➚ inessential: The Under-Appreciated Awesomeness of Apple Events (the Technology)

In other words, great design…

the absolute genius was combining that with power-user features by way of progressive disclosure.

This meant that more power was there, but it wasn’t required in order to use the app well. But, once you needed it, you could find it. And that extra power was as well-designed as the rest of the app, so you could get the most bang for your click.

Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.2 | WebKit ➚

This will change how #martech and #adtech for the better. Important read here…

As of ITP 2.2, persistent cookies set through document.cookie are capped to one day of storage when both of the following conditions are met:

  1. A domain classified with cross-site tracking capabilities was responsible for navigating the user to the current webpage.
  2. The final URL of the navigation mentioned above has a query string and/or a fragment identifier. The rest of this blog post explores this in detail.

Go out and get it.

James Holzhauer: Why the ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Is Bad TV (Column) – Variety ➚

James is only the T-1000 of Jeopardy. There will be more T-1000s of many things from “before”.

“He is simply a more advanced player, a perfect one, seemingly sent from the future to dominate the show, and his personality as a TV character is frustratingly difficult to know, even by the standards of the breezily quick thirty-minute game show. More than most contestants, he is there to complete a mission. (His shout-outs to family and friends, written on each Final Jeopardy card, are the only real glimpses we get of the Holzhauer who existed before he took the “Jeopardy!” stage.)”

how to get more work done in less time ✅

Make Do Not Disturb work for you! Watch this #minutetutorial

How I’ve Been Approaching Podcast Recording

In this episode, I’ll describe how I’ve been making podcast episodes for both this podcast and the one at dialog.fm.

The workflows are very different.

I’ll also describe the equipment and apps that I use.

I don’t know what this is trying to say, but I do know it is indicative of the decline of the movie theater.

Of course the kids got their photos too…

Her last invitation didn’t have a Google “meet” link, and Bethany didn’t change settings. It has a business feel, and seems to have shown up after the @zoom_us IPO. Google getting nervous?

The True Cost of Customer Response via Seth Godin ➚

Waiting an extra day to get back to just one person probably costs you more than the entire day’s salary of a customer service salesperson.

Ending Robocalls. Game changer right here. My phone rings 1/10 of the time now. And I can see who it doesn’t let through. itunes.apple.com

RoboKiller: Spam Call Blocker by TelTech Systems

In the news of things no one wants:

Facebook is working on a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and the Google Assistant, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Facebook is working on a voice assistant to rival Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri

The first three episodes of our new business podcast Dialog . fm have dropped. Check them out and let me know what you think? #conversationalmarketing

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Why isn’t Amazon turning Audible into the best podcast app? Half of podcasts feature Audible ads, and/or authors talking about their book. Seems like an easy win.

#AlbumSunday 1 Real quick though. This is important. volcano choir - repave (2013)

It’s GoT Time.

Texas. Home.

Wise words from John Bonini on Twitter

Don’t blog. Write. Don’t promote. Share. Don’t post. Publish. Don’t blast. (Ever.) Don’t sell. Listen/help. Don’t report. Update. The way in which we describe the work matters.

Interesting that this suggestion is from 2011. I wonder if Jack read it then.

Twitter, 140 characters: Why the microblogging service should expand to 280 characters per message

How do startups actually get their content marketing to work? | TechCrunch 🔗

Even the best growth marketers fail to get content marketing to work. Many are unwittingly using tactics from 4 years ago that no longer work today.