https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/bts-army-fave-app-1213189/amp/ A BTS-Backed Social Network for Fandoms Wants to Revolutionize Stan Culture I’m in quite a few Verts. Inevitable really. As you grow up you join them. They’re part of your identity. Hey you can’t have a Presence without them and, without a Presence, well what are you? Thing is, I’ve never been hailed in … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/stella-artois-solstice-celebration-hybrid-events/ Stella Artois’ Solstice Celebration Shows Its Evolving Approach to Hybrid Events The sun was setting at the end of the city street as we arrived. We’d not been here for… oh I lose track. When you’ve pace-shifted that happens. How many years ago did we leave? Work hasn’t changed thanks to The System but … [Read more…]
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/15/1031804/digital-beauty-filters-photoshop-photo-editing-colorism-racism/ It’s all wrong. I look wrong. I mean, look! They’re just more attractive, more together, more real… just more. Who would you want to meet? Who would you want to talk to? Who would you want to..? I’m just not right. I have to be out there but when I’m out there, I’m so … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/times-square-set-to-host-digital-billboard-featuring-nft-content/ Security has been tight. So tight, we’ve had to work on it back in the office. Everyone is under an NDA of course and each part of the team has been isolated so no-one has access to the full thing apart from the client and, even there, only selected people and systems have the … [Read more…]
https://digiday.com/marketing/google-switch-floc-cookie-replacement-fingerprinting-potential/ We make a big thing of it in my family. The Choosing. To be honest I don’t get to choose, it’s a family thing. Topics are passed down in our family and woe betide you if you try and pick something outside. “Tradition”, I’m reminded. We have this lame ceremony thing where I have … [Read more…]
https://www.campaignlive.com/article/youtube-launches-shorts-campaign-compete-tiktok/1724457 They’d got used to textspeak. Even those strange little pictures she’d added to everything, they’d learned to read them. A different language but they’d picked it up. They’d had to if they were going to “follow” her. And as parents, that was their responsibility. It wasn’t spying, it was following. But this was new. … [Read more…]
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/spacex-satellite-ads-elon-musk-spacex-gec-b1899373.html He watched the news. “Refugees” had been something from far away. Now people like him were crammed onto ferries fleeing apocalyptic flames. These people took photos with phones like his, watched the unfolding disaster on tablets like his. They were leaving cities like his, homes like his, with children like his. This was a … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/5/22611748/bill-gates-epstein-meetings-mistake-foundation-workplace-harassment Here at Majority Reports, we take taking meetings seriously. Our algorithms provide a full background and foreground check on the attendees for your meeting. Our Background Majority Report gives you a full picture by grading attendees for “awareness” and our Foreground Majority Report gives you a full likelihood picture. We check not just what … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/bird-community-safety-zones-pilot-181559087.html You’re grounded. No, I’m sorry, it’s for your own good. Rules are rules. You knew what we’d said and you chose to ignore it. Fine. Consequences. One week. We’re not going to lock everything, just your games and social. You can still call and message us – and we can reach you! But, no. … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/3/22608419/whatsapp-view-once-dissapearing-media-launch-testing-sensitive-info It was so good. I mean, really good. It had the look of, you know that film. The one we saw that night last summer… And the music, I’m sure it was them. His voice. It had to be him. But it was a new track. And the twist at the end. I mean, … [Read more…]