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Hello and welcome to this weekโs Pulse โ the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix. Iโm your host, Ben, and Iโd like to thank you for reading this. This week, I will keep it really short.
FUCK RACISM.
Now, letโs just dive straight in.
๐ง INSIGHTS
design - Credit: Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash
A look at tools used for solving problems, making decisions, and communicating ideas at Dropbox by Wes O'Haire.
Wes is a core Dropbox experience designer, mentor at Backstage Capital, and creator of BlacksWhoDesign; previously a designer for Nike and Hudl.
Read on Dropbox Design.
iโm not a designer, but i love learning about good design! you probably can see it on what iโve done to this. yea, iโm big fan of mnmlsm.
๐ STATISTICS
Top Apps Worldwide for May 2020 by Downloads
TikTok was the most downloaded app worldwide (non-game) for May 2020 with more than 111.9 million installs, a 2x YoY increase from May 2019. The countries with the most installs of the app during this period were ๐ฎ๐ณ at 20% of its total downloads and the ๐บ๐ธ at 9.3%.
Zoom was the second most installed non-game app worldwide last month with close to 94.6 million installs, a 43x increase from May 2019. The countries with the largest number of ZOOM installs were ๐บ๐ธ& ๐ฎ๐ณ at 17%.
Read more on SensorTower.
Twitter's Record-breaking Week
The world is amid civil unrest and protests for the death of George Floyd and racial inequality. At the same time, coronavirus has disrupted the life around the globe in its first wave and threatening with a second one.
Twitter itself is in the news for standing up to Donald Trump for sharing misleading information and/or promoting violence. While many people are outside protesting, many are stuck at home from the coronavirus threat.
These all cause the need for immediacy in the news to be more than ever. And Twitter is serving that need.
Read more on my Telegram & TechCrunch.
How COVID-19 is changing the world: a statistical perspective [PDF]
A long UN document collecting lots of different statistics on COVID impact on everything โ from economics and trade flows to education and crime.
๐ฑ TOOLS & APPS
Anyline Keyboard: Phone keyboard that letโs you scan text instead of typing it [iOS | Android]
this is pretty cool.
Shape Divider: Create fully responsive shape dividers for your next project.
for your next web/app project!
Parachute: the personal safety app [iOS | request early access for Android]
really like the idea.
fighting the bias in the newsโฆ definitely not a bad thing.
TitleRun: a game that only exists in your browser title bar!
this was fun โ more than i expected
๐ a gift for you.
๐ SPOTTED
An app is working on a feature โ hereโs an encrypted copy of the screenshot [link]
Twitter is working on โRequest Verificationโ [link]
๐ฆ TWEETS of the WEEK
The most valuable commodity I know of is attention.
It is unwise to follow someone who suceeded by forging his own path.
No one is free until everyone is free.
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The Internet makes us addicted to current events
๐ FUN STUFF
![good movies as old books - Credit: Matt Stevens [click through, thereโs a lot more]](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ujBA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b108436-9044-4f83-9f50-456819be24f4_600x600.jpeg "good movies as old books - Credit: Matt Stevens [click through, thereโs a lot more]")
good movies as old books - Credit: Matt Stevens [click through, thereโs a lot more]
![a new spin on famous logos - Credit: de2s [click through, thereโs a lot more]](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gRE8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb991a39c-b073-4ab2-8cea-8acff9d37c1e_600x750.jpeg "a new spin on famous logos - Credit: de2s [click through, thereโs a lot more]")
a new spin on famous logos - Credit: de2s [click through, thereโs a lot more]
me after guessing the password of my own email https://t.co/ZAUJR6BvC7
๐งต guy decided to send his wedding invitations to celebritiesโฆ and hereโs how they responded. this is Prince William and Prince Harryโs responseโฆ and thereโs more, from George W. Bush to John Travoltaโฆ ๐
So the #royalwedding reminded me that I invited Harry and William and I went looking for the album. Turns out I got Prince Charles too.
Imagine having someone that answers your letters for you. https://t.co/vB0qitUiWs
๐ NEWS
Redditโs Ohanian resigns, Facebookโs Zuckerberg bends, and Amazonโs Bezos takes a stand [link]
Iranian & Chinese hackers are targeting US presidential campaigns, and TikTok is already at YouTube level [link]
Facebook employees, Snapchat joining Twitter against Trump, and iPhone lootersโ luck [link]
Zuckโs standing by his decision, Twitter making decisions, and Google being sued [link]
#BlackoutTuesday [link]
Trump & his new bestie, MZ, being productive on the phone, AI literally taking jobs, and Appleโs $100k bug [link]
thoughts on the new news section?!
That's all for this week...
DONE! need a nap now. see you next week.