Facebook Groups Battle Over A McDonald’s Dinosaur

Episode 322 – September 11, 2020

Topics:

• Totally Hip Book Reviews
• Amazon Goes After Smart Apartments
• Wired 25 Virtual Conference
• PDFs: Not Fit For Human Consumption
• Mad At Disney
• New LinkedIn Features
• Jabbermask
• Mythic Dinosaurs
• Paid Keywords Not Provided
• Drone Deliveries
• The Phone Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
• Paying For Podcasts

During episode 322, BL and David discuss a Facebook Group battle over a dinosaur at McDonald’s; Alexa for Residential; Ron Charles acting out book reviews; PDFs are not fit for human consumption; the Wired 25 virtual conference; new LinkedIn Page features; Salem Ilese is Mad At Disney; the JabberMask; Google to limit paid keyword data; the drone delivery race heats up; your smartphone knows when you’re drunk…and much, much more.

Best Practices

Totally Hip Book Reviews

Hilarious weekly “totally hip” video book reviews, acted out by Ron Charles.

• Susanna Clarke’s ‘Piranesi’ reveals a man trapped in a watery palace
• Humans and robots are falling in love, but not with Ron Charles

Alexa For Residential

Amazon is launching a new service for property managers called “Alexa for Residential” that makes it easier to deploy and manage voice-enabled devices and experiences in apartment buildings.

• Amazon launches ‘Alexa for Residential’ to help property managers add voice to smart apartments
• A new, easy way for properties to add Alexa to residential buildings

Wired’s Virtual Conference

• Wired 25

Stuck In A PDF

Someone finally said it!

• PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later

Mad At Disney

Salem Ilese had a modest fan base until her latest single, “Mad at Disney” went viral on TikTok. Now it’s earning more than a million streams a day on Spotify alone.

• ‘Mad at Disney’: How an Angry Fan Made a Massive TikTok Hit

New LinkedIn Page Features

LinkedIn has added some new page features for virtual events, followers, and employees.

• LinkedIn lets Page owners view, sort, learn more about their followers
• What’s New With LinkedIn Pages: “My Company” Tab, “Events” Tab, and View Page Followers

Jabbermask

Smile through your COVID 19 mask.

• LED face mask speaks when you do and flashes smiles on demand
• Jabbermask Kickstarter

Worst Practices

Ban Dinosaurs From McDonald’s?

A Facebook group wants a local McDonald’s to remove the statue of a dinosaur that has been there for decades because they don’t believe dinosaurs existed.

• Christian Group Seeks Removal Of Dinosaur From Tucson McDonald’s

Paid Keywords (not provided)

Google has begun alerting advertisers that it will soon stop showing search queries that triggered their ads when there is not “significant” data.

• Google Ads to limit Search Terms reporting, citing privacy

Drone Delivery

Both Amazon & Walmart announced their new drone package delivery services this week. Hey, what could go wrong?

• Walmart Tests Drone Delivery Amid Escalating Amazon Battle

The Smartphone Has Been Drinking (Not Me)

Scientists from University of Pittsburgh just published research showing that, in the lab at least, your smartphone can detect if you’re drunk.

• Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re Drunk-Walking
• A Preliminary Study Using Smartphone Accelerometers to Sense Gait Impairments Due to Alcohol Intoxication
• AlcoGait

Smiles

• Use This Map to Find Out Which Dinosaurs Lived in Your Area
• Ancient Earth Globe
• The Joys of Looking Out Someone Else’s Window
• Window Swap

Shiny New Stuff

B.L.’s Finds

• PNGHut – Millions of free to download images for any project.

David’s Finds

• How I Drove 231,608 Visitors to My Site Using This New Channel
• Subscribers

Projects

Pro Tips

Email Outreach

• Outreach Tips (better than anything you’ll find searching Google)

Weekly Numbers

Of the 50% of US adults who listen to podcasts, around 1 in 6 (17%) have paid to listen to one, while a majority are open to a mix of free and paid podcast models.

• Paying For Podcasts