Hi friends 👋
Let’s just dive in…
Last Week in the News
SpongeBob and Patrick in real life [link]
Binance is trying, Snapchat is crashing, and Amazon [link]
Vaccine mandates, Robinhood’s IPO, and Google against “sugar dating” [link]
Instagram’s latest features, Facebook’s steps to protect the youth, Clubhouse’s growth [link]
China goes after big tech, Facebook goes after God, and Spotify’s new feed [link]
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Worth Your Attention
Robert Reffkin of Compass on How I Built This with Guy Raz
this is a fantastic HIBT episode — and a must list… other than this, i didn’t read much this week except for an article i’m working on… you’ll hear about it soon enough 🤞
one piece of advice that stuck with me: Stop trying to make your weaknesses into strengths. something i heard from GrayVee a lot: double down on your strength, not your weaknesses… it’s a great piece of advice…
Chart of the Week
AirPods as a Company
This is crazy! If AirPods were a standalone company, they would be one of the biggest tech companies in the world (bigger than Spotify, Twitter, Shopify, and Snap combined!).
Gannon Breslin dives into this topic in an article, which is highly recommended.
Read more on RebelMarkets.
& more stats
The ESA's 2021 games market data report [link]
Most loved brands on social media over the past year [link]
Parking app usage stats: it’s above pre-pandemic levels [link]
Mobile video conferencing apps usage grew 150% in the H1 2021 [link]
Tools & Apps
Vocal Remover: Separate voice from music out of a song for free
pretty good if you needed something like this
Mastodon: the decentralised social network [iOS]
i’m there too @behrouz
Hashtag Analyzer: Analyze worldwide trending hashtags on Twitter
can be handy
Baseline: Create branded designs with a single click
does have a free version.
Spotted
Instagram is working on an option to allow users to suggest edits to location information [link]
Instagram is working to allow users to add a sensitive content warning screen to posts [link]
Instagram is working on the possibility of sending a post to multiple people at the same time [link]
Instagram is working on a Reels-style Explore section [link]
Instagram keeps working on the new audio mixer for Reels: Fade In/Out effect [link]; new mixers [link]
Instagram is working on a new way to remix audio for Reels [link]
Instagram is working on a new chat theme: Lisa Frank [link]
Twitter is working on letting users choose whether to let followers see which Spaces the user is listening to [link]
🐦 Tweets of the Week
Fun Stuff
and this is 🤯
and now we’re done for this week
see you next week — or sooner!