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China's Character of the Year. How Machines Learn. Bruce Lee and Freddy Mercury – The Brief for 12.28.17

chrisbrogan · December 28, 2017 ·

Here are the notes from the Chris Brogan Media broadcast for 12/28/17. (You can watch this on my Facebook account).
The goal of these posts is that there are trends and ideas here that might impact your business now or soon. Think on the stories here and look for ways to adjust your business accordingly. If ever you’re stuck, get in touch with me and I can help.
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My SPONSOR for today? Brogan’s Bakery in Ireland. I really really hope they’re related to me!

I found this nifty video explaining how machines learn. It’s worth the watch when you’re eating something or waiting to pick someone up.
The number one gift purchase this Christmas seems to be the Amazon Echo or Echo Dot. Now’s a good time to think about whether you should teach everyone to be polite to robot helpers.
Shout out to Chick-Fil-A for breaking one of their important rules to feed people strated at an airport. While I don’t agree with the company for a few other reasons, I appreciate their sticking to their values.
What’s the big push in marketing and customer service? AI linked chatbots are now a huge part of most CMO’s radars as they consider the coming year.
More than 50% of food in Africa is wasted, even while millions starve. Here’s a project to fix that a bit, and it’s something we should consider, too.
These five hospitality trends for 2018 are worth a gander.
This isn’t newsworthy. It’s just the best News bloopers of 2017.
I couldn’t not share this. It’s basically toy Bruce Lee and toy Freddie Mercury up to some shenanigans.
Matt shared an all senior citizen CounterStrike team called the Silver Snipers.
And finally, some breathtaking geek art.
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YouTube's Search Year in Review. AI's Secret Workers. TSA's Craziest Confiscations – The Brief for 12.17.17

chrisbrogan · December 17, 2017 ·

Here are the notes from the Chris Brogan Media broadcast for 12/17/17. (You can watch this on my Facebook account).
The goal of these posts is that there are trends and ideas here that might impact your business now or soon. Think on the stories here and look for ways to adjust your business accordingly. If ever you’re stuck, get in touch with me and I can help.
This live video was all shot using Ecamm Live (client), the best way to do Facebook Live for Mac.
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Google shares its year in search, and the question was “how.”
Who are the humans behind AI? Oh, there are plenty. It’s a whole industry.
Um, so companies were using robots to shoo away homeless people, but enough people complained, so now it’s fired.
This is true/neat/worth thinking about. We are approaching media saturation. What happens when that happens?
Want to know a cool way to use YouTube? This 8 year old girl reads to sick kids with it. Cool, right?
Good news for podcasters. Apple has at long last released analytics that you can argue are wrong.
Watson is a supercomputer. You can do something really cool with unstructured data with it. Will this be how we finally start seeing our customers?
On to the troubling. Computers and AI are getting good at making believable fake porn. There was an 80s sci fi movie that postulated this, but now? It’s here.
Lighter note time. Here’s a look at some of the TSA’s top confiscations for 2017.
I wait all year for DJ Earworm’s State of Pop. Only this year, I don’t know that many of the songs.
Maybe I should just stick with Galactic Empire, a Star Wars Metal Band.
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Trans People Can Serve in the US Military. Disney Buys Fox (Mostly). Chipotle Woes- The Brief for 12.14.17

chrisbrogan · December 14, 2017 ·

Here are the notes from the Chris Brogan Media broadcast for 12/14/17. (You can watch this on my Facebook account).
The goal of these posts is that there are trends and ideas here that might impact your business now or soon. Think on the stories here and look for ways to adjust your business accordingly. If ever you’re stuck, get in touch with me and I can help.
This live video was all shot using Ecamm Live (client), the best way to do Facebook Live for Mac.
Please note that all links may be affiliate links. If someone is a client, I’ll call that out specifically.

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Trans people have won the right to serve in the US military, at least for now.
Disney just paid $54 billion-ish for a huge chunk of fox. Why? Here’s a few reasons.
As much as Chipotle thought queso (their attempt) would woo people back to the embattled restaurant, the response has been more ew than woo.
Google has updated their SEO guide. This is dry reading but useful, if you want a better sense of what SEO does for you.
Will this trend come to other places like San Francisco? BMW built a micro apartment for their employees in Shanghai, and it’s actually kinda interesting.
I talk about AI and it often feels abstract. Here are a couple photo editing apps that give you a sense of what AI does as an app.
Credit unions are the bomb. Better than banks. But how will they attract the Millennials? I think it’s harder than it looks.
Personalization is the next huge wave in marketing. But there might be a kind of uncanny valley issue.
You know how sometimes something gets famous and then we all make fun of it? It’s easy to forget that these are humans. Rebecca Black is out there doing some interesting work based on this and it’s worth your time.
What will happen when AI can write our books for us? Here’s a Harry Potter attempt. It’s. Well. Click that link.
Cosplay? Yes, please. Here’s a remix of Mario-themed cosplay! Because why not?
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Video Game Scholarships. Black Spider-Man. The Future of Cashless Commerce – The Brief for 12.11.17

chrisbrogan · December 11, 2017 ·

Here are the notes from the Chris Brogan Media broadcast for 12/11/17. (You can watch this on my Facebook account).
The goal of these posts is that there are trends and ideas here that might impact your business now or soon. Think on the stories here and look for ways to adjust your business accordingly. If ever you’re stuck, get in touch with me and I can help.
This live video was all shot using Ecamm Live (client), the best way to do Facebook Live for Mac.
Please note that all links may be affiliate links. If someone is a client, I’ll call that out specifically.

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Your kid play a lot of video games? Do YOU? You can maybe get a scholarship for that.
Lytro is dead. Sometimes the bleeding edge means you’ll lose memories. Is that worth it?
I learn a lot from looking at Africa. The cashless economy points to some interesting trends, because they’re actually ahead of us in some ways.
And hey, with all this Bitcoin mania, it’s important to remember that bank robbery comes with all technologies.
This is so brief. I’ll explain it in the video. This is smart engineer humor about the Internet of Things and security.
Now this is nuts. 3D printing wifi? I still can’t fully figure this out. I’ll let Chris Garrett at Maker Hacks sort it out first.
They say all publicity is good publicity. Sean Spicer making fun of Dippin Dots SOLD LOTS OF DOTS for the company.
Sometimes, my creative friends want to invent the world. This app shows you that sometimes, a really simple small idea can change the world in even bigger ways.
It’s the end of the year, so YouTube has released their 2017 Rewind video. While it’s interesting, I saw several videos that were more interesting. I’ll explain in the video above.
Nerd alert. You can mix Destiny 2 with Alexa and get this cool game-based voice assistant. Here’s why this is interesting: usually this is tech for little kids.
Congrats to Sony for putting the new Miles Morales Spider-Man on screen. Okay, so it’s animated, but it’s a good move!
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Cake in the Supreme Court. Google and eBay Partner Up. What Nordstrom Does Well. – The Brief for 12.05.17

chrisbrogan · December 5, 2017 ·

Here are the notes from the Chris Brogan Media broadcast for 12/05/17. (You can watch this on my Facebook account).
The goal of these posts is that there are trends and ideas here that might impact your business now or soon. Think on the stories here and look for ways to adjust your business accordingly. If ever you’re stuck, get in touch with me and I can help.
This live video was all shot using Ecamm Live (client), the best way to do Facebook Live for Mac.
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Google just released an app called Files Go that helps you skinny up your Android phone. No real trend here. Just useful.
Ebay just made a project with Google Home that lets you browse their wares. Pretty cool.
What does Nordstrom do that you can learn from? Turns out lots. This is where shop experiences must go.
YouTube points out how AI can fail us. They’re hiring 10,000 people to deal with dangerous and unseemly videos.
But a cool YouTube video? Check out Best Cover Ever starring Ludacris.
Verticals or horizontals? Quickr in India says vertical. Worth thinking about.
AOL founder Steve Case just launched a $150 Million fund for rural startup development.
Free speech vs human rights. That’s how the US Supreme Court version of the cake battle is being framed.
Cute comics that teach kids tolerance and diversity?
You can have that.
The video game Overwatch is shoring up its big boy pants with eSports league colors and a new token currency to go with it. There’s even a Boston team to root for!
I love showing cosplay from all around the world, but
nobody beats Tokyo at this game.
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