable suitcase — but she couldn’t find one. So she decided to create her own. In less than a year, Jen and her co-founder Steph Korey raised $2.5 million to build their dream travel brand: a line of sleek, direct-to-consumer suitcases simply called Away. Jen’s hunch that the brand would emotionally resonate with young, jet-setting customers paid off. Today, Away has become a cult luggage brand that has sold more than one million suitcases.
Listen to How I Built This and tweet to them. The usually reply 😉👇
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FYI: there IS an edit button. (In your brain)
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wow, so much browser competition on iOS...
*checks notes*
....where every browser is forced to use Apple’s rendering engine AND the default browser can’t be changed https://t.co/mWDmGmFrGT
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At least now Siri won’t hear him right! Right?
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Maybe Apple should be more like IKEA…
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