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22 January 2022 13:54

📡 Blue checkmark vs hexagonal PFPs
Intersection no. 3 — Will Twitter take NFTs mainstream?

Do you know what PFPs are?
> Read and subscribe here.

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01 January 2022 20:19

🎭 Oscar-Winning Rapper #Eminem Purchases Bored Ape no. 9055 from Bored Ape Yacht Club (#BAYC) #NFT collection for 123.5 ETH or $462,000!

Eminem's NFT collection on #OpenSea: https://prs.pctvix.co/3FNaKdS

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23 November 2021 13:00

👀 Did you count right?

©️ 2010 Daniel J. Simons

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09 September 2021 16:05

👀 Behind the Scene
How QR codes are made

Source: mcflyhh.
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31 August 2021 11:20

⌚️ Smartwatch Market 2Q21

The global #smartwatch market grew 27% YoY in Q2, per Counterpoint Research. Obviously, #Apple remains on top, but its market share did slip from 30.1% in Q2 2020 to 28% today.

Meanwhile, #Samsung saw its slice of the pie expand from 6.8% to 7.6%—an upward trend that could continue thanks to its newly unveiled #GalaxyWatch 4, made in partnership with #Google.

All Credits: Counterpoint Research
🦅 @iXDaily x @perspectiveix

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17 August 2021 12:48

Social Platforms: they all look the same now

The fact that all #SocialMedia platforms are starting to look the same points at the idea of some platforms are just features unless they evolve.

For example, #Snapchat had to evolve from being a platform for ‘Stories’ to a camera/AR platform, otherwise, it had no chance against #Facebook & #Instagram Stories attack.

Now, #Clubhouse has the same problem. It has turned into a feature that other platforms are just adding to their products — yes, you can call it copying too.

🦅 @perspectiveix via Kaya Yurieff/The Information.
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05 August 2021 12:34

⏱ 60 Seconds on the Internet in 2021

According to data compiled by Lori Lewis and published on the site AllAccess, 60 seconds on the web in 2021 consist of more than 500 hours of content uploaded on #YouTube, 695,000 stories shared on #Instagram and nearly 70 million messages sent via #WhatsApp and #FacebookMessenger. That same internet minute also contains an incredible $1.6 million spent online.

🦅 @perspectiveix via Statista.
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02 July 2021 19:34

🤔 Social Media: What/Who is the Problem?
Intersection 1 — the intersection of social media & [mental] health

There is a widespread belief that #SocialMedia is unhealthy and can have adverse side effects on our mental health, which I totally understand and sometimes agree with.

However, there’s another argument against that, which can be pretty difficult to ignore: what if the problem isn’t social media? What if we are the problem, and social media is merely a tool or a reflection of our reality?

Here, I wrote about both sides of the argument: https://perspectiveix.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-health
Let me know what you think please.

Thanks for reading,
🦅 @perspectiveix

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09 May 2021 23:04

👋 Clubhouse is Finally on Android

#Clubhouse, the hottest app of the past few months, is now available for #Android users to download.

It's still invite-only. If you need an invite, use this link: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/join/perspective-ix/4kG1LHyy/xlNlzlvz

👉 Join up & behrouz">let's connect.

🦅 @perspectiveix

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22 March 2021 21:32

🐦 Twitter at 15 – No Match for Facebook at the Same Age

"Just setting up my twttr" – those were the words that #JackDorsey, founder and CEO of #Twitter, tweeted on March 21, 2006, fifteen years ago — yesterday. Twitter, with its simplicity and unique 140-character limit (which has since been doubled), hit a nerve and quickly gained a following among the tech- and media-savvy. In 2011, Twitter passed the 100-million user milestone and in late 2013 the company went public to huge fanfare.

Read more on Statista.
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22 February 2021 22:25

🌐 Internet is just a fad — Daily Mail (5th December 2000)

and then
#Email is just a fad...
#Facebook is just a fad...
#Instagram is just a fad...
#TikTok is just a fad...

Is #Clubhouse another fad?
🐦 source.

🦅 @PerspectiveIX

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11 February 2021 17:47

Since more than half of you don't know what #Clubhouse is, here's something i've written about it you can read: https://prs.pctvix.co/3acIvIi

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07 February 2021 16:01

📱 Top Apps Worldwide for January 2021 by Downloads

#Telegram was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for January 2021 with more than 63 million installs, 3.8 times its downloads in January 2020. The countries with the largest number of Telegram installs were India 🇮🇳 at 24%, followed by Indonesia 🇮🇩 at 10%.

#TikTok was the second most installed non-gaming app worldwide last month with close to 62 million installs. The countries with the largest number of TikTok installs were from #Douyin in China 🇨🇳 at 17%, followed by the United States 🇺🇸 at 10%. #Signal, #Facebook, and #WhatsApp rounded out the top five most installed non-gaming apps worldwide for the month.

🦅 @PerspectiveIX via SensorTower.


PS. I'm writing about #Clubhouse in today's newsletter: https://prs.pctvix.co/3cQBm26

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25 January 2021 12:12

📡 The ex-influencer/president of the US

There are things in a week you cannot ignore — or avoid seeing — in the world, like Bernie Sanders at Biden’s inauguration, or Biden’s inauguration itself, or DJ Trump’s last song, of course [at least for now]!

In this week's newsletter, I talk about #Trump, #SocialMedia, and the #AttentionEconomy in the least political way possible.

Read it here: https://prs.pctvix.co/3c5w6ap

🦅 @perspectiveix

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14 January 2021 13:01

​​🗞 News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020

As #SocialMedia companies struggle to deal with misleading information on their platforms about the #USElection, the #COVID19 pandemic and more, a large portion of Americans continue to rely on these sites for news. About half of US adults (53%) say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

Among 11 social media sites asked about as a regular source of news, #Facebook sits at the top, with about a third (36%) of Americans getting news there regularly. #YouTube comes next, with 23% of US adults regularly getting news there. #Twitter serves as a regular news source for 15% of US adults.

Other social media sites are less likely to be regular news sources. About one-in-ten Americans or fewer report regularly getting news on #Instagram (11%), #Reddit (6%), #Snapchat (4%), #LinkedIn (4%), #TikTok (3%), #WhatsApp (3%), #Tumblr (1%) and #Twitch (1%).

These lower percentages for news use are in some cases related to the fact that fewer Americans report using them at all, compared with the shares who use Facebook and YouTube.

Read more on Pew Research Center.

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10 January 2022 12:35

📡 Make decisions like a computer
Pulse no. 159 — and 52 things Tom learned in 2021

> Read the complete issue.
Make sure you subscribe. There's a lot of new and exclusive stuff coming you don't wanna miss out on.

Pulse is my weekly newsletter covering tech and media business — and my other curiosities.

🦅 @perspectiveix

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07 December 2021 12:45

🤖 Meet Ameca

#Ameca is the most recent robot to go viral on #SocialMedia. It is a robot designed by the British company #EngineeredArts.
On the Engineered Arts website, it says that Ameca “contains some software which can be described as ‘artificially intelligent,’” but that its main purpose is to “be a platform for developing AI.”

All Credits: Engineered Arts.

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01 November 2021 17:28

💰 #Microsoft overtakes #Apple to become the world’s most valuable company.

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06 September 2021 15:20

🛒 Where E-Commerce is Growing Fastest

China is by far the biggest e-commerce market in the world as seen in figures from the Statista Digital Market Outlook. Last year, e-commerce sales in the country stood at $1.3 trillion and that number is projected to increase to almost $2 trillion by 2025. This would mean that in 4 years, almost every second e-commerce dollar could be spent in China.

Revenues generated in China make up the majority of the Asian market. Yet, other markets on the continent are already growing at a faster rate than the Chinese market. Chinese growth remains above the world average, however.

In Europe and the U.S., e-commerce is expected to grow by 35 percent to 42 percent in five years, below the world average of 47 percent.

Source: Statista.
🦅 @iXDaily x @perspectiveix

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18 August 2021 13:01

🤖 Atlas | Partners in Parkour

Let the #BostonDynamics' Atlas blow your mind!

All Credits: Boston Dynamics
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12 August 2021 22:01

🍽 You are what you eat
Intersection 2 — the intersection of food, information, and diet: optimising your input.

“You are what you eat.”
Have you heard that before? It’s very true — literally. We don’t normally (and actively) think about it, but what we eat actually gets incorporated into our bodies.

You can apply the same thinking to your information diet. You’re not just what you eat, but you’re what you consume: all the data, information, wisdom, and experiences you have shapes your understanding of the world as well as the effects they have on your health — both physical and mental.

Here, I wrote about the importance and the effects of your information diet: https://perspectiveix.substack.com/p/information-diet
Let me know what you think please.

Thanks for reading,
🦅 @perspectiveix

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04 August 2021 10:49

🍎 AirPods as a Company

This is crazy! If #AirPods were a standalone company, they would be one of the biggest tech companies in the world (bigger than #Spotify, #Twitter, #Shopify, and #Snap combined!).

Read more here.
🦅 @perspectiveix

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22 May 2021 20:04

🍕 Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!

On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. At the time, it cost about £10. Today? About £250 million.

To celebrate how far Bitcoin has come — and commemorate history’s most expensive pizzas — let’s take a look at 4 things 10,000 BTC could buy in 2021.

- 28 million large cheese pizzas
- 165,000 moped scooters (for local delivery)
- 3 commercial airplanes (for coast-to-coast delivery)
- 14 billion after-dinner mints

If that’s how much #Bitcoin has changed since 2010, just think how different things could look in the next 11 years. Hopefully pizza still tastes the same.

🦅 @perspectiveix via Coinbase.

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30 April 2021 14:22

🎂 iXDaily - our daily news channel - turns 1 tomorrow

52 weeks, updates 6 days a week (with a couple of breaks), and 295 posts.

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

👉 Join iXDaily to keep up with the best in the world of tech.

@iXDaily

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03 March 2021 14:12

👀 Two by Two
How tech is battling for our attention

In a post on his website, Scott Galloway talks about how tech is battling for our attention. From fitness to dating to news to travel to investing to cooking, every slice of our day is a battleground among tech players for our monetize-able attention.

Two factors drive strategy in this battle:
1. the value of the attention that firms command, and
2. the means to monetise that attention.

Hence, a 2x2 matrix.

All credit: Scott Galloway.

For more #AttentionEconomy and stuff like this: https://prs.pctvix.co/3rdv1Sy

🦅 @perspectiveix

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12 February 2021 20:32

🤔 What to write about?

Hi friends! Hope you're all well and safe.

After a few weeks of wrting short pieces for my newsletter, I'd like to get your input on what to write about next.
Here are the type of things I write about in my newsletter and my blog.

If you have a [relevant-ish] topic in mind, please share it in the comments below. Let's do a little analysis.

Thank you
🦅 @perspectiveix

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10 February 2021 12:26

🥣 Weetabix UK on Twitter

Yesterday, #Weetabix, a British cereal brand, pulled a pretty 🤢 marketing stunt on #Twitter, and after over 24 hours, it's still being retweeted and replied to.

Regardless of how you feel about beans on cereal, this is how creativity can create success on #SocialMedia.

I'll post some of my favourite replies from brands and organisations to the tweet, but you can read them all here. https://prs.pctvix.co/3tItju7

Big thanks to PikasoMe for the screenshots.

🦅 @PerspectiveIX

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01 February 2021 14:08

👀 this is how it works, isn't it?

#Facebook #WhatsApp #Privacy

Credit: Moin Nazim

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18 January 2021 20:18

📰 A Quick Update on Perspective IX Newsletter

First of all, a big thanks to everyone who's been a loyal reader of my weekly newsletter. You are amazing!

Yesterday, I finally moved Pulse to Substack. It's a change that I wanted to happen but didn't until last week. But the platform wasn't the only thing I wanted to change; its format, audience, and strategy are also evolving.

You can read all about why it's making me uncomfortable and why I'm doing it anyway here: https://prs.pctvix.co/3injqgd

If you're not into reading, scroll down to the very bottom.

Cheers
🦅 @perspectiveix

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12 January 2021 13:30

📺 Media Landscape
Who owns everything in Big #Media: Distributors, content companies & internet video companies by market cap and their main lines of business.

❗️ #Netflix: Feb 2018 → Apr 2018 → May 2018 → Jan 2021
👉🏻 Market Cap: $95B → $137B → $144B → $226B
👉🏻 Subscribers: 104M → 125M → 125M → 195M

🦅 @perspectiveix