📡 Don’t take it for granted 😱
Hello and welcome to this week’s Pulse — the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix. I’m your host, Behrouz, and I’d like to thank you for being here.
I’d also thank you for taking a look at this as well. I think you’ll find it interesting.
Now, let’s enjoy a Pulse together, shall we? Socially distant, of course.
🧠 INSIGHTS
Life - Credit: Francesco Gallarotti on Unsplash
The fact that we exist at all is pretty amazing. It’s a crazy universe out there.
And yet we forget that far too often. We forget to be amazed.
This is because we’re too busy running around doing the normal stuff- dropping kids off at school, keeping up with the Joneses, mowing the lawn, making sales calls, making small talk at cocktail parties,… I mean Zoom.
That’s no bad thing, either. Life has lots of moving parts. Lots of balls to juggle.
The trick, of course, is to find a happy medium. No, you don’t need to drop out, flee to India and go live in an ashram with a guru.
Nor do you need to be a pleasure-seeking, materialist obsessive like the characters in American Psycho.
What you do need, however, is gratitude.
The first step in understanding the universe is understanding that it doesn’t have to be here.
from GapingVoid.
📊 STATISTICS
In 2020, Global Emoji Count is Growing to 3,136
2020 will see the release of 117 new emojis including the bubble tea, the placard and the transgender flag, growing the number of the popular pictograms to 3,136.
What emojis appear on people’s phones and on their social media platforms is not arbitrary but has been coordinated by the Unicode Consortium since 1995, when the first 76 pictograms were adapted by U.S. nonprofit.
The Consortium has been overseeing the character inventory of electronic text processing since 1991 and sets a standard for symbols, characters in different scripts and – last but not least – emojis, which are encoded uniformly across different platforms even though styles may vary between providers.
Read more on Statista.
Top Apps Worldwide for June 2020 by Downloads
TikTok was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for June 2020 with more than 87 million installs, which represented a 52.7% increase from June 2019. The countries with the most installs of the app during this period were 🇮🇳 at 18.8% of its total downloads and the 🇺🇸 at 8.7%.
Read more on SensorTower.
CMOs Turn to Social Media During COVID-19
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, people have been spending more time than usual on social media. In an effort to reach those audiences, a new report from The CMO Survey shows that CMOs are allocating more of their marketing budgets to social media.
The May 2020 survey of more than 270 top marketers at for-profit US companies revealed that social media spending grew from 13.3% of marketing budgets in February to almost one-quarter (23.2%) of total marketing budgets in June – a sizeable increase over that short span of time.
Read more on MarketingCharts.
📱 TOOLS & APPS
Copy Paste List: Quick, unformatted, copy and paste-able lists of everything.
this is super handy.
Snippyly: Take screenshots, share and collaborate live using a link [Chrome/Brave Extension]
who doesn’t want a better experience with screenshots?!
Pixel Mob: Search millions of royalty-free photos
obviously!
Anonymous Camera: capture anonymised photos and videos on your phone in real time [iOS]
seems like something we should have on our phones.
🔍 SPOTTED
Facebook and Instagram’s shop builder tool [link]
Facebook added a share to Twitter button [link]
Facebook is testing reaction-like icon for sharing to stories [link]
Facebook is testing an icon highlighting unseen posts in a groups [link]
Facebook is testing a new tab layout and design in its Pages app [link]
🐦 TWEETS of the WEEK
Boredom is only there when you think there is something more interesting, more purposeful, more meaningful that you can do than what you’re doing.
What is it
that is aware of you?
If you need a degree to do it, it’s not going to make you wealthy.
I saw a job post the other day. 👔
It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI. 🤦
I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing. 😅
Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that "years of experience = skill level". ♻
😂 FUN STUFF
“Please Scream Inside Your Heart” - Credit: Reddit/u/zeromig
By popular demand.... Airwolf https://t.co/624He09ywo
🗞 NEWS
Super Mario Bros. breaking record, Amazon employees and TikTok, and Facebook’s issue breaking half the internet [link]
Sony’s playing Fortnite, Google Maps’ playing catch up, and TikTok [link]
Facebook and civil rights, Uber Boat, and the return of the QR [link]
TikTok’s out of Hong Kong, and it might be banned in the US; plus Samsung Galaxy event confirmed [link]
Uber’s mates, Big tech against Hong Kong police, and Instagram to fill a TikTok-shaped hole in India [link]
That's all for this week...
— i haven’t shared pulse with anyone…
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