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By Mads Pedersen

Stories about brands, tech, marketing, and other things digital

Oil & Gas Industry
Why big companies squander brilliant ideas
timharford.com - Wolf Chiappella
J F C Fuller did not invent the tank. That distinction should probably fall to E L de Mole, an Australian who approached the British war office in …
Wireframing
This card-based UX wireframe maker turns digital ideation into physical fun
yankodesign.com - By Sarang Sheth
Featuring 80 double-sided cards, the UX Kits Wireframe card deck lets you build and experiment with interfaces and wireframes simply by arranging …
Deep Learning
There’s only been one AI breakthrough
Quartz - Dave Gershgorn
Throughout artificial intelligence’s 70-year history, the field has had only one breakthrough, argues investor and former head of Google China Kai-Fu Lee: deep learning. “So why you might ask, why do see
Profit
Amazon Has a Massive New Division—and No One's Paying Attention to It
Fortune - Alex Salkever
The rocket ride that is Amazon continues apace for investors. In its most recent quarter, Amazon nearly doubled analyst estimates for earnings growth …
Startups
Netlify just got $30 million to change the way developers build websites
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
Netlify wants to revolutionize the way developers build websites, abstracting away the web server and breaking web sites into microservices, making the process more like building a mobile application a
Technology
Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition
Bloomberg - Naomi Nix
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has decided not to compete for the Pentagon’s cloud-computing contract valued at as much as $10 billion, saying the project …
Cybersecurity
California to Outlaw Weak Password Use in Connected Devices
PCMag - Michael Kan
Starting on Jan. 1 2020, manufacturers of connected devices will need to build in "reasonable security features" into their products, including …
UX Design
7 UX Deliverables: What will I be making as a UX designer?
interaction-design.org
What does a UX designer actually produce? Here, we will explore the concept of UX Deliverables, a term that describes the outputs of a UX design …
You're So Vain: Beyond Marketing Vanity Metrics
cmswire.com - Tod Loofbourrow
Peter Drucker once said, “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” But for marketers looking at the power of digital video with seemingly unlimited …
Cyber-attacks
California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices
TechCrunch - Zack Whittaker
Good news! California has passed a law banning default passwords like “admin,” “123456” and the old classic “password” in all new consumer electronics starting in 2020. Every new gadget built in the state
Technology
35-Year-Old Unknown Creates the World’s Most Valuable Startup
Bloomberg
When Zhang Yiming first shopped the idea of a news aggregation app powered by artificial intelligence six years ago, investors including Sequoia …
Streaming
Streaming accounts for 75 percent of music industry revenue in the US
Engadget - Mallory Locklear
Meanwhile, CD sales have taken a nosedive. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has released music industry revenue statistics for the first half of 2018 in the US, and on average, revenue
Social Media
This Guy Works From Home and Makes Big Money on iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon. (Here's His Brilliant Trick)
Inc Magazine - By Bill Murphy Jr.
Meet Matt Farley. He works from home full-time in Massachusetts, making money by recording songs and releasing them on Spotify, iTunes, and Amazon music. (You can find his work here: more than 19,000 so
Technology
Twitch suddenly blocked in China
Polygon - Charlie Hall
News comes during a lengthy period of chaos as the Chinese government reevaluates online gaming The livestream platform Twitch is no longer available in China. After a surge in popularity last month among
Employment
How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together
Harvard Business Review - Alia Crocker, Rob Cross, Heidi K. Gardner
Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Organizations need be
Social Media
Facebook Pages can now join Facebook Groups
Mashable - Matt Binder
Your Facebook Page can now join members-only Facebook Groups. In a new setting update spotted by social media aficionado Matt Navarra, Facebook is now …
Digital Marketing
Adobe Changes Its Marketing Cloud Trajectory With Marketo Acquisition
Forbes - Forrester
Learn how to better focus your long-term technology investments with Forrester’s complimentary guide to the top 11 emerging technologies for marketers. I am still catching my breath. Adobe has agreed acquire
Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt, ex-Google CEO, sees US, China internet split
FOX Business - Brittany De Lea
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks there will be two versions of the internet within 10 years, one run by China and the other by the U.S. Schmidt made the comments at a private venture capital event in
Automotive Industry
Audi’s new subscription service lets you swap vehicles twice a month
The Verge - Andrew J. Hawkins
A flat rate of $1,395 a month Audi is the latest luxury automaker to launch a subscription-based service to get customers who want to have access to a fleet of fancy cars but don’t necessarily want to
Design Thinking
Why Design Thinking Works
Harvard Business Review - Jeanne Liedtka
Occasionally, a new way of organizing work leads to extraordinary improvements. Total quality management did that in manufacturing in the 1980s by combining a set of tools—kanban cards, quality circles,
Business
MIT Lincoln Laboratory develops AI that shows its decision-making process
VentureBeat - Kyle Wiggers
Artificial intelligence (AI) that explains its decisions like a human? It’s not as far-fetched as you might think. In a paper published by MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory Intelligence and Decision Technologies
Making the Adobe Cloud More Resilient — With Chaos
medium.com - Nils Meder
The first time most people hear about chaos engineering their instinctive response is “Be careful,” “Be safe,” “Keep buffers up.” But when they say …
Design Thinking
Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo
Harvard Business Review - Natasha Iskander
When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities
Entrepreneurship
If You Think The Customer Journey Is Linear Or A Funnel, New Research Suggests You Are Wrong
Forbes - Kimberly A. Whitler
Customer journey mapping has been a hot topic for some time. Trying to understand how the customer interacts with the brand or company—the touchpoints—can ideally help marketers better understand opportunities
Singularity
Elon Musk: I'm about to announce a 'Neuralink' product that connects your brain to computers
CNBC - Todd Haselton
Elon Musk smoked pot and drank whiskey on the Joe Rogan podcast and said he's going to soon announce a new "Neuralink" product that can make anyone …
On CRM: Adobe's New Offering Aims To Send E-Mails When Your Recipients Are Most Likely To Read Them
Forbes - Gene Marks
Allen Finn, a writer at online advertising service Wordstream, has compiled a bunch of excellent email statistics that every marketer should read. Among the most eye opening: Email is the third most influential
Education
Urgency Bias Is Wrecking Your Ability To Lead
Forbes - Dan Pontefract
It’s the middle of a client meeting. There are six of us. We are discussing the rather dismal results of a team’s level of engagement. The conversation includes long-term measures and changes needed to
Google’s Chrome browser is now 10 years old
The Verge - Tom Warren
A lot has changed in a decade Google first released its Chrome browser 10 years ago today. Marketed as a “fresh take on the browser,” Chrome debuted with a web comic from Google to mark the company’s web