Biden Town Hall Ratings
Dueling Town Hall Ratings
Episode 327 – October 17, 2020
Topics:
- Zoom Zaps
- Google Analytics 4
- No Politics Policy
- Town Hall Ratings
- Hacking Pays
- Echo Notifies
- Ancient Recipes
- LiDAR Lenses
- We’re Not Okay
- Funeral Home Flyers
- Cord Cutters
During episode 327, BL and David discuss the viewership of the dueling Trump/Biden Town Hall forums; an array of new Zoom apps; Google Analytics version 4; Coinbase’s no-politics policy; Alexa notifications; Apple pays hackers to hack; Snapchat’s LiDAR lenses; vintage downloadable cookbooks; a social media wellness check; funeral flyers;…and much, much more.
Best Practices
Zoom Zapps
Thirty-five apps will be integrated into Zoom. These include Asana, Dropbox, Salesforce, Slack, Survey Monkey, Unsplash and Zen Desk. Developers will be able to create new ones.
Google Analytics 4
The new Google Analytics will give you the essential insights you need to be ready for what’s next.
6 Months Pay To Quit Coinbase
“Life is too short to work at a company that you aren’t excited about,” Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in an email to employees after many objected to his controversial new policy banning political activism by employees.
- Sixty Coinbase employees take buyout offer over “no politics” rule
- Coinbase is a mission focused company
- A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company
Town Hall Ratings
This morning, when early TV ratings numbers were released for President Donald Trump’s and former Vice President Joe Biden’s competing Thursday-night town halls on, respectively, NBC and ABC, Biden was beating Trump.
- More people watched Biden on ABC than Trump on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC
- Here’s What Happened To MSNBC’s Viewership When Trump’s Town Hall Came On
Apple Pays Hackers
In response to Apple’s Bug Bounty challenge, 20 year-old and a team of white hat hackers found 55 vulnerabilities.
- Apple pays $288,000 to white-hat hackers who had run of company’s network
- We Hacked Apple for Three Months, Here’s What We Found
Alexa Notifications
Echo’s yellow ring means you’ve got an audio notification.
10,700 Vintage Cookbooks Digitized
The collection contains everything from cookbooks by Martha Stewart to the oldest one, dated 1529.
LiDAR Lenses
Snapchat confirmed it will be among the first to put the new technology to use in its iOS app for a lidar-powered Lens.
Worst Practices
We’re Not Okay
Researchers are looking at online behavior to gauge public mental health. The results aren’t pretty.
- Is Everyone Doing OK? Let’s Ask Social Media
- According to the words, the news is actually good
- Hedonometer
Funeral Flyers
An Italian funeral home handed out flyers advertising its services at a ‘March of Liberation’ rally for COVID-deniers in Rome.
Volantinaggio alla #marciadellaliberazione ! Business is Business pic.twitter.com/XkWQ0IGTS5— TAFFO (@taffoofficial) October 10, 2020
Smiles
This appears to be source of #springsteen emoji, by the way (cover of “Born in the USA” single.)@SpringNuts_ , @backstreetsmag pic.twitter.com/vbNOyQ09lK— Jay Lustig (@jaylustig) October 14, 2020
Happy #Caturdaypic.twitter.com/4jg3aQMtvI— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 10, 2020
Shiny New Stuff
B.L.’s Finds
You can see how your podcasts perform in search, and get listener analytics.
Google Search is an important and growing way to find podcasts. Today we’re introducing a new feature to help podcasters understand how listeners discover their content on Search. Check it out in Podcasts Manager ⇒ https://t.co/ejDUvAe9fe— Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) October 13, 2020
David’s Finds
The Yoast SEO WordPress plugin will now feature tight integration with SEMrush’s extensive keyword database and SEO products.
Politics
Trumprolled
Demonstrated his mental decline, trump referred to his henchman Matt Gaetz as Rick Gates three times during a campaign rally.
He’s just not that into you!— Wearing a mask in NC (@tweettweetnc) October 17, 2020
We’ve got to come together to defeat Donald Trump –– Democrats, Independents, Republicans, and yes, even Demo-cats. pic.twitter.com/LtsTWy7MmI— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 17, 2020
Pro Tips
Simple Words & Short Sentences
