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Spotify closes Gimlet deal, also acquires Anchor

’t Is van dat, aldus Hot Pod: This morning, the Swedish streaming company announced that it has closed the Gimlet acquisition, and that it had additionally acquired another podcast company: Anchor, the podcast hosting-and-monetization platform founded by Michael Mignano and Nir Zicherman.

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13 tips for making the switch from a consumer to a creator

Tof artikel van Nathan Barry: Grab a sticky note and write “make something today.” Stick it to your monitor. Your goal is simply to make anything. It could be following a new recipe to bake a loaf of bread, making a video, painting that wall that you’ve had the paint for sitting in your garage […]

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Never Tweet

Farhad Manjoo: Twitter is not that carefree clubhouse for journalism anymore. Instead it is the epicenter of a nonstop information war, an almost comically undermanaged gladiatorial arena where activists and disinformation artists and politicians and marketers gather to target and influence the wider media world.

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Facebook is helping husbands ‘brainwash’ their wives with targeted ads

Daily Dot vond een bedrijfje dat interessant gebruik maakt van cookies aan de hand waarvan Facebook je targeted ads kan tonen. Zo kan een winkel je de uitbreidingset van Kolonisten van Catan aanbevelen als je het spel bij hen kocht. Of, zoals Spinner doet, gedragsbeïnvloeding in gang steken door mensen artikels te laten zien: Regardless […]

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Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger

The New York Times: To assuage concerns, Mr. Zuckerberg called a follow-up meeting with WhatsApp employees a few days later, three of the people said. On Dec. 7, employees gathered around microphones at the WhatsApp offices to ask him why he was so invested in merging the services. Some said his answers were vague and […]

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iPad Pro – A new way to go behind the scenes

Ik ben zo zot van mijn iPad Pro omdat die het echt, echt, echt ontzettend makkelijk maakt om content te creëren. En daardoor krijg je daar ook zin in. Zie ook dit (reclame)filmpje van Apple: Luma Fusion (❤️) is eigenhandig dé app die mij zin deed krijgen om filmpjes te maken.

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For AirPods early adopters, Apple’s hit wireless earbuds are showing their age

Zac Hall op 9to5mac: But batteries are consumable, we all know so well now, and that’s proven true for the tiny batteries inside AirPods after two years of daily use. Battery life that once exceeded five hours now struggles to power AirPods through three hours of continuous usage at the same volume. Exact hetzelfde: vroeger […]

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We Are Bad at Moderation (Or: Why I’m Deleting Twitter and Instagram From my iPhone)

Shawn Blanc: And can you guess the thing in my life which I consider to be not very essential but which is receiving more of my time and attention than I think it deserves? Social media. Ik heb het tijdens de kerstvakantie geprobeerd en daarna terug hervallen.Na het lezen van deze blogpost toch terug Twitter […]

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Every day my parents play Mario Kart 64 to see who will make a cuppa tea. They’ve done this religiously since 2001.

Zalig verhaal op Reddit.

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ᐉ “Meer boeken lezen”

Ik vind Goodreads een heel leuke plek. Voornamelijk omdat ik er heel wat boeken leer kennen die ik anders niet zou kennen. Het is extreem deugddoend om een Amerikaanse kennis een nieuw boek te zien aanraden en die dan snel te downloaden naar de Kindle, om dan maanden later De Morgen te horen stoefen over […]

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