📡 How difficult are you? Or are you picky?
Hello and welcome to this week’s Pulse — the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix. I’m your host, Ben, and I’d like to thank you for being here with me.
and a BIG special 💛 thanks to all of you that recommend Pulse to your friends. that’s the best you can do for us if you enjoy this weekly newsletter.
And by the way, Happy Summer Solstice — not that it feels like summer!
Now, let’s get into this week’s round up of the internet — well, some of it!
🧠 INSIGHTS
how about them? - Credit: Angel Origgi on Unsplash
Picky people have consistent preferences and standards.
Difficult people change their preferences frequently, and often in response to who is presenting to them or the mood they’re in.
It’s pretty easy to figure out which makes for a better client or colleague.
from Seth Godin’s Blog.
which one do you think you are? be honest.
i’ve been called both, but usually in the same context — when i know what i want and [often] don’t settle for anything else…
how would you deal with what you don’t want?
📊 STATISTICS
Time Spent With Mobile Messaging Apps Is on the Rise
US adults are spending more time with messaging apps on their mobile devices than ever before, and it doesn’t look like they will be slowing down any time soon.
In the past few years, time spent with mobile messaging apps has been slowly increasing among US adults, rising from a per-day average of 18 minutes in 2018 to 20 minutes in 2019. That’s expected to jump this year to an average of 24 minutes per day, a 20% relative rise, likely fueled in some part by the pandemic. US adults are then expected to maintain this amount of time with messaging apps for the next couple of years, as well.
Read more on MarketingCharts.
U.S. Video Game Sales Spike Amid Pandemic
Aside from watching Netflix, playing video games is one of the few activities perfectly suited for life on lockdown. Not only does it offer some much-needed distraction from the dire realities of a global health crisis, but in the age of online gaming it also enables gamers to interact with friends (and strangers) without having to leave their homes.
Read more on Statista.
📱 TOOLS & APPS
Coolors: Super fast colour schemes generator [Web (free) | iOS (NOT free)]
Paletton: create colour combinations that work together well
Adobe Color: Adobe’s colour palette generator with a new accessibility tool
Color Hunt: a free and open platform for colour inspiration
Colormind: AI-powered colour palette generator
BrandColors: a collection of official brand colour codes
create the perfect colour palette — or just get inspired.
definitely worth a try; it’s a lot smarter than your average camera app.
🔍 SPOTTED
Facebook is testing a new set of tabs and filter options for your news feed [link]
LinkedIn is working on a new design with new colour palette & icons [link]
Google Translate is working on choices of speed [link]
Spotify is finally working on a tab to switch between Canvas, Album Art, and Video (which is new!) [link]
Spotify is working on a new Shared queue flow [link]
Google Maps is working on “Ok Google” for iOS which overrides “Hey Siri” while navigating [link]
Twitter is working on “Top Requests” for DM [link]
Reddit is working on showing the amount of awards a user has sent and received [link]
Twitter’s reminder about retweeting news articles you’ve not read [example]
🐦 TWEETS of the WEEK
this is my favourite 🧵 of the week!
A few weeks ago I was in London for the day. I took the first train down, & finished work by early afternoon.
My return train was at 8:46pm, so I spent the afternoon going round the Monopoly route.
I thought it would be interesting to photograph London at such a unique time. https://t.co/4hGmXQUOym
NO your email did NOT find me well, it found me ravaged with STRESS AND THE EFFECTS OF TIME
12345679 × 1 × 9 = 111111111
12345679 × 2 × 9 = 222222222
12345679 × 3 × 9 = 333333333
12345679 × 4 × 9 = 444444444
12345679 × 5 × 9 = 555555555
12345679 × 6 × 9 = 666666666
12345679 × 7 × 9 = 777777777
12345679 × 8 × 9 = 888888888
12345679 × 9 × 9 = 999999999
12345679 × 0 × 9 = 000000000
this 👆 was so satisfying…
that you wish this 👇 WAS a snake!
what is that?? https://t.co/weeDnmHVwL
😂 FUN STUFF
and this 👇 is too funny to miss… please don’t… 🤣🤣
Interesting day at work in Russia. https://t.co/woFESC3YuA
👓 Not-So-Virtual Reality — again!
and this 👇 is Twitter timeline after the introduction of voice tweet! 😂
ace is worthless bc she missed a jikook live
the whole tl rn https://t.co/Z9DkfSLlCJ
Credit: TheProModder/Reddit
🗞 NEWS
Audio Tweets, Zoom’s u-turn, and Facebook [more]
Quibi burning cash, WhatsApp finally launching payments, and Microsoft Teams closing in on Zoom [more]
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That's all for this week...
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