📡 A new social platform or just a feature?
Pulse #146 — First it was Stories, now it’s social audio
Hey Pulse fam 👋 Behrouz here. I’m back again with another Pulse to help you catch up on this week’s news, some new useful apps and tools, and some of the features that are coming to your favourite platforms and much more!
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This Week in the News
Backlash on Apple’s CSAM changes continues, Head of Twitter India gets a new role — in the US, and Disney beats expectations — again! [link]
Twitter’s new look, Samsung’s new lineup, and the crypto in Lionel Messi’s PSG contract [link]
Hacker ready to surrender, Facebook’s latest misinfo network, a $100 million fine [link]
Apple explaining itself, Twitter complying more, and Instagram going after more ads [link]
😼 a gift for you.
Worth Your Attention
Intersection #2 — food, information, and diet: optimising your input 👇
A really good analysis of Pegasus Spyware by Kim Zetter 👇
This is a great 🧵 by Alex Lieberman, the co-founder of Morning Brew 👇
Introducing Ethereum 101 • The backstory • The vision • Terms you must know • Use cases Let's dive in 🧵Damien Hirst and Mark Carney (former Governor of the Bank of England) discuss Hirst's NFT art project 👇
if you’re into NFTs, here’s a project i’m a small part of: Catonized
hint: why so serious?
Chart of the Week
Social Platforms: they all look the same now
The fact that all these platforms are starting to look the same points at the idea of some platforms are just features unless they evolve.
For example, Snapchat had to evolve from being a platform for ‘Stories’ to a camera/AR platform, otherwise, it had no chance against Facebook/Instagram Stories attack.
Now, Clubhouse has the same problem. It has turned into a feature that other platforms are just adding to their products — yes, you can call it copying too.
& more stats
Stack Overflow’s 2021 developer survey [link]
CSAM data reports by company in 2020 [link]
The major labels growing streaming revenue by 33% in Q2 2021 while Spotify was up by just 23% [link]
Brands’ investment in influencer marketing is expected to grow by 33.6% this year [link]
Tools & Apps
Blob Opera: An Arts & Culture Experiment by Google
it’s fun :D
GrowthKit: 200+ tools and resources to start, build, and grow your biz!
you can find some really cools stuff in here
Notion Web Designer Hub: All-in-one hub for managing your web design projects
it’s a Notion template…
Reddit List: Discover Subreddits for different topics
this is quite useful!
Spotted
Instagram is working on the “undo” option for the story editor [link]
Instagram is working on a new sticker: “Get Quote” [link]
Instagram is working on Lists [link]
Instagram keeps working on the exclusive stories for fan clubs [link]
Instagram is working on adding a parallax effect to Direct’s chat themes using the phone’s gyroscope [link]
Instagram is working on new chat themes: J Balvin, Cottagecore
Snapchat is working on linking the ‘friends list’ to the phone’s contacts book [link]
Twitter is working on the possibility of pinning conversations [link]
Twitter is working on the possibility of adding a scheduled Twitter Space in the Google or Apple calendar [link]
Twitter is working on the ability to mute or report [link] or remove a follower [link] directly from the ‘followers list’
YikYak v2 coming on August 16th [link]
🐦 Tweets of the Week
Fun Stuff
and now we’re done for this week
see you next week!