https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/21/21526567/facebook-neighborhoods-feature-mini-social-network-sharing-test The Episode wasn’t all bad. With her tracker warning her of the borders of her 3S (“Social Safe Space”), she had her privacy and security. She knew where she could go and what she could do, as did everyone else each within their invisible fence. The Government had subcontracted the trackers to The Company … [Read more…]
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/21/1011038/aocs-among-us-livestream-hints-at-twitchs-political-power/ You have been the face of our brand since before I joined the company. It feels like generations of our customers have come to know and love our brand through coming to know you. Whether it was the original TV ads or those early web experiments right through to our successful micro-films series. Your … [Read more…]
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/envisics-ar-windshield-technology/ Traffic was back to a new normal. Crawling, then frantic overtaking, undertaking, catch-up. He felt the stop start seep into his mood. As he tensed, the seat changed its support, the news channel chose different stories and it began. Barely perceptible, the circles gently pulsed, mirroring the new stories’ sentences. As they slowed, the … [Read more…]
https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/news/how-to-build-a-fair-algorithm/44241 I like starting a new job. I know some find it stressful, integrating into new business and systems but I’ve worked in lots of places, fitted into lots of systems and just… well worked. Tell me where you want me and I’ll get started. Not here… oh no! I have to have ‘training’- “reprogramming” … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/15/21518182/google-new-hum-to-search-feature-identify-song-machine-learning It was liminal. On the edge of consciousness, the tip of his tongue. It must have been something he saw or heard yesterday and now it was like a nagging loose tooth he couldn’t help worrying. He couldn’t do anything about it until his break, he told himself, his work devices were locked until … [Read more…]
https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/news/share-of-search-can-predict-market-share/44232 They’d decided early on to get her one. The more she’d be able to say she knew or at least demonstrate she could find, the better. At the start of New Schooling, they’d been expensive but then the Company offered them for free. Her ‘learning facilitator’ was impressed with her SoS (speed of search). … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/havas-launches-customer-experience-network/ The “people formerly known as customers” have always been at the heart of our work for clients. In The Before, we prided ourselves on not just knowing them through data, but really understanding them. Things have changed. People have changed. Home Space Blur; Circuitbreak Compression; Stop-Start socialising; Lockdown Syndrome have all had their effects. … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/b50d22ec-db98-4891-86da-af34f06d1cb1 I need to update our About Us page. New pictures. I feel we need to appear younger, but somehow more serious. We’re trying to position ourselves as a business service. We’re not the scrappy disruptor any more. We’re not a big team – although I might consider adding a couple of new faces. Our … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/google-ar-cloud-anchors-shared-experiences-153257346.html Welcome. We may be distributed but we’re first and foremost a team. Back in The Before – when I joined – all new recruits met for a Community Action day. We went out into our community and picked up what was called “litter” or scrubbed out graffiti. Well, we’re re-inventing that tradition. Today, wherever … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/shoppers-adapting-miss-retail/ The doors opened and she felt the familiar rush, the endless possibilities of a teen spending Saturdays hanging out, mixed with the adult feeling she could remake her world again with just a bit of spending. It was partly looking in different shops and displays – the retail gaze, shopophilia. But it was also … [Read more…]